D2.6 City Vision 2050 for LHs and FCs

Summary:

The present deliverable includes the bold city vision of the 8 ATELIER cities. This work is part of the WP2 “City Vision” of ATELIER project and provides the city vision and strategy framework needed in the planning process.

WP2 aims at the development of a City Vision for every city in the project. The objective of the whole WP is structure under the Cities4ZERO methodology (Urrutia et al, 20201 ) to guide the cities to develop the urban transformation strategy for decarbonisation. D2.6 is one of the most relevant documents of WP2 because it presents the results of the cities after more than 3 years working on implementing and developing the methodologies, tools and supporting material provided to define a consolidated city vision.

Beyond the city vision, Bratislava, Budapest, Krakow, Matosinhos and Riga present in this deliverable their alternative and master scenarios to drive the city vision as well. In the case of Bratislava, an update of its energy diagnosis and business as usual scenario is given.

For the particular case of Bilbao, Copenhagen and Amsterdam, that have already developed their city vision or that followed another approach, a lessons’ learnt section is included to provide valuable information to other cities in the work of defining their city vision, in monitoring the results of the climate neutral plans implementation and in thinking what comes after reaching carbon neutrality.

This deliverable is a proof of the remarkable effort that ATELIER cities are doing to decarbonize their energy systems. They have created mechanism to involve all the relevant stakeholders that have to be part of the process, they have collected and analyse their energy system related information, they have reflected about the most suitable pathways to become carbon neutral and, after numerous discussions, they have established their city vision and a viable master scenario that will allow to accomplish it.

City vision and master scenarios presented in this deliverable will serve to create/update the cities action plans in next steps of WP2. Some of the cities will use this information for the SECAPs updating, while others cities that are part of the EU Mission: Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, aimed at delivering 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030, will take the opportunity to develop their Climate City Contracts.

This work has been developed by Tecnalia together with ATELIER cities. TNO supported Amsterdam in the process of reporting.