To address the barriers identified by the municipalities and all previous works on the subject, the Own Your SECAP project aims at: 

• To directly engage 44 municipalities to develop or upgrade their Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs) with ambitious targets of climate neutrality in 2050 and highlighting measures that have double (mitigation and adaptation) and triple effects (mitigation, adaptation, and energy poverty),

• To directly empower at least 44 municipalities to implement their SECAPs by:

  • institutionalizing integrated energy planning in their municipalities,

  • fully employing and certifying energy management systems (EnMS) and expanding EnMS with procedures on climate adaptation,

  • digitalizing energy and climate monitoring through the use of a user-friendly ICT Energy Monitoring Platform for reliable data collection,

  • creating clear governance structures to implement the plans,

  • organizing different capacity building and peer-to-peer (P2P) activities, including tailored-made assistance, discussion platforms for policy makers and public officers, replication and best practices,

  • investing into sustainable energy and climate actions.

• To gain support and resources for the implementation of 528 SECAP measures to ensure further systematic approach in the implementation of the SECAP measures,

• To empower at least 66 replication municipalities through dedicated peer-to-peer activities to replicate part or all the OwnYourSECAP activities, including SECAP and/or EnMS development and/ or implementation, etc.,

• To ensure specific territorial focus on innovative processes addressing climate-mainstreaming in municipal budgets of 88 municipalities, i.e., applying carbon budgets and earmarking and tracking resources for climate actions in the municipal budgets,

• To ensure that at least 400 stakeholders across Europe with an intrinsic interest or mandate to capacitate local authorities are directly and qualitatively informed on the OwnYourSECAP guidance,

• To disseminate to at least 500,000 persons out of the target groups the experiences on implementing SECAP measures, EnMS, capacity and guidance materials developed to enable European-wide replication,

• To demonstrate that quality management and certification schemes for better energy performance (energy efficiency and renewable energy) as well as integrated energy and climate planning and management can capitalise on synergies and scale in the public sector to the benefit of local authorities and its stakeholders, particular, Signatories, Supporters and Coordinators of the CoM,

• To reduce energy waste and related CO2 emissions, increase the share of renewable in the generation of energy for final consumption, realise cost savings as well as socio-economic and environmental benefits, including climate adaptation, thereby moving towards a coherent transformation of municipal energy systems.