Municipalities signing the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy
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ÁGUILAS
The municipality of Águilas is in the southeast of Spain, in the Mediterranean coast of Región de Murcia. This town have a high influence of the primary sector and a little industrial one. With an important second residential tourism and a more than 23 kilometres coast, experience a special growth of its population in the summer months, living on it more than 65,000 inhabitants (the average population is about 35,000).
About the energetic consumption of Águilas, the vast majority is due to a big number of second residential buildings.
WHAT HAS ÁGUILAS DONE IN THE LAST 10 Population: 35,262 inhabitants YEARS REGARDING MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION MEASURES? Mayor: Mª del Carmen Moreno Pérez
1. Centralization of the whole control of the Date of the adhesion: 24/02/2011 municipal energetic consumption. 2. Energy audit of public lighting. Contact information: 3. Replacement of old lights by other more Enrique Delgado Carrasco, Técnico efficient in municipal buildings. (ELENA- Municipal Responsible. FUENSANTA PLAN) 4. Adhesion to the Federación Española de • Email: Municipios y Provincias, in order to purchase [email protected] the electrical supply in public buildings, • Phone: +34 968 418 893 equipments and facilities. • Address: www.ayuntamientodeaguilas.org 5. Implementation of two efficient water boilers (biomass) in the two public swimming pools. 6. Measures over the public lighting: - Installation of stabilizer and flux reduction WHAT DOES ÁGUILAS EXPECT TO system. ACHIEVE THANKS TO ITS ADHESION - Replacement of low efficiency lamps. TO THE COVENANT OF MAYORS FOR - Management and maintenance. CLIMATE AND ENERGY? Externalization of maintenance service in public lighting. The most expected target is getting a - Optimization of public lighting turning in good financial source that let Águilas and turning off applying the measures for reducing its
emissions according to The covenant WHAT BARRIERS HAVE AYUNTAMIENTO DE of majors. ÁGUILAS FOUNDED REGARDING SEAP IMPLEMENTATION?
Mainly, as same as the majority of municipalities, the Ayuntamiento de Águilas, has dealt with a non-available external financing.
lifeadaptate.eu CARTAGENA
Cartagena is a Spanish city located in the southeast of the Region of Murcia, in the Mediterranean Coast. The city that has been a military enclave of various civilizations throughout its history, which today makes it a wonderful touristy city. Currently the municipality is an energy hub thanks to the oil and petrochemical industry. In addition, its shipyard and merchandise trade that place the port of Cartagena among the most important ones in Spain.
WHAT HAS CARTAGENA DONE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS REGARDING MITIGATION AND Population: 214,177 inhabitants ADAPTATION MEASURES? Mayor: Ana Belén Castejón • Optimization of computer equipment consumption. Date of the adhesion: 19/02/18 • Change to most efficient fuels in municipal building boilers. Contact information: • Renovation of public lightling • Email: [email protected] • Presence control for interior lighting • Phone: 968 12 88 00 • Optimization of climatization demand • Address: Calle San Miguel nº 8, 30201, • Setting temperatures in the climate control Cartagena, Region of Murcia (Spain) equipment • Replacement of luminaires by other more efficient WHAT DOES CARTAGENA EXPECT • Replacement of vehicles by other more efficient TO ACHIEVE THANKS TO ITS • Promotion of the use of the bicycle and the transport at foot for municipal employees ADHESION TO THE COVENANT OF • Change of fuels by other less contaminants in MAYORS FOR CLIMATE AND public transport ENERGY? • Optimization of public transportation services • Renovation of air conditioning equipments Accelerating the decarbonisation of our territories, thus contributing to keeping • Renovation of the municipal fleet and promotion of vehicles using non-conventional fuels average global warming below 2°C; Installation of charging points for electric vehicles • Strengthening our capacities to adapt • Sustainable urban mobility plan to unavoidable climate change impacts, • Buildings renovations thus making our territories more • Increase of green areas surface resilient;
WHAT BARRIERS HAVE CARTAGENA Increasing energy efficiency and the FOUNDED REGARDING SEAP use of renewable energy sources on our territories, thus ensuring universal IMPLEMENTATION? access to secure, sustainable and affordable energy services for all. • Lack of a global strategy
• Changes in municipality government • Lack of support from different political groups • Lack of investment.
lifeadaptate.eu AYUNTAMIENTO DE LORCA
With more than 1.600 km2, Lorca is the biggest municipal area (not the capital of province) of Spain and, in consequence, offers the one who it crosses an extraordinary variety, diversity and wealth of landscapes; from the high lands of the north up to the calm coves of its virgin coast after having crossed the typical and rich garden “Valley of the Guadalentín”. http://www.lorcaturismo.es/situacion/situacion.as p?id=6 WHAT HAS AYUNTAMIENTO DE Population: 91.730 inhabitants LORCA DONE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS Mayor: D. Fulgencio Gil Jódar REGARDING MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION Date of the adhesion: 26 de febrero MEASURES? de 2018
Adhesion to the Agreement of The Mayors in Contact information: the year 2011: Francisco Salvador López Zarco, Responsible Technician - Installation of clocks with astronomic programming in the whole municipality. • Email: [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected] - Installation of complete pictures • Phone: 968479700 / 968479719 automated to fit to the minimum the • Address: Plaza de España, s/, 30800 hours of ignition of the public system of Lorca Murcia illumination.
WHAT DOES [MUNICIPALITY] - Substitution and improvement of the electrical facilities for the control, safety EXPECT TO ACHIEVE THANKS TO ITS and energy efficiency in public colleges. ADHESION TO THE COVENANT OF MAYORS FOR CLIMATE AND - Modernization of public system of ENERGY? illumination in Zúñiga, in ways High Bridge and Mozón de Cazalla, To bet on initiatives that improve the renovation of system of illumination in environment and the quality of life of south round, and improvement of the the citizens to local level, betting for energy efficiency in the Archaeological policies against the fight against the Museum. climate change from the own municipalities as point of item and as WHAT BARRIERS HAVE AYUNTAMIENTO fundamental base for the attainment of DE LORCA FOUNDED REGARDING SEAP big goals and aims. IMPLEMENTATION? To obtain economic savings, and to Lack of civil raising awareness and lack of stimulate to the sector deprived of the financing. technological advances.
lifeadaptate.eu SMILTENE MUNICIPALIT Y
Smiltene Municipality is a local municipality in Latvia. Total area of the district is 946 km2, which includes the town of Smiltene and eight surrounding parishes - Smiltene, Blome, Branti, Launkalne, Varini, Palsmane, Grundzale and Bilska parish. Smiltene municipality is a place where to live, work, start a family, study, engage in active recreation, continue culture traditions and develop business – Place where to grow!
WHAT HAS [MUNICIPALITY] DONE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS REGARDING MITIGATION
AND ADAPTATION MEASURES? Population: 12 791 inhabitants Smiltene municipality participates in the project "50000 & 1 SEAP'S", which is the Mayor: Gints Kukainis support for sustainable energy action plan and its integration. Also Smiltene municipality Date of the adhesion: 30/11/2016 participated in the project SAVE@WORK, Contact information: where three administration buildings were introduced various measures to reduce energy. Email: [email protected] The municipality has implemented variety of Phone: 64707588 energy efficiency projects such as building Address: Dārza iela 3, Smiltene, Smiltenes insulation for kindergartens, school and novads, Latvia municipal buildings, modernization of street lighting not only in town of Smiltene, but also in the villages of Smiltene municipality. We WHAT DOES [MUNICIPALITY] have also partly modernized the heat supply EXPECT TO ACHIEVE THANKS TO ITS system, installed heat pumps and improved the gauges for heat supply, electricity ADHESION TO THE COVENANT OF consumption, water supply. MAYORS FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY? WHAT BARRIERS HAVE [MUNICIPALITY] FOUNDED REGARDING SEAP We would like to see more good examples of climate change mitigation IMPLEMENTATION? and adaptation from other European The main barriers regarding SEAP cities and discover some of the best implementation are data acquisition, human practices to reduce CO2 emissions on resistance, change people’s behaviour, and of the territory of our municipalities by at course financial resources. least 40% by 2030.
lifeadaptate.eu ALFÂNDEGA DA FÉ
Alfândega da Fé is located in Alto Trás-os -Montes Subregion occupying a total area of 321.99 km2. Alfândega da Fé is located in 41º20'N latitude and 6º58'W longitude. The municipality registers high annual and diurnal temperature variations and seasonal variations, with harsh winter and summer and spring and autumn with no significant variations. The average annual temperature varies between 12.5 and 16.0 ° C. In what regards precipitation its annual value is around 600 mm, increasing in the direction of the mountain range, on top of which it reaches up to 1200 mm. The air humidity is low, between 65 and 70%.
WHAT HAS ALFÂNDEGA DA FÉ DONE IN THE
LAST 10 YEARS REGARDING MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION MEASURES? Population: 5104 inhabitants A large portion of the municipal area consists of forests (with fast growing hardwoods) and agricultural land. Mayor: Berta Nunes So, it is particularly vulnerable to an increasing number of forest fires. Due to that, some important plans have Date of the adhesion: 16/12/2017 been developed, related to forest fire prevention and Contact information: to the occurrence of extreme temperature events. Alfândega da Fé has been improving the city’s urban • Email: [email protected] environment ensuring its attractiveness and • Phone: +351 279 468 120 sustainability by creating urban areas in which people • Address: Largo de D. Dinis 5350-014 can comfortably live, work and relax. Examples are the Alfândega da Fé creation of more green areas in the city centre, planting trees, flood protection measures along the streams, protecting fresh air paths and cold air production areas. In addition, the municipality has defined flood, WHAT DOES ALFÂNDEGA DA FÉ green, and ventilation areas in its land use plan. The municipality has already adopted a number of EXPECT TO ACHIEVE THANKS TO ITS adaptation measures, which are part of a series of ADHESION TO THE COVENANT OF integrated projects related to the renovation of the city MAYORS FOR CLIMATE AND and forest fire plans. All urban planning is developed in cooperation with the health department to prevent ENERGY? heat-related health risks for the youngest and the elderly, teaming up with relevant actors Alfândega da Fé´s main motivation with the adhesion to Covenant of WHAT BARRIERS HAVE ALFÂNDEGA DA FÉ mayors for climate and energy and for taking adaptation action, is primarily to FOUNDED REGARDING SEAP be ready for the extreme weather risks IMPLEMENTATION? that the region faces as a result of Alfândega da Fé has been implementing several climate change, strengthening its sustainable energy actions throughout its local resilience. sustainable development policies. The main objective was to develop the mitigation and adaptation plan at the same time and due to that the SEAP was not developed.
lifeadaptate.eu MÉRTOLA
The municipality of Mértola is located in the Southeast region of Portugal, is part of Baixo Alentejo region and occupies an area of 1292 km2. The climate of this region is predominantly Mediterranean, with hot, dry summers as a result of its interiority. Winters are mild and with little rainfall.
WHAT HAS MÉRTOLA DONE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS REGARDING MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION MEASURES?
The city is developing the municipality adaptation action plan and some strategic plans have been Population: 7274 inhabitants developed, namely, forest fire prevention plan and heat waves emergency plans. Additionally, Mértola is Mayor: Jorge Rosa preparing an application to UNESCO regarding the Islamic route and to European Geoparks. Also, Mértola Date of the adhesion: 07/10/2015 joined as a follower partner the ClimAdaPT.Local project that was created to support the development of Contact information: adaptation projects in Portugal. Other project is the AdaptForChange Project were Mértola was a case • Email: [email protected] study. The project presented as main goal to raise cost- • Phone: +351 286 610 100 benefit of reforestations through innovative • Address: Praça Luís de Camões 7750- approaches. Mértola intends to improve the city’s urban 329 Mértola environment ensuring its attractiveness and sustainability by creating urban areas in which people can comfortably live, work and relax. Examples are the creation of more green areas, planting trees, protecting fresh air paths and cold air production areas. The WHAT DOES MÉRTOLA EXPECT TO municipality is already adopting some adaptation ACHIEVE THANKS TO ITS ADHESION measures, which are part of a series of integrated TO THE COVENANT OF MAYORS projects related to the renovation of forest and agriculture areas and forest fire plans. All the planning FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY? is developed in cooperation with nature and forests conservation institute. Additionally, Mértola started Mértola´s main motivation for taking implementing several sustainable energy actions adaptation action is primarily to be present in its SEAP in what regards public building ready for the extreme weather risks energy efficiency, street lighting, among others. that the region faces as a result of climate change, strengthening its WHAT BARRIERS HAVE MÉRTOLA FOUNDED resilience. REGARDING SEAP IMPLEMENTATION?
Within the SEAP the municipality aims to harness the potential of structural funding opportunities for RUE and RES, both with public and private investment, being a reference to the local community, establishing best practices in RUE and RES, boosting production and export of high value-added solutions which reduce the dependence from fossil fuels and the emissions of
CO2. The main barriers that the municipality faced so far are related to the funding opportunities.
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