"GREEN CAPITAL OF EUROPE - ESSEN 2017"...
... This title was awarded by the European Commission to the city of Essen for its demonstrably high environmental standards and their targeted pursuit. Following the success and momentum of this award in 2017, our city has positioned itself for the future and set up the 'Green Capital Agency':
As a staff unit of the Department of Environment, Transport and Sport of the City of Essen, it coordinates the future topics of climate protection, energy, sustainability, mobility and urban development in the City of Essen Group in order to consistently pursue the goals of the Green Capital together with the entire Essen urban society.
Successful structures and a good program
Climate protection is a joint task. Against this background, the Green Capital Agency motivates and networks active people in Essen. It is the central point of contact for the diverse activities on energy and climate in Essen. The Green Capital Agency provides information and creates spaces to develop co-creative strategies and projects for climate protection and sustainability. In this way, impulses are given for the cooperation of initiatives, associations, companies and administration and added value is created for a dynamization of climate protection at all levels.
The application for the European Green Capital was conceived from the outset as a building block of an ongoing environmental management process and the achievement of the twelve sustainability goals - even after the successful program of the title year - is of great importance for the future viability and sustainable development of our city in the Green Decade.
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