Greek city Larissa pretends for European Green Capital Award 2016
Baku, November 15 (AZERTAC). Larissa city - the capital of the region Thessaly in central Greece - is one of 12 cities from 11 countries who claim to be the capital of the European Environment 2016. This was announced by the Greek tourist site Greek Travel Pages.
The award “European Green Capital” is awarded to the city, characterized by the most advanced clean urban management. Such cities " tend to set higher standards in the field of sustainable urban development, listen to what they want their citizens and implement innovative solutions to environmental problems." Together with Larissa has selected 11 nominees for the award “Green Capital of Europe”: the Mining oak wood / Poland / Essen / Germany / Ljubljana / Slovenia / Nijmegen / Netherlands / Oslo / Norway / Reggio Emilia / Italy / Santander / Spain / Tours / France / , Umea / Sweden / , Zaragoza / Spain / and Pitesti / Romania / .
An international team of experts will conduct a technical assessment of each candidate cities on the basis of 12 indicators , which include climate change mitigation and adaptation , local transportation , green urban areas, including sustainable land use; nature and biodiversity, air quality and acoustic environment ; processing of waste , the management of water resources , waste water treatment , eco- innovation and sustainable employment , energy efficiency , and integrated environmental management . Cities that will be included in 2014 in the so -called short-listed nominees will be invited to submit their proposals the international jury, and it, in turn, appreciate their commitment to improving the environment, as well as their future goals in this area.
Experience shows that the awarding of the "Green Capital of Europe» inspires other cities of similar achievements. In this city - winners benefit from strengthening its reputation and attractiveness as a place that people can visit, to begin to work and live there .
The winner will be announced in June 2014 in Copenhagen / Denmark / , which is a European ecological capital in 2014 . Six cities were awarded this title in 2010, when he began to be awarded. Stockholm was then awarded first prize in Hamburg / Germany / - the second in 2011. In 2012, the award was given to the Spanish city of Vitoria, in 2013 - French Nantes. Copenhagen was awarded the title of «European Green Capital» in 2014, and the British Bristol - 2015.
At the award are eligible European cities with a population of more than 200 thousand inhabitants. Nominees may become populated areas of EU member states , candidate countries for accession to the EU / Turkey , Serbia, Macedonia , Montenegro and / European Economic Area / EU states and three of the four countries of the European Free Trade Association - Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein / .
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