Helsingborg hooks arms with Höganäs.
Helsingborg is strengthening its ability to drive the transition together in the city and is working to mobilize more actors. Work within the group is being organised to develop roadmaps with prioritised measures for emission areas. To highlight the role of agriculture in northwest Skåne's transition, Helsingborg is linking arms with Höganäs.
Helsingborg's goal is to achieve climate neutrality within the city's geographical area by 2030. To achieve this goal, the city is developing new ways of working and methods, strengthening the culture of innovation and establishing an implementation organization to manage the climate transition process. The city wants to ensure internal capacity and ability to drive the transition work forward quickly. Part of this involves docking the work into existing structures for governance, planning, follow-up and skills development. In another part, Helsingborg is linking arms with Malmö, Lund, and Lund University to establish a Learning Hub, which deepens regional collaboration within the knowledge platform Open academia - Climate Neutral Cities 2030.
Together in a local transition arena
Cooperation with various stakeholders in business, civil society and academia is crucial to reduce emissions at the scale and pace needed to reach the 2030 climate neutrality target. The City Group has limited control over several sources of emissions and is therefore dependent on the efforts of other stakeholders.
In Helsingborg, there are several initiatives and networks to drive the transition and jointly find new ways forward. The Helsingborg Climate Agreement, the Helsingborg Declaration, the Helsingborg Innovation District, and the Climate Fund are some examples. By strengthening these and exploring new opportunities for collaboration, the city wants to establish a local transition arena that mobilizes even more actors. To involve and engage residents in climate work, Helsingborg is collaborating with the association Helsingborgarnas klimatavtal and the World Wildlife Fund WWF.
Clear roadmaps towards climate neutrality by 2030
Helsingborg's Climate and Energy Plan 2025-2030 identifies the goals that need to be achieved for Helsingborg to be a climate-neutral city by 2030. The city's implementation organisation will develop roadmaps that propose, prioritise and follow up on measures to reduce emissions. In collaboration with ClimateView, Helsingborg is further developing working methods to identify and assess the effects of various measures, and then anchor them in the roadmap for each emission area.
Twinning with a focus on agriculture
To highlight the role of agriculture in northwest Skåne's transition, Helsingborg is linking arms with its twin city Höganäs. The cross-municipal collaboration will identify synergies and conflicting objectives in the local agricultural transition, for example in terms of soil carbon sequestration, increased food production and food security. During the programming period, cities will develop a roadmap for reducing emissions in agriculture.
In the city's latest update, they talk about the work, the transition arena, the project portfolio and much more.
Milou Mandolin, process manager for Climate Neutral Helsingborg 2030, milou.mandolin@helsingborg.se
Helsingborg's innovative efforts both contribute to its own transition and inspire other cities. Some of these initiatives are:
These projects demonstrate Helsingborg's strong focus on climate transition through innovation and cross-sectoral collaboration.
Climate City Contract 2030 is a collective effort to achieve the climate transition that we need to implement in a short time to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees. It is an agreement between municipalities, government agencies and Viable Cities where all parties undertake to make a concrete contribution to increasing the pace of climate change.
To achieve deep change, we need to move from fragmented projects to an ecosystem of efforts that all pull in the same direction. Cities are doing this together with Viable Cities, funders government agencies and other partners, in different constellations and with different objectives. It is about moving beyond dealing with symptoms and instead focusing on underlying problems in our social structure. Here you will find the initiatives and studies within the city that have been granted funding under Viable Cities.
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