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Vision, ambition and scope of action The Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy was launched on 15 October 2015 at the Joint Covenant of Mayors and Mayors Adapt Ceremony, where a long-term vision and new commitments towards 2030 were endorsed.

This initiative defines renewed commitment(s) and a shared long-term vision in order to tackle interconnected challenges: climate change mitigation, adaptation and access to secure, sustainable and affordable energy for all.

The vision is threefold and includes:

• Accelerating the decarbonization of our territories, thus contributing to keeping average global warming below 2°C.
• Strengthening our capacities to adapt to unavoidable climate change impacts, thus making our territories more resilient.
• Increasing energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources on our territories, thus ensuring universal access to secure, sustainable and affordable energy services for all.

The initiative also proposes a new “global chapter” by inviting signatories to share their vision, results, experience and know-how with fellow local and regional authorities within the EU and beyond via decentralized cooperation and city-to-city twinning.

Commitments

By 2030, signatories commit to reducing carbon emissions across their territory by at least 30%, to increasing their resilience to the impacts of climate change and strengthening their efforts to provide access to secure, sustainable and affordable energy for all.

To translate commitments into action, a signatory commits to submitting a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) within two years following the local council decision and formal signing, including the mainstreaming of adaptation considerations into relevant policies, strategies and plans.

As an existing signatory, you can renew your Covenant commitments at any time by adopting them in your municipal council and submitting the duly signed adhesion form available here.

If you have signed up to the Covenant of Mayors but have not yet started the preparation of your Sustainable Energy Action Plan:

You may instead consider channeling your efforts to prepare a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP), which focus on a 2030 horizon inclusive of both mitigation and resilience to the impacts of climate change. At the time of submitting your SECAP you will be requested to provide your new adhesion form.

If you have signed up to the Covenant of Mayors and have submitted a Sustainable Energy Action Plan:

You should keep your focus on implementing the 2020 commitments adopted by your municipal council and in assessing the progress towards them. If you wish to submit a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP) before 2020, you should first report on your 2020 SEAP by submitting a monitoring template.

It will be up to each existing signatory to decide according to their planning cycles when they would like to sign up to the new commitments and thus prepare and submit a SECAP.

Please note that local authorities, who have previously signed the commitments for 2020 and now want to renew their commitments, should send their adhesion form for the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy directly to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., as online registration in this case is not possible.