Local governance
Community energy#3 – Local Climate Pact: How local authorities create their own COP21?
The Horizon 2020 project “PATH2LC” invites you to a series of 3 webinars to learn and get inspired from local authorities inventing new ways of governing & planning the transition to climate-neutrality.
The goal of the webinars is to showcase concrete alternatives deployed by cities in their climate transition. These online talks will provide spaces to connect, share experiences and provide expertise of how other local authorities have designed and implemented their own local strategies and projects.
Local authorities play a key role in driving the transition of Europe to climate-neutrality. In parallel to reducing energy consumption from the buildings, boosting public transport and soft mobility, deploying local renewable energy sources, municipalities play a key role in engaging their community in the transition. Early 2021, the Covenant of Mayors – Europe renewed its ambitions. Beyond the objective of reaching climate neutrality by 2050, Covenant of Mayors signatories also commit to engaging their citizens, businesses and local stakeholders in the transition.
Some local authorities have become pioneers in innovating their local governance and supporting initiatives in their territories. To accelerate the transition to a greener and climate-neutral Europe, it is crucial that all local actors – knowledge institutions, businesses, and the civil society – become part of the thinking of a transition roadmap as well as of its implementation.
This third and last webinar will guide us through 2 inspiring examples of local governance in Europe: the first one will be the city of Loos-en-Gohelle in France, a pioneer in citizen involvement. The second speaker will be from the city of Brasov in Romania and will present the Brasov Transition Team created in 2020 involving the Municipality, the local public transport company, the local electricity distribution company and many more public and non-public organisations.
In the second part of the webinar, ALDA, the European Association for Local Democracy will moderate a discussion with the 2 speakers and the audience.
Interested in this event? Register here!
The 3 sessions will be online and will be hosted on the platform TEAMS. To participate, please register for each of the sessions. Preivous sessions:
- #1 – Making the EU climate neutral by 2050: how to translate climate neutrality into local strategies? – 28 September, 10:30 – 12:00
- #2 – Cities going circular: the role of local authorities in avoiding, preventing and reducing the consumption of resources – 12 October, 10:30 – 12:00
What is PATH2LC?
The Horizon 2020 PATH2LC project (Public Authorities together with a holistic network approach on the way to low-carbon municipalities) brings 11 partners from 5 EU countries with the main objective to support municipalities from 5 regions across the EU (Italy, Greece, Portugal, France & the Netherlands) in the design and the implementation of their Sustainable Energy & Climate Action Plan (SECAP).
The project will foster exchange of knowledge and experiences among municipalities, enhance coordination among different administrative bodies within the municipalities, improve cooperation with local stakeholders and civil society and will equip stakeholders in public authorities with required planning and monitoring tools to develop and implement transition roadmaps.
