November 12, 2025
Kalmar Municipality's long-term goal is to become one of Sweden's best municipalities in terms of ecological sustainability, climate transition, and climate adaptation.
To achieve this, we need to significantly reduce our annual emissions. According to the carbon budget, they need to be reduced by around 13 percent annually. Updating the budget with figures for 2022 shows a cautiously positive trend of reduced emissions in the transport sector. It is difficult to see what this is due to, but a greater number of bicycle trips and a larger proportion of fossil fuel-free transport may be part of the explanation. The following activities are the focus of the transition in Kalmar Municipality:
In the city's latest update, they talk about the work, the transition arena, the project portfolio and much more.
Paulina Bäckström, process manager for Climate Neutral Kalmar 2030, paulina.backstrom@kalmar.se
After a break, Kalmar Municipality will once again join the dEL car pool together with a number of other local actors. In addition, we will be able to strengthen the pool by contributing three vehicles. It is simply a car pool that private individuals and companies share. The vehicles are located at a number of locations around Kalmar. The dEL car pool has several positive effects that contribute to social benefits:
Kalmar highlights two initiatives that they believe could be of particular interest to other municipalities to spy and apply. Contact the process leader to spy and apply.
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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