Working together on Sustainable Agenda Breda

Meeting Sustainable agenda Bonaire

30 September 2010, Habitat Bonaire

Sustainability vision Breda: energyneutral, healthy, clean, save, quiet city

Process sustainable Breda

• Interactive policy with local actors

• Sustainability platform and Energy council

• Frontrunner-pilot projects

• Spread the word to colleagues

• Breda-standard higher ambition

PLATFORM SUSTAINABLE BREDA

Chamber of commerce, housing corporation, GGD (healthcare), architect, school, farmers organisation, university, energy supplier, bank, voedselbank, ngo’s

PLATFORM SUSTAINABLE BREDA

Advises the local authorities (on demand, and without being asked)

One of the advises was:

Create an energy council

Other advises on safety, integration, toerism, cafés downtown, noise, housing, green, students, traffic etc.

Trend CO2-emission Breda

Topics sustainability-vision Breda

• Sustainable government

• Sustainable companies

• Sustainable energy production

• Clean and economical mobility

• Sustainable buildings

• Adaption for climatechange

Topic sustainable government Breda

• Examplary role: climate-neutral in 2020

• Earning back period 10 years

• Buying green energy

• Flights: CO2-compensation

• Energy saving in existing buildings

• Energy saving public lighting

• Awareness-campaign

Topic sustainable companies

• Earn back period < 5 years (Dutch law)

• Continue projects sustainable entrepreneurship (sustainable certificate)

• Platform Sustainable printing-companies

• Agricultural sector

• Sustainable industrial areas, f.i. deepwatercooling

• Exchange of energy rest flows

Topic sustainable energy production

• Energy in cityplanning

• Windenergy

• Biomassplant

• More apply solar panels/boilers

• Geothermal energy

Topic clean and economical mobility

• Consistency with trafficflow, air quality and health

• Minimising (motorized) traffic in city planning

• Cleaner fuels

• Bicycle policy

• Cheaper public transport

Topic sustainable buildings

• High ambition for estates, stakeholders working together

• Houses min. -20 CO2 compared to law

• Striving towards CO2-neutral

• Energy-appointments with social housingcorporations

• Energysaving private houses(stakeholders making new bussiness)

• Sustainable construction counter

• Sustainable material,watersaving

Active, frontrunning climate policy

Costs and quality

• Costs: lower living costsindependence of rising fuel prices

short earning back periods

long term thinking, public relation

• Quality:comfort, coolinghealthy innerclimate airqualityflexibility for the future

Mechanisms

• Mutual gain and interdependency

• Different actors, interests and objectives

• Level playing field• Same actors• Competition ‘forces level

playing field upwards’

Outcom

e market:

Sustainable perform

ance

FrontrunnerFrontrunner

Frontrunner

Frontrunner

Frontrunner

Slow mover

Set ambition on playing field competition

Experiences Breda

• All stakeholders work together: 1+1=3(project developers, constructing firms, technical installers, banks, marketing advisors, knowledge institutes, local government)

Frontrunners show which ambition is reasonably possible

Mutual goals with high ambition and concrete action plan

Gains for every participant

Experiences to be used in Sustainable Agenda Bonaire and Sustainable Tourism project