1. Turin Final Conference 25 September 2014
Component 3
Cordelia Koenig
Ministry of Urban Development and Environment Hamburg
Katharina Klindworth
HafenCity University Hamburg

2. Objectives of the CLUE project
Increased regional capacity in policy development to facilitate implementation and assessment of new solutions and technologies to support low carbon economy in urban areas
A shared perception on Climate Neutral Urban Districts within the CLUE partnership
I think all of the CLUE partners remember how we started more than two years ago at our Opening Conference in Stockholm. People from different nations, different kinds of cities and regions, people with different backgrounds.
However, these differences, these different experiences were THE important factor within our project. And this is actually the idea behind INTERREG.
In order to develop a climate neutral urban district, it is important to study experiences from other European cities and regions that already have or are planning to have similar urban development projects with focus on climate mitigation strategies.
So what we wanted to do and what we have done is to develop policies that help cities or regions on their road to implement climate neutral urban districts.
So – how did we do that? And what was the outcome?

3. Five Thematic Work Groups
Responsible Partner
Other Partners
Legislation/regulation in the planning process and economic aspects
Hamburg
Paggaio
Risorse per Roma
Stockholm
Private sector and citizen engagement / participation
Vienna
Turin
Planning strategies: type of mixture of living, services and workplaces; density of the city; multiple use of green areas
Małopolska
Technology and system solutions for heating, cooling and energy efficiency
Barcelona
Technology and systems solutions for urban transportation
City of Rome
Partners sent representatives from their city or region to the work groups most relevant to them. 3

4. Discussions:
Selection criteria for good practices
How to go on detailing the good practices
What needs to be included into the reports?
Presentations:
Good Practices
Background information on study visits
Lessons learned from other INTERREG projects

6. Towards the Good Practice Guide
Good Practices
Good Practice Reports
Good Practice Guide
CLUE roadmap
WG1
82 Good Practices
WG 2
Good Practice Guide
25 Selected Good Practices
Good practices for transition to CLUEs
Selection
WG 3
Write
Merge to
Contains
according to criteria
WG 4
.....
In addition each city or region did an implementation plan which was derived from ideas gathered within the good practices of others or from study visits in the different cities. In some cases a whole good practice was of interest for the partners like for example the Hammarby Ecocycle model or Vienna‘s citizen power plant, in other cases only small parts of a good practice were used (for example the use of indicators within the Barcelona Energy, Climate Change and Air Quality Plan).
Urban policy making towards CLUEs
WG 5 6

7. Criteria for evaluating and selecting good practices7

8. Now Katharina will tell you something about the findings within our report.8

9. The CLUE roadmap
The CLUE project decided to adopt a roadmap appraoch => roadmap as a framework and tool to collect and integrate necessary methods, measures and steps towards climate neutrality.
Roadmap defines a framework to guide and structure the long-term process towards climate neutrality
Guided by the long-term goal of the climate neutral city
Data collection & baseline analysis, establishing of indicators and evaluation schemes
Measures and projects to realise the vision => cooperation across administrational departments, sectors, involvement of stakeholders and citizens
Open for constand evaluation, adoption and learning => flexibility
Adoption to local specifics and framework conditions => no single path to climate neutrality => every city has to develop its own roadmap to climate neutrality
Some of the measures and tools needed to work towards climate neutrality can be derived from the CLUE project => 5 thematic work groups, experiences from the CLUE cities and regions & tools from the university partners
I‘m presenting overall policy recommendations derived from the work in the CLUE project
Establishing the groundwork on city level
Focusing on defining the problem and setting the agenda for local action
Following presentations present the results and recommendations specific to the work group themes of the CLUE project. 9

10. Urban policy making towards CLUEs
Policy recommendations
Convincing important decision-makers to go for CLUEs
Ensure support cross political boundaries
Effect / impact
Establishing CLUEs as perspective and goal in a city‘s budget and administration
Ensure long-term political support
Targeted at political level, to establish the basis for targeted actions over a long period of time
Establishing climate neutral urban districts is a long-term process that requires consequent action over a long-term period of time
Create a broad and shared understanding of a climate neutral urban district and its advantages
Within the municipal administration, let by a department of the city administration
Convince decision makers to support necessary steps => reach a politically legitimised decision as basis for local action and local budgeting
Political commitment over a long period of time is needed => majority has to support transition process to climate neutrality, across party boundaries, across changing majorities following elections
Raising awareness and mobilising support among politicians
self-binding agreements 10

11. Urban policy making towards CLUEs
Policy recommendations
Developing roadmaps as an overall approach
Integrated planning to generate synergies between sectors
Effect / impact
Integrating goals and measures in a systematic scheme including feedback loops
Cooperation between sectors and integrated measures on district level
Develop a roadmap to outline each cities‘ specific path to climate neutrality
Means to structure short-term actions on the way towards the long-term goal of climate neutrality
Each city must develop its own roadmap specific to local starting point and framework conditions
Integrate steps of analyses, development of measures and projects, implementation, evaluation and adaptation => integrate all necessary measures, tools, projects within the roadmap
Climate neutral urban districts require a holistic approach => activities of different actors and sectors within the municipal administration and beyond have to contribute to the overall goal of climate neutrality
Necessary framework has to be established from the beginning of the process
Establishing climate neutrality as an overall guiding vision for integrated measures 11

12. Urban policy making towards CLUEs
Policy recommendations
Fundamental changes, not only technical innovations
Establishing learning schemes from the beginning
Transfer CLUE achievements city wide
Effect / impact
Transition of city structures and systems towards a low carbon society and green economy
Improving competences and skills of municipal institutions and stakeholders, avoiding sub-optimisation and bad solutions
Learning from CLUE on an institutional level, improving the overall planning and implementation
Climate neutral urban districts require more then technical innovations
Innovative processes and organisations, new forms of participation and cooperation => co-creation of measures
Combining different measures which equally consider social, ecological and economic aspects
Develop, try out and learn about cobined new solutions
Main purpose of a climate neutral urban district is to learn about processes and technologies
From the beginning of the planning process learning schemes should be developed and integrated => how to learn from the experiences made and how to integrate lessons learnt in planning and decision making processes
Institutional learning processes should be analysed and documented, also mistakes and falues
Successful solutions should be further optimised and integrated into statutory requirements (municipal legislation and regulation)
Climate neutral urban districts should be spaces to try out innovative solutions and processes and to illustrate sustainable urban development
Test beds and role models => establishing a climate neutral urban district is not an end in itself but a stepping stone towards the climate neutral city
Processes and methods have to be developed and established which allow to transfer experiences and lessons learnt from established CLUEs to other districts
Overall planning in the city has to be influenced by the experiences made with CLUEs 12

13. Thank you!
Cordelia Koenig Coordination Centre for Climate Issues Ministry of Urban Development and Environment, City of Hamburg Katharina Klindworth HafenCity University Hamburg