The Covenant Step by Step

The ‘Covenant Step by Step’ section provides you with concrete information about the process that Covenant signatories Signatories Signatories represent cities, with different size from small villages to major metropolitan areas such as London or Paris, that have signed the Covenant of Mayors on a voluntary manner and are committed to implement sustainable energy policies to meet and exceed the EU 20% CO₂ reduction objective through increased energy efficiency and development of renewable energy sources. are expected to go through in order to fulfil their commitments.

The menu on your right-hand side will help you to navigate through the different actions to undertake at each stage of the initiative until 2020. You will get an overview of the initiative and links to additional information following the steps below:

1. STEP 1: Signature of the Covenant of Mayors
   • Creation of adequate administrative structures
   • Baseline Emission Inventory & SEAP development
     
     
2. STEP 2 : Sustainable Energy Action Plan submission
   • Implementation of your Sustainable Energy Action Plan
   • Monitoring progress
     
     
3. STEP 3 : Regular submission of implementation reports