TheGreeNordEst Week 2012 day dedicated to Trieste focussed upon the city signing the Covenant of Mayors and the Council's integrated, synergetic approach in facing the challenge of a fresh start for the city's territory and its economy thorugh a sustainable, innovative and inclusive development.     

The Covenant's signatories commit to preparing a SEAP (Sustainable Energy Action Plan), one of the wide-ranging planning tools Trieste's City Councillors are going to use, a concrete plan comprising at once urban planning, building regulations, transport, industrial settlements and economic activities in general, to reduce by more than 20% GHG emissions by using RES and improving energy efficiency with ad-hoc programmes.      

Trieste's signing of the Covenant, recently approved by the City Council through a specific decision, was presented at AREA Science Park by the Mayor, Mr Roberto Cosolini, who highlighted how to fully reach the SEAP's ambitious, yet achievable goals, he will search for teh contribution of theresearch institutions within the territory.   

Trieste is involved in 2 of the 26 pilot actions currently being developed in the framework of PATRES and will be accompanied and assisted in the process by a team of experts appointed by AREA Science Park. PATRES, it is worth mentioning it here, offers local authorities an opportunity to receive ad-hoc training, with a pragmatic, result-oriented approach, occasions dedicated to exchange of knowledge and expertise and mutual learning, promotion of good and bad practices, to replicate succesful expericens and avoid mistakes previously made by othrs.    

The 26 pilot actions, currently undergoing development, are coordinated by a small army of experts in the 6 invobved countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Spain) will lead as an immediate result to the drafting of regulations and plans for more than 100 European local authorities and in the mid-to-long term to the replication of the thus developed virtuous models.