Climate Justice Integration Index Assessment for Four Dutch EU Cities Mission Participants

A 195.3 KB document assesses the integration of climate justice into the climate strategies of four Dutch cities participating in the EU Mission on Climate-neutral and Smart Cities. The study, authored by Joëlle Tillij and last updated in May 2026, developed and applied a Climate Justice Integration Index to the cities' strategies and conducted stakeholder interviews. It found the cities scored higher on procedural and distributional justice than on recognition justice.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking climate justice integration across cities based on the developed Climate Justice Integration Index.
• Analyzing gaps between procedural, distributional, and recognition justice dimensions in urban climate policy.
• Studying barriers to climate justice implementation, such as the challenge of establishing localized definitions.
• Evaluating the awareness and utilization of EU Cities Mission resources among municipal officials.

Strengths

• Applies a novel Climate Justice Integration Index to four specific cities.
• Combines document analysis with stakeholder interviews for triangulation.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The 195.3 KB size suggests a limited textual analysis rather than a large-scale dataset.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred from the document.
• The data is specific to four Dutch cities, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Analysis involved developing a Climate Justice Integration Index applied to city climate strategies and conducting stakeholder interviews.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 15:03:00.

Geography

Four Dutch cities participating in the EU Cities Mission: Groningen and The Hague are named.