Climate Neutral Cities 2030 is Viable Cities' mission and major initiative. Here you can find the latest news on Climate Neutral Cities 2030.
"It always seems impossible until it is done." Maria Vassilakou, EU mission board on climate neutral cities, quoted Nelson Mandela when she attended Transition Lab Forum 3, September 16-17.
She was one of many speakers who, over two days, gave strength and inspiration to continue working on the mission: Climate Neutral Cities 2030.
The municipality of Enköping is testing new solutions at Myran, a 74 hectare development area in the municipality, to learn and achieve the goal of a completely climate-neutral municipality by 2030. They are also giving young people a voice in urban development. On our blog, project manager Thomas Adlercreutz explains the current situation.
Achieving the profound climate transition we need requires cooperation between all members of society at a level never seen before. Citizen engagement and local Climate City Contract is the theme of the Viable Cities Transition Lab Forum 3, on September 16-17 (press release).
Enköping, Gothenburg, Järfälla, Lund, Malmö, Stockholm, Umeå, Uppsala and Växjö. These nine Swedish cities will lead the way, testing and experimenting to inspire and accelerate the work towards the mission: Climate Neutral Cities 2030 - with a good life for all within the limits of the planet. In a series of blog posts from the nine cities, we can follow their work. First up is Växjö municipality.
Within Viable Cities, we have felt the need to develop a text that can frame the work we do together to achieve our common mission: climate-neutral cities with a good life for all within the boundaries of the planet. Our Chief Storyteller Per Grankvist has formulated this in the Declaration.
Nordic Innovation has granted NOK 3 million to the project "Nordic Transition partnership", which aims to accelerate the transition to climate neutrality by 2030 in small and medium-sized municipalities. In the project, Viable Cities collaborates with Tampere in Finland, Reykjavik in Iceland and Smart Innovation Norway in Norway.
On Thursday, April 23, eight Swedish cities will take a big step forward to accelerate the climate transition - Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Lund, Växjö, Uppsala, Umeå and Enköping. They want to lead, test and experiment to become climate neutral by 2030.
On 11 December 2019, Viable Cities and the European Commission organized the European Viable Cities Day for the second year in a row. This is the same day that the European Commission's Chairman Ursula von der Leyen presented The European Green Deal.
Urban cultivation with waste heat from data centers and models of climate-smart music and sports events are examples of 12 projects receiving a total of €28 million to accelerate the climate transition.
One of Sweden's largest strategic innovation programs is Viable Cities, with a budget of over SEK 1 billion for research and innovation on smart, sustainable cities. The program, coordinated by KTH, aims to make cities climate neutral by 2030. Viable Cities has...
The European Commission has appointed Allan Larsson, Chairman in the Swedish innovation program Viable Cities, as vice Chairman in the steering group that will lead the work within the EU on Climate Neutral and Smart Cities. - That the European Commission appoints our Chairman to such an important role...
Climate-neutral cities in 2030 were the focus of Viable Cities' participation during Almedalen Week 2019. A theme that was very topical. During the week, 3,700 events were held, bringing together 42,000 participants from a wide range of interest areas in society. Sustainability...
The climate challenge is a critical issue where cities have a key role to play. From Lund in the south to Umeå in the north, nine cities are now receiving funding for projects that can accelerate the climate transition. The aim is to become climate neutral by 2030. The funding...
This year, Viable Cities is participating with its own events and as a co-organizer in others and in some cases as a speaker. Among other things, a seminar focusing on climate-neutral cities will be held on Monday, July 1 at 16.15 with the directors general of Vinnova,...
Strategy Day 11 April 2019 MISSION: Climate neutral cities 2030 During the last year the program's focus has been sharpened and clarified and now has a strong focus on what we call our MISSION: Climate neutral cities in 2030. This...
Viable Cities will shortly open its fourth call for proposals and now invites you to a webinar to inform about the call. We must act together quickly and forcefully to meet the climate challenge. Cities are central to the transition and digitalization and citizen engagement are...
In cooperation with the European Commission's Representation in Sweden, Viable Cities organized the European Viable Cities Day on 11 December in connection with Nobel Day. The theme was Research and innovation for Carbon Neutral Cities and a round table discussion was held with Jean-Eric Pacquet, Director General of the European Commission...
As people acquire more digital tools, cities need to be redesigned. So says Olga Kordas who, with SEK 1 billion in her pocket, is leading Sweden's largest project to create smart and sustainable cities. Imagine that digital technology can...
Information and opportunity to ask questions about the calls: "From research to practice - methods and tools in the field of sustainable spatial planning" and "Climate neutral cities 2030" within the strategic innovation program Viable cities.
Our third call for proposals, focusing on climate-neutral cities in Sweden by 2030, is now open. The call welcomes project proposals that focus on cities that want to accelerate the transition to become viable and climate-neutral already by 2030. Project consortia will focus on...
On the morning of 5 November, Viable Cities will host its first program conference in Stockholm. On the same day, in the afternoon, there will be an information meeting on the third call for Climate Neutral Cities 2030. During the week, information meetings will also take place in Gothenburg (7 Nov), Malmö (8 Nov) and Umeå....
The 2018 Almedalen Week in Visby attracted over 45,000 unique visitors and over 4,300 seminars and other events took place during the week. Of the week's events, 55 dealt explicitly with the topic of sustainable cities and 611 with digitalization - an intense and inspiring...
In connection with the Almedalen Week in Visby, Viable Cities held a seminar on 2 July focusing on digitalization for the transition to climate-neutral cities. Political representatives from Gothenburg, Umeå and Stockholm - Anne-Marie Hermansson, Hans Lindberg and Jan Valestad - presented their...
The strategic innovation program Viable Cities is now starting - the largest investment to date in Sweden in research and innovation on smart and sustainable cities. SEK 960 million over twelve years will be invested in the program, which is led by KTH and brings together some 50 actors from several different research fields as well as business, government, municipalities and civil society.
