Launched in 2008 by the European Commission, the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) is the mainstream European movement involving cities and towns in the development and implementation of local sustainable energy and climate policies. Covenant of Mayors' signatories can benefit from support at different levels: from European institutions to national and regional governments and to fellow signatories which share best practises through the CoM platform. Featured by multilevel governance models and bottom up actions, the CoM platform paves the way for local and regional governments to contribute to EU's climate and energy objectives. By signing up to the Covenant of Mayors, local authorities commit to submit: I. action plan: based on the inventory of energy consumptions/production and greenhouse gas emissions in the local authority's territory, identifies actions to be implemented for reaching the CO2 reduction target. II. monitoring reports: including status of the implementation of actions and - at least every fourth year - a monitoring inventory which allows to measure progress toward the targets set in the action plan1. As of September 2015, almost six thousand local authorities have signed the CoM, for a total of ca. 208 million inhabitants in the whole initiative. More than 4 500 local authorities have submitted an action plan (Sustainable Energy Action Plan) for a total of ca. 166 million. Out of these, 122 signatories, representing 3% of the signatories with an action plan, have submitted a monitoring report including inventories for a total ca. 11 million inhabitants. Monitoring inventories enable to track the evolution of GHG emissions in local authorities territories as well as changes in energy consumptions patterns, and to compare estimated impacts of the actions against actual results. This report illustrates main statistical indicators based on data provided by signatories in the monitoring reports submitted as of September 2015.

KONA Albana;  BERTOLDI Paolo;  MELICA Giulia;  RIVAS CALVETE Silvia;  ZANCANELLA Paolo;  RIBEIRO SERRENHO Tiago;  IANCU Andreea;  JANSSENS-MAENHOUT Greet; 

2016-03-29

Publications Office of the European Union

JRC97924

978-92-79-54717-1 (print),    978-92-79-54716-4,   

1018-5593 (print),    1831-9424 (online),   

EUR 27723,    OP LD-NA-27723-EN-C (print),    OP LD-NA-27723-EN-N (online),   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC97924,   

10.2790/006719 (print),    10.2790/192450 (online),