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The Ecocity Fira de Barcelona has welcomed this morning the ceremony of Sustainable City Awards, the seventh consecutive year that gives the Environmental Forum Foundation, with support from the Ministry of Environment and sponsored by Amitech Spain SA, in recognition to municipalities and supra-local administrations of the Spanish State have opted for projects and actions aimed at promoting sustainability.
HRH the Infanta Cristina has given the awards at a ceremony in which he was accompanied by Secretary of State for Climate Change, Ms. Teresa Ribera and the Mayor of Hospitalet de Llobregat ..
Alhama de Murcia, a finalist for the Sustainable City Award in the category of Water
Alhama de Murcia has served as a finalist in the Sustainable City.
The municipality has made its Environmental Assessment and has set up its first draft Local Action Plan.
He currently holds various lines of work on sustainability (water saving, improved energy efficiency, combating climate change, promotion of sustainable mobility, environmental disclosure, participation in protected natural space management, collection of waste, reuse of waste materials into less developed countries, etc.) with the task of reviewing the Plan and, above all, the project of revitalization of citizen participation.
Thus the name "Take climate change seriously" has started an intense awareness for the sole purpose of placing this issue within the framework of decisions of the private life of every citizen.
To collect the prize have traveled to the Catalan city mayor of the municipality, Juan Romero Canovas, accompanied by the mayor of the Environment, José Miguel Muñoz Andreo and Environment technicians who developed the award-winning program.
The jury this year was composed of the following institutions:
- Barcelona City Council
- City of Madrid
- City winner category "Sustainable City" from the previous edition (Donostia)
- Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP)
- Institut Català de l'Energia (ICAEN)
- Ministry of Environment
- Fundació Fòrum Ambiental (as secretary)
This year, the city of Murcia is the winner in the category of Sustainable City, for its numerous projects initiated in different areas that contribute to environmental conservation.
Other municipalities awarded in this seventh edition were Mataró (in the category of Water), Toulouse (in the category of Atmosphere), Puerto del Rosario (in the category of Energy), Ruby (in the category of waste) and Gozón ( Special Mention in the category of Natural Resources).
New this year, the Environmental Forum Foundation has also granted 5 finalists: one from each category.
Database winning projects
After seven editions of the Sustainable City Awards, the Environmental Forum Foundation has decided to make available the information society of the winning projects in all editions of the competition.
That is why you are designing a database on-line that will be available shortly on the website of the Sustainable City Awards ( www.premiociudadsostenible.org ) and enable searches of the projects by type and area geographical.
This tool is intended as a reference document for planning and sustainable development projects as a reference other actions that have already been recognized and in which the effectiveness of the results has been proven.
On Environmental Forum Foundation
The Environmental Forum Foundation is a nonprofit entity whose main objective is to create a platform for dialogue and collaboration among companies, administrations and the rest of society, to get together and implement a sustainable development model that the current .
His work is structured in three segments: information and outreach, project development and training support and research.
Pursue these lines:
-The incorporation of environmental culture corporate culture
"The spread between the society of the compatibility between sustainable business development and environmental quality protection
"The development and protection of indigenous sector of economic activities based on Environment
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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