NetZeroCities expands support to more European cities on the path to climate neutrality

As part of the EU Cities Mission, the Mission Platform, managed by NetZeroCities, supports the 112 Mission Cities selected by the European Commission in their efforts to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.

Building on this experience, along with the tools, resources, and capacities developed to assist Mission Cities, NetZeroCities is now engaging with all cities across Europe and Horizon-associated countries, regardless of their current progress, to help them advance toward climate neutrality.

The Mission Platform serves as an accelerator for climate action, providing a comprehensive suite of services, tools, resources, and opportunities designed to help cities strengthen and expedite their transition to net zero.

All cities now have the opportunity to learn from the experiences and strategies of Mission Cities, using these insights to shape their own approaches to climate neutrality while contributing to the broader EU Green Deal goal of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.

For more information on the available support, refer to the step-by-step guide on the NetZeroCities portal.

EU Missions are a new way to bring concrete solutions to some of our greatest challenges. They have ambitious goals and will deliver tangible results by 2030, by putting research and innovation into a new role, combined with new forms of governance and collaboration, as well as by engaging citizens. EU Missions are a novelty of the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme for the years 2021-2027.

Since climate mitigation is heavily dependent on urban action, we need to support cities in accelerating their green and digital transformation. The EU Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, in short, the EU Cities Mission, involves local authorities, citizens, businesses, investors as well as regional and national authorities to:

• Deliver 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 
• Ensure that these cities act as experimentation and innovation hubs to enable all European cities to follow suit by 2050.

The EU Cities Mission contributes to the European Green Deal in building a low-carbon, climate-resilient future through research and innovation.

NetZeroCities is a consortium consisting of 34 partners from 27 European countries, managing the EU Cities Mission Platform.NetZeroCities supports the 112 European cities known as the Mission Cities in drastically reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate neutrality. 

NetZeroCities works as a service-oriented platform supported by world-class practitioners to help cities overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they face 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 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.