This playbook is a guide to develop a city’s ability to lead to orchestrate a transition bringing together diverse actors and stakeholders across all sectors

This article explains how transition teams enable cities to organise, coordinate, and accelerate their climate‑neutrality efforts. It provides practical lessons for stakeholders looking to build effective governance structures that turn ambitious climate commitments into real, collective action.

This presentation was delivered by Vilnius on 4 November 2025 as part of the Transition Team Support Programme. It showcases how the city is building a long-term climate action ecosystem, starting with a Sustainability Managers’ Club to strengthen interdepartmental collaboration and progressing towards a Climate Hub to support CCC implementation, funding, and community engagement. It highlights how cities translate governance, mandate, and skills into concrete structures and practices through learning by doing.

This presentation was presented by Nantes on 4 November 2025 as part of the Transition team Support Programmes, showcase the internal dynamics of their Transition Team, highlighting the importance to secure legitimacy across a large municipal administration and to build a shared culture of climate leadership among staff and elected representatives.

This presentation by Milan on 4 November 2025 as part of the Transition team Support Programmes showcase the Milan/CLIMB CLimate-neutrality through Integrated Molecular model for urBan regeneration with sustainable finance

This slide deck supported the online webinar of the Transition Team Support Programme focusing on Building Capacity for impact: Developing skills and competencies for the Transition

This slide deck presents a Transition Team webinar on mandate and power, exploring how to build, strengthen, and institutionalise climate mandates using formal and informal levers. It includes Lund’s example of portfolio mapping to translate climate goals into actionable projects and embed long-term commitment in city operations.

This is the slide deck presentation of the Transition Team Webinar exploring governance models for Transition Teams, highlighting the role of networked governance in coordinating climate action across sectors and stakeholders. It shares Umeå’s example of decentralised teams and capacity-building programmes to enable collaboration and innovation in the transition.

This resource summarises the Transition Team Support Programme, highlighting key lessons on governance, mandate, skills, and experimentation from European Mission Cities. It shows how cities can structure and operationalise Transition Teams to strengthen coordination, capacity, and implementation of climate action.

Presentation of the session on Learning by doing: Cities prototyping Transition Team approaches

How to strengthen your role in leading the climate transition through building a stronger mandate and fostering collaboration across teams