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Evolving Regions at the Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum

Evolving Regions Logo. Blue E. Then a bar, which first becomes blue, then orange in the course. Below that first the bar with gradient, then orange R. © sfs

Last Wednesday (16 June 21) a delegation of the LIFE project Evolving Regions presented the project at the "Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum - energy efficiency finance market place". Organized by the European Commission's Directorates-Generals for Energy and Climate Action and the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), a total of 44 projects were presented to the representatives of the Covenant of Mayors Initiative, investors and representatives of the European Commission over two days.

The Covenant of Mayors Initiative is an alliance of more than 7000 local and regional governments in 57 countries founded in 2008 to address energy and climate in accordance with the bottom-up principle. The aim is to network local authorities that voluntarily commit to achieving or even exceeding the EU's climate and energy targets.

The Evolving Regions project was represented in the focus area "Public Investments in Innovations for Climate Change Adaptation" by the project coordinator Jürgen Schultze, the regional promoter from the district of Minden-Lübbecke Leona Aileen Eichel and Thomas Kull from NRW.Bank. They took the opportunity to present the project to relevant representatives from different sectors related to climate adaptation and energy efficiency financing. Under the title "Evolving Regions - Social innovation for targeted investments in regional climate action", the path towards a climate resilient region, the roadmapping approach, the financial scaling tools and the first implementation in the Minden-Lübbecke region were presented.

The Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum, attended by a total of 500 people, was divided according to five different focus areas: Driving Change Locally, Financing Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector, Renovation Wave: Boosting Investment in Home Renovation, Innovative Solutions for Financing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and Public Investment in Climate Change Adaptation Innovations.

Interested parties can find more information and the presentation and recording of the event here.

The presentation can also be seen in the following video:

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