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Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
Sweden
□ Cityscape of Linköping
/ Linköping / Carbon Neutral 2025 Linköping has a bold goal: to
networks. The municipality has sought
become an absolutely carbon neutral
to lead by example: it uses renewable
city by 2025. The city council’s road to
fuels (over half of its vehicles use
that goal was launched through broad-
biogas); it specifies climate criteria in
based collaboration and partnership with
its procurement processes; it regularly
residents, employers, universities, other
communicates climate and environmental
cities and national and international
issues to its employees and residents;