This policy brief is directed to governments of (and other organisations with national relevance based in) the European Member States, with a twofold purpose:
- On one hand, to highlight the benefits of multilevel governance processes, such as the Climate and Energy Dialogues (CED)[1], as mandated by Article 11 of the European Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action (1999/2018). CEDs are a crucial governance tool facilitating the implementation of the energy transition at EU and Member States’ levels.
This – and other similar co-creation structures – is gaining a more and more prominent role in EU legislation, including most of the recast Directives in the Fit-for-55 package and the Social Climate Plans.
- On the other hand, it promotes an opportunity offered by the European LIFE-funded NECPlatform project to participate in a peer-learning programme: especially developed to transfer the knowledge acquired during the first two years of the project on how to best set up multi-level and multi-stakeholders dialogues, the programme will run end of 2024.
This opportunity is specifically intended for governments of (and other organisations with national relevance based in) the European Member States not part of the NECPlatform project (the participating countries are Bulgaria, France, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Romania).
[1] According to Art. 11 of the Governance Regulation, Climate and Energy Dialogues are fora where “local authorities, civil society organisations, business community, investors and other relevant stakeholders and the general public are able actively to engage and discuss” national climate and energy policy
