The City of Brussels has drawn up a Climate Plan aimed at achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and adapting its territory to the effects of climate change.
- Climate Plan for the territory of the City of Brussels (1.94 MB)
- Climate Plan for the territory of the City of Brussels - summary document (1.13 MB)
Cities have a central role to play in limiting climate change and protecting people from its consequences. Flooding, heat islands, loss of biodiversity: in Brussels, the effects of climate change are already very real. In order to play its part in lightening change and developing adaptive solutions, the City of Brussels adopted a new Climate Plan in 2022.
- 2008-2020: Agenda 21 - The City of Brussels' action plan for sustainable development
- 2018: 'We are the change' - First Climate Plan of the City of Brussels
- 2019: Declaration of a state of 'Climate Emergency' by the City Council of the City of Brussels
- 2021–2022: participatory process for developing the Climate Plan
- Results of the citizen participation (in French)
- Results of the citizen participation (1.61 MB) (in Dutch)
- 12 December 2022: approval and adoption of the 2.0 Climate Plan
- 2023: first evaluation of the Plan internal to the City of Brussels
- 2024: setting up of the Local Climate Assembly, first internal evaluation of the Plan by the City of Brussels - Infographic - Evaluation 2024 of the Climate Plan (637.64 KB) (in French)
- 2024-2030: biannual assessment and adaptation of the Plan, -55% of the territory's greenhouse gas emissions compared to 2008
- 2040: carbon neutrality of public buildings
- 2050: carbon neutrality of the territory of the City of Brussels
Insulating your building, reducing your heating bills, collecting rainwater, switching to a bicycle, composting, planting, eating locally, training, buying sustainably,... Whether you're a public authority, a company, a business, an association or an individual, everyone can take effective action at their own level, as long as they're all pulling in the same direction.
By setting quantified targets through 11 thematic chapters, the Climate Plan is there to ensure the coherence of this multitude of actions and to help everyone take action.
- All biodiversity initiatives (263.81 KB) (in French)
- All City services initiatives (207.53 KB) (in French)
- All economy initiatives (146.51 KB) (in French)
- All energy initiatives (202.58 KB) (in French)
- All events initiatives (173.48 KB) (in French)
- All food and urban agriculture initiatives (232.81 KB) (in French)
- All governance initiatives (157.06 KB) (in French)
- All mobility initiatives (220.04 KB) (in French)
- All resources and waste initiatives (168.78 KB) (in French)
- All water initiatives (157.72 KB) (in French)
- All youth initiatives (276.21 KB) (in French)
You can benefit from financial aid and support to encourage you to take concrete action in favour of the climate:
