The issue of public procurement is a key part of the transition to climate neutrality. Procurement can be a powerful tool to drive a faster transition to climate-neutral and sustainable cities, but how? How can local authorities take a leading role? What are the key areas? What examples of new ways of working on this exist today?
Do you as a company or association want to make a contribution to the climate in Helsingborg? The goal is to make commitments that suit your business, are feasible and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. A signature shows that your company wants to be an active part of the City of Helsingborg's climate work.
Helsingborg has launched a sustainable bond framework that includes both green and social categories. These include investments in renewable energy sources, sanitation, and green transportation, but also investments in social projects that raise the standard of living in the city.
Helsingborg Innovation District (HEIDI) is the name of the city's new innovation district that is now taking shape in Oceanhamnen. The aim is to create a common arena that promotes innovation collaborations for new smart solutions and business ideas, not least linked to the climate challenges facing the city.
Digital Twin is a project within the framework of the Helsingborg Declaration. The Helsingborg Declaration is an initiative that means that the city, together with over 50 actors from the entire logistics chain, aims to make the Helsingborg region Europe's most fast-moving and sustainable logistics hub.
Within the Climate Leader municipalities for public procurement initiative, Fossil Free Sweden has worked together with Helsingborg, Umeå, Uppsala, Växjö, Örebro and Östersund to identify the challenges of introducing climate requirements in public procurement.
Helsingborg wants to challenge traditional management of municipal goods distribution and test new ways of managing deliveries using digitized delivery data and smarter ordering processes. Therefore, they developed a digital platform for transparent transportation.
The Helsingborg Declaration is an initiative whereby the city, together with actors from the entire logistics chain, aims to make the Helsingborg region Europe's most fast-moving and sustainable logistics hub.
In Helsingborg, the new climate and energy plan for the period 2025-2030 will cover the entire geographical area and therefore become the entire municipality's plan. In the spring of 2023, a basis for the plan was prepared and companies and associations were invited to participate in the process. Proposals for the measures to be prioritized in different emission areas have been formulated and the actors who can implement the measures have been identified.
In Climate Breakfast 28, we explore with our guests the different ways in which companies can engage in climate transition of cities and what are the success factors behind it. For example, in many 2030 cities, the municipality and companies are part of local Climate City Contract.
How can students accelerate the transition to Climate Neutral Cities 2030? At Climate Breakfast 27, STUNS in Uppsala participates, which has long worked to develop the collaboration concept Stories, a concept where students within the framework of their studies solve sustainability challenges.
During the Transition Lab Forum 9, a number of key actors working in different ways on the issue of climate-smart mobility met. Among other things, it was about mobile hubs and shared mobility; quite simply: How do we manage our everyday trips without a car? We also got an insight into the host city Helsingborg's work on climate change. The event was organized together with Drive Sweden during H22.
Gävle, Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Lund, Malmö, Stockholm and Umeå. These are the Swedish municipalities that are part of the EU's mission for climate-neutral cities by 2030. What does this mean for the cities that joined? And how can it contribute to the climate transition in all Swedish cities?
Last spring, Anthesis was commissioned by Viable Cities to develop a strategy for engaging citizens and civil society as co-creators of the city's future. Through workshops and interviews, Anthesis, together with its partners Actinate and Sustainable 3.0, has collected information that is analyzed and now results in recommendations on a possible way forward.
Viable Cities' mission is climate-neutral and sustainable cities by 2030. Drive Sweden's vision is to create sustainable and safe mobility systems for people and goods that are accessible to everyone. We are now launching a collaboration to accelerate the climate transition: Climate Smart Mobility 2030. During our first joint event, we explored the transition to climate-neutral urban mobility through international perspectives, panel discussions and inspiring examples.
How do Swedish municipalities structure their climate work? On behalf of Viable Cities, our member Klimatkommunerna has done an overview of this. They see that in recent years more and more have adopted long-term goals for their climate work, and have also identified some key factors for successful climate transition in cities.
In 2019, Viable Cities and Vinnova made an inventory of 15 municipal projects regarding the need for support for innovation management, to work long-term and systematically with innovation. It showed that many are working actively on the issue but that more support is needed. In response to the need, a project is now starting to develop skills, methods, models and tools for innovation management so that cities can become climate neutral more quickly and efficiently.
