This session will focus on implementation of the EU Green Deal by defining a clear path towards integrating it into regional and urban planning. Speakers will discuss multi-level cooperation and integrated financing solutions, as well as available ad-hoc support for driving local sustainable growth in line with EU objectives. By discussing new ways of political leadership and presenting practical tools, this session aims to facilitate localising the Green Deal for holistic local transitions.
- Local and regional | Sustainable | Governance and Public administration
- Code: 10WS241095
- Jacques Delors building, JDE 53
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Practical information
- When
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Thu 10/10/2024, 09:30 - 10:30 CET
- Where
- Jacques Delors building, JDE 53
- Type of partnership
- Partnership
- Format
- Workshop/ panel debate
- Theme
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Smart and sustainable growth for regions
- Language
- English
Partners
Reporting
Session summary
This session focused on practical implementation of the EU Green Deal (EGC) on the local level, as well as first findings and their implications for a successful future localisation of the Green Deal. The session was kicked off by Moderator Luisa Marelli and Matteo Trane from the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. They shared with speakers and audiences findings and insights from JRC's research around the Green Deal and its local uptake. The JRC reviewed EGD-related policies and identified a total of 76 policy targets to which cities contribute directly. A number showcasing that the successful implementation of the EGD will be in no small part depending on local governments.
As concrete support to cities, the JRC presented its Handbook “The Future of the Green is local. Handbook for implementing local green transitions”, which will become publicly available by the end of the year. From concrete policy objectives to synergies, trade-offs and possible links with other international targets and processes such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the handbook seeks to provide guidance among a growing number of initiatives and objectives.
City speakers, Katta Tüttő from Budapest and Member of the European Committee of the Regions, as well as Daniel Nyboe Andersen, City Councilor of Aalborg (DK), a Member of ICLEI - Local Governments of Sustainability, emphasised the urgency for local governments to find holistic answers and solutions to climate change fast. Reporting the consequences of a rising number of extreme weather events wreaking havoc in communities across Europe, the multi-faceted challenges this presents for local governments, their human and material resources and budgets was highlighted. In this regard, city speakers discussed the relevance of more integrated financing solutions and multi-level cooperation across levels of governments from local to national to European level in order to orchestrate a just, sustainable, fair, affordable transition for all, and swiftly. A call formulated concretely in the Aalborg Conditions, presented by Daniel Nyboe Andersen in the session, which is lying out three essential conditions for enabling this transition for local governments: Shared Governance, Integrated Financing, Cohesive Transition.
