Report: The role of Local & Regional Energy Agencies in the Covenant of Mayors

Covenant of Mayors page on the ManagEnergy website | Covenant of Mayors Forum

The Covenant of Mayors consists of the formal commitment of the cities/regions to go beyond the EU objectives in terms of CO₂ reduction. In order to make it credible, the cities commit to submit a Sustainable Energy Action Plan and periodic reports, to be evaluated externally to the city.

The Covenant entails also the right of each citizen to live in a community with a clear plan to fight climate change. Therefore small cities cannot be excluded.

While large cities have the human resources and technical skills to prepare a plan and the reports, this is not the case for most small cities. They will in all likelihood need the assistance of technical experts, namely but not solely the energy agencies, and other levels of local and regional administration.

This raises a number of questions for local and regional energy actors, which will be discussed in the weeks following the official launch of the Covenant of Mayors on 31 January 2008. These include:

• How do you see the role of the energy agencies in this scheme?
• How could we implement a practical scheme for provising this service?
• How could the national/regional authorities get involved in providing the necessary financial support?
• Could a thematic network of agencies, in co-operation with a Secretariat for the Covenant of Mayors and the national/regional autorities provide this service?
• Would the national associations of agencies provide added value to the process?

Your informal comments on these and related questions are most welcome and can be sent via the Covenant of Mayors Forum on the ManagEnergy website.

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