Bridging European and Local Climate Action (BEACON)
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Bridging European and Local Climate Action (BEACON) is a project promoting climate action and facilitating an exchange between national governments as well as municipalities and schools in Europe. The aim of the project is to strengthen bi- and multilateral cooperation and create common ambition to realise the Paris Agreement.
Project
Through joint learning, networking and tailored advisory services, policy-makers, municipal actors and educators will gain technical and process-related skills that help them develop, refine and implement measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Good practices of successful emission reduction measures will be disseminated based on an EU-wide analysis of successful national climate protection instruments with a focus on the buildings, transport, small industrial installations and agriculture sectors. Furthermore, good practice on the local level will be identified and shared in a network with regular meetings of 34 municipalities from the Czech Republic, Romania, Greece, Poland, Portugal and Germany. Back home participating municipalities will receive technical support and on-the-job coaching for transferring good practices and successfully implementing them in their local context. Furthermore, five city partnerships on climate action will be promoted within the network.
To increase awareness about climate change and action on the individual level, 55 educational institutions in the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Germany will be involved in the project. The project team will analyse school curricula and climate action in existing educational programs, develop incentive models for energy saving and energy saving action plans in schools, as well as conduct workshops, trainings and study tours to Germany for educators from participating schools in partner countries.
Background
To successfully implement the Paris Agreement and the European climate and energy targets for the year 2030 and beyond, climate action needs to be enhanced on all relevant levels of governance. National governments need to create effective policies and framework conditions. A crucial contribution to the achievement of the EU climate protection goals will be made by municipalities and local actors. These stakeholders can be pioneers and drivers of profound decarbonisation and social transformation processes as their actions have considerable potential for increasing energy efficiency and saving greenhouse gases. Schools and other educational institutions in particular can play a key role by reducing their own energy consumption but also educating future generations for a climate-friendly world.
Project information
Updated: October 2021
Countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania
Project duration: 04/18 - 08/21
Funding: -
Target groups: Cities, towns and municipalities, Educational institutions, Governments
Implementing organisation:
Guidehouse, adelphi, Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (UfU)
Project Partners:
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES), Energy Cities, Energy Cities Romania (OER), ENVIRON Association, FCiências.ID – University of Lisbon, National Trust Ecofund Bulgaria (NTEF), SEVEn, SNRB, The Association of Municipalities Polish Network (PNEC)
Project Flyer:
Websites:
Contact:
Sarah Gül and Moritz Schäfer
Email:
EUKI
The European Climate Initiative (EUKI):
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Tel.: +49 (0)30 338424 570
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The European Climate Initiative (EUKI):
This project is part of the European Climate Initiative (EUKI) of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). It is the overarching goal of the EUKI to foster climate cooperation within the European Union (EU) in order to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
For more information on the EUKI: www.euki.de