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Page 1: Europe 2014-2020: smart & green cities

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Smart Green CitiesSelected EU ICT Policy Initiatives in Context

Directorate-General Information Society and Media

European Commission

Rencontre de représentants de la région Aquitaine

Colette Maloney, PhDHead of ICT for Sustainable Growth Unit

30 January 2012

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Outline

1. Defining the Concept: What Makes a City a Smart Green City?

2. Addressing the Challenge: What’s Happening at EU ICT Policy Initiatives Level?

3. Conclusions

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1. Defining the ConceptA city becomes ‘smart’ and ‘green’ through strategic deployment of ICT infrastructure and services to achieve sustainability policy objectives.

Energy and Resource Efficiency

Carbon Neutrality

Cost-Effectiveness

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T ICT deployed to increase energy efficiency in buildings and beyond, including urban planning; ICT-optimised water and waste management; …

ICT deployed to decrease carbon footprint of private and public real estate, to feed distributed renewables into the grid, to optimise traffic management;

ICT deployed to realise savings through reduced peak energy demand, to turn consumers into prosumers, to optimise logistics; …

ICT deployed to enable achieving further public policy objectives

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2. Addressing the Challenge – Part I: Towards a Common Methodology

An agreed measurements framework to define environmental KPIs for ICT’s impact is a precondition for any further meaningful work.

The Issue EC Approach Application to Cities

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ICT as enabler to contribute to energy, resource efficiency targets

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- Negative impact of ICT on the environmentHow to measure the

overall impact of ICT?

Working with international standardisation bodies (ITU, ETSI, IEC, …)

Working with industry stakeholdersCompleting and

expanding efforts to a common

framework to capture ICT’s overall

impact across environmental

dimensions

Cities’ infrastructures cover whole potential of smart green ICT use:

Buldings, Neighbourhoods

Energy grids Water Transport, Logicstics

Cities provide sufficient demand to achieve critical massTo be able to

compare and learn cities require own

framework to measure ICT’s

impact

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2. Addressing the Challenge – Part 2: Connecting and Enabling European Cities

The Green Digital Charter means political commitment and specific actions towards ICT-enabled sustainability targets and greening ICT itself.

Since November 2009, to encourage cities to: (i) reduce the carbon footprint of their ICT and (ii) roll-out ICT solutions leading to more energy

and resource efficiency, carbon neutrality and further public policy goals

Closely cooperate on ICT deployment towards public policy goals

Deploy 5 large scale ICT projects within 5 yearsDecrease ICT’s direct carbon footprint by 30%

within 10 years

Overall Objectives

Signatory Majors’ Commitments

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Objectives: establishing an ICT footprint Reporting Tool drawing on existing international standards to measure, compare and report ICT’s direct carbon footprint at city level

Supporting the Green Digital Charter in moving from political commitment to action:

2. Addressing the Challenge – Part 2: Connecting and Enabling European Cities

Define a set of monitoring

and reporting tools

Knowledge exchange

beyond GDC

Deliver practical

support to the signatory

cities

Cooperation with China

‘NiCE – Networking intelligent Cities for Energy Efficiency’ is the EC’s support action to promote and advance the Green Digital Charter.

Key Objectives

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2. Addressing the Challenge – Part 3: Moving Beyond the Silo

The European Commission will focus its efforts on smart cities across portfolios to optimise outputs and ensure public policy coherence.

Research and

Innovation

Mobility and

Transport

Environment Energy

Information Society and Media

Interoperable

infrastru

cture

multi

-applic

ation

protocols

&

&

Coherent policy

initiatives for smartening & greening our

cities

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3. Conclusions

The Smart Green City is one that strategically mobilises ICT infrastructure and services towards achieving sustainability objectives whilst addressing ICT’s own environmental impact

The European Commission lays great emphasis on the adaption of a common framework to measure ICT’s overall environmental impact

EU ICT policy initiatives work towards improving and spreading Smart Green Cities throughout our Member States

Interoperable and multi-application infrastructure and protocols are the backbone to making Smart Green Cities a success story

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Thank you for your attention.