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COM-supporters and -coordinators in Flanders:
experiences and ideas
Alex Verhoeven, Senior staff Sustainability
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This presentation is about …
• COM-signatories in Flanders
• Flemish Network COM
• How can supporting structures help?
• To keep in mind
• Instruments that help municipalities
• Partners with extra potential
• Topical examples
• Monitoring?
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Flemish Network: what? why?
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• What? Why?
• NET-COM project: 12 EU member states
• exchange of knowledge, experiences, requests
• aim at support everywhere for municipalities
• lobbying towards Flemish and national-Belgian and European
government
• Importance of Association of Municipalities
• credibility, continuity, impact, broad media-mix, representation all
municipalities, integrated vision covering all topics, ‘neutral’
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Flemish Network: strategy and vision
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• long term impact, whole territory
• multilevel, multi-actor
• sound competition; complementarity, synergy
• relieve municipalities from technical COM-stuff
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Flemish Network: results
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• exchange multi-lateral and bi-lateral, also newcomers
• provinces and intermunicipal cooperations active partners
• Coordinators ± cover territory
• help of Flemish administration
• data CO2-emissions + first help seap
• COM in Flemish Climate Plan
• big event Energyday, EPC-day
• still lacking: national (Flemish) political support
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Flemish Network: future
• continuing role of global view and exchange
+ lobbying towards central governments
• complementarity with and overview on other fora or
initiatives
• from data and plans to concrete action
• knowledge sharing from frontrunners to broader group
• broader sustainability and transition
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How can supporting structures help?
• inform
• partners & network: prospect, cooperate, facilitate
cooperation and exchange
• help with or initiate concrete actions and projects,
especially intermunicipal
• research (not scientific but) quality of solutions (f.i. car battery chargers, social target groups, building regulations, older
house owners)
• relieve municipalities from technical, administrative stuff
• individual advice (f.i. green procurement, sustainable building)
• detect needs
• lobby
• search funding or smart financial ideas
• translate into understandable language
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To keep in mind … (1)
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• the ‘why’ and the European spirit, don’t get (externally)
stuck in technical stuff
• join current initiatives that had nothing to do with the COM
or even energy policy (f.i. bike plan for home-to-work transport, funding for city development)
• look for synergy in people, in instruments, in actions (f.i. ‘coordinate’; ‘smart cities’; financial study consultancy + Fl.dept.; Flemish
biking platform; transition arena)
• peer to peer often works best, together with expert (f.i. green procurement learning networks)
• keep your eyes open for opportunities (f.i. heating net & city development Roeselare, Antwerp, Eeklo; legal
framework crowdfunding)
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To keep in mind … (2)
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• align with regular municipal processes
• quick wins + long term projects
• take into account different speed (frontrunners <->
newcomers; big cities <-> small municipalities)
• step by step, trial and error
• central authorities have their job too (f.i. fiscal regime e-vehicles)
• time is our partner (growing concerns climate and energy)
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Instruments that help municipalities
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• preferably central level
• CO2-data: ongoing engagement till 2020
• the tool, general infosession, specific training sessions, helpdesk-
forum, workshops in every municipality to dialogue with different
departments and politicians together
• probably also monitoring
• energy management systems for buildings
• quickscan renewable energy potential
• green procurement guidelines and product specifications
• thermografic map
• sustainability measuring systems for buildings and
boroughs (cf. breeam) (long preparation, broader sustainability)
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Partners with extra big potential
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• energy network management companies
technical, financial, administrative aspects of
renovation = esco
But check whether service is cost-effective.
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Topical examples: financial aspects
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• project running (Antwerp a.o.), outcome not clear yet
• sessions on EU-funding
• EPC-day (but …)
(esco?)
• pre-financing for social target groups (extra to Flemish
policy)
• specific policy towards landlords, via the syndic
• new business models
• lease instead of buy, f.i. new heating oil tank, ± guaranteed yield
• car battery chargers: subsidies & procurement? or permit-model?
• climate fund, if opportunities
• cooperative for natural gaz charger, for windmill …
• lobby to add energy aspects to non-energy-specific funds
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Other topical examples
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• Companies
• provide energy audit for small & medium companies
• ‘smart cities’
• Participation
• several LAs: public consultation on future vision
• thematic groups with open agenda, with or without expert, and
start up budget
• Individual advice
• Help-& contact-point sustainable procurement
• Provincial help-& contact-points sustainable building
• Waste = energy
• transport via train or ship; heating net; green waste for biogaz
• sewage water
• Specific groups
• world of culture and art (‘green track’)
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How to monitor implementation?
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• is being studied
• ‘keep it simple’? work with Excel-file bei?
• also task central authorities and knowledge centers
• different levels? (1) general data bei, (2) concrete actions
and their calculated reduction to motivate
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Remind Why!
• duurzamer, leefbaarder leefomgeving
• gezondheid: lucht (fijn stof …), lawaai
• betaalbaar wonen
• comfortabeler wonen
• nieuwe of vernieuwde en robuustere (lokale) economie
• energie-factuur verminderen en binnen regio houden +
terugverdien-effecten
• energie-onafhankelijkheid
• klimaatverandering temperen,
toekomst voor latere generaties
• Dus: veel win-win