Betting label Borlänge

Making climate investment plans a tool for the climate transition

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An important purpose of developing climate investment plans is to look at the total investment needs to achieve climate targets in order to understand the capital requirements of the transition. This feasibility study will further develop the work by exploring future investments that are not initiated to reduce carbon emissions. These investments can account for a large share of future emissions, e.g. in infrastructure and buildings.

Climate neutral Borlänge 2030

Viable Cities The Climate Contract in the City

Borlänge is creating forms of collaboration, new processes and methods to enable a rapid climate transition, and companies in Borlänge have the opportunity to sign up to the local Climate City Contract where they undertake to set aside time and commitment to contribute to the entire city's transition. The municipality has two focus areas: Travel sustainably, with sub-goals such as reducing the need for car traffic, and Eat sustainably, with sub-goals such as increasing the municipality's purchases of organic food and ensuring that purchases are locally produced. Borlänge is also working on several fronts, and so far has managed to radically reduce tenants' residual waste with simple solutions, enabled large-scale recycling in new construction and remodeling for the entire municipal group, developed group-wide guidelines for sustainable procurement, and a lot more.

Activity-based energy and mobility modeling for future cities

To reach set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while managing increased urbanization, cities need to find optimal strategies for transforming local energy use and supply. In this initiative, we develop an Urban Building Mobility and Energy Model (UBMEM) that will calculate and visualize energy and power demand and greenhouse gas emissions in the city as a basis for urban planning.