Amsterdam: towards a sustainable city

Maarten van Poelgeest Former Deputy Mayor Urban Planning, Climate and Energy

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220 km2 800.000 inhabitants 431.000 households > 22.000 companies

Amsterdam 2014

Elements of a sustainable metropole

More intensive land use Towards a ‘sharing economy’

Creating a circular economy

More intensive land use

Amsterdam is a compact city: Transforming office space

Rooftops: solar panels, water buffering or

green zones Underground energy grid

Towards a ‘sharing economy’

Combine common practice with the possibilities of modern technology: Car sharing: Car2Go, Snappcar, BlaBla Car,

Green Wheels, Toogethr Crowdfunding: We Share Solar, One Planet

Crowd

Creating a circular economy

Working together with companies and citizens to create a restorative, circular economy: Green Business Club

Voluntary Sustainability Agreements with

various economic sectors (hotels, hospitals) ‘Living labs’

Instruments

Open data:

Energy Atlas

Facilitate cooperation: Waste and Energy Company, water

purification company, production facilities and grid operators work together in the harbour area to produce and distribute sustainable heat and electricity.

Instruments

Promote energy efficiency in utilities sector: EU law: measures with a payback time < 5

years are obliged Datacenters will reduce energy

consumption with 68 million kWh by 2016

Instruments

Invest in sustainable projects and infrastructure:

€ 70 million through Climate and Energy fund

Instruments

Lead by example:

Instruments

The bicycle!

Amsterdam is Europe’s number 1 bicycle city. - People bike 2 million km daily - 50% of all movements in the city by bicycle

A long road ahead…

Thank you for your attention!

Any questions?