New Climate Analysis Regions moving towards a low carbon economy

New Climate Analysis is a research report done within the EU Interreg IV project LoCaRe (Low Carbon Regions, www.locareproject.eu) and its 3 strategic themes: New Energy, New Leadership and New Climate. New Climate refers to the new condition of the Regions in their common initiative to reduce CO2 emissions, regionally and locally: their aim is to find and develop low carbon solutions (policies, strategies, tools, measures), contributing to economic growth at the same time. The Analysis, by exploring the framework with a general socio-economic and environmental context, and by developing a Best Practice methodological approach, tries to find out Regions’ potential signals of transition towards a “low-carbon revolution”. The transition can be pursued by promoting, extending and transferring Regions’ excellences and BPs in the field of industry and energy, transport, buildings, and agriculture (the focus is on the building sector taken as a target sectorial case study). A complex picture emerges from this Analysis, and the ongoing crisis is changing previous estimations. Nevertheless the Analysis gives some useful recommendations and suggestions for Regions moving towards LCE.