On Thursday 12 October, the European Commission announced that it had awarded ten European cities the label of the EU’s ‘Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities’ mission under Horizon Europe.
The label awarded by this European mission recognises and rewards the successful development by cities of plans known as ‘Climate City Contracts’, to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.
The aim of these plans is to facilitate access to public and private funding to achieve the objective of climate...