Climate investment plans, communication strategies and the world's first 'student mayor for climate' - things are happening in Karlstad.
Karlstad hooks arms with Kristinehamn.
The municipality of Karlstad is working on a broad front for the climate transition, from student councils and collaboration to climate investment plans and ambitious targets. Karlstad's process leaders, together with colleagues, share the city's journey to climate neutrality, so that others can learn lessons and spy and apply!
Climate Neutral Karlstad 2030 is led by the Municipality of Karlstad in collaboration with eleven other actors. The initiative has two selected focus areas - circular consumption and transport - and four working groups - governance and financing, mobilization and co-creation, innovation and service development, and behavior and communication.
The focus of the transition work is currently on the climate investment plan, where the municipality is taking overall responsibility that extends across several sectors to create a long-term process to put a clearer social and economic perspective on the climate transition. Another focus area right now is the municipality's adopted communication strategy for Karlstad's climate transition, which will accelerate climate work and create conversations about simple behavioral changes.
Karlstad also aims to include those most affected by climate change - young people. They have been working on the world's first 'Student Citizens' Council', where primary, middle and high school students were coached by climate experts and, in a series of workshops, developed their own proposals for how Karlstad should drive the climate transition.
In addition to running continuous processes, Karlstad has a strong focus on working with a climate investment plan, planning and anchoring the work over the next three years, and starting to implement the recently decided plan for digitalization and innovation that has a strong focus on contributing to climate and sustainability in general.
In the city's latest update, they talk about the work, the transition arena, the project portfolio and much more.
Charlotte Wedberg, Environmental Strategist, charlotte.wedberg@karlstad.se
Henric Barkman, Process Manager, henric.barkman@karlstad.se
Circular malls and reuse shops are places, physical or digital, that highlight different circular concepts such as second hand, vintage, remake, repair, rental services, refurbished technology and waste- and resource-smart products.
Karlstad highlights three 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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