OUR CITIES / THE CLIMHUBS
CLIMABOROUGH has involved directly cities in two roles: leader and follower.
| Action/HUB | Description | City ANGEL |
City LEADER |
City FOLLOWER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| From isolated energy and mobility to integrated services | The need to rethink the way we live and we move in our everyday life comes from the evidence of the last years crises, that qualify the energy crisis in relation to: a) the need to differentiate and distribute the sources (and the geopolitical dependence they may create), b) the need to make clear and urgent choices towards less polluting sources for sustainable mobility and changes in mobility habits and housing. and c) the need to rethink the demand, that implies a radical rethinking of our socio-technical systems. | Urban Lab |
Differdange Grenoble-Alpes Athens Sofia |
Prijedor Pilsen Torino |
| From waste to circularity | Waste is a key in climate neutrality strategy. The shift from waste to ‘resource recovery’ requires both mindset and technological change. Cities offer a logical convening force for circulatity. Ideas, collaboration, value cases, and capacity building are vital aspects to address those | Energy Cities |
Torino Maribor Cascais Ioannina |
Katowice Krk Differdange |
The leader cities have been selected between the ones that fully engaged with the “100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030” mission, having submitted an application to it with a formal political engagement to reach carbon neutrality by 2030. This role requires an involvement in the definition of the pilots, support to the coordination for the public procurement, the deployment of the solutions, the dissemination / communication and to give full access to useful information (including on the field visits) to the project partners.
The variety of leader cities is a key of the project and they have been selected to be as different as possible on an 8 points categorization. This variety is an important strength to test and to stress the various tools defined, built and deployed by the project; this being a fundamental principle to build a strong and transparent monitoring system. It is not surprising to have, in some categories, cities with some similar characteristics, enalbling us to test the results by category.
Athens
Ioannina
An example is Athens and Ioannina, two cities of the same country, but with a huge difference from any other point of view (size, landscape, data). Their participation will allow CLIMABOROUGH to test the usefulness of the tools and methodologies, including the need to test co-creation and replication methods also internally in a country. This is valid also for any other category.
Another example are Torino and Grenoble-Alpes, very different cities with a geographical and landscape affinity. Then, we can conclude that CLIMABOROUGH’s vision is to use the variety of its cities to drive this heterogeneity on demonstrators to evaluate the initiatives on climate strategies and to define the impact of on the field experimentations on climate neutrality.
Torino
Grenoble-Alpes
