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OPEN EUROPEAN DAY
European Cities Adapt to Climate Change
Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, 28 May 2014
CONTRIBUTORS OF THE DAY
09.30 – 10.30
OPENING SESSION
Facilitation:
Astrid Westerlind-Wigström
ICLEI – European Secretariat
Astrid Westerlind Wigstroem
Astrid is a senior adaptation expert at ICLEI Europe as well as a consultant for the Resilient Cities
Program of the World Bank. She previously worked as a Coordinator in the Sustainable Resources,
Climate and Resilience team of ICLEI Europe. For ICLEI she coordinated the EUCitiesAdapt project and
was an integral part of the design and implementation of the first Open European Day in 2013.
Astrid’s area of expertise is urban climate resilience with an emphasis on capacity building and
training. She has experiences working with cities and communities in Europe, Africa and Asia.
astrid.westerlind@iclei.org
Birgit Georgi
European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark
Project manager regional vulnerability and adaptation
The EEA is an agency of the European Union. Its task is to provide sound, independent information on
the environment. As a major information source the EEA helps the Community and member countries
to make informed decisions about improving the environment and moving towards sustainability.
Birgit coordinates the activities related to urban adaptation to climate change, such as the milestone
report Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe (2012), making urban information and tools
available at the European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate-ADAPT, and organising capacity
building among cities with the Open European Days at Resilient Cities.
birgit.georgi@eea.europa.eu
Holger Robrecht
ICLEI – European Secretariat
Deputy Regional Director and member of ICLEI’s Senior Management Team
Holger joined ICLEI in 1997. He holds a Diploma in spatial planning and has more than twenty years of
experience with local environmental and sustainability management and planning, project
development and co-ordination, team supervision as well as guidance and training. He is a renowned
expert for sustainability management, climate adaptation and ecosystem services and has been
member of several EU Expert Groups, incl. the EU Expert Group for the Soil Thematic Strategy (2003)
and the EU Work Group on Urban Environmental Management Plans and Systems (2004) and the EU
Adaptation Steering Group (since 2010).
Holger has managed and coordinated a large number of European and international projects, thus
gaining a vast experience in overseeing project delivery, quality control of delivered service and
conflict resolution. He is author and editor of various books and other publications. Before joining
ICLEI, he led the Research department Soil Contamination, Soil Protection and Land-use management
at the University of Dortmund, Institute for Environmental Research (1990-97).
holger.robrecht@iclei.org
Lykke Leonardsen
City of Copenhagen
Head of Climate Unit
Copenhagen has worked with adaptation since 2008 and are currently preparing the implementation
plan for the ambitious Cloudburst Plan for the city.
Andreas Kress
Climate Alliance / Mayors Adapt
Head of Mitigation and Adaptation Department
Andreas Kress coordinates the activities related to municipalities within the project Mayors Adapt.
Climate Alliance, being part of the consortium shaping and implementing Mayors Adapt and also one
of the networks running the Covenant of Mayors Office, ensures ownership by the cities as well as
necessary synergies between the two initiatives. In addition Andreas Kress helps identifying the main
needs and expectations of European local authorities towards the new EU initiative through
consultation workshops and mobilises and supports local authorities, notably through the operation of
the Helpdesk and the organisation of information events.
Andreas has managed Climate Alliance activities in the area of adaptation to climate change for more
than 10 years. In this field he was e.g. coordinator of the projects AMICA: Adaptation and Mitigation an Integrated Climate Policy Approach (INTERREG 2005-2007) and Klimascout, in which guidelines on
adaptation to climate change as a website tool for municipalities were developed (2009-2012).
a.kress@climatealliance.org
Eleni Manoli
European Commission, DG Research and Innovation - Directorate I: Climate Action and
Resource Efficiency - Unit I.3: Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
Research Programme Officer
The mission of the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission is to
develop and implement the European Research and Innovation (R&I) policy with a view to achieving
the goals of Europe 2020 and the Innovation Union. The Directorate for Climate Action and Resource
Efficiency focuses particularly on R&I policies to address the societal challenge of Climate Action,
Environment and Resource Efficiency in order to systemically green the economy and make
development sustainable. Within the Directorate, the Unit for the Sustainable Management of Natural
Resources defines and implements the EU R&I objectives and priorities for promoting nature-based
solutions which increase economic, social and environmental resilience and improve risk management.
Eleni specifically deals with research and innovation on climate change impacts, vulnerabilities and
adaptation solutions. She is currently managing several FP7 research projects in this field and
participates in the development of a potential future R&I agenda on nature-based solutions for climate
resilience and disaster risk reduction.
EIB Nancy Saich
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Adviser in Climate and Environment
Nancy is one of the longest standing members of the Bank’s Environmental Assessment Group,
providing the Bank’s Project Teams with due diligence support on environmental matters on a wide
range of projects funded by the Bank. She is also a founder member of the Bank’s Inter-Directorate
Climate Working Group. Following her move to the Bank’s Environment, Climate and Social Office in
2011, Nancy has a specific role as EIB’s Adviser on Climate and Environment, and is responsible for
leading the work on the Carbon Footprint of the Bank’s Project portfolio and on mainstreaming
climate resilience into the Bank’s Project work as well as developing Adaptation in Bank lending and in
technical assistance. The key sectors she is working on in the climate risk screening and resilience
agenda are: urban development, transport and water; and the role of the EIB in supporting project
promoters in this field.
10.30 – 11.30
THEME1: VULNERABILITY AND RISK ASSESSMENTS –GETTING
STARTED AND CREATING A BASIS FOR TARGETED ACTION
Session 1A – Integrated vulnerability assessments
FACILITATOR:
Alistair Ford
Centre for Earth Systems Engineering Research, Newcastle University - United Kingdom
Researcher in Climate Impact Assessment
Newcastle University is a member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the UK, and
are leaders on the Cities research theme. For almost a decade, researchers in CESER have been
working towards tools to aid decision-makers with assessing the risks to their cities from future
climate change. This research has evolved into the Urban Integrated Assessment Framework, an
attempt to bring together future scenarios of climate change with concurrent socio-economic and
land-use change to enable city planners and engineers to consider the city as a whole system when
making decisions. Alistair has been a key researcher on the projects that have contributed to these
advances, developing spatial models of cities to help understand the impacts of climate on our urban
systems and the consequences of decisions taken today.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Marie Gantois
City of Paris
Project leader for adaptation to climate change
In 2007, the Council of Paris unanimously approved the first Paris Climate Action Plan. This plan was
updated in 2012 and has been broken down into strategic and operational roadmaps. Roadmaps for
the Local Authority and for the Housing sector have already been drafted, and currently the
preparation of the Parisian Adaptation roadmap is ongoing. It follows an extensive vulnerability
assessment, carried out in 2012-2013, that covered 13 different urban systems facing 8 types of
climate related hazards (heat waves, flooding, extreme rainfall, drought spells...) and 4 types of
resource depletion (water, energy, food, biodiversity). 100 persons participated in the study during
interviews, stakeholder conferences, steering comities and scientific comities. The study is now
summarised into 25 illustrated thematic information sheets.
marie.gantois@paris.fr
Griet Lambrecht
City of Antwerp (Belgium) – Environmental Agency
Advisor sustainable development
As an advisor Griet acts as a link between the Environmental Agency and the Urban and Strategic
Planning Department. Her task is to translate and mainstream environmental and climate policy into
planning instruments and development plans. From 2013, she is project leader of developing the
Antwerp’s Adaptation Strategy.
Starting from the opportunities of a European middle sized city and the current organization of the city
administration, Antwerp is aiming an integrated and spatial approach for the city’s Adaptation
Strategy. Comprehensible information on urban challenges is necessary in order to create local
awareness and to produce spatial instruments, as high resolution climate models and impact studies,
to use in concrete projects and to test operative climate goals. However, as a consequence, the city
administration has to position itself among all the national and regional authorities involved with
climate matters. With limited resources and large climate challenges, it has to take initiative to coproduce information and to focus the debate on the interdisciplinarity, the urgencies and time and
scale dimensions of local policy making.
griet.lambrechts@stad.antwerpen.be
See plenary
Nancy Saich, European Investment Bank
Session 1B – Sector-based vulnerabilities & solutions
FACILITATOR:
Annemie Wickmans
NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Professor, Vice Dean of Research, Smart Cities coordinator, Architect
Annemie leads a work package on resilient architecture and infrastructure in FP7-funded project
RAMSES. The aim of the work package is to develop an indicator taxonomy for climate-resilient
architecture, infrastructure and urban fabric.
After an initial systematic survey of literature, empirical evidence and case studies on architecture,
infrastructure and urban fabric, in cooperation with IVE, T6-ECO, CMF and ICLEI, we concluded that:
Few operational indicators exist and most frameworks and indicators which have been proposed in the
literature have not been used in practice. Instead best practice guidelines for good design and good
organisation are increasingly perceived as efficient tools to encourage and promote resilience and
deliver a level of reassurance not otherwise available through specific indicators; Little empirical
evidence exists to serve as a guideline for cities. Examples tend to be highly dependent on local
context and can hardly be transferred to other cities; There is a considerable gap between the
maturity and complexity of the resilience and adaptation concepts in the academic literature and the
actual use of these concepts in practice. The detailed and advanced resilience frameworks found in the
literature featuring indicators are not really used in practice. It is absolutely key that we understand
better who will be using these indicators and how.
To address this challenge, we are now analyzing the current practices from end-user perspectives,
namely municipalities and investment bodies, to see where and how resilience principles and
quantitative frameworks could be best introduced in a practical way. Case cities are Antwerp, London,
Bilbao, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, Skopje, New York and Hyderabad.
We highly welcome any input from panellists and participants.
annemie.wyckmans@ntnu.no
CONTRIBUTORS:
Annette Figueiredo
The Mayor’s Office - The Greater London Authority (GLA)
Principal Programme and Policy Officer (Environment Team- Resilience & Quality of Life)
Water for Schools Programme -The GLA’s (Mayor’s) Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Water
Strategy promotes increasing water efficiency and reducing water wastage to balance supply and
demand for water, safeguard the environment. Additionally, the Mayor is keen, through its delivery
programme, to retrofit all public buildings. The drought experience of South East England, including
London, and the impacts of extreme weather events on rising sea levels; and London’s rivers, makes
water management even more of a long-term priority.
The GLA is committed to working with schools, as public buildings, to improve water efficiency and
promoting school’s educational awareness through its stakeholders becoming more water aware;
increasing understanding the environmental cost of water and its link to CO2 emissions; and
recognising that simple behavioural and technological solutions will reduce water use both at school
and home. To this end, the GLA initiated and established the Water for School’s Programme, in 2011.
The programme is now in its IV phase- the legacy year. The programme has worked with 60 schools on
improving water efficiency, leakage reduction, behaviour change and increasing education awareness
on water source, supply and demand through the school curriculum. In addition, pupils have been
introduced to career fair and potential opportunities for apprentice ship opportunities in the water
and green sector, This legacy year will see the programme handed to one of the partners and an NGO
to work with further schools and disseminate good practice.
annette.figueiredo@london.gov.uk
Michele Zuin
Comune di Padova, Italy
Offices for Local Urban Sustainability, Local Agenda 21 and Climate specialist
The City of Padova developed last year its Adaptation Strategy. It is actually managing the process to
set up a real Adaptation Plan, specifically defining the vulnerabilities and their effects on the City’s
systems.
The area is particularly vulnerable – given its inland position between two mid size river basins – to
flood and extreme rains.
The City has also experienced analysis in the context of Urban Heat Waves and Planning Solutions to
reduce its effects and its connection with the Updating of Building codes.
A specific aspect that a Heritage City like Padova is trying to deal with is vulnerability in historical sites
and its strategic implementation in connection with tourism.
zuinm@comune.padova.it
Nuno Lopes
City Council of Almada / Sustainable Environmental Management and Planning Department
Head of Division – Environmental Studies and Management Division
The demand for coastal occupation requires measures of management and planning that tend to
minimize the risk. A number of national-scale policies emerged to control the pattern of occupation of
the coastal fringe and regulate land-uses, which included the development of setback lines. However,
in many cases, in Portugal and elsewhere, occupation took place prior to the definition and
implementation of these regulations, which led to urbanization in risk-prone areas. The beach side of
Fonte da Telha, in the Almada municipality, is one of such places. The original fishing village and fishing
huts gave place to a nucleus of ill-planned and unauthorized housing, lacking adequate infrastructures
but hosting about 300 families, together with a number of urban facilities.
The Municipality of Almada (MA) decided it was crucial to make adaptation studies integrating climate
evolution scenarios in Mediterranean regions to support the development of Fonte da Telha Land-Use
Plan, with partnerships with research institutions, specifically on: the coastal hazard zone (CHZ)
characterization and delimitation, and geological and geotechnical vulnerability assessment studies.
Based on the mapping of the CHZ and geotechnical protection buffers, the territorial model was
designed and a cross-cutting approach was defined by the City council, combining measures to retreat
from the risk areas, to accommodate sea level rise and to protect the new urban settlement by a
restored coastal dune system. Adaptation measures, such as demolition of illegal housing, definition of
a new construction base level, revision of the urban design, construction in stilts, promotion of dune
and Fossil Cliff stabilization and natural restoration were incorporated in the Plan to reduce the risk
exposure and to increase the resilience in this beach front.
nlopes@cma.m-almada.pt
Session 1C – Climate data & projections in practice
FACILITATOR:
Christian Kind
adelphi, Berlin, Germany
Senior Project Manager
Adelphi is a think tank for policy analysis and strategy consulting offering creative solutions and
services on global environment and development challenges for policy, business and civil society
communities. Clients that adelphi has supported with research, consulting and training activities
related to climate change adaptation include the German Federal Environment Agency, the EU
Commission and the German Agency for International Development Cooperation (GIZ). Christian has
worked for and with a wide range of local authorities, from coastal villages in southern India to
metropolitan cities in northern Europe. Most of his involvements centre on supporting decisionmakers in municipalities in analysing climate risks and in integrating adaptation considerations into
their procedures. Some of his experiences are reflected in the online decision-support-tool
“Klimalotse” (“climate navigator”) that adelphi developed with ICLEI Europe for the German Federal
Environment Agency.
kind@adelphi.de
CONTRIBUTORS:
Ton Verhoeven
Municipality of Nijmegen, Holland
Policy Advisor Water & Green, Project Manager Interreg IVb Future Cities, Project Manager
Green Capital Award 2016 (Nijmegen is finalist)
Nijmegen is a small city (166.000 inhabitants) in the east of Holland. We do not have large budgets for
sustainability programs, but because we are innovative and work closely together with citizens and
companies we realise many new projects. That is why we think we can be a role model for Green
capital Award 2016.
Through the work as a Policy Advisor Water I am involved in all policy aspects of water, with an
emphasis on surface water, ground water and the river Waal (Rhine). In Nijmegen we have done a lot
of investigations on rain water harvesting and disconnection methods. We use local rain water
monitoring in order to cope with the effects of heavy rain showers. In the Future Cities project
together with the neighbouring city of Arnhem we have made climate stress maps (heat island
effects). We also have carried out a Local Climate Impact Profile, a method of our British partner
Hasting in the Future Cities project. By looking back in the media for 20 years you get a fine overview
of the disasters that took place.
t.verhoeven@nijmegen.nl
Jana Koleva
European Policies and Programmes Directorate, Burgas Municipality
Chief expert
J.KOLEVA@burgas.bg
Meinolf Kossmann
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) – German National Meteorological Service, Offenbach am
Main
Urban climatology
DWD provides urban climate information and consultancy for cities, government authorities, urban
and regional planners, and the private sector. DWD’s urban climate consultancy includes downscaling
of global and regional climate projections to the local scale, the quantification of climate change
impacts, and the evaluation of climate change adaptation measures using urban climate models and
targeted observations.
Meinolf.Kossmann@dwd.de
12.10 – 13.10
THEME2: ECONOMICS OF ADAPTATION
Session 2A – Decision-making, costs, benefits and win-win solutions
FACILITATOR:
Piero Pelizzaro
Kyoto Club No Profit and LIFE+ BLUEAP
Head of the International Cooperation Unit and Senior Export on Adaptation Policy to Climate
Change
Piero Pelizzaro is Acclimatise Associate Italy and responsible for the International Cooperation Unit
and member of the Working Group Local Authorities for Kyoto at Kyoto Club No Profit, since April
2010. Senior Expert on Adaptation Policy to Climate Change and further specialization in Energy
Scenario and Climate Change Impact Models through his past working experience at Stockholm
Environment Institute – Tallinn Office. In past years he collaborated with EU MP, Umberto Guidoni and
at the moment his writing for different magazines and web-portals on climate change issues. He is
leading projects supported by the European Commission. At the moment is leading the LIFE+ project
BlueAP Bologna Local Urban Environment Adaptation Plan for a Resilient City (Senior Expert), LIFE+
RECOIL Recovered waste cooking oil for combined heat and power production (Technical Director),
MED ZeroCO2 Small communities for big changing (Junior Expert). BLUEAP project will be also the case
that I will share with other participants, with a specific focus on Communication and cost/benefit
needs.
p.pelizzaro@kyotoclub.org - piero.pelizzaro@gmail.com
CONTRIBUTORS:
Corjan Gebraad
City of Rotterdam
Senior advisor climate resilience
Corjan Gebraad attended the Delft University of Technology, graduating in Civil Engineering, focused
on Water-management. Between 1994 and 1997 he worked as a business analyst for watermanagement software at the American IT-company EDS. From 1997 up till now he is working for the
City of Rotterdam. There he had several positions. Up till 2006 he was advisor in the area of watermanagement at the municipal department of Public Works. In that position he contributed, among
other things, to several water-plans of the city and was project manager for the municipal sewer policy
plan. From 2006 up till February 2010 Corjan Gebraad was advisor of Mayor and Aldermen of
Rotterdam in the area of public space. In this position he was an advisor of the Alderman for Finance,
Sports and Public Space. Since 2010 he works for the Rotterdam Climate Initiative, the climate
programme of the City of Rotterdam. In particular he deals with climate adaptation issues and is a
member of a regional project team of the national Delta-programme.
Climate adaptation measures can be profitable if societal, long term costs and benefits are taken into
account. The local situation and characteristics are decisive.
cj.gebraad@rotterdam.nl
Zuzana Hudekova
Bratislava City office, Department of the Chief Architect, Slovakia
Specialist on sustainable urban development, green infrastructure and adaptation
City of Bratislava is very active in the field of climate change. The Covenant of Mayors was signed and
adopted in 2012. The aspect of climate change adaptation is embedded among the priorities of the
Strategic Development Plan for 2010-2020. The city took part in the project “EU Cities adapt” in 2012 2013. Zuzana Hudekova led the 2 years process of the elaboration of the Adaptation Strategy that will
be presented to the City assembly for the approval in June 2014. Under Zuzana´s leadership, the city
successfully applied for the project funded through the EEA and Norway financial mechanism entitled
“Bratislava is preparing itself for the climate change”. The main objective of the project is to enhance
the resilience of Bratislava city to the adverse impact of climate change through the realisation of the
concrete adaptation measures, e.g. realisation of the bio retention systems with the rainwater
infiltration and detention, building a green roofs, protection and revitalisation of wetlands, increase
the rainwater permeability of surfaces on the open urban spaces, planting of trees, revitalisation of
green spaces, etc. The project will run from June 2014 till April 2016.
zunka.hudekova@gmail.com
See session 1B
Michele Zuin, City of Padova
Session 2B – Nature-based win-win solutions
FACILITATOR:
Pamela Mühlmann
ICLEI – European Secretariat
Senior Officer in the Sustainability Management (Expert)
Pamela Mühlmann joined ICLEI in 2010 and is currently working as an senior officer in the Governance
and Social Innovation team. Holding a PhD from the Doctoral School Sustainable Development in
Vienna, where she focused on volunteering and its impacts on local sustainable development, Pamela
worked at a Viennese consultancy and took part in the trainee programme of the Council of the
European Union in Brussels. She also has a second degree in vocal education from the University
College for Agrarian and Environmental Pedagogy, Vienna. Her tasks at ICLEI include working as both a
trainer and consultant in projects such as the URBES project (focusing on urban biodiversity) or Project
21 (focusing on small communities in Rhineland-Palatinate). She is focusing on the issues of
sustainability, climate adaptation and mitigation, as well as biodiversity and regional development.
pamela.muehlmann@iclei.org
CONTRIBUTORS:
Irma Ventayol
Barcelona City Council - Urban Habitat, Knowledge management department
Environmental technician
Since September 2009 Irma works in Urban Habitat department of the City of Barcelona on strategic
cross-cutting projects such as Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity Plan and Resilience and Climate
change Adaptation Strategy.
Most of the expected impacts related to climate change are already occurring in the city of Barcelona.
The city is ready for these impacts and a lot of work has already been done, but needs to go further
into certain aspects to assume changes in their frequency or intensity. For that reason, Barcelona is
elaborating its Resilience and Climate change Adaptation Strategy. This strategy will include other
existing plans and will propose also new actions.
The Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity Plan main goal is to increase the environmental services that
green infrastructure provides to the city, like microclimate regulation (shade, humidity, and freshness),
water cycle regulation, etc. Due that Barcelona is a compact, dense city with very few natural areas; it
is basic to take advantage of any opportunity to introduce urban green in spaces like roofs or walls.
iventayol@bcn.cat
Giovanni Fini
City of Bologna
Coordinator Environmental Quality Unit
Giovanni Fini is a PhD dr in Territorial and Building engineering and has worked since 1998 in the City
of Bologna in the field of Environmental and Urban Planning. In 1999 he has been technical
coordinator of the new energy plan. Between 2003 and 2007 he coordinated the activities for the
definition of the new city master plan approved in 2008. Since 2006 he is executive of a Unit of the
Environment Department in charge for environmental evaluations, sustainability and energy policies,
climate adaptation and mitigation actions and city environmental budget. Since 2012 he is
coordinating the definition of Bologna Local Adaptation Plan.
Bologna has started in 2012 the process for the definition of its Adaptation Plan, under a European co
funded LIFE+ project called BlueAp, in order to make the city more resilient and able to prevent and
react to the climate changes main impacts at local level.
Main actions/documents completed: local climate profile with comprehensive information system that
integrates environmental and social data, scaling down and producing new information about climate
changes impact risks and vulnerability in the city.
The stakeholder engagement: plenary section with politician and citizens as a communication
campaign to increase awareness of community; workshops with stakeholders and decision-makers
with the objective to strengthen the community relationship with its environment, motivate about
adaptation needs and opportunities and mobilize in proactive pilot actions.
Giovanni.Fini@comune.bologna.it
Chantal van Ham
IUCN – International Union for Conservation of Nature, European Union Representative
Office, Brussels
EU Programme Officer
Focal point for local and regional authorities - Pioneering nature-based solutions for urban resilience
Nature plays an important role in helping us tackle some of the biggest challenges we face today.
Biodiversity and ecosystems have the potential to help us address climate change and ensure food,
water and energy security and can help eradicate poverty and promote economic development.
Investing in natural capital and the restoration of natural ecosystem functions therefore offers a high
return for regional economic development, human well-being and biodiversity. Today I would like to
share with you some examples that show how urbanised areas can make a real difference and can also
benefit from nature based solutions to enhance quality of life, save money, strengthen the economy
and reduce the impacts of climate change.
IUCN invites cities and regions willing to embrace nature-based solutions as part of their sustainable
development strategy to join forces with its network of experts to exchange best practices, promote
investment in natural infrastructure and to demonstrate its potential to be a major asset for local and
regional development and a truly sustainable future.
chantal.vanham@iucn.org
Sebastian Marcel Witte
Municipality of Arnsberg, Environmental office
Climate protection agent
Sebastian is the official climate change agent of the municipality of Arnsberg and is (amongst others)
responsible for implementing the cities´ ”integrated mitigation strategy” (2011). In this position, he is
member of the so called ‘Zukunftsagentur’ (roughly translated “bureau for future tasks”) of the
municipality. The Zukunftsagentur deals with main questions of sustainable urban development, e.g.
climate change (mitigation and adaptation), demographic change (in particular societies´ aging), new
types of mobility and health, sports & food. The so called “Z”, is an interdisciplinary and inter-agency
cooperation and is responsible for defining common objectives and concrete measures to counteract
the challenges of a global change on a local scale.
s.witte@arnsberg.de
Ewa Sobocińska
The City of Lodz
Senior officer
Office,
Local
authority/
self-government/
City
of
Lodz
Lodz is the third large city in Poland (720 thousands of inhabitants). It is a “young” city that developed
mainly thanks to the textile industry, which collapsed about 20 years ago. Nowadays Lodz is a
transforming city that pays much attention to services and new branches like logistics, BPO, white
goods, creative industries. Local government is running the huge Lodz’s revitalization process –
physical and social to improve the quality of life. Main goal is to make Lodz attractive place to live and
work. It means big scale investments, changes in the infrastructure (postindustrial buildings and
infrastructure, heating with coal) to decrease CO2 emission and use more environmentally friendly
solutions. To be succeeded in this process there is the Integrated Development Strategy for Lodz
2020+ implemented. It is the first element of the implementation process referring to strategic
management. The following stages will include development of the complementary sectoral policies
and operational programmes laid down in the Strategy, with indicators and activities enabling
achievement of the objectives. The operational programmes and policies will include timetables for
implementation and a financial plan correlated with the City’s budget. Currently we are also finishing
the Strategy for Metropolitan Area. All those strategic documents together with public consultation
and close cooperation with NGO’s and other local actors are the basis for building sustainable city.
ewa.sobocinska@uml.lodz.pl
Session 2C – Options for adaptation funding
FACILITATOR:
Peter Bosch
TNO, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Senior research scientist
In the past years I have been coordinating a large research programme in the Netherlands called
Climate Proof Cities. It aimed at providing the knowledge for making Dutch cities more climate
resilient. In the programme we have worked intensively together with the main cities in the
Netherlands, such as Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem/Nijmegen to develop tools
for the assessment of vulnerability and information on the effectiveness and design of adaptation
options. During the course of the research programme we moved from adaptation as an add-on,
towards the mainstreaming of adaptation in other policies and integration of measures in ongoing
urban restructuring projects. With municipal budgets declining, the issue of project funding has
become a key aspect of an adaptation strategy.
peter.bosch@tno.nl
See plenary
CONTRIBUTORS:
Nancy Saich, European Investment Bank
Sabine Lauxen
City of Oberhausen
Marco Cardinaletti
EUROCUBE
Project Manager for Sustainable Development and Climate Change
Degree in Economics and Management, Master Degree in Financial Management and Internal Control
in Public Administrations. Marco has more than 12 years experience in coordinating and managing
European Projects, mainly focus on Sustainable Development, Energy and Climate Change. Funder and
CEO of EUROCUBE Ltd, funder member of the Network 2020Cityplus and Associate Partner of
Acclimatise UK. He is also author of reports and articles on sustainability approach and topics as well as
speaker at international conferences and meetings.
m.cardinaletti@eurocubesrl.eu
See session 1C
Jana Koleva, City of Burgas
14.30 – 15.30
THEME3: MULTI-LEVEL
COOPERATION
GOVERNANCE
APPROACHES
AND
Session 3A – Mayors adapt – Making adaptation to climate
change work
See plenary
FACILITATOR:
Andreas Kress, Climate Alliance
CONTRIBUTORS:
Natasa Djokic
Secretariat for Environmental Protection, City of Belgrade
M.Sc. Geology
Natasa is Assistant Secretary in the Secretariat for Environmental Protection in the sector for planning
and project management. She works as a coordinator and monitors the implementation of the
activities of the different projects on protection and promotion of the environment for the City of
Belgrade. The Secretariat is in the process of developing an environmental protection program which
is a kind of environmental strategy for the City of Belgrade. Natasa acted as the coordinator of the
process, which also is supported by the project“Climate Change Adaptation in Western Balkans” of
GIZ.
natasa.djokic@beograd.gov.rs
Massimo Gattolin
Province of Venice
Manager of Environmental and Territory Safeguard Department
The province territory is a basin with a big part below sea level, but only the lagoon is really
submerged, while the rest of it has been reclaimed.
Since the seventies the area has largely been urbanized, during which little attention has been given to
the characteristics of its soil, producing large consumption of agricultural land.
In the last twenty years, in particular in the last decade, extreme weather events in a short time are
becoming more frequent associated to flooding, because of an inadequate network of collection and
disposal of storm water.
Because of this, in 2008 the Province of Venice made its Territorial Planning (P.T.C.P.) in which it
established some technical standards in a Directive on Hydraulic Risk. In particular this directive
introduces the possibility for the municipalities to receive an operational, dynamic tool to manage the
adaptation to climate change at local scale, named "Water Plans”.
The main role of the Province is to facilitate the co-working in the competence network. In order to
achieve this, the Province provides the municipalities with a database to ensure a general framework
for analysis and to monitor the interventions and solutions adopted.
massimo.gattolin@provincia.venezia.it
Cordine Lippert
Office for climate protection
Project manager / executive officer
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State
capital
of
Brandenburg,
Potsdam
The office for climate protection belongs to the department of the lord mayor of the state capital
Potsdam and was founded in 2008.
Since 2010 the state capital Potsdam has a climate protection scheme and it is the function of the
climate protection office to support the development and implementation of the proposals at the local
level.
One measure is to develop a local adaptation strategy including the restoration of moors. Cordine
acted as the project manager of the process. The strategy included the developed of a handbook for
municipalities that shows how to act in this case, what data you need, what data sources are available
and what measures are ecologically worthwhile.
cordine.lippert@rathaus.potsdam.de
Veronika Wirth
City of Munich, Department of Health and Environment, Unit of Environmental Planning and
Protection of Natural Resources
Urban Climate Officer
The city of Munich is currently developing an adaptation strategy that is implementation-oriented,
based on existing strategic objectives, plans and actions in the field. The adaptation strategy is
developed in close cooperation with the departments affected by climate change. Veronica, based in
the field of Urban Climate and Air Quality, is acting as a coordinator. In order to work with up-to-date
urban climate data there are two current studies: urban climate mapping and a projection of the
future city climate in cooperation with the German Meteorological Service.
veronika.wirth@muenchen.de
Birgit Haupter
INFRASTRUKTUR & UMWELT Professor Böhm und Partner, Darmstadt, Germany
Civil engineer, Coordinator of international climate and environmental projects
“Future Cities – urban networks to face climate change” is a project in the framework of the EU
programme INTERREG IV B NWE, bringing together water boards, urban administrations, planning
companies and project developers from Belgium, France, Germany, Great-Britain and the Netherlands.
Since 2008, the network developed and implemented adaptation measures for strategic topics of the
urban environment – green structures, water systems and energy efficiency.
The transnational exchange between different European partners allowed finding solutions beyond
the standard way. Together, the network developed the approach of “Adaptation is enjoyable”:
Adaptation is an excellent way for cities to enhance the quality of life and to create attractive public
spaces. The experiences and good-practice examples are summed up in the “Adaptation Compass”.
Birgit Haupter supports the network, which is led by the German water board Lippeverband, in the
process and the development of the solutions.
Session 3B – Enabling national and regional frameworks
FACILITATOR:
Michael Klinkenberg
EUROCITIES, Brussels
Policy Advisor
At EUROCITIES Michael coordinates the environmental policy work of the network, including climate
change and related energy issues and policies. He also facilitates dialogue amongst cities and with EU
policy makers on best practices and remaining needs for improvement, notably concerning local
measures on climate mitigation and adaptation. Before he joined EUROCITIES, Michael worked in EU
public affairs and communications on climate change and energy policies.
Michael holds a Masters degree in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of
Europe in Bruges and a Master of Arts in sociology, political science and economics from the University
of Leipzig.
Michael.Klinkenberg@eurocities.eu
CONTRIBUTORS:
See session 2B
Sebastian Marcel Witte, City of Arnsberg
Andreas Vetter
Federal Environment Agency, KomPass – Climate Impacts and Adaptation in Germany
Scientific employee
One of the main tasks of KomPass is to develop the German Adaptation Strategy (DAS) and promote its
implementation. For that purpose, KomPass pools and imparts expertise on climate impacts and
potential adaptation measures. Its target groups are authorities, scientists, industrial and
environmental associations and citizens.
KomPass supports the implementation and development of the DAS by policy advice, environmental
research, provision of information to different target groups as well as networking and participation of
stakeholders.
Therefore KomPass developes a broad set on adaptation support tools to strengthen adaptive capacity
especially on regional and local level, e.g. a catalogue of adaptation projects, a database of
implemented adaptation measures, an decision support tool for municipalities, a web-portal with
general information about adaptation in different sectoral fields etc.
Andreas.Vetter@uba.de
Gergely Buja
Municipality of Sfantu Gheorghe, Romania
Counselor
The municipality, in close partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency of Covasna County
participated in the ADAPT project in 2012-2013. As a result of the project we elaborated a draft
strategy on adaptation to climate change, which might be a starting point for urban long term
planning. Romanian legislation doesn’t put a stress on urban resilience and adaptation, although the
country joined several EU initiatives and treaties in this field, therefore public authorities are somehow
left alone in facing challenges of climate change, which doubled with the unfavourable dynamics of
demographic indicators and the underdeveloped economical situation results lack of alternatives for
sustainable development of communities.
gergely.buja@sepsi.ro
Yann Françoise
City of Paris & Urban Ecology Agency
Parks and Environment Directorate & Head of Climate and energy strategies
City of Paris adopted its first climate actions plan in 2007 with the goal to reduce GHG emissions by
25% by 2020. In this document first actions about adaptation were engaged: greening Paris (more
parks, community gardens...), financing research on urban heat island, improve crisis management to
sensible people face to heat waves...
In 2012, Paris Climate actions plan was updated and the Mayor added a fourth commitment: adapt
Paris. First stage in 2012 was to realized a precise diagnosis of strength and weaknesses of the city face
to climate change AND rarefaction of resources (water, energy... money!). The diagnosis was realised
with all the community of Paris.
Thanks this diagnosis, climate and energy department, I manage, are currently writing a
complementary adaptation strategy to climate actions plan with all stakeholders and citizens of the
city.
Yann.Francoise@paris.fr
Session 3C – Multi-level and regional governance in practice
See plenary
FACILITATOR:
Holger Robrecht, ICLEI – European Secretariat
CONTRIBUTORS:
Karsten Schipperheijn
City of Nijmegen
Communication and Stakeholder Manager Room for the River Waal
In order to prevent flooding in the near future the provinces, municipalities, water boards and
Rijkswaterstaat are cooperating in the implementation of the Room for the River Programme. More
than 30 locations throughout the country are being changed before 2016. Room for the river Waal
Nijmegen is one of these measures. In the case of Nijmegen, this involves moving the Waal dike in Lent
and constructing an ancillary channel in the flood plains. This will create an island in the Waal and a
unique urban river park with lots of possibilities for recreation, culture, water and nature. Karsten
Schipperheijn is communication and stakeholder manager of this project. He is responsible for the
decision making process between all cooperating partners and for communication with all
stakeholders. A specific governance structure was built up to enhance co-operation between all
partners. But more important is the open participative approach between stakeholders.
k.schipperheijn@nijmegen.nl
Maria Berrini
AMAT, Milano Agency for Mobility, Environment and Land Use Planning
Architect, CEO of AMAT, Milano Agency for Mobility, Environment and Land Use Planning
AMAT is the Milano Municipal technical body that provides planning and design services to develop
the local strategies in the field of Land Use planning, Climate-Energy-Environment, Mobility. With
reference to Climate issues, AMAT is finalising the Milano Sustainable Energy Action Plan -SEAP
update, implementing the Covenant of Mayors Guidelines. Milano has not yet undertaken a Climate
Adaptation Strategy development, but many coherent actions are in place, developed by different
Sectors (Land Use planning to reduce soil consumption and to increase Green areas/Green roofs and
infrastructures; Social policies to manage Heat/Cold waves; Blue Infrastructures and Civil Protection to
prevent and manage Flood risks). Milano and AMAT are involved in an FP7 Project (DECUMANUS) that
will provide data and GIS/Maps services focused on Adaptation issues (together with Helsinki, Madrid,
London and other partners).
maria.berrini@amat-mi.it
Claudia Terzi
Lombardia Region, Milan, Italy
Lombardia Region Councillor for the Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development
Climate Change Adaptation: towards the Lombardia regional strategy. Lombardia Region, due to its
unique geographical location and its topography, spatial and socio-economic characteristics, has a high
vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. In recent years, the Lombardia Region plays an
important rule in the definition of the knowledge, due to several projects and studies, based to
identify adaptation measures to climate change. More recently, it has initiated a process that will lead
to a real regional adaptation plan; the first step, in 2012, was the definition of the Guidelines for a
regional plan for climate change adaptation, developed with the support of the Lombardia Foundation
for the Environment, followed by the definition, probably within the next October, of the Regional
Strategy of Adaptation.
16.15 – 17.15
See plenary
CLOSING PLENARY: WHAT ARE WE TAKING HOME? LESSONS
LEARNED
Lykke Leonardsen, City of Copenhagen
Efrén Feliu
TECNALIA - Energy and Environment Division (Spain)
Climate Change Market Manager / Urban and Territorial Sustainability
Efrén is leading local climate adaptation at Tecnalia, working with cities like Bilbao or Vitoria in the
framework of European initiatives as EU-Cities Adapt or the FP7 project Ramses. Tecnalia has
organised an Adaptation Training School for EU cities in 2013 and developed guidelines for integration
of climate adaptation in Basque urban planning. Efrén is currently coordinating an adaptation manual
for Spanish cities that will be presented next Autumn with the collaboration of the Spanish Climate
Change Office, being his interest advancing in standardisation of methods and approaches for effective
deployment of adaptation policies at local level.
efren.feliu@tecnalia.com
Jonathan Perks
Ricardo-AEA, United Kingdom
Principal Consultant
Jonathan Perks is a Principal Consultant at Ricardo-AEA, working in the Energy and Climate change are
or over10 years. He led the recently completed “Adaptation Strategies for European Cities“ (EU Cities
adapt) project for EC Dg Climate Action. Jonathan will be observer for the sessions:
1A Integrated vulnerability assessments
2A Decision making, cost, benefits and win-win solutions
- 3B Enabling national and regional networks
Jonathan.M.Perks@ricardo-aea.com