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Project IntroductionContract number: IEE/07/752/SI2.499210

Project duration:September 2008 - August 2011Slides updated on: 30/07/2009

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Contents

• Project focus• Motivation for action• Consortium• Aims• Specific objectives• Expected results• Strategic context & links• Contact

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Project focus• Support the 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

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Motivation for action• Some challenges today:

• climate change, • rising fuel prices, • environmental degradation, • financial crises,• socio-economic pressures, ...

• Our response: • climate change mitigation and adaptation, • improving energy security, • improving management systems

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ConsortiumCo-ordinator: • ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability,

European Secretariat (DE)

Technical and network partners:• Banca Popolare Etica (IT)• Climate Alliance (DE)• ecovision GmbH,

Gesellschaft für erneuerbare Energien & Umwelt (DE)• Italian Local Agenda 21 Association (IT) • Trecodome (NL)

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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)

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Aims• Overcome non-technological barriers regarding energy

conservation, energy efficiency (EE), renewable energy (RE).

• Support sustainable energy implementation and the development of sustainable energy communities.

• Cross border cooperation - country focus: Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom.

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Specific objectives (1)• Develop capacity to strengthen the role of local and

provincial governments as political and administrative bodies guiding communities in the sustainable energy transition, overcoming non-technological barriers and creating tangible results for sustainability.

• Create instruments that build on state-of-the-art Local Energy Action Plan (LEAP) developments to support Local Governments in decision-making for integrated energy management, climate protection actions and securing local energy supply.

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Specific objectives (2)• Guide Local Energy Action Plan (LEAP) implementation

in selected learning communities.• Make results widely available through the European

Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign (ESCTC).

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LEAP Implementation- Continuous implementation and

evaluation of LEAPs through cyclic, periodical, and integrated management

- Anchored in EU Policies

- Follows structured and logic routines and integrates the variety of issues, actors, geographical areas.

- Timely response to rapid changes in environment and of information

- Political commitment as decisive democratic step in local government activities

- Community buy-in through appropriate participation in target setting, implementation, evaluation

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Expected results (1)

• Improved capacity of 9 LGs, using:• Peer-to-peer exchanges, study visits, workshops, staff

trainee programmes

• Energy guidance package, with instruments to support LEAP implementation: • LEAP wizard in 5 languages for integrated energy action

programmes

• 30 exemplary case studies and analyses on replicable factors and cost-benefit ratios

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Expected results (2)

• One-stop-access-point• Centralising information and instruments for SEC development,

linked to European Sustainable and Towns Campaign

• 5 LEAPs and various implementation projects • testing the wizard to assure use of tools and methodology in

different cases

• 27 Energy Weeks• Improved awareness of citizens, local politicians on sustainable

energy, roles of individuals and roles of LGs as community leaders and asset managers

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Expected results (3)

• CO2 reduction and improved community resilience of energy-relevant infrastructure

• Widespread European dissemination of results – sharing with and learning from others

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Strategic context & links

• European climate and energy package (achieve 20% CO2 reduction, 20% RE, 20% energy efficiency by the year 2020)

• European Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign (ESCTC) Aalborg Charter and commitments - sustainability focus

• Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign (SEEC)

• Covenant of Mayors

• International Local Government Climate Roadmap

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ContactHolger Robrecht - Sustainable NOW project coordinator

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

European Secretariat

Leopoldring 3

D-79098 Freiburg

Germany

E-mail: sustainable-now@iclei.org

URL: www.iclei-europe.org/sustainable-now

Tel.: +49 - 761 / 3 68 92 - 0

Fax: +49 - 761 / 3 68 92 - 79

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The Team

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Thank you!

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