The Wyndham Grand Hotel, in Quinta do Lago, in Loulé, will host on Wednesday, December 7th, from 14 pm, the ODSlocal'00 Conference “Paths, Dynamics, Futuros”, in an initiative that includes the delivery of ODSLocal Awards.
Ana Abrunhosa, Minister of Territorial Cohesion, will participate in the opening session which will also be attended by Mayor Vítor Aleixo and Filipe Duarte Santos, President of the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development, and who will present several initiatives that have stood out in favor of sustainable development.
Lorenz Gross, OECD economist and analyst, takes an approach to SDG implementation in reviewing local policies. Helena Roseta, national coordinator of the Healthy Neighborhoods Programme, will speak about this public program, of a participatory nature, to improve health conditions, well-being and quality of life in vulnerable territories.
At 16:15 pm, the awards will be handed out, first to projects by different entities and then to municipalities, which will be distinguished for their good practices and will receive the ODSlocal stamps.
The closure of this event will be in charge of João Ferrão, coordinator of ODSlocal, who will present the future perspectives of this platform.
This Prize is launched by the consortium that constitutes the Plataforma ODSlocal – Plataforma Municipal dos Objectives de Desenvolvimento Sustainable, and is based on the mobilization of decision-makers and municipal technicians, local agents and citizens in relation to the SDGs proposed by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda.
Loulé was part of the restricted group of eight Portuguese municipalities (Bragança, Cascais, Castelo de Vide, Coruche, Loulé, Ceia and Viana do Castelo) invited to participate in the pilot phase of ODSLocal and Sustainable Development, in collaboration with OBSERVA from the Instituto de Ciências Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, MARE of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon and the company 2ADAPT.
Since its launch in 2020, 85 municipalities across the country have been mobilized and more than 500 projects developed by various types of entities and an identical number of good practices developed by local authorities have been mapped, which show their commitment to putting the various dimensions of sustainability at the heart of its policies and its daily action to meet the 17 SDGs proposed by the UN.
Support for underprivileged families, gender equity in government bodies, incentives for reforestation education actions are some of the planned measures.
Aware of the challenges of the 2030 Agenda, Vítor Aleixo, who also chairs the Board of the Sustainable Development Goals Municipalities Section of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities, says that «this platform constitutes an opportunity to stimulate a broad and open local sustainability movement, which highlights not only the role of good practices in the municipality for the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda, but also of all local actors, with projects that compete for the same commitment».
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