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E-Newsletter FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE E-Newsletter MAYORS in ACTION empowers Coordinators and Supporters (C&S) of the Covenant of Mayors in effectively assisting their municipalities in implementing and monitoring their SEAPs. Through tutoring and coaching schemes, MAYORS in ACTION will allow C&S municipalities to go further, enabling them to implement actions by employing existing tools and experiences in different environments, and helping them to support one another towards a common goal. MAYORS in ACTION is a three-year project, running until February 2017, and is co-funded by Intelligent Energy Europe. www.mayorsinaction.eu News COP22 delegates discuss new global climate change join to make ambitious commitments to reducing emissions. initiative for local governments That is an opportunity for Veneto as the coordinator of the Covenant of Mayors, ministers and city Mayors to share ideas and best practices on how to reduce greenhouse representatives gathered at the gases and promote renewable energy. This includes developing and COP22 in Marrakech (Morocco) for a implementing policies that have the biggest impact on climate change, session to discuss the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, a energy and energy efficiency; technological innovation; development; and new worldwide initiative announced in June 2016 for ambitious cities to other areas that have direct implications for greenhouse gas emissions levels. help tackle climate change. Complementary to and coordinated with the MOU, the Compact of States The new initiative – which will “go live” on 1 January 2017 - is a result of the and Regions is an initiative that provides a mechanism for its members EU’s Covenant of Mayors, and the Compact of Mayors, coming together. to measure and report progress against their emissions reductions In combination, the Global Covenant represents 7,100 cities in over 119 commitments. Participating in both the Compact and the MOU involves countries. The event articulated a unified vision and provided a forum collecting data on emissions reduction targets. The Compact provides for city and local government representatives committed to addressing the formal annual reporting mechanism to help governments track climate change. It introduced the new initiative, and analysed the impact progress, and compare and measure the effectiveness of their strategies. of the collective city commitments. Veneto, a partner of the Mayors in Action project – co-funded by the The Global Covenant will enable cities to collect and report climate EU’s Intelligent Energy Programme - provides a transparent picture data in a comparable and transparent way, allowing them to produce of efforts to tackle climate change and is committed to promoting climate action plans and to track their progress. The Global Covenant actions on climate change. It is aware that possible solutions to can facilitate cities’ engagement with the national level, and help the this worldwide issue might be a big opportunity for the local and UN and the global community identify contributions that cities and global economy and might have positive impacts on quality of life. local governments are making toward the goals set in Paris, which will underscore how important cities are to meeting them. It will provide a For more information, visit the Under2 MOU website. path for mayors to reduce carbon emissions and strengthen resilience, while achieving other, more localised benefits such as increased access to clean and affordable energy, improved public health and strengthened Santorso sets up citizens´ energy info point and purchasing group local economies. In February 2014, the municipal council Célestine Ketcha Epse Courtes, the mayor of Bangangte (Cameroon), from th e town of Santorso in Veneto attended the event. She said: “The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate approved a Sustainable Energy Action & Energy must use existing networks to bring together and push forward Plan (SEAP). It includes 41 actions, on the climate action that cities, towns and regions will implement. We and involved many stakeholders that need to walk all together and hand in hand to ensure our needs are demanded commitments and meaningful future projects. understood by local governments.” As so often happens with similar, ambitious plans, the municipality’s The president of Sardinia, Francesco Pigliaru, suggested that the Global problem was figuring out how to realise it and actively involve the public. Covenant can also provide support to smaller cities. He said: “We need Santorso has a population of 5,900 people and a tiny budget, so the answer even small municipalities capable of talking to the world and knowing wasn’t simple. The municipality decided to participate in the Mayors in how to access investment bank funds. Often, they do not know what Action project and try to find, with the support of engineering consultants is available to them or have capacity or structures to address complex SOGESCA, a way for realising the actions, possibly with the engagement of environmental issues.” the public. For more information on the new Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate The municipality then organised a series of workshops on the SEAP topics, and Energy, click here. which allowed it to understand residents’ needs better. Following this, Santorso organised six focus groups, during which residents and the local Veneto signs Under2MOU, increasing support to administration decided that the most important first step was to create an Covenant of Mayors information point where people could go to find out more about energy. On 27 June 2016, the region of In November 2015, the municipality - with the help of volunteers from Veneto (Italy) took ambitious Santorso’s Buona Pratica citizen involvement group, Italian environmentalist action to combat climate change association Legambiente, and Mayors in Action – set up the ‘Energy Info by joining the Subnational Global Point’. Open once a week for a couple of hours, staff at the Energy Info Point Climate Leadership Memorandum of Understanding (Under2 MOU). answer residents’ questions about energy, explain energy bills and suggest The Under2 MOU originates from a partnership between the states energy efficiency interventions where possible. of California (United States) and Baden-Württemberg (Germany), and Immediately after the Energy Info Point opened, Buono Practica started a brings together ambitious states and regions willing to commit towards purchasing group for renewable energy systems such as photovoltaics (PV), reducing emissions. Central to the agreement is that all signatories and thermal solar and heat pumps. The initiative purchased 17 PV systems agree to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions from 80% to 95%, or (with total power of 70.5 kW), 7 heat pumps for hot water, 6 highly efficient to limit their CO2-equivalent per capita to two metric tonnes by 2050. air conditioners and a solar thermal plant for € 148,450 – equivalent to According to the United Nations Development Program, 50% saving 40 tons of CO2 per year. The Energy Info Point is such a success that to 80% of the mitigation and adaptation actions necessary to it will probably be extended to nearby municipalities. tackle climate change will be implemented at subnational or For more information, visit the Santorso Sostenibile website. local levels of governance. The MOU encourages regions to FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE As the climate changes, Genova does too Public and private sectors collaborate to boost energy efficiency How to save energy every day and Over 60 representatives from local renewable energy were the main authorities, the business sector, topics for almost 400 elementary universities and research centres schoolchildren in Genova (Italy) attended a networking session on in the first months of the school 14 October in Barcelona (Spain). The year. The children took part in session was organised by the province of Barcelona, the Network of Towns an initiative called “Il Clima cambia! Cambiamo anche noi! Le nostre idee and Villages towards Sustainability, and the Catalonia Energy Efficiency per salvare la Terra” (“Climate changes! Let’s change as well! Our ideas to Cluster (CEEC) within the framework of the Mayors in Action project. The save Earth”), with educational activities organised by the city of Genova aim was to find potential partners and collaborators interested in municipal with the support of Muvita – a foundation created to support Genova energy efficiency, and to meet new people, exchange experiences and with the promotion of, among others, energy saving, energy efficiency and agree upon challenges to tackle in the future. renewable energy. Over 200 municipalities from the province of Barcelona signed the Genova, in the framework of the EU’s Mayors in Action project, successfully Covenant of Mayors and have an ongoing SEAP. Their commitments (for managed to replicate one of the many good practices developed by the some, reducing GHG emissions by 20% 2020; for others, reducing GHG partners, with the aim to help municipalities implement the actions of their emissions by 40% by 2030) involve taking action. Addressing the energy SEAP in the Covenant of Mayors. The city of Zagreb (Croatia) provided quality efficiency of municipal buildings and facilities represents around 60% educational materials for the schools, developed as part of its involvement of the actions specified in SEAPs and most of them are related to smart in the Mayors in Action project. Translated into Italian and adapted
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