CITY INSTRUMENTS Monitoring, Evaluating and Transferring Instruments to address Climate Change in Me

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CITY INSTRUMENTS - Monitoring, Evaluating and
Transferring Instruments to address Climate
Change in Metropolitan Regions
Project Acronym City Instruments Contract No.
EIE/05/152/SI2.419660 Duration 21.12.2005
21.12.2007
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• Aim of the project
• The aim of the project is to monitor, evaluate
  and further develop innovative instruments
  (technical, financial or organisational) to
  promote renewable energy sources (RES) and
  rational use of energy (RUE) and thereby the
  climate protection in metropolitan regions in
  Europe.

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• Background
• City Instruments focuses on metropolitan regions
  (500,000 inhabitants) because
• - they are facing a multitude of environmental
  problems e.g. noise, poor air quality, heavy
  traffic and often a lack of strategic planning,
• - compared to small and medium-sized cities,
  they have to make a special effort to address
  environmental problems but also have unique
  possibilities e.g. in terms of human and
  financial resources, administrative clout etc.
• City Instruments partners are city
  administrations and energy agencies. The mix of
  these two types of actors increases the
  fruitfulness of the experience exchange as
  representatives of the municipal may be more
  versed in the areas of which instruments are
  realistic in terms of public ordinances and
  finances, while representatives of energy
  agencies may have more experience in designing
  and developing targeted instruments involving the
  co-operation of a range of stakeholders and bold
  marketing campaigns.

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• Objectives and main steps I
• joint monitoring and evaluation of the existing
  instruments to promote RUE/RES in urban areas
  (participating cities and beyond) with reference
  to previously defined energy, environment,
  economic and social impacts
• selection of the most innovative and successful
  RUE and RES instruments and their elaboration for
  publication in a best-practice catalogue
• development of a standardised Energy Master Plan
  for metropolitan regions (based on experience
  from City of Zurich) which acts as a benchmark
  for cities with existing Energy Plans and as a
  basis for a new Energy Plan for cities that do
  not yet have one

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• Objectives and main steps II
• implementation of seven workshops on instruments
  around a specific topic (e.g. energy management
  in buildings, financial instruments etc.)
• gap analysis within each partner city, adaptation
  and preparations for the transfer of at least one
  new instrument to each participating city
• dissemination of the best-practice catalogue, the
  Master Plan and other deliverables
• integration of the City Instruments forum into
  one of the existing networks for sustainable
  development in cities

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• Expected results
• Best-practice catalogue will allow city
  administrations, energy agencies and other actors
  to learn about instruments implemented elsewhere.
  It will indicate the contribution of the existing
  instruments to the promotion of RUE and RES and
  give information on their transferability.
• Blueprint of an Energy Master Plan will offer
  excellent basis for cities to revise existing
  documents on energy planning or to develop a
  far-sighted and realistic action programme for
  climate change mitigation.
• Through integration of the City Instruments forum
  into an existing network on sustainable energy,
  the project will contribute to long-term exchange
  of experience on the field of RUE and RES between
  cities and metropolitan areas.
• By selecting an instrument and preparing its
  implementation in each partner city, City
  Instruments will have a concrete impact on their
  policy design and implementation.

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• Project partners
• Berlin B.S.U. Beratungs- und
  Service-Gesellschaft Umwelt mbH (B. S.U mbH,
  Co-ordinator)Neapels Agenzia Napoletana
  Energia e Ambiente (ANEA)Paris Agence Régionale
  de L'environnement et de L'énergie d' Ile de
  France (ARENE ILE DE FRANCE)Rotterdam City of
  Rotterdam / Rotterdam City Development
  CorporationSofia Sofia Energy Agency
  (SOFENA)Tallinn Tallinn City Government
• Zurich Departement der Industriellen Betriebe,
  Zürich /associated partner/

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• Contact
• Project co-ordinator
• B.S.U. Beratungs- und Service Gesellschaft
  Umwelt mbH
• Martina Bacova
• Saarbrücker Str. 38A
• 10405 Berlin
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail mbacova_at_bsu-berlin.de
• Internet www.bsu-berlin.de