Opportunities with the application • Good overview of the city's environmental work • Independent assessment from international expertise • Help to identify areas with potential to progress further Participate in the European green capital • network • Marketing Umeå as a sustainable city • Involvement from citizens, NGO:s and companies
Opportunities with the European green capital year • Overall objective is better environmental status. • Starting point for further sustainable development in Umeå • Co-change together with citizens, NGO:s and companies in possible enduring partnerships. • Increase of visits and interest from other European cities • A sustainable city = attractive for citizens and visitors
Ranking 2017 Område Placering Climate change: mitigation and adaptation 2 (3) Local transport 3 (3) Green urban areas incorporating sustainable land use 4 (7) Nature and biodiversity 5 (6) Ambient air quality 1 (6) Quality of the acoustic environment 1 (3) Waste production and management 3 (2) Water management 7 (6) Waste water treatment 5 (5) Eco innovation and sustainable employment 1 (3) Energy performance 1 (1) Integrated environmental management 4 (6)
Good practice: Broparken • Result of a long collaboration and a collective learning process between Umeå municipality and young people. • Representatives of parkour, snowboarding, stage and dance organizations have contributed with their ideas. • Contains parkour park, surfaces for urban farming, occasional trades and surfaces for performancecs and activities such as snowboarding.
Good practice: Electric buses • By June 2015 there will be nine ultra fast- charging electric buses with hybrid back- up in traffic. • The vision is to add another 24 buses by 2020, that will increase the share of electric buses in the transport system from 0 % in 2010 to 70 % in 2020. • Noise levels can be reduced up to 10 dBA. • Adapted to cold winter climate.
Good practice: Be Green Umeå • Be Green Umeå is a project office that has worked with sustainability projects • Overall purpose to develop and test innovative ideas that makes it easier and more fun to travel and live in a more sustainable way • The projects’ objective has among other things been that more people will choose to bike, use public transport, recycle waste and save energy
Good practice: Sustainable Ålidhem • A national pilot project focusing on large- scale sustainable renovation of 1960s and 1970s buildings, side by side with new low-energy buildings. Overall objective to transform Ålidhem • into a more sustainable neighborhood by halving the energy use in the area with sustained rent levels. • About 400kW of Photo-voltaic cells installed on roofs, suppying the area with 1/3 of the building electricity.
Good practice: Waste plan 2020 • A locally decided policy document with a clear objective to work with waste prevention and to climb up the waste hierarchy. • Has time-bound targets with a clear defined responsibility for implementation and budgeted funds allocated. • The development of the waste plan has been carried out in dialogue and with the people and organizations concerned.
Good practice: Dåva CHP • Sweden’s largest CHP plant based on solid fuels is the heart of Umeå’s district heating supply. • The production is gentle on the environment and minimizes emissions through advanced filtration systems. • One of the world’s most energy efficient and environmentally friendly plants with waste as a primary fuel producing heat and electricity from waste and bio-energy and forest industry residues. Fuels mainly from regional, contributing • to employment in the forestry and transport sector in northern Sweden.
Time table June Presentations to the jury in Bristol – the European Green Capital 2017 will be announced
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