Covenant of Mayors: European Mayors step up!

The idea to create a Covenant of Mayors was set out by the Energy Efficiency Action Plan (2006) in order to reinforce and acknowledge actions taken by cities, as well as to leverage on a better dialogue between the local and European level. Energy efficiency, being primarily a local issue, political commitments taken by leaders of cities and towns are essential to achieve the European Union’s energy and climate goals.

Nine Cities, all representatives of CEMR, Climate Alliance, Eurocities and Energie-Cités, were invited to take part to the launch of this initiative.

Brussels - Belgium - 29 January 2008 - European Union Sustainable Energy Week 2008 - © EC

Berlin (DE), Bonn (DE), Heidelberg (DE), Helsinki (FI), London (UK), Milan (IT), Munich (DE), Nantes (FR), Riga LV) have participated to the round table providing a short description on their local actions.

Covenant of Mayors core text and all other documents in all languages at this address: http://ec.europa.eu/energy/climate_actions/mayors/index_en.htm

An e-mail address has also been created to collect all expressions of interested about Covenant of Mayors TREN-COVENANT@ec.europa.eu

The video recording during the EUSEW is now available in 6 languages english, french, german, italian, polish and spanish on the Managenergy website

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Press release, 04.02.2008 - Covenant of Mayors launched On 29th January during the European Sustainable Energy Week, Andris Piebalgs, Energy Commissioner has announced the Covenant of Mayors. Almost 100 European cities, representing networks of CEMR, Climate Alliance Eurocities and Energy Cities, have expressed their interest in joining forces and commit themselves to achieve and even surpass the EU’s 20% CO2 reduction goal set by 2020. Download: PDF - 37.4 kb

For more information: Kristina Dely