Summary of the project:

The joint challenge of the project is to provide the municipalities of the partner areas with practical support in the implementation of sustainable energy policies and in adapting to the environmental changes that are identified at the transition from the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) to the SECAP Action Plan for Sustainable Energy and Climate Change (SECAP).

The main objective of the project is to help local operators improve their energy planning capabilities by focusing on energy saving, renewable resources, reducing CO₂ emissions and mitigation measures related to climate change.

The expected results are:

• A cross-border unified strategy that will ensure transition to the green economy and provide new employment opportunities;
• educational courses for municipalities and public awareness;
• the transition from some Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAP) to the SECAP Action Plan for Sustainable Energy and Climate Change (SECAP);
• other pilot activities to define SECAP methodologies tailored to local needs.

Main results:

1. Study on the effects of climate change on the program area using methodological reports and basic emission inventories for participating municipalities.
2. Creating an inventory of existing strategies, measures and projects that are useful for increasing the resilience in cities, the composition of a bilingual online database with statistics and data on energy / climate / environment and a Slovene-Italian map of vulnerability of sites with emphasis on the urban scale.

1. Based on the results of the comprehensive operation of DS3.1 / 3.2 / 3.3, interventions for the development of action plans and other concrete activities. SECAP wants to check the effectiveness of work done by monitoring some municipalities during the SEAP change process in SECAP, both in Italy and Slovenia. Upon completion of the training, PP will assist the municipalities in forming the SEAP (at least 10). In Italy, it will be examined how to build a SECAP for a wider area (for example, in the PP4 area or in the FJC with the participation of the MTU). If the inter-municipal SECAP can not be compiled, individual municipalities will participate in the implementation of activities. Encouraging municipalities to increase energy efficiency will continue with interventions for better use of energy sources (with consequent emission reductions), energy audits and short publication of existing good practices, as well as verification of their repeatability. SECAP project infrastructural interventions do not only aim at the full implementation of the strategies that have been elaborated in the previous phases, but are intended to show and provide visible and useful experiences that will actively contribute to the verification of energy saving interventions.

Furthermore, the development of a uniform cross-border mitigation and adaptation strategy and the transition from SEAP to SECAP envisages positive impacts on the entire program area and ensures continuity of cooperation to strengthen activities aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing resilience and mitigation / adapting to climate change by direct complementing results in national and regional programming / planning of adaptation strategies for climate change in Italy and Slovenia.