Quick Reads are short overviews of key NetZeroCities concepts providing essential information in a practical and visual way. More comprehensive resources and additional information will be available in the knowledge repository.
The Cities Mission Climate City Contract (CCC) is a governance innovation tool to help cities collaboratively address their barriers to reaching climate neutrality by 2030.
Cities will indeed need multiple financial mechanisms/instruments, facilities, institutions, and funding programmes to provide the capital needed to realise their climate ambition.
03. Monitoring & Learning for Impact
Rapid decarbonization by 2030 requires measured impact as much as strategic objectives. Effective monitoring helps quantify progress of the portfolio of actions implemented, strengthens transparency, legitimacy and assesses the effectiveness of solutions.
04. Citizens & Stakeholder Engagement
Transitioning an entire city to climate-neutrality requires a recognition of the different perspectives, interests and climate vulnerability of each community and stakeholder.
Governance innovations can enhance the capacity of actors and organisations to reach climate neutrality. The better we govern collective action, the faster and fairer the required transformation is achieved.
Social innovation tackles the societal challenges thats is reaching climate-neutrality with a bottom-up, collaborative, holistic and human-centred approach to innovation. It uses prototyping and quick experimentation to create new products, services or business models that improve community wellbeing, prosperity and promote behavioural change.
07. Leading Collaborative Systems Change
Systems innovation means intervening across existing systems, in a coordinated way, to unlock pathways towards climate-neutrality. To do this, a deep understanding of local systems is necessary, as well as connecting climate actions in whole-city cross-sectoral portfolios and intentionally collaborating with many actors - locally and across all levels of governance.
Cities are already working hard to deploy technological solutions. In this regard, there is much to learn from peers to accelerate implementation of new solutions.