A Climate Action Plan serves as a data-driven roadmap that outlines the actions, targets and pathways necessary for cities to achieve their climate neutrality goals. It involves co-designing a portfolio to map the vital relationships between actions, actors, and resources, helping to identify gaps and coordinate efforts across city departments. The process relies on an iterative cycle of planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning, which allows cities to track progress and adapt their implementation strategies based on real-world results.
Developing a Climate Action Plan involves creating a data-driven roadmap that outlines the actions, targets, and pathways necessary to achieve climate neutrality. It requires co-designing a portfolio that maps the interconnections between actions, actors, and resources to identify gaps and foster a shared understanding across city departments. Success is driven by an iterative cycle of planning, monitoring, and learning that allows cities to adapt their implementation strategies based on real-world evidence and progress.
An effective action plan serves as the strategic framework for a city’s transition toward net-zero, moving beyond a basic list of projects to create a coordinated portfolio of interconnected actions, actors, and enabling conditions. Through a continuous planning process, cities can define clear targets, identify where investments can have the greatest impact, and ensure that their strategies are tailored to their specific urban context. Furthermore, integrating robust monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) processes into the plan allows local teams to track greenhouse gas reductions, address implementation challenges, and continuously refine their actions to stay on track toward their climate goals.
Based on feedback from cities, we are excited to announce the launch of NetZeroPlanner Version 3 which will provide substantial improvements to both the user experience and accuracy of the climate planning, monitoring / evaluation / learning, and implementation management capabilities of the system.
The cost assumptions within the Net Zero Planner, which is based on the primary database developed by Material Economics (ME), have been updated for all relevant sectors where applicable. Due to its broad sectoral and geographical scope, the model employs strategic approximations and simplifications to provide a high-level overview and enable cross-city comparisons. This report summarises the reasoning behind the updated values.
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