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Waste/Resource Management: led by CEMR/ACCR – date (tbc) Environmental Management: led by UTO/MedCities – date (tbc) The working sessions are seen as strategic meetings on the respective topics, involving the Campaign Networks and a few invited guests/speakers. The ultimate output from the Working Sessions will be the development of policy recommendations, which will be sent to the EU institutions. At the same time they will be made available to Campaign participants via the Campaign webpage and reported in the newsletter. Open Platform for Urban Sustainability (OPUS) The Campaign intends to provide a mechanism for the development of a dialogue platform on urban sustainability. OPUS will help facilitate dialogue and increased co-operation between all relevant actors at the local and regional level. The conclusion from this horizontal debate among local stakeholders will be brought to the attention of the EU institutions. The aim is to place the local and regional perspective at the heart of EU thinking on urban sustainability. This part of the Campaign’s work programme will be led by the EUROCITIES and CEMR networks, who will develop it in cooperation with all Campaign partners. The meeting of the Platform is proposed on an annual basis. European Sustainable City Award The Campaign has organised a European Sustainable City Award on three previous occasions. It is the intention to organise the next award during the course of 2002 with its presentation in 2003. It is hoped to launch the award in September/October 2002. The award will be designed to recognise the significant progress made by local authorities in their sustainable development work, to raise awareness and mobilise support for sustainability, to highlight good examples and encourage exchange of experiences and networking. The award will be open to all local authorities from across Europe. PARTICIPATE AND GET INVOLVED The Campaign is there to help Local Authorities in their work on sustainable development. This is achieved by providing • theoretical information on how to do this • best practice on how other cities have done in the past • access to unlimited contact details all over Europe • the opportunity to be involved in the activities of the Campaign as a whole as well as all the Networks individually • a forum for debate and development of ideas. As such all participants are invited to actively participate in the Campaign. To take a leadership role through organising and participating in conferences and workshops, to contribute to the campaign newsletter, to submit their project proposals and other news to the Campaign Interactive website (www.sustainable-cities.org) and to participate in the European Sustainable City Award. Any European local authority is welcome to participate in the Campaign by obtaining a political commitment to (i.e. signing up to and adopting) the Aalborg Charter, and adhering to the aims and objectives of the Lisbon Action Plan and the Hannover Call. Participation in the Campaign is free of charge. CONTACT US For further information on the Campaign please visit the Campaign webpage or contact the Campaign Office team of Anthony Payne, Pia Lovengreen, Murielle Chiltz and Valérie Bérnard: pEuropean Sustainable Cities & Towns Campaign 49-51 rue de Trèves B-1050 Brussels Belgium T: + 32 2 230 53 51 Email: Campaign.office@skynet.be Web: www.sustainable-cities.org STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling (ACRR) The Association of Cities and Regions for recycling ( ACRR ) is an International network gathering about 80 Cities, regions and NGO’s in 20 European countries. Its various activities aim at developing the environmental, economic, and social efficiency of municipal waste management by the exchange of information and by partnership. The major objective of this network is to encourage cities and towns in working toward sustainability consumption by increasing their involvement in waste prevention and recycling. Waste prevention and recycling entail actions at every stage of the production and consumption chain for influencing consumption patterns and diminish the waste associated with the production. Promoting an efficient waste management is a complicated task to reach, and is therefore best achieved on a small scale, where local and regional authorities have a major role to play. They should implement or anticipate new regulations, optimise waste management, find the best technical solutions and reinforce environmental communication. In order to help those local authorities, ACRR organises seminars and conferences where the members and nonmembers can exchange practical information and experiences, publishes newsletters and different studies about legal or economic instruments, voluntary agreements, treatment techniques, communication campaigns related to municipal waste management. p Contact details: ACRR Contact person Francis Radermaker E-Mail: fra@ibgebim.be Web: http://www.acrr.org Climate Alliance - Klima-Buendnis - Alianza de Clima e.V. The Climate Alliance is an association of European cities and municipalities that have entered into a partnership with indigenous rainforest peoples. The aim of the Climate Alliance is to preserve the global climate. This involves reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a sustainable level in the industrialized countries of the north, and conserving the rainforests in the south of the planet. The Climate Alliance is a part of efforts towards sustainable development and North- South equity, embracing an idea of sustainability, which combines environmental concerns, ecological and economical issues with the questions of social justice and human rights. Since its foundation in 1990, about 1000 European cities, municipalities and district authorities have joined the Climate Alliance. Regional governments and non-governmental organizations collaborate as associated members. The indigenous partners are represented by the Coordinating Body for the Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) which is committed to conserving tropical rainforests and their biological diversity. By joining, the member municipalities have committed themselves to certain goals, activity areas and measures. These voluntary commitments are set out in the Climate Alliance Manifesto (1990) and Climate Alliance Declaration (2000). The cities and municipalities elaborate comprehensive climate protection strategies and take a broad range of measures for their implementation, notably in the energy and transport sectors. They contribute to tropical forest conservation by eliminating in local authority procurement tropical timber from destructive logging, and they provide political and financial support for the indigenous partners. The Climate Alliance is coordinated by its European Secretariat in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with the support of national offices and contact points. Their tasks include disseminating good practice, supporting members by providing advice and initiating joint projects, elaborating guidelines and proposals for action, and evaluating local authority measures and outcomes. Furthermore, the Climate Alliance organises campaigns and activities in order to raise public awareness on The European Sustainable Cities & Towns Campaign
climate protection. The Climate Alliance also represents the interests of European cities and municipalities committed to climate protection, and supports indigenous organisations in developing positions of their own and putting these positions forward in the international processes. p Contact details: Climate Alliance Gotelind Alber, Director E-Mail: g.alber@klimabuendnis.org Web: http://www.klimabuendnis.org Council of European Municipalities & Regions (CEMR) Created in 1951, the Council of European Municipalities and Regions is a European federation of 42 national associations gathering over 100 000 municipalities, cities and regions. CEMR aims to further the principle of local democracy and highlight the essential role of local and regional authorities in the development of the European Union. CEMR is very active at both national and European level. Its main activities includes: the dissemination of useful information from community institutions to local and regional authorities, the organisation of seminars, training sessions and Committee Working Group which provides a forum where members (local and regional elected representatives and experts) discuss views and prepare positions on current community policies. CEMR also encourages interregional and intermunicipal co-operation and manages exchange of experiences. Furthermore, it helps make its members’ voices heard by representative institutions and bodies. The General Assembly, the Policy Committee and the Executive Bureau set out CEMR’s policy, represent local authorities in official European institutions and decide on what activities to undertake. p Contact details: CEMR Contact person Pirita Lindholm E-Mail: plindholm@bxl-ccre.org Web: http://www.ccre.org Energie-cités Created in 1990 and formally constituted as an association in 1994, Energie-Cités includes as members about one hundred municipalities and inter-municipal structures, local energy management agencies, municipal companies and groups of municipalities. A Board composed of 11 municipalities runs the association which is chaired by the city of Odense (DK). A wider use of renewable energy is difficult to implement and it requires the involvement of a large number of stakeholders. However, Energie-cités has chosen to take up this challenge. Its objective is to promote efficient energy use taking into account social, economical and environmental issues, and diversification of sources that will lead to reduced greenhouse effects and improved quality of life in general. In order to achieve its goal, this association provides expert advice on the promotion of sustainable local energy policies, gathers and disseminates specific information and disseminates them. It is involved in many European projects featuring an energy, an environmental or an urban dimension and strengthens the synergies between national energy agencies, local authorities and the EU institutions. Energie-cités also organises thematic working groups and international seminars where exchange of experience is possible. p Contact details: Energie-Cités Executive Director Gérard Magnin E-Mail: gmagnin@energie-cites.org Brussels office contact person Diederik Wagenaar Bureau.energie-cites.bxl@euronet.be Web: http://www.energie-cites.org/ EUROCITIES EUROCITIES is an association of Metropolitan cities which wants to ensure that urban affairs are placed high on the European Union’ s policy agenda because the decisions taken at the European level have an impact on cities and their citizens. EUROCITIES’s goals are to improve the quality of life of people living in cities by representing the views of major cities in the European institutions, by increasing transfer of knowledge, experiences and best practices among all cities across Europe and by promoting transnational co-operation projects towards an urban sustainability. EUROCITIES has four main activities that help to achieve its goals. First, the organisation lobbies the EU institutions, second, it co-ordinates a broad range of projects, third, it issues timely publications and last, it holds conferences, seminars and workshops and project meetings. EUROCITIES has 5 thematic Committees: Culture, East-West, Environment, Economic Development and Urban Regeneration, Social Affairs and 2 sub-networks: Access and Telecities. The Environment Committee promotes an exchange of experience on issues related to air quality, prevention of waste, waste management planning, energy management and environmental management and auditing. Besides those thematic Committees, EUROCITIES has an Executive Committee, composed of 12 members, which defines the strategic direction of the network, and adds new elements to EUROCITIES’ political agenda. p Contact details: Senior Policy Advisor Anthony van de Ven E-Mail: a.vandeven@eurocities.be Policy Officer Environment Committee Eva Baños E-Mail: e.banos@eurocities.be Web: http://www.eurocities.org International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) Launched in 1990, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives is the international environment agency for local government. It comprises more than 390 cities, towns, countries and their associations world-wide, which are all involved in regional projects and international campaigns. Its mission is to achieve improvements in global environments and sustainable development conditions by making local authorities work together and develop cumulative actions. In order to achieve these goals, ICLEI provides information, gives guidance, strategic advice, political assistance and consultancy services supported by its experts members. It also represents local authorities before national and international institutions. Its work program in Europe mainly deals with the implementation of actions in sectors as LA21, Climate Protection and Environmental Management Program. Each local government holds a position on the ICLEI council, the Members of the Council are responsible for the establishment of the priorities and direction of ICLEI through the adoption of its Strategic Plan. The Council elects an international Executive Committee of local government representatives, which oversees the implementation of the Plan and ICLEI’s operations. p Contact details: ICLEI Contact person Gino Van Begin E-Mail: gino.van.begin@iclei-europe.org Web: www.iclei.org/europe Medcities Medcities is a network of Mediterranean coastal cities created in Barcelona in November 1991 at the initiative of the Mediterranean Technical Assistance Programme (METAP). The principal aim of this network is the promotion of sustainable urban development as a general policy for the Mediterranean Region. Medcities pursues a general objective because almost all Mediterranean cities suffer from similar environmental deterioration resulting in similar problems. The European Sustainable Cities & Towns Campaign
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