In what ways can regional mobilization increase the pace of the climate transition and what role does the municipality play in this? This has been studied in this study with a focus on the Gothenburg region.
Investments made, and not initiated to reduce CO2 emissions, may account for a large share of future emissions. This study takes a closer look at how climate benefit calculations can contribute to better decision-making.
440 climate heroes in the municipality of Östersund are spreading, sowing seeds and speeding up the transition with the help of the MEDmobility initiative - citizen dialogue for sustainable travel. With digital coaching, dialogues and trial activities, citizens have been empowered to travel sustainably and become role models for others.
The municipality of Linköping makes purchases worth SEK 4 billion per year. What is the climate impact of these purchases? The city has tested environmental spend analysis as part of the climate investment plan. The municipality can now prioritize purchasing categories and emission reduction efforts, and monitor these over time.
Based on the transition to fossil-free freight transport, Eskilstuna and Helsingborg have explored how municipalities' governance can be improved to benefit the climate transition.
The idea of energy communities is that more than the traditional players should be able to participate in the energy market. What is the role of municipalities in this, can and should they contribute? A number of actors in Eskilstuna have explored this.
How can more actors - city departments, municipally owned companies, and NGOs - be involved and engage more citizens in the transition? Helsingborg has explored how many can join forces to strengthen the local climate transition journey.
The feasibility study highlights climate and health as a combined driver of the city's climate transition. Measuring better health is as important as reducing climate emissions and the feasibility study lays a foundation for this through urban planning and stakeholder involvement.
In the feasibility study "Norrliden - A million program for the climate", Kalmar municipality joins forces with Kalmarhem AB, GodaHus and a number of property owners to identify, prioritize and plan effective climate investments, with the aim of accelerating the climate transition.
This feasibility study will examine how limited climate investment plans for a municipal administration and a municipal company can be designed to clarify how to accelerate the climate transition and make costs and societal benefits visible. The preliminary study will develop operational approaches and an inclusive process to strengthen the local capacity for transition.
The purpose 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, and to contribute to actors in the private sector, who are responsible for the majority of climate-related investments in the city, eventually starting to use similar methods in their decision-making processes.
Karlstad Municipality and companies in the city have come a long way in climate work, not least through the Climate Neutral Cities 2030 initiative. The work on climate investment plans coincides with the development of a new governance model, which creates a window of opportunity for building the plan into governance processes. The feasibility study will develop training for a common knowledge base in both climate and financial management, develop implementation methodology through service design and develop support tools.
Upplands-Bro has the largest increase in carbon dioxide emissions among Swedish municipalities since the Paris Agreement. To achieve the goals, a concerted effort is needed together with the business community. The preliminary study will conduct economic analyses of climate measures and, in collaboration with the business community, highlight economic opportunities for climate investments, such as sustainable energy supply and climate requirements in urban development processes.
At present, climate change and economy are mainly handled as isolated issues, and municipal economic processes do not always steer in the same direction as the climate goals. Integration of climate and economic management is needed to effectively steer towards net zero. To meet this need, the feasibility study will develop green financial management where climate investments are linked to financial processes within the municipality.
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.
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