ENVIRONMENT

This project aims to coordinate actions to deal with climate change in all Regions and States on Earth. Each participating State and Region is committed to taking measures to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions of all activities within its territorial limits of responsibility. In the context of this plan, the Region of Attica is being organized accordingly, targeting a desirable but at the same time feasible reduction of future greenhouse gas emissions, within a defined framework. These commitments require realism but at the same time a vision as to the amount of effort that the administration will seek and demand from its citizens. In order to fulfill the objectives, the Region plans and organizes a framework of actions with the main purpose of mitigating the releases, following its own strategy, but within a structured framework. According to the action plan, primary data on greenhouse gas emissions will initially be collected by the Hellenic Statistical Service (ELSTAT), which will then be processed by our Service and adapted to the needs and objectives of the program, separating the releases by production sector, type of intervention and actions but also according to the characteristics of the sources. Releases are recorded over a period of time thus giving the possibility of checking the effectiveness and success and then improving them or supplementing the measures taken through a feedback and self-correction process. At the same time, it is possible to categorize the actions by sector and technological innovation so that the performance of each measure becomes more recognizable, as well as the comparison with corresponding measures of other regions in other regions at an international level that are already implemented. The organization of all the regions under a common roof and action, as well as the regular annual meetings of the members of the organization, enables a better understanding and appropriateness per region of the planned measures as well as the prospect of their successful outcome. Based on these results, important data emerges regarding new strategies, ways and methods that we can follow for our adaptation to climate change.

This measure will help to promote practices that can be models for other regions, both nationally and internationally, through the dissemination of information with the help of the platform, as well as the announcements of our region in its international meetings with the other regions and states. The possibility provided for an organized and unified effort by gathering all the actions towards a common goal will certainly help to awaken and activate a wider set of citizens. At the same time, as was said above, it will be possible to display all the initiatives that are developed in the sector both at the international and national level, contributing to the change of its image and also to the citizens' evolving perception of international trends and the position and stage of development and maturation of our country. The development of an online space and application within which each citizen will be able to be informed about the percentage of their participation in mitigating the effects of climate change, both themselves with the percentage of their participation in it and their region with the actions undertaken and incentives is an important intervention of the Region towards satisfying the framework within which Sustainable Development will be able to flourish, demonstrating its social responsibility. The gathering of information concerning all regional actions related to environmental and energy actions, as well as how these ultimately affect the emitted greenhouse gas pollutants by sector, makes possible a clearly more rational management of the resources used and the waste produced, provides a comprehensive insight into the possible impact on ecosystems and the biodiversity of protected areas, defines the framework and rules for a sustainable agriculture since it leads to the development of actions to awaken and inform farmers and the public in general about all possible actions as well as the degree of their implementation, acceptance and their effectiveness in the particular characteristics of each region. Another important element of the whole effort is that it will be a model of application for the rest of the Regions of the country.