Regions for Sustainable Change

Showing the way to a low-carbon future for European regions

Regions for Sustainable Change (RSC) is a partnership of 12 organisations from eight EU member states. Through regional cooperation, the project aims at promoting an EU-wide shift to climate-friendly economies and seeks to identify opportunities for, and the costs and effects of, moving to a low-carbon economy.

The focus of the project is to provide regions with the methodological means to move towards economies with minimal GHG emissions by integrating all aspects of the economy around technologies and practices with low emissions. As the RSC partnership brings together regions at different levels of preparedness to tackle climate change, the partners are willing to learn from one another, to exchange experiences, and to share the results of their efforts during the three-year project.

The project was launched in October 2008 and is co-funded by the EU programme INTERREG IVC.

  

Partner regions

 

News

The 3rd RSC newsletter released
June 29, 2010

From the content: 

  • News flash: EU-funded projects lack glamour and sex appeal!
  • Building capacity for the integration of climate change issues into regional policies
  • Piedmont region taking concrete steps towards... read more



The City of Genoa joins the Climate Neutral Network
June 05, 2010

The capital of RSC member region Liguria has recently taken another step towards low carbon development. The mayor of the city of Genoa signed the Climate Change Neutral Network (CN Net), created by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), on the... read more



Baseline Assessment Report released
March 22, 2010

The RSC partnership is proud to present the first project output, the Baseline Assessment Report.

The report examines and evaluates the climate confidence of ten European regions, represented by the RSC partners. To carry out the assessment, a... read more



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Events

RSC at RSA workshop on Ecological Regional Development
June 29, 2010, Dresden, Germany

On 11 - 12 June the RSC project and the Regional Climate Confidence Index were presented at a workshop on Ecological Regional Development, organized by the Regional Studies Association (RSA) network in Dresden, Germany.
The Regional Studies... read more



RSC at the 6th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns
May 21, 2010, Dunkerque, France

The event gathered together local and regional authorities and various networks of cities and local governments.The topics of the conference were organized around key challenges that local governments are facing and one of the key... read more



Fourth Steering Committee Meeting, First Capacity Building and Thematic Seminars
April 12, 2010, Rust, Burgenland, Austria

On April 12-15, 2010, the village of Rust in Burgenland hosted the most recent meeting of the RSC partners, organized by the Regional Management of Burgenland. Despite the gloomy weather, the participants managed to spend three busy days holding the... read more



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Co-Financed by European Regional Development Fund
      
Made possible by the INTERREG IVC Programme