Anne-Charlotte Costabadie, Author at NetZeroCities

CIVITAS Forum 2026

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-09-09T10:13:06+02:00September 7th, 2026|

NetZeroCities is heading to this year’s CIVITAS Forum, Roots & Routes: Moving Forward to Competitive, Connected and Resilient Urban Mobility. Visit our booth at the EU Initiatives thematic corner on 15–16 September, where our mobility experts will be on hand to talk through what a mobility transition looks like in practice – how cities can shift away from car dependency, accelerate clean and electric transport, motivate behaviour change, and use governance, policy and data to connect mobility with wider climate and urban-development goals. Based on our expertise guiding 112 Mission Cities across Europe to build and act on their climate strategies, we’ll be sharing the tools, funding routes and peer-learning opportunities available through NetZeroCities, as [...]

The Invisible Engine Powering Europe’s Climate Transition

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-09-09T10:27:30+02:00August 31st, 2026|

Author: Barbara Jarkiewicz Every day, cities generate extraordinary amounts of information. Buildings consume energy. Buses move through neighbourhoods. Heat networks respond to changing demand. For years, much of this information existed in separate systems, making it difficult to understand how one decision affected another. Today, cities are beginning to connect those pieces through an invisible tissue of digitalisation. Digital technologies are helping cities reveal hidden patterns, model and test pathways before investment, and monitor whether their climate strategies are effective. “Climate change doesn't respect sectoral boundaries. Heating decisions shift electricity demand, renovation [...]

Expert Support to Facilitate the Community of Practice of Cities in Norway

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-08-10T15:31:18+02:00July 29th, 2026|

Deadline: 24 August 2026 (23:59 CEST Time) Background NetZeroCities through Special Grant Agreement 2 ( Task 1.6, ‘Sub European Peer to Peer Collaboration’, is actively working to provide tailored support in various national contexts. The aim is to provide additional support to cities, foster communities of practice between cities in each country, i.e. to strengthen city to city collaboration spaces at national level and thus help to reinforce national platforms. To achieve this, NetZeroCities has developed a country specific support framework tailored to the unique characteristics and needs of each context. Three Norwegian cities, Oslo, Trondheim, and Stavanger are part [...]

Expert Support to Facilitate the National Platform for Climate Neutral Cities in Türkiye

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-08-27T09:53:29+02:00July 29th, 2026|

New Deadline: 26 August 2026 (23:59 CEST Time) Please note that the deadline for submitting bids has changed and a list of questions and answers are published at the bottom of the RfP in the downloaded PDF file. Background NetZeroCities, through Special Grant Agreement 2 (SGA2) Task 1.6, ‘Sub-European Peer-to-Peer Collaboration’, is actively working to provide tailored support in various national contexts. The aim is to provide additional support to cities, foster communities of practice between cities in each country, i.e. to strengthen city-to-city collaboration spaces at national level and thus help to reinforce national support structures for climate neutral [...]

‘If it’s not economically competitive, we have lost the game’

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-07-30T16:36:13+02:00July 27th, 2026|

Kozani is part of “a region in transition,” says the Greek city’s climate lead, as it plans for a future without the mining industry that until recently sustained it. Showing citizens the value of clean energy to their finances, as well as to the climate, is crucial – and finance experts from NetZeroCities’ Capital Hub are working closely with the city on the numbers. Michail Kastanaras is “quite new to the struggle” that Kozani began a few years ago, he says, but he and his colleagues are now playing a special role within the local climate [...]

Capacity Building and Climate Transition Finance Portfolio Development for the Cities of The Hague and Eindhoven

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-07-29T14:31:19+02:00July 17th, 2026|

New deadline: 24 August 2026 (23:59 CEST Time) Background The Hague and Eindhoven are actively engaged in the EU Mission for 100 climate-neutral cities by 2030. As part of their Climate City Contract through which they have received their respective mission labels, they have created a climate action plan setting out key investment needs. To achieve climate neutrality and prepare the respective cities for the impacts of climate change, large-scale investments are needed, both in public and private assets: Public infrastructure, public spaces, utilities, public and private buildings. Whilst some of these investments can take place on the basis of [...]

Strategies to make innovation stick in cities

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-07-03T10:15:11+02:00July 3rd, 2026|

In this second blog on city innovation, NetZeroCities partners TNO show how cities – after identifying their challenges, outlined in part one – can follow five strategies to make innovation not a ‘nice to have’ but an inevitable part of their results. In our first blog, we described 15 recurring challenges that quietly stall innovation in cities, showing up as slow progress, unfinished pilots, fragile initiatives, and innovation that depends on personal energy rather than organisational support. But naming challenges is only half the battle. In our work on addressing complex societal challenges with public organisations [...]

What are ‘negative emissions’ and what do they mean for cities?

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-07-13T14:45:51+02:00June 18th, 2026|

Cities are trying to rapidly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and reach net zero, but why ‘net’ zero? This is where negative emissions come in. Paul Barton from NetZeroCities’ partner ICLEI Europe explains how critical these are for cities’ climate neutrality goals. A less considered part of the terms “net zero” and “climate neutral” is that they imply that some carbon emissions can’t be mitigated by 2030. These leftover or “residual” emissions therefore need to be cancelled out through actions that remove carbon from the atmosphere. Why do cities need negative emissions? The removal and storage [...]

Facilitate the Community of Practice of Cities in the Republic of Slovenia

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-06-15T11:40:51+02:00June 15th, 2026|

Deadline: 07 July 2026 (23:59 CEST Time) Background NetZeroCities, through Special Grant Agreement 2 (SGA2) Task 1.6, ‘Sub-European Peer-to-Peer Collaboration’, is actively working to provide tailored support in various national contexts. The aim is to provide additional support to cities, foster communities of practice between cities in each country, i.e. to strengthen city-to-city collaboration spaces at national level and thus help to reinforce national platforms. To achieve this, NZC has developed a country-specific support framework tailored to the unique characteristics and needs of each context. In the Republic of Slovenia, cities Kranj, Ljubljana and Velenje are participating in the EU [...]

Cities Mission Times 2026: Delivering Europe’s Urban Climate Transition

Anne-Charlotte Costabadie2026-06-09T11:06:29+02:00June 9th, 2026|

At the recent Cities Mission Conference 2026, held in Torino from 27-29 May, attendees received the "Cities Mission Times," a newspaper dedicated to delivering Europe's urban climate transition and celebrating city progress on the road to climate neutrality. Packed with city stories, case studies, and expert insights, it reflects the scale and ambition of Europe's urban climate transition in action. Inside, readers will discover local climate initiatives and citizen engagement stories, alongside features on finance, private sector action, smart cities, energy, multilevel governance, peer learning, and cities' own approaches to climate communication. Didn’t get your copy? You can still browse [...]

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