Putting regions on track for carbon neutrality by 2050 – C-Track 50

The project aims to mobilize and guide public authorities in defining long-term energy policy priorities, promote multi-level governance and support regional and local authorities in developing, financing and implementing ambitious integrated sustainable energy and climate policy action plans in order to achieve climate resilience and carbon neutrality by 2050. The specific objectives (SO) of the project are:

• SO1: Facilitate vertical and horizontal multi-level governance cooperation in eleven (11) European countries, to better link up efforts of EU, national, regional and local authorities in integrated sustainable energy and climate policy planning and implementation.
• SO2: Identify strategic policy priorities at a national level, foster multi-level governance to capitalise on synergies and economies of scale for implementing energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) actions.
• SO3: Capacity building at a local/regional level to enable integrated sustainable energy and climate policy planning for meeting ambitious targets for 2050 and “supporting efforts [of the Paris Agreement] to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels”.
• SO4: Develop at least 116 sustainable energy and climate policy action plans for 2050 at the local and regional level to decarbonise the energy system and make it climate resilient.
• SO5: Develop at least 105 funding proposals for implementing sustainable energy and climate actions/projects.
• SO6: Targeted promotion of the concept of carbon neutrality to at least 50,000 relevant stakeholders across Europe (more than 12,000 authorities and energy agencies through ICLEI EURO & FEDARENE Networks) to replicate the project outputs in other regions.
• SO7: Support EU policies and initiatives, such as the Global Covenant of Mayors on Energy and Climate, by learning from frontrunners and disseminating best practices across Europe.
• C-TRACK 50 is expected to contribute considerably towards achieving the 2030 and 2050 EU energy and climate targets. CTRACK 50 will empower local and regional authorities to develop, finance and implement ambitious sustainable energy and climate resilient plans and actions, putting emphasis on fostering local integrated energy, transport mobility and land-use planning, as well as multi-level governance, linking up national and sub-national levels for delivering integrated sustainable energy planning and projects to achieve synergies and economies of scale.