The Covenant of Mayors is the leading European movement in which local and regional authorities who have taken voluntary commitment to improve energy efficiency and using renewable energy sources in their territories involved. With their commitment, Covenant signatories have been proposed to overcome the objective of the European Union of reducing emissions 20% CO2 before 2020.
So far they could be part of it cities with more than 50.000 inhabitants, but recently the European Union has extended the range and Dénia can be part of this social commitment through which also will have access to grants from the Diputación de Alicante so far they were not accessible for the municipality.
This was confirmed by the mayor of the 21 Agenda, Vicente CheletAfter the conference held last Thursday under the series of talks for a more sustainable city organized by the local agency. The rapporteur of the first talk was José Luis Nuín, director of the Provincial Energy Agency of Alicante, presented to the public a detailed picture of the energy consumption of the province, its cities and specifically for municipal services and facilities.
