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
Briefing for the European Commission: the Polluter Pays Principle in the just transition process – diagnosis and recommendations
Publication | 7 October, 2021The Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) is one of the biggest concerns in the implementation of just transition support. This Principle should ensure that polluters bear the costs of their pollution and are incentivised to avoid environmental damage. However
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Just transition in Poland – an overview of territorial just transition plans from six coal regions
Publication | 2 September, 2021Poland is one of the countries in central and eastern Europe that plans to use European funds to finance just transition in their coal regions. In order to receive the funds, these regions will need to prepare Territorial Just Transition Plans (TJTPs).
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Status of the Territorial Just Transition Plans in central and eastern Europe: July 2021 update
Publication | 8 July, 2021This briefing is the third in our series of updates on the Territorial Just Transition Plan (TJTP) preparation process in seven central and eastern European (CEE) countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
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BLOG POSTS
The beginning of the end – coal phase out in Romania
Blog entry | 16 August, 2021On 27 July, the most polluting coal power plant in Romania was shut down. After more than 50 years in service, the Mintia power plant is closing because it has failed for a long time to comply with the legal emissions limit. The European Commission sent infringement notices to Romania five years in a row for non-compliance with the Industrial Emissions Directive. At the same time, two units at Oltenia Energy Complex, Romania’s largest lignite power producer, will be closed by the end of the year. For Romanian coal power, this is the beginning of the end.
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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
Comparative analysis of the advantages of decentralized energy production
Publishing date: 19.8.2021
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
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.
