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With the deadline near, Local Governments still left out of national Social Climate Plans
As the Social Climate Fund (SCF) deadline nears, most Member States are still sidelining local and regional governments in the design of their national plans — despite legal obligations to consult them. This is the conclusion of a new survey conducted by ACR+ and its partners of the Local Alliance to explore the multilevel design of national Social Climate plans in their final stage, assessing the degree to which further integration of local and regional governments’ projects, plans and recommendations have or have not been taken into account in the development of Member States’ national Social Climate Plans. A policy brief summarises the survey's findings highlighting that engagement with local governments is often delayed, irregular, or missing entirely.
