EU Cities Mission

This network brings together foundations who can provide a unique contribution to the journey of climate neutrality in cities through their capacity to engage stakeholders, take risks and think long-term, as well as to provide additional funds and investments.

100 Climate-Neutral European Cities: Philanthropy’s Role in Ensuring a Just and Fair Transition Through the EU Cities Mission

Vision

The EU has pledged to reach climate neutrality by 2050. 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030 is a European Union Mission to enable thriving, democratic and climate resilient futures, and philanthropy has a role to play.

Themes

  • Support cities in their transition towards Climate-Neutrality.
  • Explore concrete philanthropy-public-private-partnership opportunities at city, regional, and national levels
  • Deep-dive into the peer-learning offer that the EIT Climate-KIC offers via the NetZeroCities platform, a flagship initiative of the European Commission to support the implementation of the EU Cities Mission.

How to engage

Participate in network activities

Any foundation can participate in the publicly announced activities of the EU Cities Mission.