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May 2019 ICCA Conference

ENERGIZING CITIES TOWARDS A SHARED AND JUST TRANSITION STORIES OF ACTION

Time 22 May, 14h00 – 17h30

Location Kongresshaus Stadthalle

Heidelberg: E - Ballsaal

Organisers Energy Cities, REN21 and Sustainable Energy Africa hosted by the City of Heidelberg

STRUCTURE

Workshop 1: 14h00 – 15h30 Energizing cities – Policies and mechanisms to support local renewable energy implementation Workshop 2: 16h00 – 17h30

Energizing cities –Challenges and opportunities for local action

SPEAKERS

WORKSHOP SESSION 1

SPEAKER FUNCTION ROLE

Peta Wolpe Managing Director Sustainable Energy Africa Moderator, Speaker

Yachika Reddy Project Manager Sustainable Energy Africa Moderator, Speaker

Claire Roumet Energy Cities Moderator

Sabine

Lachenicht

City of Heidelberg Speaker

Ian Turner Energy Cities Speaker

Michèle Jacobs Stakeholder manager of Leuven´s 2030 Roadmap Table Host

Hans-Wolf

Zirkwitz

Director of the Office for Environmental Protection, City of Stuttgart, Germany Table Host

Vincent Fristot Deputy for urban planning, housing and the energy transition at Grenoble Table Host

Katri Kuusinen Head of Unit, Urban Environment Division, City of Helsinki, Finland Table Host

Sikhumbuzo

Vincent

Hlongwane

Executive Director of Economic Development and Planning at KwaDukuza

Municipality, South Africa. Table Host

Jaquelina Tapia Head of Cabinet in Genera Direction of Policy and Environmental Strategy Table Host

Dr Simon

Bawakyillenuo

Senior Research Fellow and Head of Statistics at the Institute of Statistical,

Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana.

Table Host

Leila Mahomed

Weideman

Director: Sustainable Energy Markets, Energy and Climate Change

Directorate, City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa

Table Host

Stéphane Dion

Ambassador of Canada to Germany, Special Envoy to Europe and the EU,

and former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and of the Environment

Table Host, Speaker

Evelyne

Huytebroeck

MP regional Brussels Parliament, local councillor in Brussels Table Host



SPEAKERS

WORKSHOP SESSION 2

SPEAKER FUNCTION ROLE

Rana Adib Executive Secretary at REN21 Moderator, Speaker

Lea Ranalder Project Manager at REN21 Moderator, Speaker

Alix Bolle EU Policy Manager at Energy Cities Speaker

Bruno Charles Vice President of the metropole Lyon, France Table Host

Bernd Vogl Head of department, City of Vienna, Municipal Department 20 – Energy

Planning

Table Host

David Murphy Environmental Transformation Manager, City of Munich, Germany Table Host

Gerda Flo City of Kortrijk, Belgium Table Host

Joel Dozzi Director of the Green Energy Service, Pamplona City Council, Spain Table Host

Leshan Moodliar Tariff Engineer - Electricity Department in eThekwini Metropolitan

Municipality, South Africa

Table Host

Secou Sarr

Director of ENDA - Environmental Development Action in the Third World,

Senegal

Table Host

Ndeye rokhaya

Sarr

Coordinator of the Territorial Energy Climate Plan of the City of Dakar, Senegal

Table Host

Monyake Moteane

Senior Specialist on City transformation and Spatial Planning, City of

Joburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa

Table Host

Dorah Marema Director of GenderCC – Women for Climate Justice Southern Africa Table Host

Patu Ndango

Founder of Closed-Loop System Ventures – a social waste management

enterprise, Cameroon

Table Host

Jessica Grove-

Smith

Passive House Institute in Darmstadt, Germany Table Host



TABLES

WORKSHOP SESSION 1

TABLE/ THEME SPEAKER

1. Governing Masterplanning in Leuven, Belgium

Michèle Jacobs Stakeholder manager of Leuven´s 2030 Roadmap

The success or failure of masterplan implementation can depend

on good governance. Explore Leuven’s innovative governance

process with Michèle.

2. Implementing a 2050 vision in Stuttgart, Germany

Hans-Wolf Zirkwitz Director of the Office for Environmental Protection, City of Stuttgart

Stuttgart has set out to achieve a bold 2050 vision by learning,

guiding and engaging via a multi-stakeholder processes.

3. Masterplanning with citizens in Grenoble

Vincent Fristot Deputy for urban planning, housing and the energy transition at Grenoble

Participatory and inclusive masterplanning is turning Grenoble into

a real urban laboratory thanks to Grenoble´s Civiclab - highlighting

participatory budgeting projects and much more.




4. Helsinki´s 2035 Action Plan

Katri Kuusinen Head of Unit, City of Helsinki, Urban Environment Division

Carbon Neutral Helsinki 2035 is a realistic action plan marked by

detail. It outlines how the city can be rendered carbon neutral by

2035 and gives a detailed view on how to reduce energy

consumption and how to increase on-site renewable energy

generation in the city.

5. Institutionalizing energy into local government planning

in South Africa – the case of KwaDukuza Local


Sikhumbuzo Hlongwane Executive Director of Economic Development and Planning at KwaDukuza


KwaDukuza Local Municipality, a rapidly growing secondary city in

South Africa, recognizes energy as central to its economic growth

and development. To this end the development of its Low Carbon

Development Strategy and Energy Master Plan has paved the way

for large investments made in renewable energy and energy

efficiency infrastructure in the municipality. Political leadership

and will are among the critical factors driving the implementation

of these strategies and plans in KwaDukuza.

6. Decarbonizing buildings in Buenos Aires

Jaquelina Tapia Head of Cabinet in Genera Direction of Policy and Environmental Strategy at City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

In Buenos Aires, about 55% of total GHG emissions come from

buildings. Therefore, the decarbonization of its buildings is one of

the city´s priorities. Integrating distributed renewable energy

systems in the city will help Argentina to meet its ambitious

renewable energy targets.




7. Co-construction of knowledge and solutions for a

transition towards a low carbon and sustainable cities in

Ghana

Dr Simon Bawakyillenuo Senior Research Fellow and Head of Statistics at the Institute of Statistical,

Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana

The quest to transition towards low carbon and sustainable cities in Ghana and wider Africa requires the co-construction of knowledge and solutions, using a multi-stakeholder approach that engages local government, citizens, private sector, academia and civil society. Local government while a key player in developing and implementing local policies, typically lacks the technical capacity to implement sustainable initiatives. As a consequence, the need for other key stakeholders such as academia to build local government capacity and the private sector to resource municipalities cannot be overemphasized.

8. Institutional restructuring towards new energy approaches – in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa.

Leila Mahomed Weideman Director of Sustainable Energy Markets, City of Cape Town

New vision for traditional municipal distribution utility and related

structural changes and legal challenges to purchasing renewable

energy at the distributor level. Transitioning from Energy2040 to

Carbon Neutrality by 2050.

Energy2040 informs the City’s Sustainable Energy and Climate

Action Plan (SECAP), which drives immediate action in the next five

years (2017-2022) towards achieving the targets.




9. Coal phase out by 2030 through the Powering Past Coal

Alliance

Stéphane Dion Ambassador of Canada and Special Envoy to the EU and Europe

How the Canada/UK-led Powering Past Coal Alliance supports sub-

national governments to cooperate and share experiences in their

efforts to phase out of coal by 2030.

10. Relations between city and national governments in the

framework of the energy transition: the example of the

Brussels- Capital Region

Evelyne Huytebroeck MP regional Brussels Parliament, local councilor in Brussels

Sustainable and green cities can be helped or hindered by

national governments. Join the former Brussels regional

minister of environment, energy, renovation and social affairs

(2004-2014) and member of the Committee of European Green

Party to discuss the relation between cities and the national level.



TABLES

WORKSHOP SESSION 2


1. Local enterprises in Lyon

Bruno Charles Vice President of the metropole Lyon, France

The success of climate actions depends on the collaboration

of all actors. Explore Lyon´s innovative collaboration scheme

between enterprises and the city.

2. Integrating energy in urban planning: The case of

Vienna, Austria

Bernd Vogl Head of department, City of Vienna, Municipal Department 20 – Energy Planning

Vienna is working intensively to decarbonize its heating

systems by bringing together city planning and energy

planning for the use of renewables and waste heat for district

heating systems; for the renovation of buildings and more.

3. Transforming a society with a comprehensive

climate approach: the case of Munich, Germany

David Murphy Head of Climate Protection & Energy, City of Munich, Germany

The city of Munich has set up a transformation project for better integrating and understanding the role of the city´s key stakeholders for climate actions. There is a lot to learn about Munich´s comprehensive approach.




4. Renewable energy for urban heating projects in Kortrijk, Belgium

Gerda Flo Climate friendly city, City of Kortrijk, Belgium

Kortrijk is working on a HeatNet incorporating a swimming pool,

recuperation heat and an existing CHP that provides heat for a business

incubator, a party hall, a youth centre and more buildings in the future.

Plus information on intercommunal city planning on (renewable) energy

planning, with a heat plan (heat demand and rest heat matching) and a

windmill plan as earliest outputs.

5. Remunicipalising the energy sector in Pamplona, Spain

Joël Dozzi Director of the Green Energy Service, Pamplona City Council, Spain

In order to foster local solar energy production of the public sector

(investment) and private sector (through municipal subsidies), with a

special emphasis on self-consumption, Pamplona is a great example If you

want to learn how remunicipalisation of the energy sector can work. Joël is

working on the creation of a public energy utility to supply 100% green

energy for reducing fuel poverty and increasing citizen‘s energy education.

6. EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa: How to scale up

the uptake of small scale embedded generation and some of the

challenges for municipal revenue

Leshan Moodliar Electricity Department: Tariff Engineer and Representative of Association of Municipal Electric Utilities in Durban, South Africa

The promotion of renewable energy over conventional energy is gaining worldwide momentum however there are realities that need to be addressed during this transition. Macro- transitional challenges include, policy reform, regulatory updates and technology adoption. Micro challenges include lack of institutional capacity, skills shortages and in the case of monopolistic local government utilities, a disruption in the current revenue business model of electricity distribution. Three key areas are identified as key enablers in promoting the uptake of renewable energy at a local level. While conceptually workable, they do present their own challenges.




7. Using local agency to support climate change

mitigation initiatives

Secou Sarr Director of ENDA - Environmental Development Action in the Third

World, Senegal

8. City of Dakar, Senegal: How energy efficiency can

change the energy consumption profile: What cities

can do in their own buildings

Ndeye rokhaya Sarr Coordinator of the Territorial Energy Climate Plan of the City of Dakar, Senegal

Senegal, like the majority of Sub-Saharan African countries, faces two major challenges: the need for energy for development and climate change. Cities like Dakar as part of its vision: "Dakar, City oriented towards good governance and sustainable development for the development of its people" has paved the way for large energy efficiency initiatives to take place. Dakar attaches particular importance to the participation and mobilization of local stakeholders around climate and energy issues.

9. City of Johannesburg, South Africa: Corridors of Freedom: - innovations in the metro’s transport network and spatial form

Monyake Moteane Senior Specialist on City transformation and spatial planning

Johannesburg’s spatial planning policy contains a dedicated capital programme composed of a two-pronged approach: one is to ensure that marginalized communities have a fair access to city amenities and the other is ensure that within a walkable locality, there is a land use diversity so the resident of the Metro can live, work and play in a walkable environment.




10. Energy poverty gender nexus in South Africa - Hot box training: how entrepreneurship can stimulate job creation and energy efficiency

Dorah Marema Director Gender and Climate Change Energy poverty gender nexus in South Africa : Hot box training- how entrepreneurship can stimulate job creation and energy efficiency.

The Hotbox training project has been an effort of various actors, i.e. Sustainable Energy Africa who brought the concept with the funding, the Green Business College that brought the training and mentorship, and the Cities of Johannesburg and George Municipality that mobilized the community to participate in the training and take up this as a project. All these actors were very important to create a conducive environment for this intervention to be successful.

11. How to develop innovative ways of managing waste in Cameroon

Patu Ndango Founder of Closed-Loop System Ventures – a social waste management

enterprise, Cameroon

In developing countries like Cameroon, there is a growing concern of inadequate management of waste, particularly in urban areas where the consumption patterns have changed, populations are fast growing and waste generation has increased substantially. Huge amounts of waste are produced daily which end up in open dump sites and uncontrolled landfills. Innovative approaches are proposed to tackle this challenge.




12. Passive House Districts- challenges and benefits

Jessica Grove-Smith Senior Scientist at Passive house Institute

Buildings are responsible for a high share of greenhouse gas

emissions - mainly due energy needs for heating and cooling

to keep people comfortable and healthy. The good news is

that a drastic reduction is possible by implementing state of

the art efficiency measures. The challenge is to sustainably

transform construction practices accordingly. Municipalities

and regions are increasingly leading the way with policy

measures. Specific steps taken in Heidelberg and Vancouver

will be presented as input for the discussion.

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ENERGIZING ITIES TOWARDS A SHARED AND UST ......4 | WORKSHOP DETAILS AND SPEAKERS: Energizing Cities Towards a Shared and Just Transition – 22 May 2019 ICCA Conference TABLE/ THEME