After two years of experimentation in six Member States, it’s time to share the conclusions with other countries and to support them in implementing permanent multilevel dialogues to work on national Energy and Climate laws.
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Missed deadlines and missed goals: why have local authorities been underestimated in the NECP writing process?
Valentine CrossePosted on July 3, 2024
Stakeholders involvement and permanent multilevel climate and energy dialogues are key to a virtuous NECP.
The assessment is in! The European Commission reviewed the 21 draft national energy and climate plans submitted by Member States
Valentine CrossePosted on January 11, 2024
The assessment presents a mixed picture; according to the Commission, at this stage, the draft NECPs are not yet sufficient to meet the EU’s 2030 targets.
What makes it tougher or easier for cities to meet their climate and energy targets?
Valentine CrossePosted on October 11, 2023
Read the full analysis about local governances participation and role in national climate and energy decision-making process in six focus countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal, and Romania.
How to get different levels of government to work together on climate and energy policies?
Allison Le CorrePosted on May 15, 2023
Are you trying to get different levels of government to work together on climate and energy in your country? Find inspiration in successful examples from across the world that will help put your initiative on the right track.
The revision of National Energy and Climate Plans: an opportunity to bring local and regional governments to the national stage
Allison Le CorrePosted on May 5, 2023
Six countries are seizing the opportunity of the revision of National Energy and Climate Plans to redefine how energy and climate policies are governed in their countries. See what they are doing to bring local governments to the national stage.
National climate plans are not involving local decision-makers as they should
Allison Le CorrePosted on October 25, 2022
Five local leaders from across Europe highlight the need for better multilevel dialogue in the drafting of new National Energy and Climate Plans during the Political Launch of the new LIFE-funded project NECPlatform in October 2022.
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The LIFE NECPlatform project, kicked off late 2022, aims at supporting six EU Member States (Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal, and Romania) transition to climate neutrality by setting-up and managing permanent multi-level Climate and Energy Dialogue (CED) Platforms in line with Article 11 of the Energy Union Governance Regulation.
The objective of NECPlatform is to reinforce the national policy frameworks of the six target countries to design an inclusive governance model that in the future could be replicated in other Member States.
Takeaways from the REGILIENCE training session on multi-level governance on adaptation
In a report released in March 2024, the European Environment Agency lists 36 major climate risks for Europe, for which we need to prepare. Extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and flooding, as experienced in recent years, will worsen in Europe even under optimistic global warming scenarios and affect living conditions throughout the continent.
NECPs: meeting the deadlines while ensuring dialogue challenging for Member States
The first versions of EU Member States’ National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) were submitted in 2020 as part of the Energy Union governance process: the European Commission pointed out in the first assessment of the plans that the NECPs had not involved local and regional authorities and stakeholders as they should have.
Within the NECPlatform LIFE project, six Member States (Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal and Romania) were supported in setting up such dialogues. Upon meeting in Lisbon to join the country’s 3rd CED, each country (and partner) provided updates on where they stand in the target of setting up the 6 dialogue platforms.
In July 2024, OER, partner in the NECPlatform project, had the opportunity to participate in the fifth meeting of the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy and Climate Cooperation (P-TECC).
This policy brief aims to highlight the benefits of multilevel governance processes, specifically the Climate and Energy Dialogues (CED), to meet EU and Member States’ climate and energy targets.
Promoting Dialogue and Collaboration Between National and Local Authorities in Romania
A new meeting of the Climate and Energy Dialogue Platform took place in Bucharest, organized within the NECPlatform project, under the umbrella of the conference “Integrating the local perspective into national energy and climate strategies”.
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