MUNICIPALITIES IN THE NEW REALIA
Starting from March 2020, Signatories of the Covenant of Mayors in Eastern Partnership countries faced a new situation of COVID-19 pandemic, which made them searching for alternative, creative or innovative measures and activities in order to ensure sustainable development in their communities as well as to meet the undertaken energy and climate change adaptation commitments.
Representatives of big, medium size and small municipalities conducted thousands of meetings, mostly in digital format on different online platforms, to discuss and address the most crucial challenges, share useful experience and support each other to build up a more resilient energy future.
So, how do the leaders of the Covenant community contributed to sustainable development in the pandemic realia? In the framework of the #EUSEW2020, the CoM East project organized a flash mob “Small talk with the Mayor” – a series of online meetings of the CoM East Country Experts with the representatives of the Covenant community in the EaP countries. Mayors and CoM Territorial Coordinators from different municipalities shared their insights and good practices on leading the clean energy transition and green recovery after the pandemic.