Regions and Cities as Stimulators Towards Green and Digital Economy

Background

The number of subjects that are tackled successfully by local and regional leaders becomes impressive. The newest one is to find an answer to climate change and to make the public administration a stimulator towards a carbon-neutral policy. The Swedish city of Växjö together with the Belgian city of Leuven received recently the prestigious European Green Leaf Award. This prize is awarded to cities that co-operate with their residents in a viable city (European Environmental Policy Prize, 2017). The recent vehement answers from American cities towards Donald Trump’s exit from the Paris agreement prove that this topic is now claimed by regional authorities.