Linköping sets up climate council, organizes dragon's nest and launches smart map - all in pursuit of climate neutrality!
Linköping hooks arms with Mjölby.
Linköping has developed a climate investment plan for transport together with Linköping University, developed a category management model, worked on an environmental commuting analysis, allocated funds for test bed vouchers and launched a smart map where you can rent, share, swap, borrow, repair and buy recycled. Linköping's process leader, together with colleagues, shares the city's journey to climate neutrality, so that others can learn lessons and spy and apply!
Climate Neutral Linköping 2030 is led by Linköping Municipality and the project partners jointly form a transition team led by process managers Sandra Viktor and Ulrika Johansson. The municipality's climate and energy program with goals and identified action areas for transition - Energy and climate-efficient housing, premises and businesses, Climate-efficient construction and construction, Sustainable mobility and resource-efficient transport, and Proactive work for negative emissions
Production and distribution of renewable and robust electricity, heating and cooling - forms the basis for the work.
The municipality in collaboration with Linköping University IEI is developing a climate investment plan for transport in line with adopted climate targets. The aim is to make the transition more concrete and provide a better understanding of the efforts that need to be made by private individuals, businesses and the public sector. During the spring, they have also developed the model for category management and their so-called "category tree", where all purchases are categorized into three levels. In addition, Linköping has carried out an environmental spend analysis, a purchasing analysis that integrates environmental impact, climate impact per krona and purchasing category.
Within this work, funds have also been allocated to an innovation fund where small and medium-sized enterprises can apply for so-called "test bed checks", to easily get a unique opportunity to test and develop technology as well as services and business models in a real environment. Through a unique collaboration, the Smart Map Linköping was also launched last year. An idea-based public partnership (IOP) was signed between the municipality of Linköping, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation in Linköping and Collaborative Economy Sweden. Smarta kartan is a website that brings together places where you can rent, share, swap, borrow, repair and buy reused items, with the aim of promoting circular business models and the sharing economy and concretizing sustainable consumption.
In the city's latest update, they talk about the work, the transition arena, the project portfolio and much more.
Sandra Viktor, process manager for Climate Neutral Linköping 2030, sandra.viktor@linkoping.se
For the past two years, small and medium-sized enterprises in Linköping municipality have been able to apply for test bed checks. The aim is to speed up the climate transition by giving companies space to test innovative ideas in reality together with municipal companies. And the positive results have not been long in coming.
Linköping highlights additional actions 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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In November 2023, the municipality of Linköping was the first Swedish city to win the EU's iCapital Awards. The award is given to EU cities that solve societal and sustainability challenges through innovation in an exemplary way.
