15 initiatives to explore how to speed up the transition.
Citizen engagement, climate investments and regional collaboration have a big impact on reducing emissions, but it needs to be faster. Now 15 initiatives across Sweden are receiving funding to explore how this can be done in a shorter timeframe.
In Sweden and in Europe, there is a strong mobilization to transition to climate-neutral and sustainable cities by 2030. This is part of the mission-driven work that Viable Cities has initiated and run for several years. This initiative provides funding to pre-study , which explores how we can give even more power to the urban transition, and create better capacity for many more cities to accelerate the transition.
- "We all know that we need to find even faster ways to move forward in the climate transition," said Olga Kordas, Director of the Viable Cities Program. " the pre-studies will provide us with new insights to help cities accelerate the pace and improve the quality of life for citizens while reducing emissions.
A total of 15 initiatives have now received funding in three different areas: civic engagement, climate investments and regional cooperation.
Climate investment plans are a key tool in the local transition journey. During the work done in Viable Cities so far to develop new ways of investing and redirecting financial flows for climate transition, new questions have emerged. Several of the initiatives that are now receiving funding will explore how the work on climate investment plans can be improved.
Linköping, for example, will use environmental commuting analyses to map the climate impact of the municipality's purchases to increase knowledge of consumption-based emissions and develop procurement work.
In Kalmar, climate investment plans and regional mobilization will be explored from the perspective of the conversion of Million Programme areas. The property stocks from the 60s and 70s often have extensive renovation needs and social exclusion. Investment decisions will have a large climate impact - positive or negative - depending on the choices made. What synergies exist between climate-smart solutions and the attractiveness of an area?
The municipality of Östersund will explore the conflicts that climate change can cause when it comes to mobility in rural and urban areas. The solutions are often dependent on many interacting actors. The municipality of Östersund will develop a method for citizen dialogue that includes parameters such as demographics, sparsity, educational background, functional ability and socio-economic conditions, etc. and test it in various initiatives.
the pre-studies is implemented in the following thematic areas:
Read more about call #13 here.
Anna-Lena Ekenryd, Strategic Communicator
073 346 84 36, anna-lena.ekenryd@viablecities.se
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...
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...
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.
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 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.
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...
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 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.
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...
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...
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...
The feasibility study will explore how Helsingborg can further increase the pace of the climate transition work by strengthening the collective capacity for transition. The ambition is to create a process for the city's administrations, municipally owned companies, and voluntary organizations to be involved in engaging more...
