European Climate Award (eca)
In 2014, at the request of the Saxon State Ministry for the Environment and Agriculture (SMUL), the city of Chemnitz decided to participate as one of two Saxon municipalities in the "European Climate Award - Adaptation to Climate Change" pilot project organised by the eea federal office. The aim was to determine the extent to which the municipalities are prepared for the consequences of climate change and which measures need to be implemented in the near future. A total of ten municipalities from North Rhine-Westphalia and two municipalities from Saxony took part.
After three years of work, Chemnitz achieved the second level of certification in the external audit on 25 July 2017 with 51.4% of the possible points and thus achieved the best result of all 12 pilot municipalities. On 6 November 2017, the City of Chemnitz was honoured by the State Minister for the Environment and Agriculture, Mr Thomas Schmidt, in front of a large audience.
City of Chemnitz is a climate pioneer
Chemnitz received the European Climate Award (eca) on 6 November 2017. The award honours the city for its successful participation in the three-year pilot project "eea-plus - adaptation to climate change", which examined the extent to which municipalities are prepared for the consequences of climate change and which measures need to be implemented in the near future.
Of the twelve participating pilot municipalities from Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, Chemnitz achieved the best result with 51.4 % of the criteria. Mayor Miko Runkel and the climate team, consisting of representatives from various specialist departments and companies, accepted the award from the Saxon State Minister for the Environment and Agriculture, Thomas Schmidt, at the Hygiene Museum in Dresden.
Exemplary projects
- Flood protection concept
- Refrigeration network of the Chemnitzer Kliniken gGmbH
- Green corridor along the Kappelbach stream
- Climate-friendly forest reorganisation