Bistriţa ENGAGE participants reduce their individual carbon footprint by 7%!

26 June 2013 | 11h43 | 201 visits

During the week 3 - 7 June 2013, Bistriţa Municipality organised a series of events dedicated to the World Environment Day, which this year had an overall theme Think.Eat.Save, encouraging the reduction of personal carbon footprint.

Thus, on the 6th of June at the meeting of the Local Energy Forum - created within the European project IMAGINE – the results of ENGAGE local campaign were presented.

ENGAGE has been launched in Bistrita on the 31st of March 2012 on the occasion of "Earth Hour 2012" and developed during 14 months.

The campaign results:

• 221 participants in the ENGAGE local campaign
• 192 online ENGAGE posters
• 100 people monitored out of which 50 civil servants, 25 citizens and 25 stakeholder representatives.

The 100 people monitored were able to achieve a 7% reduction of CO2 emissions, the equivalent of 18.3 tonnes of CO2.

In order to highlight the results of the local ENGAGE campaign, the participants made a group photo at Bistriţa Local Council Meeting Hall.

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