NEUTRALPATH aims at demonstrating that positive clean energy districts (PCEDs) designed and implemented under participative and human-center principles are cost-effective and feasible solutions to contribute significantly to the cities’ transformation towards climate-neutrality, allowing to speed up the process even to reach SCOPE 2 emissions reduction in 2030.

Dresden (Germany) and Zaragoza (Spain), with strong experience in urban transformation projects and fully committed to be climate neutral in 2030, will demonstrate 2 PCEDs from the design to the implementation and evaluation stages acting as Lighthouse Cities. Both cities also ambition to act as front-runners of this process creating Climate-Neutral LABs conceived as Innovation Hubs with the aim of fostering faster upscaling and replicability at EU level, making three Fellow Cities (Istanbul[Turkey], Ghent [Belgium] and Vantaa[Finland]) through their own CN-Labs direct participants of the processes and later on main protagonists by means of their own PCED design and implementation.

Start date: January 2023 - End date: January 2027

Partners:

• FUNDACION CARTIF
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
• LANDESHAUPTSTADT DRESDEN
• SOCIEDAD MUNICIPAL ZARAGOZA VIVIENDA SL
• WID WOHNEN IN DRESDEN GMBH & CO KG