A delegation of 23 Apulian mayors meet with European decision-makers to exchange on the ongoing collaboration between Europe and the Italian region and how to strengthen it to better empower local energy and climate action.
The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) newly published assessment alarms that climate risks have already reached critical levels and could become catastrophic for Europe without urgent and decisive policies and action.
Our two-year Policy Support Facility, designed to help local governments go from planning to implementation of climate adaptation actions, has given us an array of examples of what cities can do to adapt to the changing climate.
Tune into our final episode of our Podcast series on Adaptation to know more about the Policy Support Facility programme and how it aimed to support Europe’s journey from planning to action in climate adaptation.
We interviewed Gwendolyn Rutten, Deputy Minister-President of the Government of Flanders and Mayor of Aarschot, to get insights from their Local Climate Pact on how a region can mobilise municipalities across its territory through concrete action.
COP28 endorsed a new coalition, CHAMP, stressing local governments' role amid ambitious climate goals. Such initiatives underscore the global imperative to bolster multilevel governance in the EU's governance of energy and climate action.
Tune into Episode 8 of our Podcast series on Adaptation to discover actions taken in Cox, Spain and how they engaged through the Covenant’s Policy Support Facility to help make flooding and drought cancel each other out.
15 years since the first Covenant of Mayors ceremony, the initiative prepares for a new era in which implementation of the European Green Deal at local level will take centre stage.
As part of the Digital Europe Programme, the European Commission is offering a series of e-learning courses to help you discover all BDTI’s open-source tool, contributing to the development of digital skills in the public sector.
Riga has developed a programme to reinvest the funds recovered through energy savings into measures from their Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP).