1. Charlotte Spörndli, 20 June 2017
European Energy Award
Charlotte Spörndli, 20 June 2017

2. 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

3. 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

4. The European Energy Award

5. 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

6. 1500 participating cities and communities ~ 50 mio inhabitants 25 years of experience
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648 4 16 4 3

7. 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

8. 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