Klimapakt20230plus

The ‘Klimapakt2030plus – Energy Transition in Nuremberg’ project is the first in Germany to systematically examine the role that the metropolitan region can play in implementing the energy transition and the Paris climate targets.
As large-scale, functionally interconnected areas combining urban and rural characteristics, metropolitan regions offer, on the one hand, the opportunity to pool the resources of local authorities and districts, businesses and civil society, thereby giving a regional boost to the implementation of the energy transition and climate protection. For example, successful local measures can be effectively scaled up with the help of large-scale networks. On the other hand, the governance of the energy transition poses a particular challenge given the heterogeneity of local authorities and stakeholders.
This is to be further developed into a ‘Climate Pact 2030plus’ through a participatory process across the metropolitan region, starting with the definition of new targets for the transformation. The project will then focus on two areas of action in the form of real-world laboratories, within which a particularly strong leverage effect for reducing CO₂ emissions is expected.

In the ‘Energy Supply Transformation’ real-world laboratory, local authorities and energy suppliers are advised on efficient packages of measures, and the implementation of technical and non-technical measures across the region is being driven forward. In the ‘Existing Building Stock Transformation’ real-world laboratory, approaches are being developed and tested to promote the energy-efficient refurbishment of municipal and private buildings, for example through the development of practical implementation guides.
The work in the real-world laboratories is supported, on the one hand, by socio-ecological accompanying research and, on the other, by a simulation tool developed specifically for this project. This sector coupling model serves to visualise energy flows across the entire metropolitan region and to illustrate the impacts of implemented measures and changing boundary conditions in a clear and comprehensible manner. The simulation tool is used in transformation workshops and experimental spaces to provide the target groups – energy suppliers, civil society and property management companies, as well as citizens affected by the measures – with a better information base, to overcome barriers to implementation, to increase acceptance of measures to manage the energy transition, and to make the discussion on this topic more objective.