PARALLEL AGENDA 2rd Day – Climate Neutral Blue Cities by 2030: Accelerating Local Change – Η Λεμεσός στην Πορεία για την Κλιματική Ουδετερότητα

Parallel Track

14:30-16:30

Breakout Workshops (Parallel Sessions)

14:30-16:30

Building Alliances and Partnerships: Emerging Port-City Transitions

This parallel session examines mitigation and adaptation measures in European port cities, exploring their interdependencies to shape sustainable transition pathways. It highlights existing and planned initiatives, potential long-term strategies, and multi-level governance structures, including capacity-building opportunities. The discussion emphasizes translating these European lessons to Cyprus, considering recent governance reforms, institutional realities, and city capacities. Key focus areas include identifying priority functions for national-local collaboration to enhance climate resilience in port cities.

14:30-16:30

Role of Knowledge Institutions in Delivering Missions

Interactive session bringing together Mission Cities and knowledge institutions from NZC, CATALYSE and related Mission initiatives to explore how research and innovation actors can best support the EU Missions (Climate-Neutral Cities and Mission Ocean & Waters). Building on previous Cities Mission conference work, the session highlights practical city–knowledge collaboration examples, examines roles knowledge institutions can play, and discusses how partnerships can be institutionalised, scaled, and made more impactful. The format combines a short framing, inspirational video pitches, world-café style table discussions, and rapid reporting to capture takeaways and next steps.

14:30-16:30

Digital Tools in Action: Smart Solutions for Climate-Neutral Cities

This session explores how digital tools and smart platforms are accelerating the transition toward climate-neutral cities. Bringing together representatives from EU-funded projects including initiatives such as FINEX and DiGiNN, cities, and innovation stakeholders, the discussion will showcase practical use cases demonstrating how digital solutions support data-driven decision-making, urban planning, emissions monitoring, and policy implementation.
Through short “tools in practice” presentations followed by a moderated panel discussion, the session will examine how digital technologies move from concept to real-world impact. Participants will gain insights into cross-project synergies, opportunities for collaboration, and concrete ways cities can engage with and deploy these tools to accelerate local climate action.