Logroño, May 29 (EFE).- Logroño is the only Spanish city that opts to be the European Green Capital in 2025, to which ten European cities aspire, as happened in the 2023 call.
The ten candidate cities for 2025 are Logroño (Spain), Guimarães (Portugal), Brescia and Novara (Italy), Graz (Austria), Vilnius (Lithuania), Poznan and Rzeszów (Poland) and Brasov (Romania), detailed this Monday the City Council of the La Rioja capital in a note.
He has indicated that Logroño attends this call again with the intention of evaluating the situation of the city with respect to the 12 indicators of the contest to, from there, build solid proposals in later years.
These indicators are air quality, noise, waste, water, nature and biodiversity, sustainable land use, green economy and eco-innovation, climate change (mitigation), climate change (adaptation), sustainable urban mobility, energy efficiency and governance.
Logroño was also the only Spanish city that opted last year, along with 16 other European cities, for this distinction by 2023: Dublin (Ireland), Helsingborg (Sweden), Tallinn (Estonia), Gdansk, Warsaw, Krakow and Rzeszow (Poland). ) Kosice (Slovakia), Cagliari (Italy), Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade (Serbia), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Skopje (Macedonia), Izmir and Gaziantep (Turkey).
On that occasion, Logroño did not get this distinction from the European Commission, but the city of Tallinn.
The evaluation report received by the European Union technicians on Logroño stated that the city enjoyed a good starting position in terms of the environmental quality of its urban and natural environment, the City Council recalled.
The report detailed that the fact that it is a dense and compact city makes it easier to have efficient water or waste collection services, reduces motorized mobility and brings natural environments closer to citizens.