Another six Moroccan municipalities are receiving support from the EU-funded sustainable energy project CES-MED in their commitment to sign up to the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) initiative to cut emissions.

The six new communes – Belfaâ, Fam El Hisn, Figuig, Mdiq, Sefrou and Tiznit – are now members of the CoM and will start to develop their Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs).

In this context, the CES-MED project is organising a training for the managers of these six communes in addition to nine other municipalities that have applied for membership of the CoM.

The training will be held on 21 and 22 November in Rabat and aims to provide the executives of the selected municipalities with the tools that will enable them to carry out the Commune’s Baseline Emission Inventory (BEI) and to initiate the preparation of the Action Plan.

Six other municipalities, from Lebanon in the Mashreq region, have also joined the Covenant of Mayors initiative. The municipalities of Hasbaya, Jezzine, Batloun, Kawkaba, Kherbet Rouha will complete the list of affiliated local authorities in the Mashreq region who join the largest global initiative of cities, committed to combat climate change and plan for a greener future.

The CES-MED project is an EU-funded regional initiative set up to provide training and technical assistance support to local and national authorities in the southern Mediterranean region, with a view to helping them respond more actively to sustainable policy challenges.

CES-MED ensures that the actions proposed match with the objectives of the Covenant of Mayors: to reach and even go beyond the European objective to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% thanks to the improvement of energy efficiency and the increased use of sustainable energy.

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