Healthy, Clean Cities - Deep Demonstration

Accelerating European cities towards carbon-neutrality

2019 –

Partners


Bankers without Boundaries
Material Economics
Democratic Society
Global Covenant of Mayors

The Climate Emergency is here and demand is growing for climate action that matches the scale and urgency of the challenge. With 75% of Europe’s people and 55% globally already living in urban areas, addressing climate resilience and sustainability demands a focus on cities.

While political leaders across the continent are setting ambitious targets to achieve net-zero emissions, how to deliver on this at a pace and scale necessary remains unknown.

Dark Matter Labs is supporting EIT Climate-KIC to work with the most ambitious mayors and municipalities in Europe to co-create a portfolio of joined-up strategic experiments that provide them with new knowledge, innovations and capabilities that can aid them in their Climate Action Plans - from mobility to waste to energy to health and the built environment - and help other cities to navigate the great transitions required for ‘Transformation in Time’.

“Continuing to work through gradual, incremental changes will not be enough. What is needed now is a fundamental transformation of economic, social and financial systems to trigger exponential increases in decarbonisation rates and climate resilience.” - EIT Climate-KIC’s Transformation, in Time strategy, 2019-2022.