Charlotte Spörndli, 20 June 2017 European Energy Award Charlotte Spörndli, 20 June 2017
The European Energy Award Step 1: Political Decision of Participation in the eea Programme Step 2: Set up of an Energy Team Step 4: Definition of Goals and Action Plan Step 5: Implementation of Action Plan Step 6: Monitoring and Reporting (Annual internal monitoring and external audit every 4 years) Defining short-, midterm and long term goals Step 3: Initial Energy Review
The European Energy Award Quality management system for communal energy and climate policy Certification & awarding system International benchmarking system National/regional support programmes for communities
The European Energy Award
The European Energy Award 6 areas of assessment > holistic approach 73 qualitative indicators (assessment between 0 – 100%) and set of quantitative indicators > mix of different types of KPIs No must indicators > strong incentives through benchmarking to use certain indicators
1500 participating cities and communities ~ 50 mio inhabitants 25 years of experience 329 104 2 233 116 648 4 16 4 3
Alignment with UN SDG11 / U4SSC Similar indicator for majority of UN SDG 11 indicators Classification according to U4SSC possible, sometime several categories applicable eea focusses on energy and climate policy (environment), BUT this implies certain co- benefits or co-responsibilities from societal or economic point of view
Conclusions / recommendations Cities and communities need guidance through all the different initiatives, need to see synergies, no double work Cities and communities need to have a benefit of public reporting / communication of indicators in the long-term Coach / accompany cities and communities