Sustainable Haarlem

Angers11th september

Sjoerd Andela, head section Environmental Affairs, Community of Haarlem

Content

• Motion of City-Council• Trias energetica and goals• Conferences • Organisation of ideas• Approach of the long term goals• Most important issues• Coöperation in Europe

‘ An inconvenient truth’

by Al Gorehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XMn_Ry3z6M

It all started with:

Motion City-Council: Haarlem climate neutral

• Own organisation in 2015

• Territory in 2030

contribution of fossil fuel

Targets in trias energetica

time

CO2

fossil origine

1. energy reduction

2. renewable sources

3. fossil sources

4. compensation

Partition CO2 production (0-count)

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

1 2 3

national

Haarlem2007

1. 1. Industry and corporations

2. 2. Housing

3. 3. Mobility

Total emission Haarlem: 902,3 KT

since 2004: reduction 46 KT

Start of Haarlem climate programm by conferences

• ‘kick-off’, generating ideas within ‘100 days’, 26-10-2007

• presentation of generated ideas, 28-3-2008

• presentation of climate programm, 13-10-2008 (after decision in the city-council on 9 oktober

...for inhabitants, ngo’s and companies….:

Organisation of ideas• Steering group, led by alderman• 4 workgroups: 1. Industry and companies

2. Housing

3. Mobility

4. Organisation of

Community• Members; branch organisations, ngo’s,

professionals, companies, citizens

Approach of the long term goals

• Starting with easy goals• Search for good examples and practices• Show them and give them a platform• ‘In conformity with the market’• Finding the barriers; solving them• Most technical financial barriers• Showing the advantages for all paticipants

Most important issues

• Generating outstanding examples

• Virtual platform: ‘green mosquito’

• Monitoring results of CO2 reduction

• Analysis of reduction possibilities

• Repeatedly programming and monitoring

Virtual platform

http://degroenemug.nl/index.php

Coöperation in Europe

• Convenant of Mayors

• Portal for European financing

• Partners for work out thoughts and plans

• Coöperation partnerships of cities

• www.eumayors.eu

What is the challenge?

• Finding common goals• Helping the citizens to keep up their

purchasing power• Helping the companies to keep up

competition power• Promote energy independence (new

energy services)

Examples of sustainability in Haarlem so far

from ´To a more sustainable Haarlem´ (2006)