Results of the Sustainable NOW project European Sustainable Energy Communities - Effective Integrated Local Energy Action Today Results of the Sustainable NOW project European Sustainable Energy Communities - Effective Integrated Local Energy Action Today Contract number: IEE/07/752/SI Project duration:September August 2011 Slides updated on: 03/11/2011 Supported by:

2 Contents Project focus Consortium Objectives & results Integrated management approach Strategic context & links Contact

3 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.

Europe by night.. where quality of life is expected and can be offered Urban areas in Europe with more than inhabitants Cities are... Project focus (II)

5 Consortium Coordinator: 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)

6 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)

7 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

8 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 CO 2 reduction and improved community resilience of energy-relevant infrastructure

Integrated management approach 9

Community energy demands an integrated approach Integrated Cyclical Management from an ENERGY approach Land-use & Housing Economy & Tourism Urban development & Design Education & knowledge, communi- cation Poverty alleviation Culture & Heritage Greenery & Urban landscape Energy-, Water- & Building Infra- structure Water & waste management Urban society (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 CO 2 / GHG reduction target for municipality and community. Set specific energy savings & RE % target per sector Estimate costs and expected CO 2 e 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

21 Strategic context & links European Climate and Energy package Covenant of Mayors – European Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign (ESCTC) Aalborg Charter and commitments - Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign (SEEC) Local Government Climate Roadmap – LG Action –

22 Contact Holger Robrecht – Maryke van Staden – Daniel Morchain ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability European Secretariat Leopoldring 3 D Freiburg Germany URL: Tel.: / Fax: /

23 The Team