Programme Info > Themes > Green Growth

"Exploring new ways of reducing the impact on our environment that can arise from economic growth within successful regions, which leads to significant pressure on natural resources and the de-coupling of economic growth and environmental degradation. Work towards the guidelines of the Kyoto agreement."

The aim
of this theme is to raise awareness in the area of environment and sustainable use of natural resources by ensuring the exchange of best practices amongst partner regions and supporting the implementation of new and innovative schemes.

SubThemes

• Sustainable construction
  investigate use of sustainable construction materials, water and energy efficiency and all aspects of sustainable design. New ways of promoting and supporting markets and products for sustainable construction and encouraging ownership from the industry.
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• Brownfield regeneration
  explore innovative approaches in cost effective site regeneration, sustainable planning after-use, improvement of ecological value of brownfield sites.
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• Waste management
  explore ways to encourage businesses and households to recycle more, alternative ways to landfill and strategies to improve the appearance and after-use of waste sites
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• Environmentally-friendly means of travel
  ways of improving public transport policies, green travel plans, innovative technologies to reduce pollution
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• Resource management
  ways of enhancing resource efficiency in business and households, promotion of renewable energies and environmental technologies
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• Environmental Management System
  exploration and promotion of good practices, encourage common high-quality environmental auditing and the greening of supply chain, encourage taken-up by the industry
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• Flood risk management
  provision of land for flood storage, research/pilot on climate change issue
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Planned results: Exploration and promotion of good practices within Green Growth Transfer of innovative solutions Joint development of new approaches, methods or pilots projects Upgrade of Regional Spatial and Environmental Policy

Target Group: organisations representing the environment, public sector, voluntary organisations and charities, private sector, universities and research centres, local networks and trade unions