The European City Calculator – a tool designed to visualise and simulate various climate transition scenarios – is now available in EU countries, consulting firm Climact announced on Tuesday.
The European Union aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. However, only a handful of European cities have managed to translate these commitments into specific, tangible transition plans, Climact underlined. The lack of necessary technology and knowledge to develop and evaluate these plans is often the cause.
A consortium including Climact, non-profit Energy Cities, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has received European funding to create a calculator to help cities in their climate transition. The goal is to assist cities in creating realistic, credible scientific transition plans which are also inclusive and suited to local levels.
The online platform, which is a free and open source, was developed in collaboration with ten pioneering European cities. From now on, any local European authority can access it.
Cities can now input their data into the platform to gain critical insights and predictions on the implications or outcomes of various policy choices and investments available to them. They can simulate the impact of certain measures on their greenhouse gas emissions, as well as their costs.
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"This approach allows the city to effectively identify and evaluate the best urban emissions reduction strategies," said Vincent Matton, an energy and climate change consultant at Climact.
The EUCityCalc project was financed by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme.
