Climate Village Project Vejle Klimalandsby - Vejle

This is a research project involving testing how a village or a community can support Vejle’s climate plan to reduce CO2 emissions. Based on the selected village/small town in the Vejle area and the local strengths, ideas and opportunities, the municipality and an external panel will support and secure the necessary knowledge, support and co-finance for the village to test and experiment with different behavioural and technological solutions that together create a model for the climate village of the future. At the start of the project, a baseline measurement is carried out to assess the current CO2 emissions in the selected village, in addition to a joint mapping exercise to determine the local ideas and climate actions to be tested. Then, over the next two years, the village, in collaboration with the municipality and the external panel, experiments and tests different climate activities based on the local community and finally follows up with evaluations and measurements of reduced CO2 and the lessons learned. The project ends with a “living exhibition” and a summary (possibly a white paper with lessons and cases), which can inspire other areas in Vejle Municipality and more widely nationally. Klimalandsby will also act as a showcase for other communities and citizens, inspiring and learning how a community, village or small town, in particular, can put a climate plan into action.