In 2024, 15 studies were carried out to explore how to accelerate the transition under three different themes: civic engagement, climate investment and regional cooperation.
Civic engagement, climate investments and regional cooperation are key to the climate transition. In 2024, 15 initiatives were carried out across Sweden to explore how to accelerate the transition journey in these areas.
Climate investment plans are a key tool in the local transition journey. In the course of Viable Cities' work so far on developing new ways of investing and redirecting financial flows for climate transition, new issues have emerged. Several of the initiatives have looked more closely at how the work on climate investment plans can be further improved. Linköping, for example, has mapped the climate impact of the municipality's purchases through environmental impact assessments to raise awareness of consumption-based emissions and develop procurement work.
Regional mobilization. Kalmar, for example, explored how climate investment plans and regional mobilization can link up in the transformation of Million Programme districts. The housing stock from the 1960s and 1970s often has extensive renovation needs and social exclusion. Investment decisions will have a large climate impact - positive or negative - depending on the choices made. What are the synergies between climate-smart solutions and the attractiveness of an area?
Citizen engagement. In the municipality of Östersund, for example, they studied how to resolve the conflicts that the climate transition can cause in terms of mobility in rural and urban areas. The solutions often depend on many actors working together. The municipality of Östersund will develop a method for citizen dialogue that includes parameters such as demographics, sparsity, educational background, functional capacity, socio-economic conditions and more, and test it in various initiatives.
The studies received funding through call for proposals #13.
The preliminary study will carry out and develop citizen dialogues linked to the transition and sustainable passenger transport in the municipality of Östersund. The work on the climate transition can lead to conflicts between those who govern and those who need to make changes. A common positive vision of the society of the future, combined with reality-based...
Linköping wants to map the climate impact of the municipality's purchases, through environmental commuting analyses, to increase knowledge of the activities' consumption-based emissions and develop the strategic procurement work. The preliminary study will also activate the business community in the work to reduce their consumption-based emissions.
Climate change and finance are currently managed mainly in isolation, and municipal financial processes do not always align with climate targets. Integration of climate and financial governance is needed to effectively steer towards net zero. To meet this need, the...
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.
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 to build the plan into governance processes. The preliminary study will...
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...
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 private sector actors, who are responsible for the majority of climate-related investments in the city, eventually...
This feasibility study will investigate how delimited 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 business-oriented approaches and an inclusive process to strengthen the...
The DEKO feasibility study aims to mobilize and activate practices, target groups and beneficiaries in Malmö. It wants to lay the groundwork for interaction between (i) information, knowledge and expertise exchange and (ii) acknowledgement or feedback on how the exchange is interpreted and shapes actions....
Since the EU Green energy directive 2019/944 was established, the concept of energy communities and what it can and cannot be, has been an ongoing discussion in Sweden, the EU and internationally. Basically, energy communities are about legal entities being able to be part of a...
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.
This feasibility study will examine the conditions that exist and the mobilization required for the municipalities' journey towards climate neutrality. The results of the study will highlight the needs and conditions for a regional transition support and provide proposals for strategic choices, both in terms of organization and...
The feasibility study will develop scalable processes and frameworks and produce a basis for decisions on climate investments to increase Eskilstuna's and Helsingborg's opportunities to achieve their climate goals. The methodology can be used by other cities. "The city's journey" refers to the seven parts ...
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.
An important purpose of developing climate investment plans is to look at the total investment needed to achieve the climate targets in order to understand the capital requirements of the transition. This feasibility study will further develop this work by exploring future investments...
