PowerPointPrsentation, GTZLeerfolie deutsch, Stand November 2006

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CHANGING OUR MINDSET! INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE Environment Protection and Energy
Efficiency Practices, opportunities, actions
Prishtina 20 21 October 2008 Gabriele
Becker GTZ
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Some questions

• How can we respond to our obvious challenges?
• How can we start to envision our desired future?
• How to organize such a long-term strategic
  orientation process?
• Who needs to be on board in order to make the
  process a success?

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What is the starting point?

• There is a growing understanding of the
  importance of improvement of the environment on
  the local and global level
• A number of municipalities already implement
  energy efficiency measures
• There is a growing expertise and knowledge in the
  country
• There is a national strategy and action plans
• Kosova has the advantage to learn faster
  building on the experiences of others

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What is the starting point? cont.

• Legal framework needs improvement
• Cooperation / interplay between different
  stakeholders is weak or not even existing
• Use of renewable energies an almost untouched
  area
• The different activities are not integrated into
  a concept
• Far-reaching objectives and strategies are
  missing or an exception

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How do we want to live in 2030?

• What is the impact of the decisions that we take
  today?
• How to plan today for tomorrow?

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What development is foreseeable?

• Increase of energy prices
• Increasing pressure to reduce CO2 Emissions
• Increasing demand for energy and increasing
  consumption of energy
• Technical innovations will enhance the potential
  for decentralized energy systems and the use of
  RE
• Changing lifestyle
• Demographic changes (?)
• Economic development

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Where are we going?
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How to get started?

• Establishment of a platform for discussion,
  planning and knowledge management to
• engage the different stakeholders
• develop of a common vision
• unpack the vision into concrete actions
• learn from experiences
• to network and partner with others

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Professional Forum Energy
Moderator
Public Services
Town Planning
Platform for a municipal Energy Strategy
AMK Public Utilities
Science
NGOs
KEK
Energy Manager
Private Sector
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Elements of a municipal energy strategy

• Horizontal integration

Objectives
Implementation Critiera for decision making
Measures and instruments
Consideration of all relevant topics
Integration of all relevant stakeholders
Checking of all technical options
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Conclusions

• With a strategy for municipal energy policies
• Municipalities are able to open up new financial
  means
• Activities in municipalities will encourage and
  mobilize the public
• The scope of action of municipalities will
  increase
• Partnerships and networks will be strengthened
• It promotes exchange of information, knowledge
  and expertise

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Nobody can look into the future, but we can
invent it Albert Einstein