As the Empowering Local Climate Action (ELCA) project ends, one key insight stands out: effective climate policy in Europe is ultimately decided at the local level. While national and EU strategies provide direction, their real impact depends on how they are translated into concrete action within municipalities, administrations, and civil society. ELCA brought together partners from Romania and the Czech Republic over more than two years to address a persistent gap between strategic ambition and practical implementation. Rather than remaining at a conceptual level, the project focused on building functioning systems for local climate governance, combining capacity building, institutional development, participatory processes, and real pilot actions.
by Tereza Ocetková (PIN), Cristina Halbac (UPT), Viola Helwig (GNE)
Read more: https://www.euki.de/from-strategy-to-practice-in-romania-and-the-czech-republic/
