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This report aims to impart the conversations and takeaways discussed among key stakeholders in the Philadelphia community at the Philadelphia New Normal Forum, a virtual convention held in May 2020. Among the findings discussed in the Report are key challenges and opportunities identified along each of the Forum’s four discussion themes - City Infrastructure, Neighborhood Essentials, Inclusive Communities, and Intentional Investment. In its efforts to demonstrate SDG materiality and feasibility for multi-stakeholder implementation, the report takes an intermediate step of mapping identified challenges and opportunities to specific UN SDG targets, as well as goals identified in Philadelphia’s comprehensive plan for growth and development, also known as Philadelphia2035. 

This report provides a glimpse at what countries are already doing to pave the way for a green COVID-19 recovery, the path ahead and how governments can propel the transition in key sectors.

The first of four Thematic Working Groups created by the Interreg MED's Green Growth community focused on Sustainable Consumption and Production by enhancing Resource Efficiency in the Mediterranean agrofood sector as well as in urban areas through the implementation of the Smart City Concept.

• Measuring their environmental footprint and resource efficiency;
• The use of low-cost, low-tech, labour-intensive, and rudimentarily-equipped greenhouses;
• The lack of energy efficiency and renovation of EU buildings.

It then presents the projects' solutions and the benefits of resource efficiency for the environment and the economy. The projects were monitored according to the EU CEAP's indicator framework.

This report shows that there is substantial demand for support on how to prepare and finance projects around climate change in cities.

This policy brief discusses how cities can manage the COVID-19 crisis and realise a resilient, inclusive, gender-equal, and green economic recovery.