Passengers in six Georgian Covenant of Mayors signatories — Kutaisi, Gori, Telavi, Zugdidi, Rustavi and Poti will soon travel by 100 new modern diesel (Euro 5) buses. The New low entry diesel buses will have lower specific fuel consumption per passenger contributing to reduction of GHG emissions and significant reduction of air pollutants (SOx, NOx, CO, and VOC).

Moldovan Signatories of the Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy are in the focus of this issue. How does it work in the country? You will learn about the progress of Moldova on the way to fulfilling the commitments undertaken under the CoM initiative. The newsletter presents a new exchange programme City2City recently launched by the CoM East project team to establish a platform for sharing experience between municipalities. Also, it informs about the first meetings of the Municipal Development Coordination Platform, so called or Covenant of Mayors Club, held in most of the EaP countries. Finally, the issue briefly describes the most important capacity building, information and communication activities carried out by the CoM East project experts in the Eastern Partnership countries.

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On October 16, 2019 participants of Joint Steering Committee Meeting of Sustainable Urban Demonstration Projects - Support Mechanism (CoM DeP) and Covenant of Mayors East (CoM East) visited Business Accelerator "Spark, which was established by CoM signatory Tbilisi City Hall in partnership with the Georgian Employers' Association and within the framework of the EU Initiative ‘Mayors for Economic Growth’ (M4EG).

Today, October 15, 2019, Tbilisi (Georgia) hosted the Joint Steering Committee meeting of the two projects under the Covenant of Mayors initiative – Covenants of Mayors East (CoM East) and Covenants of Mayors – Demonstration Projects (CoM-DeP).

On 3 October 2019 Municipality of Mtskheta organized Sustainable Energy Day within the framework of climate change week.