Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) of 32 small and very small Italian municipalities: focus on the transport sector

Abstract

Growing interest in the environmental impact has motivated the launch of the Covenant of Mayors', a voluntary agreement aimed at meeting the 20% EU CO2 emission reduction targets for 2020. Its key instrument is the Sustainable Energy Action Plan: this survey ex-amines the plans of 32 Italian small and very small municipalities in the Liguria, between the coastline and the countryside. The goal is to provide a comparative reading of the SEAPs and hypothesize some rationales about location and size.