ISCI Future Avenues

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ISCI Future Avenues
Chiel Boonstra ISCI Secretary-General

• Local Renewables Conference
• Freiburg, 14 June 2007

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Cities account for three-quarters of total global
energy demand and a correspondingly large
portion of the emissions driving climate change.
Half of the global population currently lives in
cities and this proportion is expected to grow to
three-quarters by 2050.
Image Hong Kong Island, Chiel Boonstra
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2004 First ISCI Congress Daegu, Korea
Barcelona Gelsenkirchen Minneapolis The
Hague Gwangju Adelaide Daegu

• Sapporo
• Goteborg
• Cape Town
• Portland
• Beijing
• Linz

Santa Monica Hangzhou Sol Plaatje Kaohsiung Qingda
o Oxford
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2006 Second ISCI Congress Oxford, UK

• Adelaide
• Alessandria
• Barcelona
• Bonn
• Boulder
• Copenhagen
• Daegu
• Delhi
• Dezhou
• Dundee
• Dunedin
• Eppertshausen
• Freiburg
• Gelsenkirchen

• Greenburgh
• Hudson Valley
• Korydallos
• Linz
• London
• Napoli
• Oxford
• Oxfordshire
• Sao Paulo
• Southampton
• The Hague
• Tokyo
• Toronto

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• Third International Solar Cities Congress
• 17 21 February 2008
• Adelaide, South Australia
• www.solarcitiescongress.com.au

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CO2 Emissions per Capita
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USA
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Australia
Canada
15
Norway
13
Denmark
Belgium
Russia
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CO2 Emissions, tons per capita
Netherlands
Ukraine
Ireland
9
Finland
UK
Germany
Japan
Sweden
7
Switzerland
Spain
Italy
Korea
5
Debt
France
3
Credit
China
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Nigeria
Vietnam
Chad
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
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direct and indirect CO2 emissions

• Many cities have prepared baseline emission
  studies but these vary widely according to the
  assumptions used.
• However, the Earth operates by a single
  assumption all emissions are counted.
• Therefore, methods of deriving the attributed per
  capita emissions in a city must eventually
  include all emissions.

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CO2 emission European household 2,5 persons

• tonne CO2 per year
• now future actions
• Space heating passive house technology
• Warm water 6 2 watersaving solar boiler
• Electricity electricity saving solar, wind,
  biomass
• Mobility 5 1,5 from car to car sharing
• public transport bicycle
• regional living-working-leisure
• Food 6 1,5 regional food production and market
• Goods 3 1 regional and sustainable purchasing
• Services 5 1,5 sustainable services
• ____ ____
• 25 7,5 3 tonne CO2 per year / person

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Passive housing in Germany also for renovation
200 kWh m²a
after
before
Source PHI
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In Vauban, Freiburg, parking happens in the
Solargarage, and only short term parking near the
appartments. A new tramline enters the
area. Alongside the walking route small shops
flourish.
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The school is located in safe, green space,
adjacent to mix of social housing and individual
architecture.
The parking garage offers space for car sharing
(three car types). Reservation and payment via
regional public transport card, and Internet.
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Michael Harbison Lord Mayor of Adelaide
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A key objective for a sustainable neighbourhood
is to encouraging people to walk, use bicycle or
public transport.

• Streets are for people
• Planning for pedestrian
• Planning for cyclist
• Neighborhood planning for use of public transport

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Communities and mobility

• Shorter distances
• Services and shops by foot and bicycle
• New communities
• Optimum density, function mix
• Attractive mixed use living, leisure and working
  environment
• Tram network between nodes
• Train for long distance

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ISCI objectives

• to support UN energy and climate policies by
  stimulating the interest of cities into becoming
  benchmark cities that commit to ambitious
  emission reduction goals
• help cities systematically integrate renewable
  energy and energy efficient technologies and
  industries into environmental, economic and city
  planning
• and provide scientific support for the validation
  and design of effective measures and policies for
  Solar Cities.

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ISCI Executive Board

• Chris Zijdeveld Chair
• Anne Grete Hestnes Vice Chair
• Chiel Boonstra Secretary General
• Monica Oliphant
• Jong-dal Kim
• Iida Tetsunari
• John Byrne
• David Mills

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2006 ISCI Declaration at Oxford

• Agreement achieved in front of Mayors Forum, and
  in city consultations
• INTRODUCTION
• Cities account for three-quarters of total
  global energy
• Cities have great potential to avert the growing
  climate crisis
• In the second International Solar Cities
  Congress hosted by Oxford

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2006 ISCI Declaration at Oxford

• TARGETS AND TRAJECTORIES
• It is agreed that all ISCI Cities create, as a
  long-term target, per capita emissions reduction
  trajectories consistent with the 2050 per capita
  global target of a 60 or greater reduction from
  1990 levels. Trajectories may differ for cities
  with currently low per capita emissions compared
  to those with higher emissions.
• It is agreed that Cities will work together and,
  with support from the ISCI Executive, find
  consensus on trajectories by 2008, when the 3rd
  International Solar Cities Congress will convene
  in Adelaide, Australia.

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2006 ISCI Declaration at Oxford

• BASELINE DEVELOPMENT
• It is agreed that ISCI Cities use mathematical
  methods to create a continually updated per
  capita emissions figure as the benchmark for
  monitoring and verification of community progress
  in lowering emissions.
• It is agreed that ISCI Cities will move toward a
  complete counting method in their reporting of
  progress in per capita emissions reduction.

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2006 ISCI Declaration at Oxford

• ACTIONS TO REDUCE EMISSIONS
• It is agreed that, beginning in 2008, ISCI Cities
  will report bi-annually at each Congress their
  per capita emissions and the method used to
  measure this indicator.
• It is agreed that, beginning in 2008, ISCI Cities
  will report bi-annually at each Congress, action
  plans to reduce emissions in the near (next five
  years) and long terms.

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2006 ISCI Declaration at Oxford

• ACTION PROGRAMME EVALUATION
• It is agreed that analysis methods employed by
  ISCI Cities should be comparable, transparent,
  and complete, and will be reported to the ISCI
  Executive in its role as clearing house for ISCI
  activity.
• It is agreed that results of programmes will be
  published in a simple and common format allowing
  inter-city comparison of approaches.

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ISCI ResearchJohn Byrne

• Research Committee
• Guidance on consistent CO2 accounting
• Peer review in coordination with city liaison
• Reflection on bi-annual city reports
• ISCI-developed databases

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ISCI City Liaison actionsChiel Boonstra

• 2004 Daegu Declaration
• 2006 ISCI Declaration at Oxford
• Cities and ISCI cooperate
• Bi-annual reporting
• City Action plan development
• Programme exchange between cities
• ISCI technical assistance, coordination and
  consulting services

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ISCI dissemination

• Publication
• Newsletter
• Each City featured in newsletter, annually
• Website, including city pages

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• Case Story development - Collaboration offered by
  Eric Martinot information channeled via ISCI
  Research and ISCI City Liaison

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Other organisations

• ISES - cooperation in conference development
• ICLEI - conversations to establish working
  relations.

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ISCI ICLEI - ISES

• ICLEI sustainability in general, political,
  easy solutions, 1000 cities exposure
• sustainability, cities network, local
  governments, campaigns, congresses, projects,
  publications
• ISCI 20 50 cities, frontrunner cities in
  greenhouse gas reduction
• Helping the frontrunners to really achieve their
  goals.
• ISES renewable energy, scientific
• sustainable energy, scientific, theoretical,
  technical, congresses, publications, projects

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Solar City examples

• Solar City Copenhagen
• Adelaide Solar City
• Solar City Alessandria
• Dezhou Solar City

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Mrs Mara Scagni Mayor of Alessandria
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Alla Luce del Sole, Alessandria, Italy
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• Third International Solar Cities Congress
• 17 21 February 2008
• Adelaide, South Australia
• www.solarcitiescongress.com.au

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International Solar Cities Initiative

• Thank you,
• You are more than welcome
• to join
• chiel.boonstra_at_isci-cities.org