WP 5 - Replication

The city of Lviv is one of the first in Ukraine which has initiated the development of the concept of climate neutrality in the urban system. Lviv is one of the five Fellow cities in the SPARCS project. Since 2019 SPARCS has been an accelerator for achieving climate neutrality targets and designing innovative solutions for creating energy-positive districts in the city. Since SPARCS, Lviv has had a great opportunity to approach a new but very important topic: achieving the status of a climate-neutral city by 2050 and creating –positive energy districts.

The project helped to launch the first 9 ideas that were to be implemented within the city, but due to the Russian federation’s invasion of Ukraine, the plans were drastically changed. Energy efficiency and sustainability became the top priority for the city’s and began to be actively developed within different parts of the city’s infrastructure. At the strategic level, Lviv’s transformation to climate neutrality in 2050 has been shaped by the following projects:
1. Spatial Energy Plan and
2. Data-Driven Sustainable Mobility Plan,

within which unique software was purchased to enable the city to calculate large amounts of data. This data is an integral part of the future formation of Energy Positive Districts within our city and community