Rotterdam Climate Initiative

The Rotterdam Climate Initiative is the new, ambitious climate programme in which the Municipality of Rotterdam, the Port of Rotterdam, DCMR Environmental Protection Agency Rijnmond, and Deltalinqs join forces to achieve a drastic reduction in Rotterdam's CO2 emission. The growth of the city and the port in the coming years will significantly contribute to this goal. The Rotterdam Climate Initiative combines all of the initiatives taken by Rotterdam - the city as well as the port - to develop into a low-CO2 city and energy port; the world capital of CO2-free energy.

With this initiative, Rotterdam expresses its ambition to reduce CO2 emissions in Rotterdam territory by fifty per cent in 2025 as compared with 1990, and to create economic opportunities with respect to CO2 for trade, industry and the port. The four parties involved have agreed to devote their collective efforts to maximum innovation, maximum mobilization of people and organizations, and substantial investments in projects aimed at a fifty per cent reduction of CO2 emission.