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ECTAdapt project: No borders in the fight against climate change!
March 2024Extreme heat, prolonged droughts, unseasonable cold spells, storms and hurricanes... climate change knows no borders.
Extreme heat, prolonged droughts, unseasonable cold spells, storms and hurricanes... climate change knows no borders.
Following the launch of the Franco-Italian Border Cooperation Committee, and more recently of the "Observ'Alp" project, which brings together numerous partners between France, Italy and Monaco, Christian Estrosi answers our questions on the major cross-border challenges facing the Metropolis with its border neighbors.
The "PITER ALPIMED" is a cross-border cooperation strategy funded under the Interreg Alcotra program that ran between 2018 and 2022 in the mountain area between the provinces of Cuneo, Imperia and the Alpes-Maritimes department.
On November 28, the Commission adopted a list of 166 cross-border energy projects for EU support to help deliver the European Green Deal.
On October 31st, 2023, the Piedmontese capital hosted the inaugural meeting of the new Cross-Border Cooperation Committee (CCF), a result of the Quirinal Treaty signed two years ago between France and Italy.
To highlight concrete cross-border initiatives, the MOT publishes a new project sheet every month. Discover the project sheet for November, following the meeting of the network's "Cross-border ecological transition" working group.
On October 17th, 2023, the MOT network's "Cross-border ecological transition" working group held its 5th meeting. This was an opportunity to investigate issues linked to cross-border management of water resources in the context of climate change.
At the "Mediterranean of the Future" event held in Marseille on September 22 th, 2023, Renaud Muselier, President of the South Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, announced plans for a Mediterranean-wide macro-region.
In June 2020, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg launched an innovative process: "Luxembourg in transition – Territorial visions for a zero-carbon and resilient future for the functional Luxembourg region". Its aim was to bring together strategic proposals for spatial planning and produce scenarios for ecological transition by 2050 for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and its border territories.
Find the proceedings of the webinar of March 29th organised by the General Inspectorate for the Environment and Sustainable Development (IGEDD), in partnership with the MOT, on the question: "How do cross-border territories organise themselves to meet the challenges of the ecological transition?
A meeting between Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice and president of the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolitan Area, and Claudio Scajola, mayor of Imperia and president of the Province of Imperia, on the 19th of May in Nice, provided an opportunity to present a cross-border coastal development programme between the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolitan Area and the Province of Imperia, and another programme focusing on the mountains between the Vésubie and Tinée valleys and the neighbouring valleys of the Provinces of Imperia and Cuneo.
On May 17th, 2023, a meeting between the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, and Père Aragones, president of Catalonia, in Barcelona, agreed on the creation of a cross-border working group, the aim of which will be to improve water management and help populations cope with drought.
Financed within the framework of the Interreg Grande Région program, the RECOTTE [RECOnversion of Territories through Ecological Transition] project focused on the reconversion of territories through ecological transition on a local cross-border scale.
How to live and move in the Greater Geneva of tomorrow? To answer this question, the Canton of Geneva, the Metropolitan Pole of the French Genevois and the Nyon Region are inviting residents to question the territorial development of the cross-border conurbation during eight citizen workshops to be held from April 24th to May 11th.
On Friday, March 17th, 2023 the 3rd meeting of the MOT working group "Cross-border ecological transition" was held on the theme of decarbonizing cross-border mobility. The exchanges were organized in two parts.
Following the model of the IBA that has been set up in Basel, a laboratory workshop has been commissioned by the Saarland to study the feasibility of an "Internationale Bau Austellung" (International Architecture and Urban Planning Exhibition) in the Greater Region.
On January 26th, 2023, the eight partners* of Greater Geneva signed a "Greater Geneva in transition" charter, agreeing on the ecological transition issues for the cross-border conurbation.
Supported financially by the Interreg ALCOTRA programme, the "Developing Active Citizenship" (DAC) project aims to raise citizens' awareness of the challenges of the Green Pact for Europe.
Mountain areas are particularly exposed to climate change: the mutations of ecosystems and their consequences on human activities develop more quickly and have stronger impacts than in plains.
The environment knows no borders, and neither does the climate!
Between late April and early May, three important topics for cross-border territories were the subject of discussions for the network’s working groups: the impact of cross-border projects on the environment; the issue of social security with respect to cross-border employment; and the definition and recognition of “cross-border living areas”. Below is a preliminary summary of the discussions.
Elisa Ferreira, the Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, and Apostolos Tzitzikostas, President of the European Committee of the Regions, have their say about a major issue for cross-border areas, but not only: the ecological transition.
In January 2022, the Summit of Greater Region Executives took stock at the midpoint in France’s presidency, particularly with respect to the industrial, digital and energy transitions, flood and drought risk prevention, food and promoting short supply chains, culture, youth, sport and tourism, healthcare and security.
AEBR and the European Commission’s DG REGIO have released a series of publications aiming at raising awareness of cross-border cooperation. These showcase relevant information gained through the implementation of the b-solutions initiative, which AEBR has managed on behalf of DG REGIO for the past four years.