CLIMATLANTIC

CLIMATLANTIC aims at developing strategies at regional and local level towards the reduction of the carbon footprint in the European Atlantico Area. The project will focus in four essential issues: mobility, energy, territorial management and social behaviour; developing concrete strategies to be validated through pilot actions.

The project will be developed following these steps:

1. Constitution of four think tanks with experts from all partners. These working groups will aim to boost exchange and creation of knowledge among their members to define common strategies.
2. Validation of the strategies through a set of joint transnational pilot action. The think tanks will analyze and validate the pilot actions prior to execution. Once finished, think tank experts will capitalize the contributions and results of the pilot experiences.
3. Promotion of an Atlantic debate with regional and local authorities with the collaboration of existing networks of regional and local authorities such as Conference of Atlantic Arch Cities.
4. Final congress and joint approval of a Strategic Atlantic Agenda for Sustainable Urban Development for the reduction of carbon footprint aiming at increasing cohesion, competitiveness and sustainable development.
5. Dissemination of the Agenda to National Authorities in the Atlantic Area and the European Institutions.

The main results that the Climatlantic project has achieved are the following:

• A Common Atlantic Strategy for Sustainable Urban Development and the Reduction of Carbon Footprint.
• A Think Tank of experts covering the four key fields: mobility, energy, territorial management and social behaviour.
• Link the Common Strategy produced to the current debate on an Atlantic Strategy for the EU, involving cities and regions in the debate.

In parallel to the development of the common strategy, partners worked on a set of pilot projects aimed to prove the workability of the theories outlined in the strategy and the benefits of implementing actions in line with the goal of carbon footprint reduction.

The implemented pilot projects are contextualized in the four main pillars of the common strategy: 1. Mobility

1. Energy
2. Territorial Management
3. Social Behaviour