Causes Written Declatration on the establishment of the Pact of Islands as an official European initiative

The MEPs Maria da Graça Carvalho, Spyros Danellis (S&D), Kyriakos Mavronikolas (S&D), Alyn Smith (GREEN) and Giommaria Uggias (ALDE), presented a written Declaration on 12 September 2011 in order to create the conditions for project's continuation after 2013 under a new political structure, the PACT OF ISLANDS.

The ISLE-PACT project is committed to developing Local Sustainable Energy Action Plans with the aim of meeting or exceeding the EU sustainability targets of 20/20/20 for the year 2020. 

Currently there are 12 participating groups of European Islands (over 60 islands) involved but the project would welcome cooperation with more as the ISLE-PACT process has been conceived to include all European Islands. 

The project is co-financed by the European Commission, Directorate General for Energy.