EU Green Week - UDiTE
UDiTE/VEOLIA
GREEN WEEK 2022 PARTNER
EVENT WEDNESDAY 1st JUNE, 2022
UDiTE the European Federation of Local
Government Chief Executives joined forces again today (01/06/22) with
VEOLIA to host an EU Green Week 2022 to discuss how we can make the
Green Deal a success locally. Under the expert moderation of
Tamsin Rose, we debated the the concept of a
functioning territorial ecosystem. After a short video introduction
from Stéphane Pintre, UDiTE President, on the role of
the Chief Executive in local government in changing times, speakers
spoke about how to inspire stakeholders, businesses and citizens that
are essential to such game changing projects. From an EU perspective,
delivering outcomes for the 2021/27 programmes & achieving 2030
goals depends upon it. Our panellists, shared their experiences that
included a Key note from Stéphane Perrin, Vice
President of the Brittany Region, on the Breton regional
ecosystem “Breizh Cop” that is accelerating an integrated green
transition in Brittany. Stéphane delivered a number of direct
messages to the European Union about the need to be consistent between
the long term vision and the detailed eligibility criteria for the EU
Structural and Investments Funds 2021-27 on issues such as Green H2
buses being excluded from funding, important to local and regional
authorities, for them to reduce carbon emissions, . Tu
Doan-Quynh Bui from Renaissance Ecologique, certainly
showed how
a picture speaks a 1000 words
through her fresco approach to help citizens visualise our
journey together on the green transition. Louis
Duffy, Director for Environment at Cork County Council,
'hot foot from a presentation to the Irish Parliament yesterday on
climate change, showed how their shared services agenda in Ireland is
contributing to coordinated and specialised actions in 4 regions that
are now regrouping the 31 Irish local authorities in the call to
action by 2030 and 2050. Xavier Boivert focused on
the importance of the local dimension having the essential building
blocks of the territorial ecosystem and underlined the role that
municipal managers play in bring the different interests together
across the community in support of concerted actions.
Guillaume Meynet from Veolia, spoke about Veolia's
latest game changing projects for ecological transformation including
a pioneering waste water to fresh water treatment system in an
increasing number of drought impacted regions in France.
Finally, Mario Grubišić from the secretariat of the
ENVE commission in the EU Committee of the Regions talked about the
Committee's latest initiative Green Deal, Going Local that includes a
call for local authorities to pledge to plant 3 billion trees by 2030,
to showcase innovative climate action and commitments and to gather
feedback on how the Green Deal is being perceived in the regions. The
video stream, slides and individual videos will be uploaded here in
the next few days. Bookmark this page for the time being and we will
reach out to you via Eventbrite to confirm when the materials will be
ready. A big thank you to all of our speakers and especially for the
hard work of our interpreters Laurent and Isabelle. Thank you.
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| Introduction to the webinar and speakers - Tamsin Rose | |
11:05 | Welcome from UDITE – European Federation of Chief Executives in Local Government - Stéphane Pintre, UDiTE President | |
11:10 | Keynote speech - “Breizh Cop” - accelerating an integrated green transition in Brittany. Stéphane Perrin, Vice-président, Région Bretagne | |
11:20 | Towards an effective & functional territorial ecosystem Xavier Boivert, Commune of Mordelles (Greater Rennes, Brittany, France) | |
11:30 | Inspiring place based transformative projects locally Tu Doan-Quynh Bui, Ecological Renaissance | |
11:50 | Irish Local Government Partnership Approach to partnership on Climate Action Louis Duffy, Director of Climate and Emergency Services, Cork County Council | |
12:05 | Championing the ecological transformation Guillaume Meynet, Veolia | |
12:15 | Green Deal, Going Local Mario Grubišić, ENVE commission, EU Committee of the Regions | |
12:30 | End of event |
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