• Start year: 2011
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status: Completed

Viability, pre-project and executive project studies were undertaken
with regard to energy-efficiency and renewable
energy actions in local government buildings and facilities.
Legal and financial advice was provided for conditions documentation.
For more information (in Catalonian): http://
diba.cat/es/web/mediambient/elena

• Start year: 2011
• Type: Fiscal / Financial mechanism
• Status: Completed

The Barcelona regional government is spearheading a project
involving eight other European partners to create a fiftyschool
network in which to apply the 50/50 concept, based
on economic incentives for energy savings, applied at entities
where users do not pay utilities bills directly, such as
education centers, whose bills are paid by the local government.
For more information (in Catalonian): http://diba.cat/
es/web/mediambient/euronet

• Start year: 2011
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: Completed

Design and development support was provided for 26
sustainable-energy action plans as well as communication
between local governments and the Mayors’ Pact European
office. A number of sustainable-energy action-plans-awareness-
building and communication activities were carried out
in Barcelona-province communities. Finally, a government
employee training program was realized. For more information
(in Catalonian): http://diba.cat/es/web/mediambient/
pactealcaldes

• Start year: 2012
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status: Completed

The Barcelona regional government and the Catalonian Water
Agency—together with fifty local communities—carried
out the “La red ahorra agua,” a series of coordinated citizen
awareness actions designed to further promote at-home
water conservation. Local-level umbrella administrations
lent each participating municipal government resources and
technical support as part of a campaign operating under
a single slogan and logo. For more information (in Catalonian):
http://www.diba.cat/web/xarxasost/estalviaigua

• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

The program involves the conservation of natural and cultural
values via active management in balance with socioeconomic
development and social land use as well as through
an alliance with the local community and other public and
private land stakeholders. The mission translates into three
basic management lines: a) conservation and physical land
stewardship; b) development and participation promotion;
c) social uses and environmental education.

• Start year: 2006
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: Completed

During the last extreme drought conditions in Catalonia—
which saw local-level water-use restrictions—the Barcelona
regional government and a local cities and towns network
for sustainability drafted a number of support documents
for local governments facing commitments imposed as part
of those restrictions. Experiences were also shared with regard
to adaptations for use in public greenspaces or nonpotable
water reuse for government use.