European Strategy for Amsterdam

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1 City of European Strategy for Progress in sustainable urban development in 2013 is on its way to becoming a Smart Global Hub. Sustainable urban development is one of the four goals set in the city s European Strategy for. The ultimate aim is to reduce CO 2 emissions by 40 percent in 2025 and to position the city as a front-runner in the field of integrated sustainable urban development. This leaflet reports about what has been achieved in 2013 in the main projects and actions in. TRANSFORM: A transformation agenda for low-carbon cities Actually achieving the goals for saving energy and reducing CO 2 emissions 40 percent by 2025 is strongly supported by the TRANS- FORM project. Launched in 2012, this project is funded by the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (fp7) in Europe and continues until mid The six European cities of, Copenhagen, Genoa, Hamburg, Vienna and Lyon are jointly providing the platforms for Smart Urban Labs. In June 2013 hosted a three-day event where actions that contribute to heating and cooling strategies as well as to energy savings in built-up areas were devised using the concept of ESCOs (Energy Saving Companies). TRANSFORM will continue working on a transformation agenda with a focus on finance, legal framework and governance and will organise expert meetings throughout Europe to spread its message. TRANSFORM is also working on a portfolio of projects and methodologies developed in the six Smart Urban Labs. Moreover, a prototype decision support tool, based on data, is currently being elaborated: Energy Atlas Plus. contact: Ronald van Warmerdam transform@dro.amsterdam.nl

2 Electric Sustainable Transport stimulates electric transport to improve its air quality. This technological innovation contributes to reducing CO 2 emissions as well. The city is a pioneer in introducing measures to encourage electric mobility, such as installing a large-scale public charging network. As a consequence, saw the launch of Europe s first fully electric taxi company and Car2Go launched its electric car sharing enterprise in, with 300 electric Smarts that can be hired on the spot without having to return them to a particular place by a particular time. The German car manufacturer BMW presented the electric BMWi3 in the green capital of, and Tesla Electric Motors chose to locate its European headquarters in. actively exchanges knowledge with cities such as London and Berlin, for example about the best way to expand a charging network. The city is currently a partner in two EU-funded projects: Mobi Europe and FREVUE. Within Mobi Europe, several regions throughout Europe are working together to introduce interoperability between different countries in Plug-in cars from different partners will then be able to charge cross border. In the FREVUE project is cooperating with seven other European cities to promote electric freight vehicles on European roads, together with the associated charging infrastructure. Dutch companies such as Heineken and TNT will introduce about 20 vehicles in the Netherlands within the framework of this project. Green Data Port About 50 data centres are situated in and around the city of, which is about 30 percent of the Dutch total. and Paris rank equally 3rd as European data centre locations. Data centres are one of the fastest-growing new businesses, but they use a lot of energy: around 11 percent of the total electricity consumption of the 22,000 enterprises in the city. The greening of these data centres is therefore an important goal, for the city and for the EU. So far this has primarily been achieved by improving the efficiency of the cooling facilities. For the future, the re-use of previously wasted heat from the data centres is an interesting economic topic and spatially relevant. The City of s data centre policy has formed part of the national Green Deal strategy since contact: Art van der Giessen a.vander.giessen@ivv.amsterdam.nl contact: Stéphanie van de Wiel s.vande.wiel@dro.amsterdam.nl SMART urban mobility

3 Climate adaption, resilience to water and urban development go hand in hand in. Water and Climate Adaptation For a city located in a delta, like, resilience to flooding by river or rain is an important topic. Therefore the city works within the national Delta Programme.Two major events took place in In March, the first European Climate Change Adaption Conference was held in Hamburg, a high-level meeting that tackled the topic of rainwater-resilient cities with input from Hamburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm. Head of Unit for Water within the European Commission s DG Environment, accepted the City of s invitation to be a keynote speaker. Many high-level international guests attended the dinner at the Mayor s Residence. No fewer than 1,050 conference delegates took part in the International Water Week, including more than 500 young water professionals who introduced fresh ideas, and 21,000 professionals visited the Aquatech exhibition. The second event, the International Water Week, was hosted in in November 2013, with many workshops on the theme of Integrated Water Solutions for a Green Economy. The sharing of expertise with the Paris delegation in the Partner Cities Workshop was especially useful. Peter Gammeltoft, contact: Paulien Hartog paulien.hartog@waternet.nl WASTECOSMART Waste as a Major Source of Energy WASTECOSMART started on Paphos (Cyprus) in September Goal of the project is the optimisation of integrated waste strategies through maximisation of resource efficiency: waste as a main source of energy. This EU project on waste includes 23 participants. It aims at bringing together researchers, SMEs and end users (e.g. municipalities) in a research and innovation environment for the next three years. The participants are the Economic Board, the Waste-to-Energy Company (AEB), the Free University (VU) and the City of (the Physical Planning Department and city districts). Other cities taking part include Budapest, Paphos and Sundbyberg (Sweden). will be presenting a framework for the design of Resource Efficiency Management Plans in early contact: Janneke Hoedemaekers j.hoedemaekers@amecboard.nl

4 Phosphate Cycle Phosphorus is essential for our worldwide food security. It is widely used in agriculture and is an essential component in fertiliser and animal feed. It is an irreplaceable natural resource, which has no substitute. Supplies are limited, prices have been volatile and much phosphate is currently wasted, creating concerns about the cost and availability of future supplies in the EU and worldwide. has signed the Dutch Phosphate Value Chain Agreement in conjunction with partners from government bodies, knowledge institutes and trade and industry. The aim of this agreement s signatories is to bring the residual flow of phosphates into a closed cycle. is also an official partner of the European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform, whose members exchange experiences and information on phosphate /phosphorus recycling. This platform gives access to a network covering the entire value chain. In 2013 gave presentations about phosphate capture, including a workshop in Berlin and Brussels. has also been stimulating innovative and promising possibilities for the harvest of phosphate, such as decentralised sanitation for large venues like the Heineken Music Hall and in new residential districts. is also supporting research on the separation of streams of liquid waste so that phosphate can be recovered efficiently. contact: Edgar Zonneveldt e.zonneveldt@dro.amsterdam.nl Towards the Circular Economy Towards the Circular Economy was presented in As a consequence, Wageningen University has elaborated four of the six relevant resource cycles described in the publication such as water, waste, phosphate and food. : Responsible Capital and Urban-rural Strategy Cities throughout Europe are growing while populations in rural areas are declining. This is also the case in The Netherlands. The Mayor of, Eberhard van der Laan, has set up a collaborative project to examine urban-rural relationships. By working with municipalities on the perimeters of the Netherlands, namely Delfzijl, Sluis and Heerlen, he is propagating an innovative approach of cohesion and solidarity on a demand-driven basis. helps shrinking municipalities in the country with capacity building and networking for their public administrations and businesses. Besides workshops and exchanges, a highlight of this partnership so far was the concert by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the southern city of Heerlen. This approach is fairly new and has been mentioned in RURBAN, an OECD study on rural-urban partnerships. has participated as an expert in various seminars in 2013: the URMA Interreg IVC project for cooperation between urban and rural areas, the Purple General Assembly that brings together peri-urban territories in the EU where urban and rural features co-exist, and the OECD conference on urban-rural relationships. contact: Julian Jansen j.jansen@dro.amsterdam.nl European legislation The impact of European legislation (environmental and otherwise) on physical planning can be of great importance. Directives on air quality, environmental impact assessment, but also the Birds and Habitat Directives require a good balance between spatial planning and the protection of people and the environment. EU legislation itself is important, but so is participation in the implementation process. The monitoring of European developments in Brussels and the lobbying and implementation process in The Hague are two of the main activities for s Physical Planning Department. The amendment of the Directive on Environmental Impact Assessment was followed closely in 2013 and will also be tracked in In this regard the city works together with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. contact: Ymke Hofhuis y.hofhuis@dro.amsterdam.nl

5 METREX METREX, the Network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas, was founded in has held the vice-presidency of METREX since October This network provides a platform for the exchange of knowledge, expertise and experience on metropolitan affairs, as well as coordinated action on issues such as regional planning or becoming a smart city. The network has members from 50 metropolitan regions and areas in Europe who meet twice a year at conferences and in expert groups to discuss topics such as urban-rural partnerships and economic clusters in metropolitan areas. METREX facilitates the individual exchange and provide support to its members. Activities within the METREX vice-presidency have involved closer collaboration with the EU bodies and have initiated further collaboration with other networks on two important topics. METREX contributed to the study on metropolitan governance (the MAIA study) and urban-rural partnerships (the RURBAN initiative). MAIA Metropolitan Areas in Action is a member of the Eurocities Working Group on metropolitan areas. In 2013 this resulted in the Metropolitan Areas in Action (MAIA) study, a survey of 38 regions. The study provides evidence of what has been happening in terms of metropolitan area collaboration over recent years. It looks at how collaboration is organised and implemented at the scale of metropolitan areas and city regions, and identifies possible success factors. METREX provided key input for two collaborative events in 2013: firstly, a debate on food and territorial cohesion during the Open Days with the participation of major urban and rural networks (e.g. CEMR, EUROCITIES and PURPLE), the OECD, DG Regio and DG Agri; secondly, a joint workshop with Eurocities, the network of major European cities, during RURBAN, the OECD conference on urban-rural relationships. also contributed to the two METREX conferences in In Glasgow the city presented the Structural Vision 2040: Economically strong and sustainable as best practice for long-term strategic planning and collaboration. During the METREX Oslo conference, members of the EU-project TRANS- FORM explained the approach of planning for sustainable energy. Four of the six partners are from METREX regions, with as the lead partner. In 2014 the Economic Board will present its triple helix strategy during the METREX Leipzig conference. contact: Juliane Kürschner j.kurschner@dro.amsterdam.nl The evidence shows that: 1. metropolitan areas are established in many places, in all parts of Europe and in various types of cities; 2. metropolitan areas address a wide range of different issues of common interest; 3. in the majority of cases, local authorities and especially core cities are the initial players, though national and regional authorities may also be decisive stakeholders or catalysts by providing legal frameworks and/or incentives; 4. the decision to work in partnership is motivated by (i) a shared sense of urgency to tackle complex challenges at the level of the functional area, and by (ii) the increasing mismatch between administrative boundaries and the reality of development on the ground. produced the MAIA atlas that is part of this study. The study was presented the Urban Intergroup at the European Parliament in November In March 2014 the study will be presented to Oldrich Vlasák, Vice-President of the European Parliament. contact: Juliane Kürschner j.kurschner@dro.amsterdam.nl

6 Exchanging Integrated Planning and Metropolitan Development is known for its integrated way of long-term urban development. Main interest goes to the Structural Vision 2040, to related aspects of open and innovative planning and to the governance model of the Metropolitan Area. The Structural Vision 2040 sets out the long-term development goals for within the Metropolitan Area (MRA), based on waterfront development, rolling out the attractive centre to outlying areas, the business axis between Schiphol Airport and -Southeast, and the metropolitan landscape. It has been elaborated in an innovative way with a strong participation component. The city s Structural Vision was honoured with the 2011 Award for Excellence of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) and its approach to metropolitan governance had won an earlier ISOCARP award, while the Free State of concept received an accolade from Eurocities and the city ranked fourth in the very first European Green Capital Award in was proud to serve the feedback group for the City of Vienna s new structural plan, STEP2025, in Corporate Magazine of the Physical Planning Department of the City of. planamsterdam@dro.amsterdam.nl PLAN The Blue Gold The spatio-economic significance of s water Waterproof Working towards water-resilient urban design Rainproof Rain a binding factor , City of Water A Vision for Water, Safety and Rainproofing PLAN s Physical Planning Department has created a new international website about urban development. In addition, three special international editions of Plan, the City of s magazine on urban planning, were released. The road to low carbon cities Building the transformation agenda Lighthouse projects for low carbon cities Creating change in districts Data sharing as an enabler for low carbon projects The Energy Atlas Plus TRANSFORM Towards a low carbon city contact: Eric van der Kooij e.vander.kooij@dro.amsterdam.nl Credits More information on the European Strategy for contact: Wouter van der Heijde w.van.der.heijde@amsterdam.nl Public transport hub Waterfront development Bottom-up planning on the Sustainability Program contact: Eveline Jonkhoff e.jonkhoff@dro.amsterdam.nl Coordination Juliane Kürschner Editing and proofreading Sandra Langendijk ABC Redactie, City of Business district Structural Vision Land development Andrew May Graphic Design Geert den Boogert Physical Planning Department City of Water management Public space design Photos and Graphics Beeldbank, City of Physical Planning Department, City of Bas Köhler 26 March 2014