With the aim of leading municipalities on the path towards their municipal commitment to climate and sustainable energy that will lead them to persevere and deepen the application of local climate change policies, the EGOKI-2 project has continued.

The Navarre Network Association of Local Entities towards Sustainability has completed the project “EGOKI-2 Participatory integration of climate change in municipal plans and projects, in the Basque Country and Navarre” which has had the support of the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition through its 2017 call for grants. The objective has been to lead municipalities on the path towards their municipal commitment to climate and sustainable energy that will lead them to persevere and deepen the application of local climate change policies (mitigation and adaptation).

EGOKI-2 has started from the previous project, with the same name, whose objective was to incorporate adaptation to climate change in the urban planning of local entities in Navarre and to transfer regulatory proposals to the Government of Navarre through different actions.

To carry out the project, 6 pilot municipalities were chosen that incorporated the population in the preparation of a municipal vulnerability diagnosis and the incorporation of adaptation to climate change in municipal plans and projects with adaptive capacity. Subsequently, workshops have been created aimed at coordinating the project’s actions and improving the training of municipal technicians for carrying out inventories with the help of a digital energy management platform (in which consumption information is uploaded from invoices) and expert technical advice.

Thanks to this, 4 of the pilot municipalities in Navarre learned to calculate and record CO2 emissions due to municipal energy consumption (such as equipment, public lighting and municipal fleet).

Once the results were obtained, the city councils debated and reached municipal plenary agreements as municipal commitments for Climate and Sustainable Energy, certified by their secretariats.

Helping with the dissemination of the pilot actions by each municipality, the Conference “Municipalities and Citizens, walking together in the face of Climate Change” was held in which the results of the project were presented. Subsequently, a methodological document and summary of the experiences were drafted, published on the NELS Network website together with the presentations of the conference; and a video-documentary of the project and its summary, published on the YouTube channel of the NELS Network. All this, supported by newsletters with the content and material of the project.