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Covenant of MayorsMonitoring strategy

Informed Cities - Forum 2011Informed Cities - Forum 201126-27 October 2011 - Naples, Italy

Ronald PiersEuropean Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC)

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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

About the JRC

Supporting citizen’s security, health

and environmental protection, safety of food

and chemicals, alternative energies, nuclear

safety, econometrics, prospective

technologies…

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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 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

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As of today, 3030 Local

Authorities committed to

reduce CO2 emissions on

their territories by at least

The unprecedented growth of the Covenant of Mayors

their territories by at least

20% by 2020

Together they represent

140 million inhabitants,

over a quarter of the EU

populationCoM ceremony in the EU parliament, May 2010

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• Go beyond EU energy and climate objectives:at least 20% CO2 reduction by 2020

• Prepare a Sustainable Energy Action Plan [SEAP]

• Implement their Action Plan and report periodically on progress

• Involve citizens and other stakeholders

What do Covenant Signatories commit to ?

• Involve citizens and other stakeholders

• Adapt city structures and allocate sufficient resources

• Encourage other cities to join

Mayors act

voluntarily

and take

the lead !

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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 � It is a communication and promotion instrument adressed to the stakeholders: a clear and well-structured document

Example: SEAP of Genoa

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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

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The SEAP template

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Highlights of the information collected via the SEAP template will be shown under the on-line profile of each signatory:

Data Highlights

profile of each signatory:

�Key energy / CO2 data of your BEI

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Analysis of a first sample of 425 SEAPs

425 SEAPs representing 14,9 % of the signatoriescovering 33 million inhabitants (25 % of the CoMpopulation) and on average 78 000 inhabitants per signatory.

Together they emit 185 million tons (5,5 ton per capita1) They commit to reduce by 52 million tons (1,6 ton per capita),which represents an overall reduction goal of 28%.

Those SEAPs contain 10 586 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 …)

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Anticipated share of the total CO2 reduction by 2020 per type of measure / sector

Expected contribution per sector / field of action

9%

10% 1%

Energy efficiency(buildings, industry etc)

Transport and mobility

Based on a sample of 425 SEAPs containing 10586 measures

40%

18%

10%

12%

9%

Local heat generation(district heating, CHP etc)

Local electricitygeneration (renewables,CHP etc)Land use planning

Behavioural changes(working with the citizens)

Public procurement

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- Monitoring reports to be sent by signatories every 2nd 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

The monitoring strategy

involvement etc) etc

- Detailed information on 1-3 key actions per SEAP

- First monitoring reports to be received this year

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- 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 2020

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Essential information provided by the monitoring

- 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

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Thank you for your attention

Ronald Piers+39 0332 78 9703 Ronald.PIERS-DE-RAVESCHOOT@ec.europa.eu

IET - Institute for Energy and TransportPetten - The Netherlands & Ispra - Italy

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