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The Mayor of Barcelona Murcia receives the prestigious' Sustainable City Award "by the municipality projects for the Environment (29/05/2009)

The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara Botía, received this morning the Sustainable City Award in recognition of the efforts of the municipality for sustainable development.

This annual award is given to those municipalities with more than 5,000 people in which have been successfully implemented activities aimed at sustainability in a period of 2 years' duration and with evidence of the existence of a political commitment to development sustainable.

The ceremony was also attended by the Councillor for the Environment, Adela Martinez-cache.

The Sustainable City Award was awarded to Murcia as a whole, that is, being a city that has excelled in all other award categories (water, air, waste and energy).

The Ecocity Fira de Barcelona has welcomed this morning the ceremony of the Prizes awarded for the seventh consecutive year the Environmental Forum Foundation, with support from the Ministry of Environment, in recognition of Spanish municipalities that have opted for projects and actions aimed at promoting sustainability.

This year, the city of Murcia is the winner in the category of Sustainable City, for its numerous projects initiated in different areas that contribute to environmental conservation.

Other municipalities awarded in this seventh edition were Mataró (in the category of Water), Toulouse (in the category of Atmosphere), Puerto del Rosario (in the category of Energy), Ruby (in the category of waste) and Gozón ( Special Mention in the category of Natural Resources).

Her Royal Highness the Infanta Cristina has given the awards at a ceremony in which he was accompanied by Secretary of State for Climate Change, Teresa Ribera, and Mayor of Hospitalet de Llobregat.

Miguel Angel House has received the award more sustainable city as a whole and delivered a speech in which he stressed the commitment of your municipality for the protection of the environment and sustainability.

In addition, Hada Cars, vice-mayor of Stockholm, has attended the event as a guest and explained the actions the Swedish city is doing to promote sustainability and enabling them to obtain recognition of Green Town, 2010 by the European Union .

Leading sustainability

Murcia Commissions has five offices in different subjects, including the Executive Committee of the Environment, Sustainability and Land Management, with responsibilities in the areas of Planning, Housing, Environment and Urban Quality, Infrastructure and Community Services, Circulation, street cleaning and Waste Collection and Transportation.

Murcia has actively participated in numerous projects that contribute to environmental conservation: the Terra program for the study of sustainable development applied to urban planning, the increase in the municipal forest estate, the application of good environmental practices and sports events, the approval measures including protection of biodiversity in the General Urban Plan of Murcia, the introduction of separate collection, saving and water efficiency, the purification of 100% of wastewater collected in sewers, the environmental recovery of the Segura river passing through the city of Murcia, solar energy installations municipal grants for domestic renewable energy and energy efficiency, the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan of Murcia and the introduction of the tram.

The jury this year was composed of the following institutions:

Barcelona City Council

Ayuntamiento de Madrid

City Hall Category Winner "Sustainable City" from the previous edition (Donostia)

Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP)

Institut Català de l'Energia (ICAEN)

Ministry of Environment

Environmental Forum Foundation (as secretary)

Database winning projects

After seven editions of the Sustainable City Awards, the Environmental Forum Foundation has decided to make available the information society of the winning projects in all editions of the competition.

That is why you are designing a database on-line that will be available shortly on the website of the Sustainable City Awards ( www.premiociudadsostenible.org ) and enable searches of the projects by type and area geographical.

This tool is intended as a reference document for planning and sustainable development projects as a reference other actions that have already been recognized and in which the effectiveness of the results has been proven.

On Environmental Forum Foundation

The Environmental Forum Foundation is a nonprofit entity whose main objective is to create a platform for dialogue and collaboration among companies, administrations and the rest of society, to get together and implement a sustainable development model that the current .

His work is structured in three segments: information and outreach, project development and training support and research.

Pursue these lines:

The incorporation of environmental culture corporate culture.

The spread between the society of the compatibility between sustainable business development and protection of environmental quality.

The development and protection of indigenous sector of economic activities based on the Environment.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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