Ella Morgan, Author at NetZeroCities

The Power of Partnerships: Forging Alliances to Scale and Speed Up the Impact of the Cities Mission

Ella Morgan2024-12-20T10:00:27+01:00December 20th, 2024|

For cities to reach climate neutrality, they will need to overcome systemic problems – a key feature of the ‘Mission model’. Read here about how the Mission Platform, managed by NetZeroCities, is incorporating Mission principles to strengthen its support to cities and creating new partnerships for fresh thinking. Just as cities are building partnerships to connect, exchange, and create knowledge and activities across their city, NetZeroCities is doing the same as the platform for the EU Cities Mission. But how does their will to cooperate relate to climate ambition? When it comes to cities reaching their climate [...]

A blueprint for European cities? Athens announces new initiative to tackle energy poverty

Ella Morgan2024-12-16T11:41:39+01:00December 16th, 2024|

For any city’s climate transition to be effective and sustainable, it will also have to be just – ready to support its poorest and most vulnerable citizens. In our first guest blog outside the NetZeroCities consortium, Vangelis Marinakis, an assistant professor at the National Technical University of Athens and president of DAEM, the city’s IT company, explains how Greece’s capital is doing so, from a one-stop-shop to counter energy poverty, to waiving municipal fees for energy-poor households. Imagine a city where energy vulnerability is not just acknowledged but actively addressed, setting a new standard for equity [...]

NetZeroCities Seasonal School: Fuelling Climate City Contract Implementation

Ella Morgan2024-12-16T10:39:14+01:00December 16th, 2024|

17 Mission Cities representatives gathered in Madrid for the fifth edition of the NetZeroCities Seasonal School, hosted by consortium partners Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Politecnico de Milano from 27 to 29 November. This event focused specifically on the implementation phase of Climate City Contracts (CCCs), supporting cities as they move from planning to accelerated action on their climate goals. The Seasonal Schools are a key part of the NetZeroCities Capability Building Programme, offering Mission Cities tailored support throughout the various phases of their CCCs. These outline cities’ climate strategies, including Commitments, Actions, and Investment Plans, [...]

48 European cities to advance climate neutrality ‘transformation’ via €22m programme

Ella Morgan2024-12-11T11:53:02+01:00December 11th, 2024|

Europe’s climate neutrality targets have been given a boost with 48 ambitious European cities set to receive a share of 22.6 million euros through the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities. The cities will join the ‘Enabling City Transformation Programme’ and support sustainable urban development and Europe’s climate neutrality goals, including the European Green Deal, by creating practical, replicable solutions. Mission Cities were invited by the EU Cities Mission platform – currently managed by NetZeroCities –to propose innovative actions to overcome systemic challenges, which attracted over 40 applications from across 24 countries in the EU and Horizon-associated countries. Twenty-six [...]

Expert support focused on stakeholder mobilisation in Umeå: Request for Proposals (Updated)

Ella Morgan2025-01-08T15:16:36+01:00December 4th, 2024|

Update (08 January): The submission deadline was postponed to 22 January 2025, with the implementation deadlines postponed accordingly (details below). Update (20 December): A document with responses to questions from interested parties has been added as an annex to this RfP. Deadline: 22 January 2025 (23:59:59 CET) Through the NetZeroCities City Expert Support Facility, NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC are requesting quotations for expert support focused on stakeholder mobilisation – answering the question: How can Umeå municipality practically and effectively facilitate multi-actor climate action? Responding to this question entails the explicit intent to explore strategies that do not always involve the municipality [...]

Support with implementation of Sustainable Energy Community in Liberec: Request for Proposals (Updated)

Ella Morgan2024-12-20T16:46:23+01:00December 4th, 2024|

Update (20 December): A document with responses to questions from interested parties has been added as an annex to this RfP. Deadline: 8 January 2025 Through the NetZeroCities City Expert Support Facility, NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC are requesting quotations to provide technical, legal and administrative assistance for the implementation of a Sustainable Energy Community (EC) in the city of Liberec, associated to the Department of Energy Management (creation of the legal-administrative entity). About the request City of Liberec wants to act as a facilitator for the creation of the EC. To that end, the city council of Liberec, specifically its Department [...]

Process planning, facilitation and managing change services for Lahti: Request for Proposals (Updated)

Ella Morgan2025-01-08T15:16:18+01:00December 4th, 2024|

Update (08 January): The submission deadline was postponed to 15 January 2025. The implementation deadlines remain intact. Update (20 December): A document with responses to questions from interested parties has been added as an annex to this RfP. Deadline: 15 January 2025 (23:59:59 CET) Through the NetZeroCities City Expert Support Facility, NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC are requesting quotations for support for the City of Lahti in process planning, facilitation and managing change to accelerate the transition to climate neutrality. About the request Lahti is an EU Mission Label city in Southern Finland with a population of 120,000. The city has been [...]

Twelve Ukrainian cities join the SUN4Ukraine initiative of the EU Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission

Ella Morgan2024-12-03T11:40:46+01:00December 3rd, 2024|

A group of 12 municipalities from across Ukraine have been selected as SUN4Ukraine's Flagship Municipalities, embarking on a transformative journey toward climate neutrality by 2050. These municipalities will receive support from the SUN4Ukraine project and will collaborate with EU Mission Cities to exchange knowledge and strengthen capacities in the pursuit of climate-neutral rebuilding. For more details, please see SUN4Ukraine's press release below. PRESS RELEASE Twelve municipalities from across Ukraine are beginning a transformative journey to climate-neutral rebuilding. They have been announced as SUN4Ukraine’s Flagship Municipalities and will be associated with the EU Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission, which aims to achieve [...]

Demolition for innovation: Uppsala is building back greener

Ella Morgan2024-11-29T12:37:51+01:00November 29th, 2024|

Author: Elisa Abrantes Stories from Pilot Cities: Uppsala is a participant in the Pilot Cities Programme, an EU grant-funded programme that focuses on exploring and testing pathways to rapid decarbonisation over a two-year period. Demolition for innovation: Uppsala is building back greener What can tearing down a building teach us about circularity? In Uppsala, Sweden, they are showing that lessons from practical experience are invaluable. The city administration is using demolition and renovation projects as real-world laboratories to explore circular construction methods. From steel to concrete, the building blocks that make up the city will be [...]

Changing attitudes to beat the heat in Limassol

Ella Morgan2024-11-26T13:40:06+01:00November 26th, 2024|

Author: Elisa Abrantes Stories from Pilot Cities: Limassol is one of the 112 cities participating in the EU Mission to deliver 100 climate-neutral and smart cities, and the Pilot Cities Programme – a component of the Mission that focuses on exploring and testing pathways to rapid decarbonisation over a two-year period.   Changing attitudes to beat the heat in Limassol The Mediterranean island of Cyprus marks the EU's eastern extreme, so far east that it sits geographically in West Asia. Where scorching summers are becoming the new norm, the country’s second largest city, Limassol, is increasingly confronted [...]

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