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ICLEI’s contribution:

Building the Resource-efficient City

ICLEI World Congress, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 14 - 17 June 2012

Barbara Anton

Project Coordinator, Water

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

European Secretariat

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August 21, 2010

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Growing populations shrinking resources

Efficiency gains through urban density

increasingly wasteful urban lifestyles

Resource efficiency a competitive advantage

From resource-efficiency to productive urban systems

Challenges and opportunities

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• land and soil

• water

• flora and fauna/

biodiversity/

eco-systems

• energy

• food

• nutrients

• minerals

• materials/products

• waste

•….

AVOID - REDUCE - REUSE - RECYCLE

Resources

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Local action with global impact

ICLEI member cities - ca. 8% of the world’s population

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Växjo (Sweden)

Devlopment since 1993

(index 1993=100)

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90

100

110

120

130

140

150

160

1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

GRP/capita Växjö

GDP/capita Sw eden

energy use/capita Växjö

energy use/capita Sw eden

CO2/capita Växjö

CO2/capita Sw eden

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Zaragoza (Spain)

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Actions

• Introduce the Energy Efficiency in primary

schools curriculum;

• Installation of remote energy monitoring

system;

• Licence of didactic software (include videos,

games, data display);

• Training and education sessions in

classroom context.

Achievements

• Improvement of the energy efficiency

in the schools;

• 10 - 20% reduction in energy

consumptions;

• Education of the future consumers;

• Creation of innovative activities in the

education context.

Didactic Software

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by IS

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Águeda, Portugal Enerescolas – Guiding schools for energy efficiency

Info: celia.laranjeira@cm-agueda.pt

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Guidelines and tools

● NATURAL RESOURCES IN GENERAL

ecoBUDGET®

managing local natural resources like financial resources

www.ecobudget.org

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Platforms for exchange

● BIODIVERSITY/ECO-SYSTEMS

URBIS -

Urban Biosphere Initiative

Global alliance of partners to reconcile urban development with sustainable use of natural resources

Launched by ICLEI Africa Secretariat with partners yesterday!

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Networks

● FOOD

Food Smart Cities

- under development by ICLEI with specialist partners such as RUAF and FAO

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Guidelines and tools

● ENERGY

(led by ICLEI European Secretariat; 2008 - 2011)

Amongst others:

Energy guidance package with instruments to support Local Energy Action Plan (LEAP) implementation, incl. Integrated climate and energy management and a Local Energy Action Plan wizard for integrated energy action programmes.

http://www.sustainable-now.eu/en/webportal/

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Capacity building

● WASTE

SUNYA - Towards Zero Waste Management in Cities (led by Municipal Association of Nepal; 2012 - 2014)

- Reuse and recycling of waste materials

- Incl. capacity building on

waste management

for local officials and NGOs

in India, Nepal, Bhutan,

Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh

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Representation and advocacy/

Commitments

● WATER

Istanbul Water Consensus: Endorsed at Fifth World Water Forum in 2009.

- Call for action addressed at national level and

international institutions signed by more

- Local commitment for sustainable water than 1,000 mayors

management

http://www.worldwaterforum6.org/en/commissions/political/

local-and-regional-authorities-political-process

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Programs

● MATERIALS/PRODUCTS

Sustainable Procurement Programme ( Products & Services)

- Procura+ Campaign - to support LGs in Europe in adopting sustainable procurement practices

- Sustainable Procurement Resource Centre: information, news and exchange - see www.sustainable-procurement.org/

- EcoProcura - series of conferences

- Training and consultancy services

- Member of UN Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Public Procurement

- Co-funder and Vice-Chair of International Green Purchasing Network

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Resource-efficiency at World Congress

and Urban Research Symposium

● Friday, 11:00 - 12:30: B2 - Integrated Resource-Solutions

● Saturday, 14:00 - 16:00

RS 2 - Options for resource efficient cities - an integrated approach

● Sunday, 9:00 - 10:30

Panel: The Productive City

● Sunday, 11:00 - 12:30

Project Design Session: Productive City