December 6, 2024
Karlskrona works with ambitious goals, collaboration and strategic approaches.
The Karlskrona municipal group has adopted the County Administrative Board's energy and climate strategy, which states that the municipality should halve its carbon dioxide emissions every four years. The municipality has also drawn up a carbon budget that will concretize and monitor climate work with the aim of being in line with the Paris Agreement. The high rate of emission reduction requires Karlskrona to increase the pace of its climate work. The municipality has set out to succeed in this and it requires collaboration at all levels of society and perhaps above all locally and regionally as the authority lies with many different actors. Systemic change requires joint will and investment. For knowledge transfer and cooperation to be successful and effective, a strategic approach is needed where actors can systematically align their objectives, actions and investments.
Success also requires a broad willingness and collaboration between many different actors, sectors, levels of society and citizens. Previous and ongoing initiatives also need to be taken advantage of. Karlskrona is today well equipped to handle the challenge and the municipality intends to bring together key actors from all sectors of society, including academia, to strategically and systematically build capacity and a concrete roadmap that creates the conditions for Karlskrona to achieve climate neutrality by 2030, and to get a long-term approach that gains traction and spread.
In the city's latest update, they talk about the work, the transition arena, the project portfolio and much more.
Linda Nilsson, process manager for Climate Neutral Karlskrona 2030, linda.nilsson@karlskrona.se
The city is currently working on collecting good examples of how they mobilize and work for the climate transition. They will be here soon!
Climate City Contract 2030 is an effort to manage 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, in which all parties undertake to make a concrete contribution to accelerating the climate transition. The letter of intent is a preparation for signing the contract next year.
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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