
Malmö works horizontally and internationally, focusing on roadmaps in seven priority areas for a common direction - local work for a global mission!
Malmö hooks arms with Höör and Landskrona.
Malmö focuses on implementing and developing seven roadmaps in priority areas, mobilizing more actors, and developing approaches and methods to scale, disseminate and share. At the heart of Malmö's approach is a new horizontal approach - Climate Transition Malmö.
The core of Malmö's approach is a new horizontal working method focusing on joint roadmaps in seven priority areas where strong efforts can have a major impact for Malmö and the planet: Climate-neutral construction, Electricity supply, Heating, Net zero organization, Mobility, Climate-smart consumption and Circular economy. In each transition area, the city works with roadmaps that show the direction and help to mobilize more actors in the transition through concrete measures to gather around. The roadmaps are living documents that are constantly evolving, making it possible to shift priorities based on a changing environment, progress and new decisions.
To strengthen resilience, the focus is on certain organizational and individual characteristics. Successful transitions require good listeners and good storytellers, as well as innovation, collaboration, structure and transparency. And just as importantly, it requires persistence, knowledge and experience. In order to develop the process and strengthen the capacity for change, the process management in Malmö is developing a number of different strategies for, for example, learning, stakeholder collaboration, goals and impact monitoring.
There are strong links between the environment, climate and people, which is why Malmö's approach is that efforts and improvements in the environment and climate area should also have positive effects in other areas, such as more jobs, a better living environment for children and young people, increased security and strengthened competitiveness for the business sector. It is therefore also important to work actively to involve more actors from different sectors in the local transition work, so that the transition takes place jointly.
In the city's latest update, they talk about the work, the transition arena, the project portfolio and much more.
Linnea Folkesson, Process Manager for Climate Transition Malmö
Jonas Kamleh, Process Manager for Climate Transition Malmö, jonas.kamleh@malmo.se
Malmö 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.
Local Power aims to drive climate change adaptation together with e.g. property owners, associations and other stakeholders in the city of Malmö.
Sharing Cities Sweden is a national program for the sharing economy in cities. The program aims to put Sweden on the map as a...
The pilot study Participation in the Climate Transition (DEKO) aims to mobilize and activate methods, target groups and recipients in Malmö. It wants to lay the foundation...
City as a Platform is an innovation initiative that brings together 18 municipalities to explore, test, implement and collaborate on common IoT platforms...
The initiative will explore how urban planning can promote sustainable urban lifestyles. The focus is on knowledge of citizen participation and nudging as strategies...
The initiative will explore how digitalization can influence the demand and supply of heated space in the built environment, by introducing services for...
The City of Malmö was awarded the EU Mission Label in March 2024 for its efforts to accelerate the transition to a climate-neutral and sustainable city.
Malmö is part of the NetZeroCities 112 Mission Cities, selected since 2022 to pioneer the EU Cities Mission.
Since 2022, Malmö is part of the first cohort of pilot cities from twenty-one EU Member States and Horizon 2020 associated countries, selected to launch unprecedented climate action, through the NetZeroCities Pilot Cities program.