Public authorities across Europe have an important role to play in the development of a sustainable and low-carbon economy, with transformations needed in every sector and area of public life. As such, multiple actors are involved in setting up strategies to direct public policy, across multiple departments and levels of governance – covering areas such as housing, building codes, land-use, transport, energy, climate change mitigation, and environmental policy.
These strategies, often developed in silos, need to be harmonised and integrated to ensure that all are pulling in the same direction and to make optimal use of limited resources. As well as cross-departmental (horizontal) co-operation, vertical co-operation between levels of government also needs to be enabled.
A number of projects and regions have already investigated the integration process and their results and guidelines can provide a number of lessons for others on how to optimally use resources, share data, engage with stakeholders, and work across boundaries to develop and achieve regional aims.
It is a platform tract that brings together current energy data from the 35 municipalities of the Barcelona metropolitan region in a single data visualization.
Regional strategy towards a green and circular economy for Extremadura by 2030
Key stakeholders share a common will to achieve a greener region by 2030: this is how the strategy towards a green and circular economy in Extremadura was born.
New municipal office for regional restructuring and economic development
A new office has been established in the Municipality of Velenje, priorities of which are the safe regional restructuring and sustainable economic development.
HLJ2015- Integrated planning process of land use plan, housing strategy and transport system plan
Helsinki Region Transport System Plan (HLJ 2015) was drawn up for the first time combining regional land use plan, housing strategy and transport system plan.
