Regional authorithies throughout Europe support smaller local authorities that lack knowledge/capacity with the development of ambitious and detailed action plans for a.o. climate adaptation/mitigation and biodiversity development. In reality we see that these local authorities are very grateful with this support in the development of action plans and visions for e.g. development of green and blue infrastructure of their urban centres but it stops there. Too often local authorities do not take the next step of really implementing actions. The idea of this project is to find out why local authorithies don’t implement actions that are completely worked out for them by experts and how regional authorities can support them with this. Is it because they don’t know how to prioritise actions? Do they need a clear vision on what actions will deliver most regarding climate change? Is it a lack of knowledge? A lack of budget? Not enough staff? Not enough interaction between different departments of local authorithies? Do they fail in convincing the politicians that need to take the final decision? They need support in reaching out and co-creating with citizens? Is the solution other tools/support of regional authorithies more focusing on actual implementation instead of on action plans? In this project we want to find out what the main causes are and how regional authorities can not only support small local authorities in developing climate action plans, renewable energy plans, green-blue infrastructure plans,… but how we can support/guide/push them towards really starting with implementations. Ideally not only the obvious quick wins but the actions that deliver the most impact for the climate/biodiversity. For the Antwerp region the focus will be on the implementation of green-blue infrastructure plans that we worked out for local municipalities.