Viladecans is working on the preparation of the Viladecans 2030 Strategy and the Viladecans Urban Agenda, after the city was chosen as one of the first Spanish local administrations to work on the implementation of an urban agenda as a vehicle to address the future challenges of sustainable development by 2030.
For this reason, city councilors have done initial training run by expert Sergi Rovira on the origin and context of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda and the main international urban agendas (UN, Europe and Spain), with the aim of providing a global vision of the existing framework, and, from there, developing our own work tools, since, as Rovira indicates, “all the states develop their own agendas, each with their own structure, but they do not operate separately, as they have a common framework ".
Subsequently, with the aim of starting to identify the city challenges for Viladecans, a working session was held in which the main strategic and sectoral plans for the city were analysed for Viladecans' shortcomings and strengths, thus allowing the Viladecans 2030 Strategy and the Viladecans Urban Agenda to begin to be defined, along with the approach towards consulting the public, which will also be done, as knowledge of the existence of these Agendas is needed because, as Rovira points out, "The United Nations understands that everyone must be involved: governments, the economic world, civil society, workers, research and universities."
The 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development is an action plan for people, the planet, peace and prosperity through alliances; and cities are key in achieving its 17 goals, known as SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), which are broken down into 169 sub-goals, because, as the United Nations states according to Rovira, "60% of implementing these agendas depends on the local policies that are made."
In order to achieve these goals, the government team also attends various meetings at which the SDGs are addressed, as in the case of the Greencities Forum in Malaga, which revolves around technology and environmental sustainability. This meeting brings together all those involved in the construction of smart and sustainable cities in Spain. Mayor Carles Ruiz took part in a round table on the Modernization of Territories, in which he emphasized that innovation must be the engine of transformation of territories and that structuring the transformation with traction-gaining projects is the key to moving forward.
