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Istanbul’s quest for earthquake resilience and sustainability

Ella Morgan2024-09-02T14:08:20+02:00August 8th, 2024|

Author: Barbara Jarkiewicz Stories from Pilot Cities: Istanbul 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. The last major earthquake in Turkey was nearly eight magnitude, causing massive damage to millions of buildings and resulting in thousands of lives lost. The country suffers regular smaller tremors too and therefore the historic city of Istanbul, the country’s largest city, faces a dual [...]

Upscaling the EU Cities Mission: European Cities and Platforms Unite to Accelerate Climate-Neutrality

Capucine Pineau2024-07-18T14:14:48+02:00July 16th, 2024|

The Mission Cities of Spain and Sweden, alongside their national platforms citiES2030 and Viable Cities, have launched a Development Declaration aimed at upscaling the EU Cities Mission. This collaborative effort, endorsed by the Romanian Mission Platform M100, aims to propel the 112 Mission Cities towards climate neutrality by 2030, underscoring a unified commitment to achieve the European Green Deal and the Paris Agreement. Key Aspects of the Declaration The Development Declaration underscores the need for further support and resources to ensure the success of Mission Cities in achieving climate neutrality. It advocates for a common strategy on "scaling as the [...]

Capital idea: How the Climate City Capital Hub aims to make the difference for cities’ climate neutrality goals

Clea Prieto2024-07-19T10:55:13+02:00July 15th, 2024|

“All in all, it often comes to the money questions like, ‘how do we fund our climate work?’” says Elina Ojala, the environmental director of Lahti, Finland. “And there we also need private investors, and we need to find out how we can make it all happen and have all the things financed that we have planned.” Like 32 other cities in the EU Cities Mission, Lahti has now been awarded a ‘Mission Label’ – formal recognition of their plans to reach climate neutrality, detailed in their Climate City Contract and submitted to the European Commission. But what comes next? The [...]

Preserving the Past, Building the Future: Budapest’s Climate Challenge

Ella Morgan2024-07-16T15:58:00+02:00July 12th, 2024|

Author: Elisa Abrantes Stories from Pilot Cities: Budapest 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. As a European crossroads of culture and a historical intersection of power, Budapest’s streets, food, ruin bars, historical monuments, castles, bridges and spas tell the story of Roman, Ottoman Turkish, Slavic, Jewish and Viennese influence. They have left their stamp on the city, the ‘Pearl [...]

Banking on Bristol

Ella Morgan2025-04-16T09:47:44+02:00July 12th, 2024|

Author: Elisa Abrantes Stories from Pilot Cities: Bristol 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. “Who is going to pay for this?” The estimated cost of Bristol’s decarbonisation is around £8 billion. Therefore, to Bristol City Council, it is clear that finding the money is imperative. Situated in the southwest of England, the city is taking bold steps towards answering [...]

City Leaders Committed to Driving Urban Climate Transitions: Introducing the Cities Mission Mayors Advisory Group

Capucine Pineau2024-07-10T12:27:04+02:00July 9th, 2024|

Hot news from the Cities Mission! A Cities Mission Mayors Advisory Group is soon to be inaugurated. This new body will play an essential role in advancing the EU Cities Mission, and will provide city leaders the opportunity to join forces, share insights, and shape the future of urban governance and development. The Advisory Group will serve as a vital and dynamic forum bringing together 15+ Mission City leaders to engage directly with the European Commission and the Mission Platform, managed by NetZeroCities. The members will be representing Mission Cities to provide strategic advice and feedback, [...]

Unleashing a Research Agenda for the EU Mission Climate Neutral and Smart Cities: our first event fully focused on research

Ella Morgan2024-07-09T09:50:11+02:00July 8th, 2024|

Are you familiar with the role of research in helping cities to become climate neutral? The event “Unleashing a Research Agenda for the EU Mission Climate Neutral and Smart Cities”, organised by NetZeroCities in Valencia on 25 June, was a first of its kind gathering of researchers from across Europe, complementing the 2024 edition of the Cities Mission Conference. Approximately 50 researchers participated, coming from both the NetZeroCities consortium and from an additional 28 universities and research institutions across Europe. The primary goals of this research event were to outline the research aspects of Mission [...]

That’s a wrap! Key takeaways from the 2024 Cities Mission Conference in Valencia

Ella Morgan2024-07-09T10:58:24+02:00July 4th, 2024|

On June 25 and 26, no fewer than 450 mayors, city practitioners, national and regional representatives, and urban sustainability experts gathered in Valencia, Spain, for the third Cities Mission Conference. Reunited in the 2024 EU Green Capital, the 112 Mission Cities focused their discussions on "Empowering Cities – the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission in Action”. The event, organised by the European Commission and NetZeroCities as part of the Valencia Cities Climate Week, represented a landmark in the journey towards climate neutrality. Progress and Ambition “It is exciting to see the progress [...]

Grassroots, new routes? Citizens and stakeholders take the lead on climate neutrality in Parma, Lyon, Guimarães, and Bristol

Ella Morgan2024-06-07T12:21:24+02:00June 7th, 2024|

Author: Alan MacKenzie The difficulties of building a broad and active civic network are not hard to imagine – competing interests, clashing personalities, and conflicting visions are just a few that might come to mind. And engaging them in local climate action is arguably another level altogether. But many cities in the EU Cities Mission are embracing the challenge, recognising that a wide range of actors improves not only the legitimacy of any climate plan but its effectiveness too. After all, who holds more expertise on peoples’ abilities and needs than those people themselves? Four cities [...]

Mannheim: Unlocking Citizen-Empowered Transformation

Ella Morgan2024-10-09T11:19:08+02:00May 13th, 2024|

Author: Elisa Abrantes Stories from Pilot Cities: Mannheim 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. In 1817, Baron Karl von Drais raced through the streets of Mannheim on a wooden frame with wheels, a world-first that he called a ‘Laufmaschine’ or 'running machine', in English, but better known to us now as the bicycle. In 1885, the city saw the [...]

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