Following the considerable interest shown on the theme of participative approaches, LDnet has included a webinar on “collaboration about sustainable cities and multi stakeholder approaches” in its 2025 webinar series. The webinar will take place on Wednesday 23 April 2025 at 16.30 CEST and it is led by Maria Joao Filgueiras Rauch.
Registration in now open HERE.
EU Climate neutral cities by 2050, a serious challenge for European cities! How to respond to this challenge in a successful way?
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The EU aims to be climate-neutral by 2050 – an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, clearly related with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13: “Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”. This objective is at the heart of the European Green Deal and is a legally binding target thanks to the European Climate Law. Cities are at the forefront of this challenge, in line with SDG 11 “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. The success in implementing the SDG can be achieved by strengthening the existing interactions and promoting the necessary transformations beginning with different mindsets, different approaches and different technologies.
This webinar invites the participants to visit some initiatives aiming to contribute to this objective. Two examples of cities that are working on the mobility policies aiming at sustainability through addressing the education of young people and their mobility habitudes, but also creating concepts of new mobility sustainable models. These models aim to change the mindset through involvement and participation and by using new available technologies.
Only in this way it is possible to keep Europe as one of the better places to live. The presented achievements aim to inspire other European Cities to keep active in acting for a carbon-neutral Europe, therefore contributing to saving the Planet.
The session will also promote the exchange of ideas with all the participants through discussion.
Moderator:
- John Barimo, University of Cork and SDSN Ireland Manager
Speakers:
- Maria João Rauch (LDnet, CEiiA – Engineering and Product Development Centre, and Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Portugal Manager)
- Diogo Gonçalves (CEiiA)
- Isabel Loureiro (coordinator of Guimarães 2030 Mission Structure )
- City of Valencia (speaker TBC)
Draft agenda:
16.30 – 16.35 Welcome by Urszula Budzich-Tabor (LDnet)
16.35 – 16.40 Introduction to the topic, by Maria Joao Rauch (LDnet, CEiiA and SDSN)
16.40 – 16.55 New mobility solutions for cities, by Diogo Gonçalves (CEiiA)
16.55 – 17.05 Example of the city of Guimarães, by Carlos Ribeiro
17.05 – 17.15 Example of the city of Valencia
17.15 – 17.40 Discussion
17.40 – 17.45 Closing comments by Maria Joao Rauch.
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