🗓️ TOMORROW: Following our 2023 Conference, @EU_CoR National Ambassadors will gather to discuss:
🏙️ Cities initiatives @eumayors & @NetZeroCitiesEU
🤝 Collaboration between national, regional and local levels for #ClimateAction
🟢 Follow live on twitter as discussion unfolds
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641041015967449088
First the Board welcomes new members of 2023:
3⃣ rotating seats give to last year's @EUGreenCapital & #EUGreenLeaf 🍃🏆
➕ @EricPiolle Mayor of @VilledeGrenoble 🇫🇷
➕ José Manuel Ribeiro Mayor of @cmvalongo 🇵🇹
➕@BerendJanJoris Mayor of @Gem_Winterswijk 🇩🇪
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641075822994784256
First, the Board meets with @JorgensenJuul Director-General for @Energy4Europe to discuss
✅ Winter preparedness & gas reduction
✅ #REPowerEU and financing streams
✅ The role of cities in updating National Energy and Climate Plans
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641078046538047489
"Our response to the energy crisis needs to be our response to the climate crisis"
@JorgensenJuul goes over successful results of #REPowerEU in the past year in terms of storage, diversifying energy supply, gas demand reduction & renewable deployment.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641079782287843331
.@beli8370 insists on importance of facilitating creation of local #energycommunities
.Tne Heyse shifts focus to also increasing #energyefficiency "Don’t forget to consume less & engage our citizens and stakeholders to do so"
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641088180542660617
🗝️ Messages
➡️ With the #energycrisis, energy policy has now become the biggest question for Europe🟰opportunity to accelerate local #energytransition
➡️ As a result "Our energy future will be more decentralised and more democratic and offers more opportunities" @JorgensenJuul
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641089430042689540
@trzaskowski_ asks EU to hold national governments accountable to the EU mandate to engage local level in energy & climate policy-making with #NECP process & insists on importance of direct financing to cities for cities to implement urgent measures.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641083528665350147
"We need thousands more regional and local players"
@OBMartinHorn & @EckartWuerzner insist on the importance of regional and local energy agencies to facilitate cooperation at local level.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641085640124030980
@Energy4Europe is now focusing on coming winters & structural changes to reinforce #energytransition
➡️ many of this needs to happen at local level
➡️ @JorgensenJuul applauds the #EUCitiesSaveEnergy Sprint as excellent effort of what can be done locally & urges it to continue
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1641081270854721537