Driving Urban Sustainability: Achieving Net-zero the Just Way

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

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EU cities are key to advancing climate mitigation, adaptation, net-zero goals, and competitiveness, while ensuring social inclusion, as acknowledged – among others – by the Covenant of Mayors initiative. This session explores accelerating cities’ sustainable and just transformation through Local Green Deals, deploying new net-zero technologies, and creating strategies to make climate neutrality appealing, competitive, accessible, and just.

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Alis Daniela Torres

Head of Green Digital Transformation, ICLEI Europe

Marc Serra Solé

Councillor at Barcelona City Council, President of the Climate Action and Energy Transition Area at the Provincial Council of Barcelona, member of the EU Covenant Board & Global Covenant of Mayors, Provincial Council of Barcelona

Orsolya Küttel

CEO, Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership, FFG

Filipe Araújo

Vice-Mayor of Porto, Intelligent Cities Challenge - Mentor City, Câmara Municipal do Porto

Donal O’Herlihy

EUI Expert low carbon and energy transition and Expert on adaptation to climate change and integrated urban development, European Urban Initiative (EUI) expert and Innovation Consultant

Tadhg O’Briain

Deputy Head of Unit at European Commission’s Directorate General for Energy covering Consumers, Local Initiatives and Just transition, European Commission

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The EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, launched in 2008 in Europe, is an initiative supported by the European Commission bringing together over 11,000 of local governments that want to secure a better future for their citizens. By joining the initiative, they voluntarily commit to implementing EU climate and energy objectives to build decarbonised and resilient cities with access to affordable, secure and sustainable energy by 2050. As part of the Covenant of Mayors – Europe movement, we will continue to (1) reduce greenhouse gas emissions on our territory, (2) increase resilience and prepare for the adverse impacts of climate change, and (3) tackle energy poverty as one key action to ensure a just transition.

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THE EU COVENANT OF MAYORS FOR CLIMATE & ENERGY

NetZeroCities is a consortium consisting of 34 partners from 27 European countries, managing the EU Cities Mission “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030” platform. It is coordinated by EIT Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest public- private innovation partnership focused on climate innovation to mitigate and adapt to climate change. NetZeroCities supports the 112 European cities selected by the European Commission to join the EU Cities Mission in drastically reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate neutrality. It works as a service-oriented platform supported by world-class practitioners to help cities overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they face in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. NetZeroCities aims to enable European cities and citizens to show the way forward towards an inclusive, thriving, climate resilient and sustainable future. To do so, it tailors advanced capabilities related to systemic change, citizen engagement and democratic governance, capital and financial structuring, and social innovation, to ensure cities have access to the best expertise available anywhere in the world.

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Driving Urban Sustainability: Achieving Net-zero the Just Way

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