Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy
General
Name of initiative | Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy |
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LPAA initiative | Yes |
NAZCA Initiative | Yes |
Website address | http://www.covenantofmayors.eu |
Related initiatives | These 2 ICIs now joined into the ICI: 'Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate Change' with the web-site: https://www.compactofmayors.org/globalcovenantofmayors/ |
Starting year | 2008 |
End year | |
Secretariat | Covenant of Mayors Office, 63-67 rue d’Arlon, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, phone: +38 (032) 238 05 05,
• Global Covenant of Mayors: Amanda Eichel (info@globalcovenantofmayors.org) For cities interested in the Global Covenant of Mayors, contact information follows by region: • For cities in the European Union and in countries of the European Free Trade Association, please contact the EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy: info@eumayors.eu • For cities in the Eastern neighborhood of the European Union, please contact: info-east@eumayors.eu • For cities in the Mediterranean region, please contact: info-south@eumayors.eu • For cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, please contact: covenantofmayors_ssa@yahoo.com • In the first quarter of 2017, Regional Covenants in North America, South America, China & South-East Asia, India and Japan will be set up. Until that moment, please contact the Secretariat for the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (info@globalcovenantofmayors.org) • For cities in all other regions: Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (info@globalcovenantofmayors.org) |
Organisational structure | 'The new Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, is a newly merged initiative between the Compact of Mayors and the Covenant of Mayors:
https://www.compactofmayors.org/globalcovenantofmayors/ The initiative will be led by a Board of Advisors, co-chaired by European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič and Former Mayor and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change Michael Bloomberg. Funding for this initiative is currently provided by the European Commission and Bloomberg Philanthropies. A small Secretariat will be established to support activities taking place through the “Regional Covenants,” support the Board and the other bodies of the Global Covenant of Mayors, develop together with the Regional Covenants overarching strategies, principles and for data management, research concepts and communication strategies, including ensuring visibility at major events. A “Founders Council” and subsidiary technical working groups will be made up of “founding” partners to the Compact of Mayors and the Covenant of Mayors (the European Commission, C40, ICLEI, UCLG, Climate Alliance, CEMR, Eurocities, Energy Cities, FEDARENE as well as UN Habitat). The Founders Council will ensure that the Global Covenant of Mayors continues to serve, and be supported by, this important constituency. Finally, a “Finance Advisory Council” will be established, harnessing expertise of both public and private investors, to advice the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy. |
Geographical coverage | Global |
Name of lead organisation | Covenant of Mayors |
Type of lead organisation | Network/Consortium/Partnership |
Location/Nationality of lead organisation | Belgium |
Description
Description | The Covenant of Mayors is the mainstream European movement involving local and regional authorities, voluntarily committing to increasing energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources on their territories. |
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Objectives | By their commitment, Covenant signatories aim to meet and exceed the European Union 20% CO2 reduction objective by 2020 and 40% in 2030. Signatories commit to submitting a Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP). |
Activities | From 2015 Covenant of Mayors also work on adaptation. |
One or two success stories achieved |
Monitoring and Impacts
Function of initiative | Technical dialogue |
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Activity of initiative | Goal setting (ex-ante), Knowledge dissemination and exchange |
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How will goals be achieved | |
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals | |
Progress towards the goals | The most significant achievement since COP21 is the merging of these two initiatives into a single effort to capture city climate commitments and communicate their impact on the global stage.
Compact of Mayors commitments have also surpassed 500 with cities of all sizes from 6 continents in 94 countries. To date a total of 594 cities have made public commitments to the Compact and are making progress in achieving their annual milestones. Signatories to the EU Covenant of Mayors signatories now stand at over 7000; almost 5500 Action Plans (with an horizon 2020) are already being implemented. Since COP21 (latest update September 2016): • 300 new cities have signed up to the new commitments of the EU Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (horizon 2030, integrating mitigation, adaptation and access to sustainable and affordable energy). • The new Covenant for Mayors for Climate & Energy Reporting Framework and Guidelines has been launched in July 2016. The Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa was launched at COP21 in Paris. The first cities to benefit from financial and technical support will be announced at COP22. A Covenant of Mayors Office – SSA (CoMO-SSA) has been put in place for supporting towns and cities to join the initiative in Accra, Ghana. The Covenant of Mayors East (CoMO-East has been in place since 2011, the initiative has been very successful in mobilising and supporting cities to undertake climate action, with almost 200 cities having signed up in the Eastern Partnership countries. A new CoMO-East Secretariat, with local branches in each country, is in place since May 2016. We will be working until the end of the year to bring these under the umbrella of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy. At EU level, the Covenant of Mayors is included in various National Action Plans in Italy, Germany, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta, Poland and other Member States. In addition, activities of the Covenant of Mayors are already explicitly mentioned in some non-EU (I)NDCs, for instance the submitted INDCs of Georgia and Armenia, as the most intensive pre-2020 mitigation action in those countries. The Global Covenant of Mayors will capitalize on these experiences. Cities and local governments wanting to join the Global Covenant of Mayors should do so through a Regional Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy or by directly by contacting the Secretariat of the Global Covenant of Mayors as long as no regional Covenant exists. Cities joining the Global Covenant commit to achieving or surpassing the relevant national commitment(s) regarding climate change mitigation and adaptation and energy access to all. We aim to build on the critical involvement of partner institutions to bring in the engagement of other national and/or local governments in other regions – through regional covenants as appropriate. These would be coordinated with the Global Covenant of Mayors Secretariat, for those issues providing added value to signatories – but would respond to local conditions and priorities of relevant NDCs. |
How are you tracking progress of your initiative | Both the Compact of Mayors and the Covenant of Mayors have established systems for verifying action, and publicly recognizing city progress towards their commitments and we will be working over the next few months to fully align these efforts.
Covenant of Mayors demanded a progress report at least every second year for evaluation, monitoring and verification purpose, and a monitoring inventory every fourth year. |
Available reporting |
Participants
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Companies | 0 | |||||||||||
Business organisations | 0 | |||||||||||
Research and educational organisations | 0 | |||||||||||
Non-governmental organisations | 0 | |||||||||||
National states | 0 | |||||||||||
Governmental actors | 0 | |||||||||||
Regional / state / county actors | 0 | |||||||||||
City / municipal actors | 0 | |||||||||||
Intergovernmental organisations | 0 | |||||||||||
Financial Institutions | 0 | |||||||||||
Faith based organisations | 0 | |||||||||||
Other members | 0 | |||||||||||
Supporting partners | 0 | |||||||||||
Number of members in the years |
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Have only national states as participators | No |
Theme
Transport | Agriculture | Forestry | Business | Financial institutions | Buildings | Industry | Waste | Cities and subnational governments | Short Term Pollutants | International maritime transport | Energy Supply | Fluorinated gases | Energy efficiency | Renewable energy | Supply chain emission reductions | Adaptation | Other | Resilience | Innovation | Energy Access and Efficiency | Private Finance |
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No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Not only have national states as participators