Avegno within the Coalition of Mayors for Mission Ocean

The Mayor and the Municipal Council of Avegno fully share the objectives and approach of the EU Mission Restore our Oceans and Waters. 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 the Deployment Agenda called “Mission Ventimiglia”.
The rationale is to establish synergies with interested Municipalities with whom acting together leaving “no one behind”. Accordingly, the plan 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.

It should be noted that Mission Avegno will focus on restoring its rivers (60 km) and water basins by:
- replacing artificial embankments with naturalistic ones
- improving maintenance of the waterways to prevent debris and / or tree residues and plastics to descend downstream and/or obstruct the water flow
- build two natural water storages to ensure year-around supply for irrigation as well as for production of green hydro-electrical power then used to reduce to partially fulfil the town electrical demand and reduce its footprint

From a practical viewpoint, the Municipality of Avegno 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 BlueMissionMed CSA.