Associations & Networks:
Climate Alliance, The Democratic Society, EIT Climate-KIC, EIT Urban Mobility, Energy Cities, ERRIN – European Regions Research and Innovation Network, Eurocities, ICLEI, Open & Agile Smart Cities, REGEA, Resilient Cities Network, Union Internationale des Transports Publics, Viable Cities.
Research organizations:
Cartif, Cerema, Demos Research Institute, Fraunhofer Institute, Tecnalia, TNO, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Universities:
Austrian Institute of Technology, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Politecnico di Milano, TalTech – Tallin University of Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Think-tanks:
Institute for European Environmental Policy.
Companies and consultancies:
Bankers Without Boundaries, Dark Matter Labs, LGI, Material Economics, Metabolic Institute, Rupprecht Consult, South Pole Carbon Asset Management.
Description:
NetZeroCities (NZC) is part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme in support of European Union’s Green Deal. NZC has been designed to help cities overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they face in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.
NZC will support the EU’s Mission of “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030” newly-launched as part of the Horizon Europe programme. The project will work as a service-oriented platform supported by world-class practitioners. It will help European cities by providing them with the support and solutions they need to achieve their Net Zero goal in a socially inclusive way.
New and existing tools, resources and expertise will be developed and promoted into a one-stop platform accessible to all cities through an online portal. Dedicated services will be designed to support cities that are part of the EU’s Mission “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030”. In addition, NetZeroCities will support a series of Pilots to help drive rapid learning about how to achieve climate neutrality at city scale, an run a Twinning programme to enable peer-learning.
Objectives:
- Develop an approach to support climate-neutral transformation in cities
- Help cities build capabilities and ways of working to advance systemic change using innovation
- Forge a platform for cities to use for all services & expertise critical to climate neutrality
- Facilitate a pipeline of cities accelerating towards climate neutrality
- Deliver 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030
- Ensure that these cities act as experimentation and innovation hubs to enable all European cities to follow suit by 2050
Main/relevant project outcomes and deliverables available for download
Mission area - Publications Office of the EU (europa.eu)
EU missions - Publications Office of the EU (europa.eu)
Links to project
Project website: https://netzerocities.eu/
Accelerating cities' transition to net zero emissions by 2030 | NetZeroCities Project | Fact Sheet | H2020 | CORDIS | European Commission (europa.eu)
Commission announces 100 cities participating in EU Mission for climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 (europa.eu)
