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TrIsCo
The TrIsCo (Transition Island Communities: Empowering Localities to Act) project is a joint venture between six organisations:
- the Environment Centre (tEC), environmental charity from South East England, UK
- Stichting Brabantse Milieufederatie (BMF), not for profit organisation from North Brabant, the Netherlands
- Municipality of Gotland, public body from Stockholm, Sweden
- ACER Reggio Emilia, social housing Operator representing 45 municipalities and the Province of Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Viimsi Vallavalitsus, public body from Tallinn, Estonia
- Universidad de Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
The partnership has successfully received a total of €265,956 funding through SEEDA’s POWER programme from EU Interreg IVC.
Aims
TrIsCo aims to:
- Enable different ‘islands’ of communities (households, businesses and public bodies) to reduce their Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions by changing their behaviour towards their use of resources;
- Embed sustainability (social, economic and environmental) into behaviour change drivers;
- Overcome barriers to implementing low carbon communities.
NB: The term ‘island’ refers to communities with distinct characteristics at different stages of engagement in the climate change agenda.
Central to TrIsCo’s impact will be the exchange of good practice, training seminars, experience and expertise by multi-disciplinary teams across the cross border region.
Key Outcomes
To create bespoke ‘Empowering CO2 Reduction’ catalogues of instruments, initiatives or local authority action plans with quantifiable measurement tools for public bodies, commerce and the public to take action themselves and be able to assess their own success.
The project will evaluate and advertise the CO2 savings of the communities, and the consequences of these savings, so they can see that they are making a real difference, thus encouraging further behaviour change.
How Can I Get Involved?
If you are a community group, business or school you can get free support to help you reduce your carbon emissions. Please see the ‘Contacts’ page to contact the representative in your region.
