3,499
Signatories
155,653,853
Inhabitants
The Covenant of Mayors is the mainstream European movement involving local and regional authorities, voluntarily committing to increasing energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources on their territories. By their commitment, Covenant signatories aim to meet and exceed the European Union 20% CO2 reduction objective by 2020.
Read more
Covenant in figures
20 February 2012 - 11:43
Under the impulse of the German Covenant of Mayors Club – which is to hold its next meeting on March 27 in Freiburg, the mayor of Vaterstetten, a municipality from the Bavaria region, addressed a letter to European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger on issues related to the Covenant of Mayors....
17 February 2012 - 17:47
On 9 February the Covenant of Mayors Office organised its first webinar on the IEE project development assistance “MLEI” – Mobilising Local Energy Investments...
15 February 2012 - 11:37
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment invites Covenant of Mayors Signatories to organise official “satellite events” as part of the 2012 edition of the Green Week, to be held on 22-25 May in Brussels, on the theme of water. ...
14 February 2012 - 11:38
In an exclusive interview >> with the Covenant of Mayors Office, President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) Mercedes Bresso presents the ABC Manifesto, a document outlining the CoR’s vision on the future developments of the initiative....
7 February 2012 - 12:21
The necessary extension of the Covenant of Mayors to the South Mediterranean region was presented as a key outcome of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) plenary session held in Bari, Itlay, on 29 and 30 January 2012, and co-chaired by President of the Committee of the Regions Mercedes Bresso....
