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City Governments engaged in climate change mitigation and adaptation face the multiple challenge of self-commitment, the need to involve their communities and stakeholders, and top-down and multi-scalar processes out of their control dictating options and the evolution in their concrete realities. Even so, the Green City concept has emerged, reflecting the expertise achieved by cities and towns in sustainable development twenty years after the Rio Earth Summit. With the EU 2020 Strategy, the Covenant of Mayors and the Mexico City Pact, a rapidly growing number of Local Authorities are moving into low-carbon development. Based on in-depth case studies, this research aims at understanding how and why 6 cities, in a wide variety of settings, stand in regards to the green development paradigm., Els governs locals implicats en la mitigació i adaptació del canvi climàtic afronten el múltiple repte d'assumir compromisos, la necessitat d'involucrar llurs comunitats i agents socieconòmics, i processos mutiescalars i top-down fora del seu control dictant les opcions i l'evolució de les seves realitats concretes. Malgrat tot, ha emergit el concepte de la Ciutat Verda, reflecting l'expertesa assolida per part de ciutats i pobles en el camp del desenvolupament sostenible 20 anys després de la Cimera de la Terra de Rio'92. Amb l'Estratègia Europea 2020, el Pacte d'Alcaldes i el Mexico City Pact, un creixent nombre d'autoritats locals s'incorporen al desenvolupament baix en carboni. Basant-se en l'estudi de casos de profunditat, aquesta recerca vol comprendre com i per què 6 ciutats, en una àmplia varietat de contextos, se situen en relació al paradigma del desenvolupament verd.

Since we are experimenting now a new era of cities being deployed with smart technologies, citizen participation is a complementary task to these cities. Traditional ways being used for civic engagement are not interesting anymore to most of the citizens, as attracting a diverse group of citizens to participate can be challenging, since citizen involvement is often a leisure-time activity and competes with other ways of spending time (Oksman et al., 2014). This research investigates the possible ways of attracting people to the Co-creation process as well as utilizing the latest innovative technologies that could be applied as a participation tool. This study used the concluded results from the previous practical work as a reference to create a strong theoretical background discussing several aspects of the subject. A conceptual proposal was designed afterwards, including several steps that should be implemented in sequence, followed by the implementation phase which includes a business model strategy and finally a discussion and evaluation of the expected outcomes

El Pacte d'Alcaldes, és una iniciativa voluntària coordinada per la Unió Europea. És la major agrupació mundial de governs locals amb l'objectiu d'avançar cap a un consum d'energia més sostenible i baix en emissions de gasos d'efecte hivernacle. En aquest treball analitzarem cronològicament el tema de la sostenibilitat energètica. Seguidament estudiarem la tipologia i les característiques dels municipis participants. A continuació, triarem 5 municipis de diferents països del sud d'Europa per a analitzar les accions i els principals resultats sorgits del monitoratge i poder establir unes característiques comunes o divergents. Per últim, analitzarem un municipi més detalladament The Covenant of Mayors is a voluntary initiative coordinated by the European Union. It is the largest global meeting of local governments in order to move towards more sustainable energy consumption and low emissions of greenhouse gases. In this paper we analyze the issue of sustainability in a chronologically. Then we study the nature and characteristics of the participating municipalities. Next, we choose five different municipalities in southern Europe to analyze the actions and the main results arising from the monitoring and to establish common characteristics or divergent. Finally, we discuss in more detail a specific municipality