The fourth edition of the Cities Mission Conference 2025 will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on 6-8 May 2025 with the theme “Harnessing City Successes: Advancing Climate Action for 2030”, to spotlight the progress and ambition of Mission Cities and their partners as they strive to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.
The EU Green Capital 2025 will welcome invitation-only attendees to the event. Organised by the European Commission and the Mission Platform, the conference will bring together political representatives and city practitioners to celebrate the Mission’s considerable progress after three years, share achievements and experiences, and inspire all those as they continue their hard work towards climate neutrality.
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What’s in it for participants?
This flagship gathering will engage a diverse audience of city practitioners, political leaders, industry innovators, financial experts, civil society representatives, and European Commission officials. The event will feature dynamic formats, including keynote addresses, interactive workshops, high-level political dialogues, and site visits, ensuring engaging and impactful discussions.
Over the three days, on 6-8 May 2025, it will provide an essential space for the fundamental knowledge sharing, capacity building, and face-to-face collaboration needed between cities, the EU institutions, and NetZeroCities for the work that lies ahead for a climate-neutral future.
Join our 2 sessions
6 May 14:00 | Connecting the dots: data, reporting and policy
In this participatory workshop, we engage city practitioners in a reflection about data collection and management, monitoring and reporting and its use for evidence-based policy-making. We explore the real impact of reporting from a city perspective and discuss cities’ reporting requirements along with current challenges of collecting data at city level. We identify where limitations lie, emerging trends, and what is needed beyond the numbers to drive transformative change for a sustainable future. Participants will be divided into discussion groups.
7 May 11:00 | National support for climate neutral and resilient cities: strengthening multilevel governance across European countries
Achieving climate neutrality and resilience at the city level is challenging without strong national support and enabling frameworks. Recognising this, the Covenant of Mayors Europe and the EU Mission on Climate Neutral and Smart Cities have joined forces to engage national governments and stakeholders across Europe in a collective effort alongside cities. This session aims to convene representatives from local, regional, and national governments, alongside other key stakeholders, to collaboratively reflect on multilevel governance of climate and energy policies across Europe.
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