RegENERate: Mobilising Regions for Energetic Re-development and Transformative NECPs
The overall objective of the project is to support the CEE countries’ contribution to the EU efforts towards a net-zero emissions future. The project will contribute to more ambitious and effective climate and energy policies in CEE, backed by a long-term commitment to phase out fossil fuels, improve energy efficiency and promote renewable energy.
The project will build on the Bankwatch Network’s recent work on just transition and energy transformation in the CEE countries. It will deepen previous cooperation with stakeholders to proactively engage in developing governance instruments and ensure financial means for the implementation of the NECPs at the national and local level. The approach of integration of NECPs in local level planning will be further developed through the project to become a methodology for the integration of climate objectives through a community – led process. These existing collaborations will form a key part of our means of attaining our objectives.
Project info
Start date: 01/01/2021
End date: 31/12/2023
Source of funding: LIFE Programme
Overall project value: 1,303,239 Euro
The project will be implemented in the following Member State(s) and Region(s) or other countries:
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia , Poland, Romania, Slovakia
The project will aim to achieve the following objectives:
– To step up the multilevel dialogue on climate and energy transition in targeted CEE countries and enable increases in the countries’ climate ambitions in the NECP revisions for 2023.
– To advance the development of and compliance with the EU climate objectives of local ReDevelopment strategies, especially in the regions that are moving away from a fossil fuel-based economy.
– To develop a transnational exchange platform for the creation of a knowledge base for low carbon energy transition at regional and local levels.
PUBLICATIONS
Just transition project implementation checklist
Publication | 29 April, 2022The paper outlines what comes next after the preparation of the Territorial Just Transition Plans and their final approval by the European Commission. It takes a look not only at the actual planning and spending of the funds provided in accordance with the approved Plans, but also at the challenges faced by the regions and the level to which they are prepared to address them. The checklist provides an easy-to-use overview of what each region should have in place in order to make sure it reaches its professed goals along with a discussion of each issue, relevant examples and references to more detailed reports, documents or regulations concerning particular points.
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Status of the Territorial Just Transition Plans in central and eastern Europe: December 2021 update – Annex: Slovakia.
Publication | 10 March, 2022This annex to the December 2021 update on the status of the Territorial Just Transition Plans in central and eastern Europe provides additional data for Slovakia.
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Reaching for a green recovery: what holds back progress in ten EU recovery and resilience plans
Publication | 3 February, 2022The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is intended to finance reforms and investments in Member States to rebound from the pandemic and pursue a green transition.
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BLOG POSTS
Secret negotiations and fossil fuels plague planning of EU’s just transition away from coal
Press release | 15 December, 2021The public has largely been kept in the dark by Member State governments in central and eastern Europe about their plans to move EU regions away from a dependency on coal, leaving the door open for other funding schemes to support fossil fuels projects.
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PUBLICATIONS IN LOCAL LANGUAGES
Bulgaria’s Post-Coal Future: How Political Shortsightedness Dooms the Just Transition
Publishing date: 28.1.2021
Analysis for the alternative economic development of coal areas
Publication date: 9.8.2021
Analysis of the possibilities for green hydrogen production in Bulgaria and its use for energy needs
Publishing date: 18.8.2021
Obstacles for municipalities to transition to a low carbon economy
Publishing date: 18.8.2021
Territorial Just Transition Plans: 191.6 mln to a climate-neutral economy
Publishing date: 23.6.2021
Poland may irretrievably lose half of its funds for a just transition
Publishing date: 23.3.2021
Polish miners do have prospects for employment after coal – new research
Publishing date: 7.8.2021
PGN analysis: How available funds should be used to support a real transition in Silesia
Publishing date: 12.5.2021
Miners from the coal region Eastern Wielkopolska in Poland have ideas for life after coal
Publishing date: 2.6.2021
Slovakia: High-school renovation project, an example of the way to a green future
Publishing date: 26.3.2021
Listen to the young when planning for just transition, say Slovakian students
Publishing date: 17.6.2021
MORE MATERIALS
- How are CEE countries doing on creating Territorial Just Transition Plans? Read more.
- Lenka Ilcikova gets “Angel of Prievidza” award for her work on just transition. Read more.
- What to do when public participation in the planning of Territorial Just Transition Plans is more formal than substantial? Read more.
- 17 NGOs call on Czech PM Babis to commit to a 2030 coal phaseout date. Read more.
