UP2030

Incorporating climate neutrality targets in urban planning and design is crucial for the development of well-functioning, net-zero cities and spaces. UP2030 aims to support cities in driving the socio-technical transitions required to meet their climate neutrality targets by leveraging urban planning and design. Within the project, city stakeholders and local authorities will be supported and guided to put neutrality on the map of their communities in day-to-day actions and strategic decisions. An innovative methodology (5UP-approach) will be developed and applied through the co-development and implementation of science-based, yet practical, tools, and methods.

Inclusive participation is key to the project’s full cycle of activities so that community-based needs are best reflected in the city-specific visions and co-designed interventions to maximise the delivery of co-benefits. As such, UP2030 will have a measured positive impact on spatial justice in the pilots, and give the opportunity to citizens to participate in the transition by becoming agents of change themselves through their sustainable behavioural shifts.