To reach climate neutrality it is necessary to collaborate with all city residents and create a clear plan to achieve this goal. For this purpose on the 24 & 25.09.2020, a workshop `Lviv Vision 2050` was held in the inner yard of Lviv City Council.

The key strategic areas of discussion were: infrastructure and housing, spatial development and mobility, waste.

In the course of the work, the participants identified the existing challenges related to ensuring a neutral impact on the climate, focusing on "what we leave in the past" and "what we will take into account in the future". Based on them, a scenario of achieving zero carbon future in Lviv was created.

By 2050, to fulfill the goals of climate neutrality, further steps will be undertaken in Lviv:

1. greening of such sectors as economy, energy, household, transport;

2. cohesion of Ukraine with the European values in the context of the EU's transition to a climate-neutral Europe by 2050;

3. fulfillment of obligations to the world community to preserve ecological balance.

The Kladno City Vision workshop took place on October 15th. The city of Kladno and Czech Technical University (CTU UCEEB) prepared on-line meeting focusing on the overall vision of the city, particularly on energy, climate, mobility and other areas in which the city wants to develop its potential and look for investment opportunities. The workshop was unique for several reasons. First, it took place online using modern tools. Second, it provided a space for wide discussion (around 40 participants were attending the meeting - companies and major employers from the region, research or innovation institutions, associations, public representatives, energy distributors or providers of major services and other experts). Finally, it also confirmed the interest of partners in the development of the city which would be perceived as a main input for future work.

The workshop successfully followed the establishment of the Energy Development Platform in the city. The platform brings together representatives of the public, private, research, non-profit sectors and dozens of other stakeholders. The formulation of the future vision, strategic priorities and individual projects are thus firmly anchored within the complex ecosystem of energy development and related sectors in the city.

The workshop had a simple goal: to discuss and determine the first outlines of the city's vision until 2050, incl. design of strategic areas. Thanks to the participants who are representing both public and private interests. the goal was achieved. The discussion, which was very interactive and creative thanks to modern tools and methods, brought interesting suggestions and opinions on the future development of the city. The discussion also touched on an alternative and innovative concept in the city, such as the decentralization of the heating system, the use of waste as an energy source, the possible solutions with regard to the future termination of mining and the use of coal, and the construction of a strong central source supplying the city. Future proposals were also made in the area of mobility, digital connectivity and the modelling of the services for citizens.

Results from workshop incl. determination of the next steps will be found on the city website later on.

The city of Kifissia is preparing to hold the City Vision 2050 workshop on November 2nd & 3rd, taking special care for the new restrictions due to COVID19.  

As part of the preparation, the city is holding open online discussions with citizens, giving everyone the opportunity to be part of the city’s future.  Everyone can share their ideas, thoughts, and concerns about the city they want, and their input will be used as inspiration for the city vision workshop.  Keeping an open channel of communication and engaging with the citizens at every step is a priority for the city.

Similarly, a discussion with the mayor, the vice mayors, the members of the City council and the members of the local Community council's is being held regarding the Sparcs City Vision 2050 and the strategic pillars that are in focus, making sure that we capture all input from key stakeholders in the city.
The key strategic areas that the city is focusing on are, Mobility, Digital City, Energy Saving, Citizen Engagement, Green Energy, Urban Transformation.

Maia seeks to become a Smarter, Sustainable, Inclusive and Integrated Zero Carbon Community. In order to achieve that, and besides the activities conducted along the last months within SPARCS (organizing working team, data collection), the city has on going it’s Living Lab, called BaZe, a word composed by the two first letters of the expression Balanço Zero, expression that we use for our Carbon Neutrality goal.

The project intends to create in the Central Park of the city and the surrounding area, a space for demonstration of innovative ideas and solutions, not only products or services, but also procedures and new ways of doing and disseminating knowledge, in an organized and integrated way, and, most important, with a purpose.

This project has as main focus: to make the city of Maia, a conscious and responsible city, moving towards becoming carbon neutral, and, for that, the project has also to assure monitoring and evaluation, as the whole city has to know how are we behaving, what are our achievements, what didn’t go well and has to be changed, involving all within the collective responsibility of delivering this future to all citizens and the territory.

The project is focused on energy efficiency, sustainable mobility, and circular economy, as well as monitoring and evaluating the results, in order to assess the scalability potential of the solutions/technologies/procedures implemented in this domains.

Within this project, until now, we have on going:

The PAYT pilot project; The Air Quality Sensors; a Scooter Sharing Experience; ane HUB; the Kiosk Zero; a Green Roof and a FabLab, but several other actions are programmed to be delivered during next year.

At the same time, we have several works and projects going on within our Rehabilitation and refurbishment action plan, financed under the EU Funds, to improve energy efficiency in Social Housing, in Sobreiro (11 buildings comprising 94 social houses, representing a reduction of 48% in energy consumption and 51% in CO2 emissions, and 4 tower buildings, comprising 148 social houses, representing a reduction of 51% in energy consumption and 46% in CO2 emissions.

Along with these energy efficiency interventions (housing buildings and public service buildings) we are also renovating all the surrounding public spaces, providing public green spaces and sustainable urban mobility.

We see all of these projects and activities as parts of the whole strategy under SPARCS, leading us to become a Positive Energy & Zero Carbon Community in 2050.