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Seeking Expert Support for Stakeholder Engagement for Rome’s Climate Transition

2025-01-22T17:21:52+01:00January 22nd, 2025|

Deadline: 11 February 2025 (23:59:59 CET) Through the NetZeroCities City Expert Support Facility, NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC are requesting quotations for expert support to Roma Capitale to advance and solidify the strong multi-level collaborative structure required to implement the Climate City Contract. About the request Roma Capitale has finalised the Climate City Contract (CCC) and aims to receive the Mission Label in 2025. Starting from the establishment of an internal Climate Office within the public body in 2021, Rome’s path toward the Mission Label started in 2022 with the launch of an engagement strategy that involves the public agencies, the private sector [...]

Expert Support to the Community of Practice of Cities in the Czech Republic

2025-01-22T17:02:05+01:00January 22nd, 2025|

Deadline: 5 February 2025 In the context of the efforts of Czech cities within the EU Mission for 100 Climate Neutral Cities by 2030, and specifically the opportunity identified to provide additional support to the community of cities working toward the mission’s objectives within the Czech Republic's national ecosystem, the NetZeroCities City Expert Support Facility, NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC are requesting quotation for services from an organization or individual able to operate within this national context. The role involves supporting teams from NetZeroCities, as relevant, to take charge of and facilitate the process described below. About the request The following is [...]

Seeking Expert Analysis for Urban Food Policy Innovation in Amsterdam

2025-01-22T16:53:00+01:00January 22nd, 2025|

Deadline: 11 February 2025 (23:59:59 CET) Through the NetZeroCities City Expert Support Facility, NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC are requesting quotation for urban food policy innovation expertise (individual or team) to support the City of Amsterdam in its integrated climate neutrality efforts. About the request Across the Mission for 100 Climate Neutral Cities by 2030, many cities recognize that scope 3 emissions are critical to address. In Amsterdam, about 80% of CO2 emissions is due to material use (Monitor Circulaire Economie Technische toelichting (2022)). Amsterdam already has an aspiring circular economy ambition1 and wants to use the opportunity of the Mission to [...]

Network of ambitious cities on climate neutrality grows to 184 on EU Cities Mission peer-learning programme

2025-03-20T09:16:33+01:00January 22nd, 2025|

From January 2025, 24 more cities will quicken their pace towards climate neutrality as they join a vast peer-learning network of 184 cities across Europe and beyond, delivered through the EU Cities Mission and facilitated by NetZeroCities, the Mission platform. The latest cities (listed below), representing 14 countries across Europe, have been selected as the third cohort to become ‘Twin Cities’ through the Twinning Learning Programme and paired with Pilot Cities to learn from and feed into innovative climate-related pilot activities. Cities with similar challenges and pursuing similar solutions related to their emissions are matched and will share their insights across [...]

Expert analysis to support successful development of district energy services in Padova

2025-01-17T17:53:37+01:00January 17th, 2025|

Deadline: 7 February 2025 (23:59:59 CET) Through the NetZeroCities City Expert Support Facility, NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC are requesting quotations for the first phase of a planned two-phase analysis to support successful development of district energy services in Padova. This first phase is a district energy screening study, which builds on the district energy directions articulated in Padova’s Climate City Contract. The completion of this screening study will set forth the directions for the City in the anticipated second phase, describe the needed business and technical analyses needed in the second phase along with a budget for that work, and establish [...]

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

2025-05-21T09:56:42+02:00December 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

2024-12-16T11:41:39+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

2025-02-06T15:38:06+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

2024-12-11T11:53:02+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)

2025-01-08T15:16:36+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 [...]

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