Strategy and Guidelines to bring the Green Deal to the Adriatic-Ionian Region

The initiative “Bringing the Green Deal to the Region” promoted by the European Commission – DG REGIO aims to incentivize EUSAIR participating countries and their representatives to act more sustainably and raise their environmental awareness in their daily work and every-day life.

The specific objectives of this action are:

• to improve EUSAIR community’s knowledge and awareness on the adoption of sustainable consumption;
• to improve EUSAIR implementers’ capacities on implementing resource-efficient policies that promote eco-innovation and green growth through Green Public Procurement (GPP), mostly by using new awarding criteria in calls and tenders able to limit direct and indirect negative environmental impacts of the services and goods purchased;
• to apply sustainability principles during implementation (restricting the single use of goods, mobilising the potential of digitalisation and circularity in production processes, making recycling an usual practice, etc);
• to reduce the carbon and environmental footprints of the EUSAIR meetings and events