11th Climate Star Competition

Category 1: Up to 10,000 inhabitants

Brand-Nagelberg, Austria: Climate-ready music centre – brass music goes green
Gallneukirchen, Austria: Sustainable living initiative
Wiener Neudorf, Austria: Our community, our climate

Category 2: 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants

Amstetten, Austria: Amstetten Main Square – a place for people
Baden, Switzerland: Old becomes new – a city on a retrofit mission
Bettembourg, Luxembourg: Where sustainable innovation leads the way
Gleisdorf, Austria: Gleisdorf’s traffic lifeline
Križevci, Croatia: An energy and climate centre for the energy transition
Maintal, Germany: More space for trees

Ratingen, Germany: Working together to expand renewables
Riedstadt, Germany: Empowering citizens – climate-friendly retrofitting
Újpest (IV. District of Budapest), Hungary: Fostering resilience for a district worth living in

Category 3: Over 100,000 inhabitants

Aachen, Germany: Bringing a funding programme into people’s living rooms
Den Haag, Netherlands: Banning fossil fuel ad

Category 4: Municipal networks

Galicia, Spain: How an entire regions is taking climate action
The Melk-Scheibbs Circular Region, Austria: Packaging-free initiative