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 [...]

European cities celebrate local climate successes in Vilnius – and take home the lessons to reach a climate-neutral future

2025-06-11T14:12:33+02:00May 20th, 2025|

“Our slogan - the greenest city in the making - is not just a promise, but an honest acknowledgement that the journey is ongoing. We are not perfect, but we are determined.” Mayor Valdas Benkunskas may have been speaking for the city of Vilnius when he opened the EU Cities Mission Conference, but the sentiment will be shared far beyond the Lithuanian capital. Hundreds of cities across Europe also know this feeling – of embracing the vulnerability of ambition and accepting there will be wrong turns to any new destination. Dozens of these cities, either reaching [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Systemic innovation in Umeå requires creative energy and a black belt in bureaucracy

2025-05-21T09:47:14+02:00April 23rd, 2025|

Author: Elisa Abrantes Stories from Pilot Cities: Umeå 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 the northern Swedish city of Umeå, where dark winters stand in contrast with almost around-the-clock daytime in the summer months, the climate transition is well underway. But it needs to go faster. The city is ramping up the speed through the North Star project, [...]

Warsaw seeks expert for market analysis study of the feasibility of green energy purchases for the Warsaw Purchasing Group (WGZ)

2025-04-08T14:36:52+02:00April 7th, 2025|

Deadline: 14.04.2025 (23:59 CET) The deadline has been extended to 14 April 2025. Clarifications to the scope of work have been added at the end of the Procurement Request for Proposals document, with edits highlighted in red throughout the document. The City Expert Support Facility (CESF), through NetZeroCities / Climate-KIC, is requesting quotation for preparation of the study “Market analysis and study of the feasibility and profitability of green energy purchases for the Warsaw Purchasing Group (WGZ)”. The Warsaw Purchasing Group (WGZ) is a municipal group purchasing electricity for its members. It was established in 2013 and its initiator and [...]

Drammen’s zero-emission mosaic for 2030

2025-05-21T09:50:02+02:00April 4th, 2025|

Author: Elisa Abrantes Stories from Pilot Cities: Drammen is a participant in the Pilot Cities Programme, an EU grant funded programme which focuses on exploring and testing pathways to rapid decarbonisation over a two-year period as part of the EU Mission to deliver 100 climate-neutral and smart cities.  Encased in nature and situated at the junction of the Drams River and Drams Fjord, the warmest city in Norway has set its sights on reaching climate neutrality by 2030.  Once dominated by industry and struggling with pollution, the port and river city of Drammen has built a strong [...]

Stuck in traffic? How sustainable commuting is improving health and the climate in Lahti

2025-05-21T09:51:17+02:00April 3rd, 2025|

Author: Elisa Abrantes Stories from Pilot Cities: Lahti 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.   On the banks of Lake Vesijärvi, once one of Finland's most polluted lakes, the city of Lahti is responding to the environmental damage. By 1979, the city stopped discharging domestic and industrial wastewater into the lake, kicking off decades of conservation work to reverse the [...]

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