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Developing Local Plans for Climate Change
Mitigation by 2020 (CLIM-LOCAL2020) LIFE07
ENV/GR/000282
PROJECT LOCATION Volos, Greece
BUDGET INFO
Total amount 2.777.891 EUR
EC Co-funding 1.086.542 EUR (49,88)
DURATION Start 1/1/09 - End 31/12/11
PROJECTS IMPLEMENTORS
Coordinating Beneficiary Municipality of Volos
Associated Beneficiaries DEYAMV, DEMEKAV, EPEM SA
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• BACKGROUND and AIMS
• Greece will face severe difficulties to achieve
  ambitious Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions
  reduction targets within the framework of the EU
  targets (20-30 compared to 1990 emissions, by
  2020)
• Apart from actions related to large emitters
  (i.e. industry) which are at present covered to a
  large extent by the Emissions Trading Directive,
  a large part of the remaining effort will
  inevitably fall to the large number of small
  emitters
• Since local authorities can deal more effectively
  with regional particularities than the central
  administration, a major challenge towards
  sustainable development and climate change
  mitigation is to stimulate the local potential
  for GHG emissions reductions through a set of
  systematic, well-designed and well-monitored
  activities, which can have significant ancillary
  benefits for local environmental problems as well
• MAIN EU POLICIES TARGETED
• Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS based on the
  2003/87/EC Directive, EU target GHG emissions
  reduction by at least 20 compared to 1990)
• Energy Policy for Europe

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• MAIN ACTIVITIES
• Calculation of present local GHG emissions /
  Projection of local GHG emissions
• Identification of GHG emissions reduction options
• Economic and environmental evaluation of GHG
  emission reduction measures
• Defining priorities for GHG emissions reduction
  measures
• Public consultation and finalization of Local
  Action Plan (LAP) / Implementation of LAP
• Communication and dissemination
• Overall evaluation of the LAPs progress and
  planning of its future operation
• Project management, Monitoring /evaluation,
  Audit, After LIFE communication plan
• EXPECTED RESULTS
• The project will implement climate change
  mitigation actions at local level, which will
  deliver GHG emissions reductions (not possible to
  quantify them at this time)
• User-friendly tools for the calculation of
  emissions of GHG at local level
• Local GHG emissions inventory / Tools for
  projection of GHG emissions up to 2020
• LAP for GHG emissions reductions / Guidelines for
  measures implementation
• Monitoring plan and indices for evaluating the
  progress of the LAP implementation
• Educational material on climate change addressed
  to schools (teachers and students)