Cities Mission
The Climate-Neutral Cities Mission Taskforce supports members through concrete, tangible, and result-oriented urban mobility interventions to accelerate the transition towards climate neutrality.
The Climate-Neutral Cities Mission Taskforce provides a unique platform for our members to engage in a peer-to-peer exchange on how they can reach their transport decarbonisation targets.
Local and regional authorities hold the keys for the crucial measures and actions needed to achieve to climate neutrality. They must act, and fast: the EU’s Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission can boost and accelerate this process, and as such, it must succeed.
To support the 30 selected POLIS member cities in this endeavour, we established the POLIS Climate-Neutral Cities Mission Taskforce.
While the Cities Mission requires a wide-ranging approach, enacting real change requires focusing on specific aspects of urban life. Mobility is one of them: transport is currently responsible for about one-fifth of global CO2 emissions, and nearly a third of transport-related emissions come from urban passenger transport. Thus, if we want to make climate neutrality a reality, accelerating the shift to sustainable urban mobility is nothing short of essential.
Topic priorities for 2025
Our current topic priorities for 2025 are the following:
- Public-private cooperation in multi-level governance;
- Public procurement and E-fleets;
- Financing Climate Action Plan (CAP) implementation: loans, EU projects, national, private-public cooperation;
- First steps in CAP implementation and peer-to-peer exchange with regional support;
- Measuring the impact of CAP priorities.
