This Italian region now has Europe’s highest Tibetan bridge
It’s not for the faint-hearted
105 Municipalities take part in an innovative initiative for energy efficiency and climate change
C-Trak 50 is an initiative designed to mobilize authorities at different levels of government - local and regional - and to help them reduce their emissions in order to achieve climate resilience and carbon neutrality by 2050.
There are 105 municipalities and 11 regions from 11 countries taking part in the initiative. They are working together in order to establish long-term cooperation in the fields of climate change management and project financing.
The National Technical University of Athens is the leading partner in the project. The programme focuses on several areas that convey EU-specific priorities, namely:
The program has a financial dimension, too, supporting projects in the field of sustainable energy and building plans and strategies at local and regional level.
To date, the results indicate the creation of 116 local and regional action plans on sustainable energy and climate change. Some 105 received funding with regard to the implementation of the tasks under the initiative. In addition, information was provided to 50,000 stakeholders on carbon neutrality.
A good example is the PentaHelih project, whose main objective is to build an integrated approach to multi-level energy and climate planning, involving participants from the following levels - citizens, NGOs, public and private sector representatives, as well as scientists and representatives of scientific institutions. The project will be tested in 8 municipalities in Norway, Croatia, Belgium, Spain and Latvia.
Another good example is Compete4SECAP, which should support the local and regional level in implementing their sustainable energy plans.
The C-Trak 50 initiative is another good example of how lower levels of government - regions and municipalities - can be a fully-fledged participant in the governance of the Union and address issues that are of paramount importance to them. Correctly addressing them at this level will also mean success for the EU in achieving its goals on a national and supranational level.
What are the reasons for that and are there any possible solutions for that problem?
Possibly making it the only legislature in the world with a religious temple on-site
It’s not for the faint-hearted
Presenting the next chapter in the Dutch capital’s ‘Stay Away’ campaign aimed at rowdy tourists
The City says this has become a necessity due to the increasing number of incidents involving these vehicles
That way you can notify a canal lock keeper to open the gates so the animals can swim through
The organizers had been considering different Parisian spots, but always with the idea of the flame being visible to the people
Electricity production in that Eastern European country will not release direct CO2 emissions anymore
Possibly making it the only legislature in the world with a religious temple on-site
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We owe the unusual cultural icon to this country in Europe
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Forests in the EU can help green the European construction industry and bolster a continent-wide push for architectural improvements.
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