Sustainable Energy Days in Ijevan under the auspices of CoM East project

Sustainable Energy Days in Ijevan under the auspices of CoM East project

28.06.2019

By workshop called ''Sustainable energetic development of Ijevan under the auspices of CoM East project'' Ijevan city joined EU Sustainable Energy Week 2019.

On June 27 in Ijevan there were held series of events: dance performance, painting exhibition, flesh mob, ''Sustainable energetic development of Ijevan under the auspices of CoM East project'' workshop.  The events were held by CoM East project and Ijevan municipality.

The mayor of Ijevan Vardan Ghalumyan, the representatives of the municipality the community residents took part in the events.

The national expert Artem Kharazyan stated: “Signing of the Covenant of mayors is important for the community and also the organization of Energy days in communities has the aim to raise awareness of the citizens. For achieving the goals of Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan of the communities it is important to solve the problems of energy efficiency and it is important to implement measures to reduce energy consumption”.

Then cooperating with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Armenia Renewable Resources and Energy Efficiency Fund (R2E2) energy efficiency educational workshop was held during which the main aims of the Project were represented and also the commitments and activities of the communities.

By the presentations of the experts of UNDP and R2E2 Fund the participants of the workshop got aquanted with street lighting systems and with the main approaches of using modern energy efficient technologies in the buildings and with the technologies of using renewable energy resources to produce energy.

EU-funded Covenant of Mayors East project supporting cities signing up to the Covenant of Mayors – a flagship EU initiative to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 30% by 2030. It helps municipalities to prepare and implement Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans, reducing dependency on fossil fuels, improving the security of energy supply, and allowing them to contribute more actively to climate change mitigation.

 


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