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The Cities Mission Climate City Contract (CCC) is a governance innovation tool to help cities collaboratively address their barriers to reaching climate neutrality by 2030. The CCC works both as an ongoing process and a “living” document.
Climate City Contracts
The Cities Mission Climate City Contract (CCC) is a governance innovation tool to help cities collaboratively address their barriers to reaching climate neutrality by 2030. The CCC works both as an ongoing process and a “living” document.
CCC guidance and templates
- 2030 Climate Neutrality Commitments Guidance | Template
- 2030 Climate Neutrality Action Plan Guidance | Template
- 2030 Climate Neutrality Investment Plan Guidance | Template
- Climate City Contract – Checklist Editable Word version
- Climate City Contract Iterations guidance - CCC Resource Pack 3.0
- Guidance on negative emissions for cities - Access the full report here and the summary for decisionmaker here
Videos
Reading Resources
Focus on: Climate City Contracts (CCC)
Collection of all available resources related to CCCs
CCC Highlights- Bold Commitments to 2030
The CCC Highlights provide thematic information extracted from labelled Climate City Contracts. These CCC Highlights delve into the climate commitments and the barriers to achieving the climate neutrality goals of the first cohort of labelled cities.
CCC Highlights - A Diverse Ecosystem of Supporters
The CCC Highlights provide thematic information extracted from labelled Climate City Contracts. These CCC Highlights delve into the diversity of actors that signed the Commitments Document of the first cohort of labelled cities.
CCC Highlights - Sustainable Energy Systems
This factsheet, as part of a series titled “CCC Highlights”, which explores the lessons learnt from labelled cities, looks at six inspiring examples of how European cities plan to transform their energy systems to achieve climate neutrality.
CCC Highlights - Barriers to climate neutrality
This factsheet, as part of a wider series titled “CCC Highlights”, explores the types of barriers that the labelled cities identified as major obstacles to the implementation of their path to climate neutrality and, in particular, to the success of the planned measures set out in their action plans
CCC Highlights - Diverse Perspectives on Climate Justice
Diverse Perspectives on Climate Justice
CCC-Highlights – Residual Emissions Strategies
This factsheet, as part of a wider series titled “CCC Highlights”, explores the residual emissions strategies
that the labelled cities presented as a critical area that cities must urgently strengthen in order to achieve
climate neutrality and, in particular, as complements to the planned emissions reductions measures set out
in their action plans.
CCC Highlights - Co-benefits and Indicators
This factsheet, part of a wider series titled “CCC Highlights”, explores the co-benefits labelled cities used to build their climate neutrality narrative beyond GHG emissions reductions and the indicators cities selected to evaluate the impact of their transitions.
CCC Iterations slides
Slide deck for the CCC Iteration Information Sessions
CCC Document Completeness and Coherence Checklist
This CCC Document Completeness Checklist has been created to communicate the key elements to include in your CCC document and help you track your progress.
2030 Climate Neutrality Commitments Guidance
Manual or 'how to' guide for compiling the CCC 2030 Climate Neutrality Commitments according to the provided template.
CCC - 2030 Climate Neutrality Commitments (template)
This CCC Commitment Document Template gives Mission Cities a reference point when developing their core CCC commitments
2030 Climate Neutrality Action Plan Guidance | Template
Instructive structure for the 2030 Climate Neutrality Action Plan to be created as one of the three parts to the Climate City Contracts,
2030 Climate Neutrality Investmet Plan Guidance | Template
IP guidance, which will provide information to cities on how to develop each activity enlisted in the template.
Climate City Contract Iterations Guidelines - CCC Resource Pack 3.0
Climate City Contract Iterations Guidelines
CCC Iteration Frequently asked questions
Iterations, Everything you need to know about CCC iterations
CCC deliverables - Case Studies Anthology
This report provides an analysis of governance innovation and implementation across 15 European cities participating in the EU Cities Mission for climate neutrality.
CCC deliverables - Climate City Contracts: Trend Report V2
This report provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the Climate City Contracts (CCCs) from 23 European cities (the "Window 2" cohort) awarded the EU Mission's CCC label in early 2024.
CCC deliverables - Climate City Contract Annual: Trends Report V1
This report assesses trends related to progress of the Climate-Neutral City Contract (CCC) process in EU Mission Cities.
CCC deliverables Climate City Contract: Progress Report
The CCC as an Instrument for Climate Governance in European Mission Cities
CCC - 2030 Climate Neutrality Action Plan (Guidance and Explanations)
Serves as a manual or 'how to' guide for compiling the 2030 Climate Neutrality Action Plan according to the provided template. It provides section-by-section descriptions, details and guiding questions on filling out the templates
Case Studies
Multi-Actor Collaboration and Private Sector Engagement in the Cities Mission
This report explores how five European Mission cities - Lund, Leuven, Mannheim, Milan and Bratislava - are using multi-actor collaboration and private sector engagement as core governance mechanisms for advancing climate-neutrality implementation.
City Mission Governance, Coordination and Integration
This report examines how mission governance supports city-level climate neutrality transitions across four European Mission Cities: Umeå, Oslo, Turku and Aachen.
City-driven Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
This report examines how city-driven monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) is being developed and used as a governance mechanism in six Mission-labelled cities: Stockholm, Zaragoza, Cork, Münster, Bergamo and Turin.
Governance Innovation and Implementation in the Cities Mission - Multi-Level Integration
This report examines multi-level governance integration within the EU Cities Mission, highlighting how cities utilize collaborative frameworks across governance tiers to support their climate neutrality goals. Analyzing the cities of Aachen, Kozani, and Turku, the report illustrates diverse governance approaches influenced by distinct national contexts.
Governance Innovation and Implementation in the Cities Mission - Multi-Actor Collaboration in Mission City Climate Action: Private Sector Engagement
The study examines approaches to stakeholder engagement, partnership structures, implementation processes, and private sector motivations through analysing four diverse cities: Gothenburg, Guimarães, Budapest, and Valladolid.
Governance Innovation and Implementation in the Cities Mission: Anticipatory Governance in City Climate Planning and Policy
This report examines how four European Mission cities Umeå, Tampere, Valencia, and Parma are integrating anticipatory governance approaches into their climate planning to better navigate uncertainties while pursuing climate neutrality.
Governance Innovation and Implementation in the Cities Mission - Reflexive Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) in City Climate Governance
This report focuses on Reflexive Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) as a critical component
of city climate governance under the EU Cities Mission, based on the case studies from Barcelona (Spain), Cluj-Napoca (Romania),
Košice (Slovakia), and Porto (Portugal)
Learning from Cities
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