This project aims at bringing together 12 groups of European island authorities in order to achieve the following goals:

• Achieve an overall objective of more than CO2 emissions reduction by 2020.
• Demonstrate their political commitment to EU sustainable energy objectives by signing a binding declaration, the Pact of Islands, undertaking to put programmes, actions and investments in place to help achieve the overall objective of the project.
• Develop Island Sustainable Energy Action Plans (ISEAPs) as the means by which they will achieve the overall target of the project.
• Develop methodologies and tools that will allow them to monitor progress of implementation of ISEAPs as well as track progress in reducing CO2 emissions to the desirable levels by 2020.
• Assess environmental and socio-economic factors, as they may affect and influence the implementation of ISEAPs.
• Produce a pipeline of priority bankable projects that will be used as the means to implement the ISEAPs and achieve targets.
• Propose a number of financing tools and mechanisms that will provide the financial resources needed by investors to implement the bankable projects.
• Launch a strong information dissemination campaign with the view to disseminate the results and achievements of the project to the largest possible number of people and increase the level of awareness in islands' efforts to contribute in the fight against climate change.

The project work has been structured in eight Work Packages. In addition to the 7 mandatory WPs the proposers felt strongly that an eighth WP dedicated to the development of monitoring methodologies and mechanisms for tracking the progress of implementation of ISEAPs and CO2 emissions deserved special attention due to its relative high importance.

Paragon has been entrusted by the Local Councils' Association to represent the Maltese municipalities in this project. The main responsibilities of Paragon shall be related to conducting professional research, compiling reports for the topic in hand and maintain communication channels with stakeholders including politicians, teachers and civil society in general.

The main deliverables of this project are:

• Draft pack of islands
• Explanatory memorandum to the pack of islands
• SWOT analysis of the islands Commission approving the Pol
• Declaration of the islands commission approving Pol
• Final Pol and Explanatory memorandum
• Training material for the use of the selected model
• CO2 monitoring including guidance for reporting and auditing
• Energy related sustainable indicators
• Island certification tools
• Benchmarking standards
• Report on financing schemes and incentives
• Report on targeted financing mechanisms and tools for selected bankable projects
• Report on the possible roles of SMEs and local societies in supporting and financing local RES, EE and transport sector initiatives

The consortium of this project is made up of the following organizations:

• WESTERN ISLES - COMHAIRLE NAN EILEAN SIAR
• GOTLAND - MUNICIPALITY OF GOTLAND
• AREAM - AGENCIA REGIONAL DA ENERGIA
• AMBIENTE DA REGIAO AUTONOMA DE MADEIRA
• ITC - INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE CANARIAS S.A.
• ITC - INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE CANARIAS S.A.
• BALEARICS - DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR
• ENERGY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS GOVERNMENT
• DAFNI - AEGEAN SUSTAINABLE ISLANDS NETWORK
• REAC - REGIONAL ENERGY AGENCY OF CRETE
• PEPS - PUNTO ENERGIA PROVINCIA DI SASSARI - MULTISS
• PARAGON LIMITED
• CYPRUS ENERGY AGENCY
• SAMSØ ENERGY ACADEMY
• ARENA - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
• AGENCY OF AZORES