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Design Your City’s Climate Strategy: Join Our Free Online Planning Lab!

2025-09-29T14:37:10+02:00June 13th, 2025|

NetZeroCities, managing the Platform of the EU Cities Mission, is announcing a unique opportunity for cities across the EU and affiliated countries. Launching on 16 September 2025, the Online Planning Lab is a free, hands-on online course encapsulated by 6 modules designed to empower city representatives, policymakers, and urban change-makers with the knowledge and tools they need to drive systemic change. What is the Online Planning Lab? This isn't just another online programme. Built on a strong peer-to-peer foundation, the Planning Lab functions as a project-based “Mini-Lab”. If a city has a population above 50,000 inhabitants, this is their chance [...]

Over 100 European cities celebrate local climate successes together – and take home shared lessons for a climate-neutral future

2025-06-11T14:19:51+02:00June 10th, 2025|

NEW: Watch the video from the EU Cities Mission Conference 2025  More than 100 cities across the EU and beyond, including in the UK, Ukraine, Turkey, and Israel, have supported their journey to climate neutrality and strengthened the tools they will need to get there at a major urban sustainability conference supported by the European Commission.  Cities were represented by political leaders and staff leading their climate activities and made up part of the 825 total guests who met at the annual conference of the EU Cities Mission – the largest one yet – from 6-8 May in the European [...]

Support for structuring of social bonds for solar energy projects in Eilat

2025-06-18T13:47:47+02:00June 10th, 2025|

Deadline: 31 July 2025 Update: 18 June 2025 About the request The City Expert Support Facility (CESF), through NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC, are requesting quotation for the structuring of a Social Bond for the financing of solar energy projects in the city of Eilat. Eilat aims to open the door for its residents to actively invest in and benefit from solar energy projects, even if they lack the physical space—such as a private rooftop—necessary to install their own solar panels, through purchasing Social Bonds. The city has two core objectives of the Social Bond: first, to provide local residents with a [...]

Support for integration and customisation of the NetZero Planner for city of Cork

2025-06-13T18:59:33+02:00May 23rd, 2025|

Deadline: 30 June 2025 Update: 13 June 2025 Background Cork City is committed to building workforce capacity, systems, tools and processes that will enable them to deliver key components of the Cork City Climate Contract (CCC). This work is aligned with the city’s People Strategy and Learning and Development Framework. During the CCC development process in 2024, the city initially explored using the Economic Model developed by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) for their Investment Plan. However, challenges in accessing localised data and adapting national indicators led the city to engage external support from Arup. Despite this, the city [...]

Expert support for legal and strategic advisory services for innovations in the regulatory, legal, and fiscal framework for Barcelona’s climate action

2025-05-19T15:25:19+02:00May 19th, 2025|

Deadline: 09 June 2025 (23:59 CET) Background Barcelona has a long history developing leading policies related to climate change and its effects. The City committed to Local Agenda 21 from the outset and has been developing policies to promote a sustainable development model for more than 30 years. In 2002 the first Citizens' Commitment to Sustainability (2002-2012) was approved, which was renewed and extended 10 years later (2012-2022). At the end of 2020, the City Council adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda as guiding principles of its development strategy, providing quantifiable targets adapted to [...]

Seeking expert support for the development and management of a Local Financing Facility in Munich

2025-06-02T15:18:51+02:00May 19th, 2025|

Deadline: 13 June 2025 (23:59 CET) Update: 02 June - Due to the changes in the scope of the assignment, the deadline for submitting proposals has been revised to 13 June 2025 (23:59), and a deadline to ask questions to 04 June 2025. Background Munich is a city with an extensive ecosystem of finance actors, each of whom must be rapidly engaged by the Climate-neutrality Mission Unit for the success of the Mission. Yet, the municipality is not well positioned to define a process and engage these actors at the required speed. Expert support can help to deliver on these [...]

‘We can’t act alone’ on meaningful climate action

2025-05-02T14:49:04+02:00May 2nd, 2025|

The Lithuanian capital of Vilnius is known for its historic Old Town, but as host of the 2025 EU Cities Mission conference it will become a focal point for the future as hundreds of guests from dozens of cities across Europe meet there to discuss innovation and collaboration on climate action. The city’s mayor, Valdas Benkunskas, answered some questions for NetZeroCities ahead of this flagship event.  Vilnius is welcoming hundreds of visitors for the EU Cities Mission conference – what motivated the city to host the it?  This conference marks a crucial halfway point in the [...]

Bergamo seeks expert to strengthen internal & external governance structures & build capacity for climate action implementation

2025-05-22T12:25:12+02:00April 30th, 2025|

Deadline: 28 May 2025 (23:59 CET) Update (20 May): A document with responses to questions from interested parties has been added as an annex to this RfP. Compliance requirements for the website were added to point 3.2.1.4 The deadline to submit proposals has been extended to 28 May, 23:59 CEST Background The Climate City Contract (CCC) strategy of the City of Bergamo outlines a pathway towards climate neutrality, including the electrification of the tertiary and residential sectors through increased adoption of Renewable Energy Systems (RES) and heat pumps to replace conventional heating systems. According to the Regional Energy, Environment and [...]

Lisbon’s Climate City Contract: Development of an external communication and city branding strategy

2025-05-22T12:25:54+02:00April 30th, 2025|

Deadline to ask questions: 29 May 2025 (16:00 CEST) Submission deadline: 5 June 2025 (23:59 CEST) Update: 22 May The City Expert Support Facility (CESF), through NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC, are seeking bids for the development of an external communication and city branding strategy for the city of Lisbon, with the aim of communicating the ambitious climate related targets to a wider audience. Lisbon has been awarded the Mission Label for its ambitious commitments and actions to achieve climate neutrality as defined in the Climate City Contract. As part of the overall objective to communicate the city's journey, goals, targets and [...]

The role of research in the EU Cities Mission: Bridging the gap between cities and climate neutrality

2025-04-15T14:32:40+02:00April 16th, 2025|

The EU Cities Mission aims to make cities in Europe and beyond climate neutral by 2030, but the path to this goal is complex. Urban transitions require more than just technological solutions – they demand a systemic approach that integrates technology, governance and social innovation. This is where research comes in. Morgan Cole Ricard, Emma Puerari (Polimi) and Ylva Reisnert (ERRIN) tell us more about how a recent NetZeroCities event underlined the importance of research institutions to climate action in cities.  Cities are at the forefront of tackling the climate crisis, and as we work towards [...]

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