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The EU-funded LOCALISED project is developing tools and services to show local authorities, businesses and citizens the best pathways to decarbonisation. One such tool is the Climate Action Strategiser, a state-of-the-art planning tool for European cities and regions to reduce emissions and adapt to the impact of climate change. Developed by LOCALISED project partner Climate Media Factory (CMF), Germany, the Climate Action Strategiser focuses on how to better integrate climate mitigation and adaptation measures, and how to foster collaboration in small and medium-sized local administrations. It is based on national decarbonisation trajectories reduced to local levels and can help cities and regions set up sustainable energy and climate action plans and monitor related Sustainable Development Goals. The tool also evaluates chosen mitigation and adaptation measures in terms of their social impact and equity. “We cannot ignore the impacts of climate change in Europe. We need to act,” stresses PhD researcher Gerard Martínez Görbig of LOCALISED project partner University of Twente, the Netherlands, in a news item posted on the university’s independent journalistic medium ‘U-Today’. Görbig, who is contributing to the development of the Climate Action Strategiser, adds: “Climate change isn’t ending anytime soon, it’s more likely to intensify, and so we need to prepare for it – not only physically, but also by addressing the associated social issues. We need to reach climate justice in Europe as fast as possible.” The tool’s development will help bring the region one step closer to this goal.