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Dear Colleagues, Partners and Friends,

On behalf of the multinational CoM East team we wish you a very Happy Holiday season!

From the 2nd to the 15th of December 2018, the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was held in the Polish city of Katowice, where methodological and financial issues of cooperation between the Parties to the Convention were discussed, and institutional and procedural mechanisms for implementing the Paris agreement.

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About 400 representatives of local and national authorities from Eastern Partnership countries, as well as EU representatives, took part at the high-level conference “Municipalities for Sustainable Growth” which took place on 22-23 November in Kyiv. The meeting fostered dialogue on the role of local municipalities in identifying and addressing the complexities of sustainable development, economic resilience, and climate action.

On November 22-23 two major EU-funded Initiatives for the Eastern Partnership countries – the Covenant of Mayors and Mayors for Economic Growth – organise the High-Level Conference “Municipalities for Sustainable Growth”in the President Hotel, Kyiv (Hospitalna Street, 12). The event will focus the role of Local Authorities in identifying and addressing the complexities of sustainable development, economic resilience and climate action. Over 400representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, as well as EU representatives, will participate in the event.

This special issue is devoted to the celebration of the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2018 in Eastern Partnership countries. It highlights a large variety of activities and events organised by the local public authorities, private institutions and civil society organisations in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The Energy Days were aimed to promote among citizens and businesses advanced energy efficiency practices, inspire innovative ideas and combine efforts to achieve the EU goals in overcoming the consequences of climate change, improving energy efficiency and energy security.

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On July 3,2018 a country-specific training on thema: "Covenant of Mayors Initiative – from Commitments to Implementation" was successfully held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The training brought together the representatives of the Ministries of Energy and Ecology & Natural Resources, various government agencies, city and district municipalities, experts from Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus working on CoM issues in partner countries within the CoM East program, CoM signatories from Azerbaijan.

The Covenant Territorial Coordinators from Georgia and Ukraine can apply!

The call for a new edition of the twinning programme of the European Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy is now open. The Covenant twinning programme offers cities, regions and provinces the opportunity to take part in twinning exchanges that aim to increase local authorities’ capacity and knowledge to mitigate and adapt to climate change.