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Roadmap Amsterdam Climate Neutral 2050

Invitation to the city

Following a year in which one weather record was broken after another, Amsterdam City Council is launching the Amsterdam Climate Neutral 2050 campaign. With this programme, we are taking an irreversible step towards ridding the city of harmful CO2 emissions for good.

We have identified the major building blocks that are needed to create a climate-neutral city, and we know what we want to achieve. But we cannot do this alone. We are calling on you, the people of Amsterdam, to share your ideas and initiatives. How can we work together to make this happen? What do we need from each other? What shall we agree to do?

In the coming months, we will organise meetings, discussions and events across the city. We will make a list of everything that is already happening and the plans that you are proposing, and we will draw up
collaboration agreements. By the end of 2019, this should result in the Amsterdam Climate Neutral Roadmap 2050. This document will outline our activities and our goals, what we need to achieve them, how we are going to achieve them, and who the main actors are. One important part of the Roadmap will be a local Amsterdam Climate Agreement with our partners in the city, detailing specific agreements for the coming years and beyond. Independent auditors will be commissioned to assess the plans and verify that the proposed actions will be sufficient to reach our intermediate and end targets.


But there’s more. We will not only work with you to draw up the Roadmap, but we will also invite you to work with us to implement it. Everyone will have the opportunity to get involved. In the end, making Amsterdam carbon neutral will be the sum of many different initiatives, large and small. Together we will start a movement; together we will make Amsterdam Climate Neutral.

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