Catania within the Coalition of Mayors for Mission Ocean

The Public Works Directorate of the City of Catania fully shares the objectives and approach of the EU Mission Restore our Oceans and Waters. In order to best contribute to it, the city's development plan of the years to come will be aligned with the Mission Implementation Plan resulting in a series of project and initiatives and in the Catania Strategic Mission Deployment Agenda called “Mission Catania”.
The rationale of Mission Catania is to contribute to the Strategic Mission Deployment Agenda of the “Coalition of Mayors for the Mission” aiming at establishing synergies with interested Municipalities with whom acting together leaving “no one behind”. More specifically it encompasses several actions to be carried out jointly with the Coalition (which SDG4MED is the secretariat of), as follows:
a) deploy solutions to protect, restore and depollute marine and freshwater ecosystems
b) promote development and sharing of knowledge and good practices on sustainable and carbon-neutral blue economy
c) involve citizens, students and private stakeholders.
From a practical viewpoint, the Municipality of Catania will:
1. identify and map its territorial needs and opportunities
2. co-design, together with citizens and stakeholders, its local action plan
3. tune its action plan with that of the member municipalities of the Coalition resulting in the Coalition Shared Action Plan
4. deploy the Action Plan
5. keep the Mission periodically informed via the Coalition spokeperson and through the LightMed CSA.
It is noted that Mission Catania will specially focus on water management systems (with particular attention to rainwater flows), especially looking at hydrogeological instability and the creation of strategies for a zero-emission urban network.