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Crisis Summit Brochure

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Faced with the crisis: The Regions at Europe’s bedside 21-22 September 2012 Pescara, Abruzzo (I) Even faced with significant challenges – creating jobs, generating economic growth, harmoniously developing the territory, fighting climate change – regions demonstrate a stunning potential for innovation while dealing with a rapidly evolving societal, economic, and environmental reality. Nevertheless, regions cannot solve Europe’s current economic problems on ... Read More

Conference report: Faced with the crisis “The Regions at Europe’s bedside”

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The regions are facing many challenges: creating employment, boosting economic growth, developing sustainably their territory struggling against climate changes. Yet, they show amazing innovating abilities to adapt themselves to a quick-moving social, economical and environmental reality. Nevertheless, they cannot solve the economical problems that Europe is facing on their own. Companies, institutions, non-governmental organizations have ... Read More

Implementing the Sustainable Energy Future

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The voice of the Assembly of European Regions (AER), carried by its President Michèle Sabban and the over thirty member regions present at this occasion, was strongly heard during the climate change conference, co-organised with the R20 on 31 January and 1 February, in Vienna (A) Vienna (F), 1st February 2013 Already prior to the beginning ... Read More

AER fights for sustainable energy at climate change conference

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  The voice of the AER, carried by its President Michèle Sabban and over thirty member regions, was strongly heard during the climate change conference, co-organised with the R20 on 31 January and 1 February, in Vienna (A). Already prior to the beginning of the conference, the AER President had the opportunity to present the ... Read More

AER working group on Energy and Climate Change

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The AER Working group on Energy and Climate change met in Wels (A) on 28 February. On this occasion, the last version of the Hampshire report on the role of regions in ensuring a future for e-vehicles was presented and adopted by the group. Its final adoption will be proposed at the next AER General Assembly. ... Read More

AER Summer School 2013 in Sörmland (S) : Green growth

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Green Growth – Regions towards a resource-efficient Europe AER invites young adults and regional politicians and officers to participate in the 2013 Summer School taking place from 19 to 24 August in Sörmland County, Sweden. On the theme ”Green Growth – Regions towards a resource-efficient Europe”, energy and sustainable transport will be strongly in focus. The basis is the EU ... Read More

AER at the World Sustainable Energy Days

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The World Sustainable Energy Days (WSED) are a major worldwide energy event: five thematic conferences, over 100 speakers, 700 participants, 150 poster presentations, in addition to the fair exhibition… AER has been a partner to WSED for the past 8 years: WSED bring expertise, allow for networking opportunities and offer a key platform for AER ... Read More

New EU energy efficiency directive

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The 2012/27/EU Directive on energy efficiency entered into force on 4/12/2012. It will have to be transposed by all Member states by mid-2014. Until then, there was no specific binding legislation aiming at implementing the objective of 20% less energy consumption by 2020. This directive brings forward binding measures to step up Member States’ efforts ... Read More

Regional Peer Reviews promote investments in sustainable energy

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During the Regions4GreenGrowth (R4GG) conference in Debrecen (H) on 27 March, the INTERREG IVC project partners presented the results of the first round of Regional Peer Reviews to boost investments in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. Through the Peer Reviews, the Regions of Valencia (E), Västernorrland (S), Noord Brabant (NL), Észak-Alföld (H), Abruzzo (I) and ... Read More

Discover the Regions 4 Green Growth project in video!

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The Regions4GreenGrowth INTERREG IVC project is an initiative of 13 EU regions with high sustainable energy ambitions that are committed to identifying, exchanging and transferring effective regional policy instruments and mechanisms to improve access to finance for sustainable energy projects and speed up investments. The project kicked off in early 2012 and can already boast ... Read More

10 recommendations for the Regions to overcome the crisis

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Paris, Île de France (F), 16 May 2013 The Assembly of European (AER) has gathered today in Paris 250 European, national and regional decision makers as well as representatives from the business and banking sector, in the presence of Janusz Lewandowski, European Commissioner for financial programming and Budget, Jean-Paul Huchon, President of the Ile-de-France Regional ... Read More

Regions shaping e-transport

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A political report, adopted on 18 May 2013, aims to highlight the importance of facilitating electric vehicles. The main recommendations include: need for further Inter-operability of the supporting infrastructure behind vehicle charging, ‘Universality’ which will allow the owners of electric vehicles drive outside there locality, Promotion and Communication to tackle the lack of confidence in electric vehicles and ... Read More

Effective energy policies in view of the EU2020 burden-sharing targets

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With the overall objective of boosting investments for Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Energy Efficiency, 15 peers from Abruzzo (IT), Flevoland (NL), Maramures (RO), Norrbotten (SE), Sofia (BG) and the AER met in Lazio (IT) in order to undertake the 9th Regional Peer Review within the Regions4GreenGrowth INTERREG IVC project. During the 5-day visit, peers ... Read More

Green Growth – Regions towards a resource-efficient Europe

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“It is a great pleasure to host, in my region, this year’s Summer School. This major AER event gathers more than 120 participants from 18 countries and counts no less than 7 workshops!” stated Mr Viking Jonsson, Chair of Sörmland (S) Regional Council. “’Green growth – regions towards a resource efficient Europe’ is very closely ... Read More

Committee 1 working group meetings : focused and productive

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The work plans of the working groups are their actual backbone and ensure both coherence and continuity in the activities realised during the year. They are also a useful tool to compare results against objectives. This is why on 4 November the AER Committee 1 members gathered to discuss the mandates and work plans of ... Read More

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