The final statement which was adopted at this occasion, highlights the importance of an urban approach of public policies, the necessity of a multisectoral approach for a sustainable and cohesive integrated urban development, and the consideration of climate change in line with urban development.
In this statement, ministers:
"... propose, working with local and regional authorities, to implement integrated urban development policies in order to ensure greater coherence between urban functions (housing, social and economic activities, education and training, culture and leisure), to develop the levers of public action for the development of sustainable cities; those policies must be in accordance with the circumstances in each country /territory and pay a particular attention to coordination between urban and rural policies and to cross-border dynamics"
"... decide to build a reference framework for the sustainable city, in a spirit of solidarity, for the application of the Leipzig Charter, based on the appendix attached to this statement; for this purpose invite all actors in urban policy, including the representatives of the cities, the
European institutions, the Non Governmental Associations and mainly the cities networks, the scientific and technical organisations and professional associations, to take part in a collective and open process."
"... propose to promote exchange of best practices and networking at national, cross-border and cross-national levels, and knowledge capitalisation; underline the importance of such networks, and more particularly the European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) and the
specialized European networks of local authorities as well as of the dialogue with cities in third party countries; with a view to asking the European Commission to support the efforts to capitalise on the results and data gathered as part of the Urban Audit, the activity of the
ESPON observatory, the Urbact programme, the data and analysis of the European Environmental Agency and European research programmes"
"... undertake to promote the role of urban planning in adapting climate change and mitigating its impacts and in this view to promote the compact city and act to ensure that sustainable urban development contributes to this and to limiting urban sprawl; support the exchange of
ideas on the tools to be used in this regard with particular attention to addressing this issue upstream in the planning system"
"... undertake to promote appropriate policies to improve the energy efficiency of existing and new buildings in both the public and private sectors and the use of renewable energy"
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