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Covenant of Mayors Monitoring strategy Informed Cities - Forum 2011 26-27 October

1 Covenant of Mayors Monitoring strategy Informed Cities - Forum October Naples, Italy Ronald Piers European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)

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2 About the JRC JRC - Robust Science for Policy Making As a Directorate-General of the European Commission, the JRC provides customer-driven scientific and technical support to Community policy making Supporting citizen s security, health and environmental protection, safety of food and chemicals, alternative energies, nuclear safety, econometrics, prospective technologies

3 Role of the JRC in the CoM: JRC is providing the scientific and technical support to the CoM Some key tasks: Development of the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) guidebook Operation of the technical helpdesk service Evaluation of submitted SEAPs, with feedback to Covenant cities Monitoring of the CoM implementation, including the development of specific monitoring & reporting guidelines JRC s Covenant of Mayors team : Paolo Bertoldi, Giulia Melica, Ana Meijide, Federica Paina, Ronald Piers NB: In addition, the CoM Office in Brussels is in charge of: general coordination, promotion (website etc), networking, administrative support, technical heldesk (with JRC), etc

4 The unprecedented growth of the Covenant of Mayors As of today, 3030 Local Authorities committed to reduce CO2 emissions on their territories by at least 20% by 2020 Together they represent 140 million inhabitants, over a quarter of the EU population CoM ceremony in the EU parliament, May 2010

5 What do Covenant Signatories commit to? Go beyond EU energy and climate objectives: at least 20% CO 2 reduction by 2020 Prepare a Sustainable Energy Action Plan [SEAP] Implement their Action Plan and report periodically on progress Involve citizens and other stakeholders Adapt city structures and allocate sufficient resources Encourage other cities to join Mayors act voluntarily and take the lead!

6 What is a SEAP? It is a political document: it shows how the Covenant signatories intend to achieve their commitments: concrete measures and long-term strategies leading to at least 20% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2020 It is a technical document: It uses the results of the Baseline Emission Inventory to identify the most appropriate actions. It serves as a reference for the implementation and monitoring of the actions It is a communication and promotion instrument adressed to the stakeholders: a clear and well-structured document Example: SEAP of Genoa

7 The SEAP template The SEAP template is an on-line document which summarises key information from SEAP: Qualitative information on overall strategy and other key issues (stakeholders involvement, adaptation of city sructures ) Overall % of CO2 reduction objective by 2020 Energy and CO2 data for the baseline year (and any subsequent year) per sector and energy vector Description of key actions with responsible/department, timeframe, budget, expected energy/co2 reduction, etc Each SEAP template will be analysed by the JRC and feedback sent to the signatories

8 The SEAP template

9 Data Highlights Highlights of the information collected via the SEAP template will be shown under the on-line profile of each signatory: Key energy / CO2 data of your BEI

10 Analysis of a first sample of 425 SEAPs 425 SEAPs representing 14,9 % of the signatories covering 33 million inhabitants (25 % of the CoM population) and on average inhabitants per signatory. Together they emit 185 million tons (5,5 ton per capita 1 ) They commit to reduce by 52 million tons (1,6 ton per capita), which represents an overall reduction goal of 28%. Those SEAPs contain measures (about 25 measures per SEAP) 1 Lower than the EU average (8 tons/capita) due to the fact that some sectors are explicitly excluded from the SEAPs (industrial ETS )

11 Anticipated share of the total CO2 reduction by 2020 per type of measure / sector Expected contribution per sector / field of action 9% 12% 10% 10% 1% 18% 40% Energy efficiency (buildings, industry etc) Transport and mobility Local heat generation (district heating, CHP etc) Local electricity generation (renewables, CHP etc) Land use planning Behavioural changes (working with the citizens) Public procurement Based on a sample of 425 SEAPs containing measures

12 The monitoring strategy - Monitoring reports to be sent by signatories every 2 nd year - A dedicated monitoring template is being finalised - The key progress indicators will be derived from: - Actual implementation of the planned actions and their estimated impact - Successive monitoring emission inventories (recommended frequency : every year; mandatory frequency : every 4 years) - Other elements: financial investments, jobs creation, governance issues (citizens involvement etc) etc - Detailed information on 1-3 key actions per SEAP - First monitoring reports to be received this year

13 Essential information provided by the monitoring - Evolution of the energy and CO2 data with time - Energy / CO2 Reductions per sector and per energy vector - Progress so far with implementation of the actions - Potential impact in Contribution by type of measure - Catalogue of most efficient measures (difficulty to get reliable data about cost and impact per measure) - Data per country, per type of signatory (size) - Etc

14 Thank you for your attention Ronald Piers IET - Institute for Energy and Transport Petten - The Netherlands & Ispra - Italy

Baseline Emission Inventory & Sustainable Energy Action Plan

Baseline Emission Inventory & Sustainable Energy Action Plan Converting Your Strategy into Action! www.eumayors.eu 1 Publication directed by the Covenant of Mayors Office. It is managed by a consortium