Results of the Results of the Sustainable NOW projectSustainable NOW project

European Sustainable Energy European Sustainable Energy Communities - Effective Integrated Communities - Effective Integrated

Local Energy Action TodayLocal Energy Action Today Contract number: IEE/07/752/SI2.499210

Project duration: September 2008 - August 2011

Slides updated on: 03/11/2011

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Contents• Project focus

• Consortium

• Objectives & results

• Integrated management approach

• Strategic context & links

• Contact

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Project focus (I)• Support transition to 100% sustainable energy communities

by:• achieving significant change in public management approaches• achieving sustainable energy solutions at community level

• Work with levels of government closest to citizens:• building local government capacity, • learning from experiences, • encouraging political leadership,

• Identify opportunities for change: political, administrative, economic, social and environmental.

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.. where quality of life is expected and can be offered

1.600 Urban areas in Europe with more than 50.000 inhabitants

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Project focus (II)

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ConsortiumCoordinator: • ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability,

European Secretariat (ICLEI Europe)

Technical and network partners:• Banca Popolare Etica (IT)• Climate Alliance• ecovision GmbH (DE)• Italian Local Agenda 21 Association (IT) • Trecodome (NL)

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Cities and Province partners:• Bologna (IT)• Burgas (BG)• Ludwigsburg (DE)• Mountain Community - Municipalities Association

‘Trasimeno-Middle Tiber’ (IT)• Miskolc (HU)• Munich (DE)• Province of Siena (IT)• Rosignano Marittimo (IT)• Woking Borough (UK)

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Objectives & Results (I)• Develop capacity to strengthen role of local and

provincial governments in the sustainable energy transition – using the integrated management approach

• LEAP wizard as a decision-making support tool• Peer-to-peer exchanges, study visits, workshops, staff

trainee programmes, individual city training workshops

• Create instruments that build on state-of-the-art Local Energy Action Plan (LEAP) developments

• 30 exemplary case studies and analyses on replicable factors and cost-benefit ratios – added to the LEAP wizard

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Objectives (II)• Guide Local Energy Action Plan (LEAP) implementation in

selected learning communities.• Energy guidance for the learners with supporting instruments • 5 new LEAPs (SEAPs)

• Make results widely available through the European Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign (ESCTC).• Web portal to centralise information and instruments for SEC development• Widespread European disseminiation: final brochure and report

• CO2 reduction and improved community resilience of energy-relevant infrastructure

Integrated management approach

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Community energy demands an integrated approach

Integrated Integrated Cyclical Cyclical

Management Management

from an from an ENERGYENERGY approachapproach

Land-use & Housing

Economy & Tourism

Urban development

& Design

Education & knowledge,

communi-cation

Povertyalleviation

Culture & Heritage

Greenery &Urban

landscape Energy-, Water- &

Building Infra-structure

Water & waste management

Urbansociety

(health / resilience)

Transport&

Mobility

1) BASELINE REVIEW

• Conduct a Baseline Emissions Inventory• Energy Status Report (energy sources, energy needs, energy security) • Adaptation Assessment• Establish a vision* (overall direction e.g. to 2020, 2050)

Step 1

Baseline review

• Requires input from actors outside Local Governments (LGs)

• Identify boundaries, themes

• Refer to legislative context relative to energy sustainability

• How to measure?

• Indicators: beware of over-complexity and over-simplicity

• Collect data and deal with data gaps

2) TARGET SETTING

• Organisational & financial aspects (form team e.g. under supervision of Mayor, involve team in target setting)• Set CO2 / GHG reduction target for

municipality and community. • Set specific energy savings & RE % target per sector• Estimate costs and expected CO2e

reduction per measure• Set LEAP / SEAP timeframe (e.g. 3 to 5 years, 10 years)

Step 2

Target setting

• Trade off between vision and feasible (be ambitious, yet realistic)

• Involvement and agreement by stakeholders to achieve ownership

• Lessons learned: If you start, start small to allow adaptation of plan

• Set priorities through participation exploration

3) POLITICAL COMMITMENT

• Conduct political debate• Obtain Council decision – approval of targets (also for LEAP / SEAP)• Outline LEAP / SEAP – targets and measures• Communicate this with citizens (relevant - step 1 through 5)

Step 3

Political commitment

• True involvement for achieving comprehensive programme, not isolated pilots

• Integration with other urban policies

4) IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING

• Define key actions / measures• Identify activity leader and involved department / individual / company• Implement (start / end date)• Involve stakeholders• Communicate with citizens• Ongoing monitoring and taking (easy) corrective actions

Step 4

Implementation and monitoring

• Measures qualitatively and quantitatively

• Assign responsibilities

• Regular and valuable feedback to actors feeding the system

• Corrective measures

5) EVALUATION AND REPORTING

• Collect results• Analyse progress - development towards targets, problems, new opportunities • Evaluate process - effective?• Prepare feedback for next cycle• Communicate with citizens

Step 5

Evaluation and reporting

• Value judgement

• Where’s additionality of plan?

• Evaluate regularly, not a one-off

• Quantitative analysis of each indicator

• Possible organisational changes

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Strategic context & links

• European Climate and Energy package

• Covenant of Mayors – www.eumayors.eu

• European Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign (ESCTC) Aalborg Charter and commitments -

• Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign (SEEC)

• Local Government Climate Roadmap – www.iclei.org/climate-roadmap

• LG Action – www.lg-action.eu

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ContactHolger Robrecht – Maryke van Staden – Daniel Morchain

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

European Secretariat

Leopoldring 3

D-79098 Freiburg

Germany

E-mail: sustainable-now@iclei.org

URL: www.sustainable-now.eu

Tel.: +49 - 761 / 3 68 92 - 0

Fax: +49 - 761 / 3 68 92 - 79

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The Team

www.sustainable-now.euwww.sustainable-now.eu