19 December 2024
Lund is accelerating both nationally and internationally with pilot tests and inclusive mobility.
Lund hooks arms with Lomma.
Shared and inclusive mobility, pilot tests in transport and operations, and the development of circular flows through procurement. These are some of the things Lund is working on in its transition efforts. Ahead of 2025, they are stepping up the pace and sharpening their ambitions. With the goal of becoming climate neutral by 2030, the City Council has also allocated an extra SEK 40 million for a strengthened climate package, which will initiate even more initiatives in the city, and they are actively working to integrate the climate investment plan into the regular budget and operations.
Lund is working on a broad front with the transition. In the field of mobility, several initiatives are underway with a focus on reducing car traffic and increasing active, shared and inclusive mobility. For example, the municipality is working with several European cities to increase active mobility, with a focus on how the municipality can make it better for pedestrians in the municipality. Similar initiatives are working on methods to include the impact of building-related travel behavior in the sustainability work of real estate companies, and the development of safe and inclusive mobility in the transition to climate-neutral cities.
The project portfolio also includes pilot tests to find new solutions that can increase the transition to fossil-free energy in transport, operations and construction, and analyzes purchase-generated emissions to then, together with the business community, create measures that reduce these emissions.
Over the past year, the understanding of climate financing within the municipality has deepened and an important insight has been that the skills required to work with climate investments go beyond the traditional skills of municipalities. The goal for the coming year is therefore to recruit a climate economist in the near future, where expertise in economics and finance is combined with climate expertise. Lund is also working on breaking down and interpreting the climate investment plan that has been developed in order to integrate it into the regular budget and operations.
In the run-up to 2025, the City of Lund is stepping up the pace and sharpening its ambitions. With the goal of becoming climate neutral by 2030, the City Council has allocated an extra SEK 40 million for a strengthened climate package, and with it, even more initiatives are being initiated in the city. These include pilot projects for sustainable travel in schools, the establishment of a recycling depot for building materials, energy efficiency improvements to street lighting and extra funding for the operation and planting of trees.
In the city's latest update, they talk about the work, the transition arena, the project portfolio and much more.
Juliet Leonette, Process Manager for Climate Neutral Lund 2030, juliet.leonette@lund.se
Madeleine Wahlund, process manager for Climate Neutral Lund 2030, madeleine.wahlund@lund.se
Lund is home to the world's largest low-temperature, fossil-free district heating network. The MAX IV laboratory and the ESS research facility heat the city using residual heat. The aim is for other parts of Lund to also receive low-temperature heat in the networks in the future. Then Lund can grow without increasing emissions from district heating!
Lund highlights five additional initiatives that they believe may be of particular interest to other municipalities to spy and apply. Contact the process leader to spy and apply.
Every year the municipality and Lund University organize Sustainability Week - a week filled with events around Lund, free and open to all.
Lund recently developed a plan for climate-neutral construction.
Work has been done on new wetland in Södra Sandby, which reduces the risk of flooding in the area and contributes to increased biodiversity.
In Brunnshög there is an innovative waste vacuum cleanerwhich eliminates the need for heavy garbage trucks in the area, pests and bad odors.
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.
In one of Sweden's most densely populated areas with heavy traffic, Lund, together with a number of stakeholders, will create a mobility system with reduced emissions while maintaining accessibility. The mobility system will also be linked to a local climate-neutral energy system in the area where energy...
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The aim of the study is to introduce methods in the municipality's regular decision-making processes that clarify climate-related benefits in a way that guides investment decisions,...
City as a Platform is an innovation initiative that brings together 18 municipalities to explore, test, implement and collaborate on common IoT platforms...
Achieving climate goals requires digital solutions, but as digitalization increases, cities are more vulnerable to cyberattacks. In order to...
The initiative will investigate the conditions for a demonstration project for flexible energy systems in buildings based on solar power, local storage and controllable loads...
The initiative will create the conditions for various companies, associations, research and public activities to benefit from open data from the energy system...
Since 2023, Lund is part of the Urban Transitions Mission (UTM) cohort of cities working together to test and scale up innovative solutions for a holistic, human-centered climate transition.
Since 2023, Lund is also part of the second cohort of pilot cities from twenty-one EU countries and Horizon 2020 associated countries, selected to launch unprecedented climate action, through the NetZeroCities Pilot Cities program.
Since 2023, Lund is part of the NetZeroCities Twinning program, where Lund is paired with Leuven, Belgium.
Lund is part of the NetZeroCities 112 Mission Cities, selected since 2022 to pioneer the EU Cities Mission.
