The time has come for a successful Energy and Climate Multilevel Governance!

You want to get multilevel governance good practices from regions and cities from all over Europe? You want tailored advices to your own regional/local situation and help to overcome your challenges? You want key insights on ways of action for cities and regions to influence NECPs and SCPs? You simply want to better understand what is multilevel governance in practice?

Multilevel Governance is key to implement a fair and Green Transition!

Local and regional authorities have the potential of becoming a real driving force of the energy transition, helping Europe achieve its goals of climate neutrality and energy independence.

The EU acknowledges this potential from the local and regional organisations and therefore established a proper legislative framework to support multilevel governance mechanisms between the national, regional, and local levels of governance.

Indeed, Article 11 of the Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action requires Member States to establish effective multilevel climate and energy dialogues. As the NECPs undergo revision, the EU is urging Member States to fully implement Article 11. The national plans shall outline how the EU countries intend to address the 5 dimensions of the energy union, including energy efficiency.

However, only 4 of the 27 EU countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands) hit last year’s deadline for submitting draft NECPs, and the same challenges seem to arise for the development of the Social Climate Plans.

This approach requires a coordination of purpose across all government departments and it provides a level of planning that will ease public and private investment.

However, this is not always reflected on the national level. Not only do national climate and energy policies rarely tap into this potential, but they also offer little support to these transition efforts at the local level. 

Yet, a multilevel governance approach to the energy transition, with meaningful collaboration with local and regional governments and their relevant agencies (who are closer to citizens), can be a game-changer. It could help design policies adapted to local contexts and cultures while also breaking the cycle of energy and transport poverty.

Wanna address the challenges in your region? Register to the Mentoring Program!

The Regio1st Mentoring Program addresses the importance of effective governance to promote the EE1st principle at both regional and national levels. In this training topic, the sessions will elaborate on what is multilevel governance, how to implement it, and which activities and successful good practices can be replicated in your own local or regional situation.

Barriers and successful case studies will be showcased, to better figure out how multilevel governance, especially multilevel dialogues can support the implementation and integration of the EE1st principle into
National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). The program will showcase and take inspiration from regional and local good planning practices, to eventually properly integrate the EE1st principle at the national level, and to foster and feed fruitful dialogue on EE1st implementation between the local/regional, national European scales of governance.

Registrations are opened until the 26th of February.

You can find more information the Mentoring program here.

For any further questions, please reach out to florine.serrault@fedarene.org