Decarbonisation pathways for local authorities, citizen and businesses

What is LOCALISED
LOCALISED is a European-funded research project which is developing end-user products and services for local and regional administration and their citizens as well as policy and business decision-makers in ad co-design process, by providing downscaled national decarbonisation trajectories, consistent with Europe’s net-zero target, and helping to upscale the definition and implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures at local level, the establishment of Sustainable Energy and Climate actions plans (SECAPs) and the monitoring of related Sustainable Development Goals.
The LOCALISED project targets the NUTS-3 administrative level for all Europe, to help regions and their local administrations and businesses understand what options they have to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change, and how these can be implemented, taking into account energy justice.
With this it is contributing to achieving the goals of the European Green Deal on reducing its net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 (compared to 1990 levels) in a fair way, leaving no one behind.
For whom
LOCALISED activities and results are interesting for everyone doing, studying and improving climate change mitigation and adaptation measures at local and regional level in Europe: we offer information for local and regional public administrations and public technical bodies, but also to consultancies and sectoral associations, that are responsible for urban planning, energy planning, transport planning, especially those facing limited resources or lacking information; for local and regional businesses and business associations showing a growing interest in planning their carbon reduction; for academics, e.g. social, adaptation and behaviour scientists, participation research and gender studies as well as climate, mitigation, energy modellers as well as for citizens and the general public seeking new forms of participatory innovation.
Our research areas
LOCALISED will establish a reliable framework of the current status of the energy sector at NUTS-3 level to plan feasible future scenarios and to monitor the changes from real data. Providing information at lower scales needs to strike an adequate balance between: 1) the downscaling of existing information on mitigation, adaptation and impacts; and 2) the design of innovative information products and tools to targeted focus groups.
Resources
LOCALISED publishes reports and databases, interviews and videos, presenting our project results. In addition we make available interesting information from external sources on:
- Energy and emission downscaling
- Monitoring local decarbonization plans
- Regional businesses vulnerability to decarbonization
- Synergies between mitigation and adaptation
- Making sustainable decarbonization plans of cities operational management tools
- Narratives of change for citizen
Tools
LOCALISED invites you to participate in the co-design of two web applications: the Decarbonisation Profiler for local and regional administrations and their citizens and the Net-Zero Business Consultant for local and regional business and business associations. The tools will go the “last mile” bringing decarbonisation knowledge to end users. The launch of their final version is planned for the beginning of 2025.
Latest News
Intensive and inspiring days of sharing knowledge about climate change and nature-based solutions for our partner Metropolitan Area Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot
The educational project “Climate in the Schools of Metropolis” implemented by Metropolitan Area Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot is entering a new stage. Training for nature, biology and geography teachers from 40 schools participating in the project has been completed.
Explore the recent paper on Urban Adaptation plans in Europe of LOCALISED partner University of Twente
A group of scientists evaluated urban adaptation plans in 167 European cities to understand if there is an evolution on plan quality over time.
“Transformative Climate Media for Urban Futures” – Report on the international and interdisciplinary symposium
From 24-25 January 2023, Tobias Gralke and Bernd Hezel from the LOCALISED project partner Climate Media Factory co-hosted the international and interdisciplinary symposium “Transformative Climate Media for Urban Futures” at the Brandenburg Center for Media Studies in...
Latest News

Intensive and inspiring days of sharing knowledge about climate change and nature-based solutions for our partner Metropolitan Area Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot
The educational project “Climate in the Schools of Metropolis” implemented by Metropolitan Area Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot is entering a new stage. Training for nature, biology and geography teachers from 40 schools participating in the project has been completed.

Explore the recent paper on Urban Adaptation plans in Europe of LOCALISED partner University of Twente
A group of scientists evaluated urban adaptation plans in 167 European cities to understand if there is an evolution on plan quality over time.

“Transformative Climate Media for Urban Futures” – Report on the international and interdisciplinary symposium
From 24-25 January 2023, Tobias Gralke and Bernd Hezel from the LOCALISED project partner Climate Media Factory co-hosted the international and interdisciplinary symposium “Transformative Climate Media for Urban Futures” at the Brandenburg Center for Media Studies in...