Arezzo, the working table for the action plan on the Green City Accord begins
Initiative promoted by the European Commission with the aim of making European cities healthier, cleaner and greener
Arezzo, the working table for the action plan on the Green City Accord begins.
It all started with the mayor's signature Alessandro Ghinelli al Green City Accord, the initiative promoted by European Commission with the aim of making European cities healthier, cleaner, greener, protagonists on environmental issues and quality of life, an act which also followed a resolution approved unanimously by the City Council.
The municipal administration has thus demonstrated that it strongly believes in environmental sustainability in all its forms, corresponding to the 5 areas into which the agreement is divided: air quality, reduction of noise pollution in urban areas, nature and urban biodiversity, The circular economy, water understood both as a quality of resource and as an asset to be protected and exploited adequately. Arezzo was the first provincial capital city in Tuscany to project itself into this supranational dimension with a horizon of 2030, second in Italy after Cesena. In the meantime, the participating European cities have become 110, including 10 Italian ones.
Now the mayor Ghinelli inaugurated the birth of the working group which, with respect to the five aforementioned areas, will develop an action plan that will outline the path on how to make them concrete. In the development of this plan, the Municipality of Arezzo is not alone but in good company: thanks in fact to the specific European project “GreenMe5” funded by the program LIFE of the European Union, Arezzo will share a route with 4 other cities: the Lithuanian Vinius, the Swedish Helsingborg, the Spanish ones Murcia e Cieza. The exchanges of data between them will be useful to understand how to proceed and improve performance. Furthermore, in each, the stakeholders of the respective territories will develop objectives and tools to govern the processes effectively.
The working group in Arezzo involves both the municipal structure and various types of actors whose mission crosses the 5 areas of the Green City Accord, from institutional bodies to companies that manage services, to associations. Together they will draw up the action plan without being the only protagonists. In fact, this nucleus will make use of the contributions of citizens, individuals or associations, natural persons and legal entities, who will have the opportunity to put forward proposals thanks to a participatory process that will start in March and end in June. Each idea and enrichment will allow us to arrive at the definitive synthesis which will be translated into the action plan, which precisely because it is drawn up by subjects operating "in the field" will be configured for its achievable contents.
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