Leuven MindGate, Leuven 2030, KU Leuven, imec and LEUC join forces towards a climate-neutral city by 2030

All parties involved promise concrete commitments and transparency about this in their own sustainability and investment policies and also take up the gauntlet to take the Leuven ecosystem in tow.

The joint pledge follows the selection of Leuven for the '100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030' mission by the European Commission. With this mission, Europe supports 100 pioneering cities for climate with expertise and resources in their path to climate neutrality by 2030. Central to this is the drafting of a Climate City Contract that will set out which local and supra-local partners will make which commitments to achieve a climate neutral city by 2030.

Leuven 2030 director Katrien Rycken: "The significance of this promise cannot be overestimated. In Leuven, we have long known that we can only master the challenge of a sustainable transition to a prosperous future through intensive collaboration. By looking together beyond the immediate individual possibilities and core mission of each of the actors separately. That is exactly why Leuven 2030 was founded as a network organization in 2013. The fact that these partners - who have long played an active role in our network - are now officially taking up the gauntlet to help activate the Leuven ecosystem and accelerate together will give a boost to our shared efforts."