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PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
3 Climate-neutral societies
objective
3.2 Energy transition
Project type
Implementation
November 2023 - October 2026

Climate-4-CAST

The project Climate-4-CAST provides authorities with a tool to visualise and analyse various action scenarios for meeting climate goals to better plan public budgets with climate neutrality measures and monitor results of their implementation.
Project summary

Climate-4-CAST contributes to climate neutrality by empowering local public authorities who struggle to integrate climate concerns into urban governance processes with limited municipal funding. High levels of uncertainty about emissions impacts, timing and cost of impacts, and potential of feedback effects are a barrier to climate action. Decision-makers are not climate subject experts: they speak a different language. Climate specialists need to translate their analyses in terms that municipal budget-makers understand; the decision-makers need a reliable science-based foundation on which to base their financial allocations and to monitor results. To tackle these problems, Climate-4-CAST equips local public administrations with an open source decision support tool to allow both a visualisation of individual measures’ emissions impacts in different scenarios and a cost-benefit analysis of the measures’ performance against city goals. Through transnational co-development and piloting, the tool will be adapted to local contexts and needs while allowing better cross-border coordination, e.g. on data. The operationalisation will be proof-tested with key decision-makers to ensure usability as a governance instrument for climate budgeting. Thus, the project accelerates cities' climate actions and improves policy implementation for climate neutrality. Swifter progress towards climate goals supports overall sustainable development in the BSR and also benefits citizens and businesses.

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Budgets

Climate-4-CAST
in numbers.
  • 3.77
    Million
    Total
  • 3.02
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway

Top news

News

Climate-4-CAST’s Milestone Achievement: Advancing from Pilot Planning to Pilot Implementation and Evaluation

News

Kick-Off Event launches Climate-4-CAST project in Hamburg
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34 Benefitting organisations 1 Solution(s) in preparation 1 Solution(s) plannedfor use / upscale 1 Pilotactivities 24 Organisationsin the project

Climate-4-CAST
in numbers.

  • 53.540158210.0042816
  • 61.498021423.7603118
  • 56.15263110.203206
  • 56.947967524.1052997
  • 60.207849824.9655547
  • 60.450661322.276476769601523
  • 59.848764317.6300156
  • 63.173877414.6408966
  • 53.70898989.9891914
  • 50.347038718.9231857

Project partners

Lead partnerHafenCity University Hamburg
  • Town
    Hamburg
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Hamburg
Total partner budget
649,998.16
City of Tampere
  • Town
    Tampere
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Pirkanmaa
Total partner budget
383,448.80
Aarhus Municipality
  • Town
    Aarhus C
  • Region
  • Country
    Denmark
  • Region
    Østjylland
Total partner budget
417,388.83
City of Riga
  • Town
    Riga
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    RÄ«ga
Total partner budget
267,522.40
Kausal Ltd
  • Town
    Helsinki
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Helsinki-Uusimaa
Total partner budget
364,000.00
Union of the Baltic Cities Sustainable Cities Commission c/o City of Turku
  • Town
    Turku
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Varsinais-Suomi
Total partner budget
398,083.20
Uppsala University
  • Town
    Uppsala
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Uppsala län
Total partner budget
291,757.20
Municipality of Östersund
  • Town
    Östersunds kommun
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Jämtlands län
Total partner budget
379,698.15
City of Norderstedt - The Lord Mayor
  • Town
    Norderstedt
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Segeberg
Total partner budget
410,686.80
City of Bytom
  • Town
    Bytom
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Bytomski
Total partner budget
211,390.94

Associated organisations

Contacts

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Events

30-31
October
Climate-4-CAST at the 15th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
Project: Climate-4-CAST
Physical Meeting
30. - 31. October 2024
    01-02
    October
    Climate-4-CAST Consortium Meeting in Östersund, Sweden
    Project: Climate-4-CAST
    Physical Meeting
    01. - 02. October 2024
    09:00 - 15:00 (CET)

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