PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
The European Commission stresses on the urgent need for supporting small and remote communities in Europe in their efforts to meet the EU mid-term decarbonisation targets for 2030. This involves aligning financial incentives with the clean energy transition (CET), supporting knowledge sharing and building capacity. LOCAL GoGREEN empower local authorities for accelerating the CET. The project will use an innovative bottom-up approach delivering need-specific capacity building to local authorities in pilot municipalities in Slovenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Italy and Spain for integrated climate and energy planning (ICEP). Guidance and best practice sharing will improve the synergies among public and private stakeholders of the 6 pilots in implementing integrated measures at local level. Through a coherent Roadmap each pilot will select 3 projects from 5 core priority areas (e-mobility, energy efficiency of buildings, renewable energy generation, landscape planning for increased carbon absorption, and waste-to-energy), prepare a project pipeline and develop pre-feasibility studies. A Transnational Expert Group (TEG) will advise the Local Working Groups on the technical, financial, social, and environmental aspects of the project pipelines. Furthermore, it will facilitate the deployment of targeted investments provided by the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and IFIs along with being available to nearby municipalities grouped into territorial clusters for further replication and capitalisation. Project results will be upscaled through the clusters, the availability of multilingual training platform and the created Transnational Municipal Collaborative Network as Community of practice, envisaged to be transformed into an EEIG for long-term impact. Targeted communication and dissemination at local, national and EU level, cooperation with similar LIFE and Horizon projects will ensure visibility, complementarity and increase shared experiences.