Low-code to fight climate change: the Climaborough project

TL;DR

The Climaborough project develops a low-code/no-code platform to enable European cities to quickly create and customize climate dashboards, supporting local climate initiatives and progress tracking towards carbon neutrality.

Contribution

This paper introduces a low-code/no-code approach for rapid deployment and customization of climate dashboards in a multi-city European project.

Findings

Accelerated dashboard development using low-code strategy

Citizen-friendly dashboards for diverse user profiles

Effective monitoring of cities' climate progress

Abstract

The EU-funded Climaborough project supports European cities to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. Eleven cities in nine countries will deploy in real conditions products and services fostering climate transition in their local environment. The Climaborough City Platform is being developed to monitor the cities' overall progress towards their climate goals by aggregating historic and real-time data and displaying the results in user-friendly dashboards that will be used by non-technical experts to evaluate the effectiveness of local experimental initiatives, identify those that yield significant impact, and assess the potential consequences of scaling them up to a broader level. In this paper, we explain how we have put in place a low-code/no-code strategy in Climaborough in response to the project's aim to quickly deploy climate dashboards. A low-code strategy is used to accelerate the development of the dashboards. The dashboards embed a no-code philosophy that enables all types of citizen profiles to configure and adapt the dashboard to their specific needs.