European Conference of Regions on Climate Action, Lyon, 20-21 october 2011

The conference will pursue three objectives:
- to pool resources in order to increase the impact of action by means of enhanced interregional cooperation.

- to initiate tangible action in respective regions by showing and sharing best practice.

- to underline the necessity for regions - as stakeholders in Climate negotiations – to speak with one voice.

The first day will allow sharing of the best practices and strategies in order to improve the performance of regions on climate change adaptation and to promote new partnerships.
The second day invites political and decision makers to take action on the technical and strategic processes analyzed during the workshops and propose a political declaration that will be the basis of negotiations for the next climate meetings, such as COP 17.

Sustainable mobility workshop

This workshop will focus on the role of transports in climate change by analyzing the
governance aspects; local government’s strategies; supplementary on mobility; impacts of the technical offer on users’ behavior to reduce the impact on GHG (greenhouse gas).

International solidarity workshop

This session aims to propose a global overview of decentralized co operations and the
implementation of strategies on climate change actions between different regions; the
specificity of new co operations to come when focusing on GHG impacts.

Energy efficiency and retrofit workshop

The aim of this workshop is to focus on energy efficiency on the existent housing and
building sector and the climate neutral regions strategy to build up. The workshop will
also cover an analysis of the financial mechanisms such as ESCo, energy performance
contracts, to strength the regional capacity of action on that key aspect of GHG impact