The environment, resources and waste

Examples of concrete projects

There are numerous examples of cross-border cooperation in the area of the environment:

  • Strategies in the area of the environment:

The cross-border natural areas of Espace Mont Blanc, Mercantour National Park/Alpi Marittime Natural Park, Hainaut Cross-Border Natural Park, Bouches de Bonifacio International Marine Park are the subject of specific strategies for the preservation of the environment and biodiversity.

  • Watercourses:

-    SMEAG (Garonne cross-border association) (ES/FR): project for the creation of a cross-border observatory for the Garonne as part of the Interreg 3A project “The Garonne Valley, a cross-border territory” (http://www.garona-i-garonne.com)
-    The Semois/Semoy river contract (BE/FR) (http://www.semois-semoy.org)
-    Cross-border "Körös/Crisuri" River Basin (HU/RO): "Transboundary River Basin Management of the Körös/Crisuri River" project (http://www.icpdr.org.htm)
-    Upper Rhine Conference (river and groundwater) (DE/FR/CH) (http://www.conference-rhin-sup.org)

  • Water treatment:

-    Pays de Gex and Geneva Canton: "Galerie de Chouilly" LGCC (CH/FR).
-    Lille: Comines-Pureté waste water treatment plant (BE/FR).

  • Management of urban, agricultural and industrial waste:

-    Cooperation between the Zweckverband Abfallbehandlung Kahlenberg and the Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg (DE/FR)
-    Cross-border treatment of waste in the Basque Eurocity (ES/FR)
-    The Wissembourg cross-border wastewater treatment plant (FR/DE)    

  • Combating pollution:

-    RAMOGE - the fight against marine pollution (IT/FR)

  • Biodiversity:

-    "Living Pyrenees" (ES/FR)
-    "Greater Geneva" conurbation:  several Interreg projects concerning the management of natural areas, fauna and flora and ecological corridors (CH/FR).