MEETING CLIMATE TARGETS – AND FACING REALITY

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A GROWING CITY

• 590.000 citizens• 1000 more every month• We expect to be 100.000 more by 2025

COCREATING COPENHAGEN

• A liveable city – a city full of life

• A city with responsibility – both for citizens and globally

• A city with an edge and room for differences

• Co-creation

CLIMATE PLAN

Copenhagen as driver for sustainable innovation

Source: Nasa

WORLD TEMPERATURE JUNE 2015

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CLIMATE PLAN – CARBON NEUTRAL IN 2025

CLIMATE PLAN

MAJOR GOALS FOR 2025• 20 pct. reduction in heat consumption

• Improvement of building structures and conditions• Strategy for reducing the energy consumption in CPH• New financial and organizational models

• 20 pct. reduction of electricity consumption in commercial and service companies

• 10 pct. reduction of electricity consumption in households

• Installation of solar cells

• Smart City, Open data Portal, Copenhagen Connecting

ENERGY CONSUMPTION

CLIMATE PLAN

MAJOR GOALS FOR 2025

• Carbon neutral district heating in CPH

• Electricity production is based on wind and biomass

• 100 wind turbines before 2025; onshore and offshore

• Geothermal, heatpumps and solar heat.

• Plastic waste is separated

• Biogasification of organic waste

ENERGY PRODUCTION

CLIMATE PLAN

MAJOR GOALS FOR 2025• 75 pct. of all trips in Copenhagen are on

foot, by bike or public transport.

• 50 pct. of trips to work or school in Copenhagen are by bike.

• 20 pct. more passengers use public transport.

• 20-30 pct. of all light vehicles run on new fuels- electricity, hydrogen, biogas or bioethanol.

• 30-40 pct. of all heavy vehicles use new fuels.

MOBILITY

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• CO2 emissions cut by 40 percent since 2005

• But that was the low hanging fruits• Next roadmap – 2017-2020• Focus on energy consumption, mobility

and waste

A CARBON NEUTRAL CITY – THE NEXT STEPS

A NEW CHALLENGE FOR THE CITY

• Warmer

• Wetter

• Wilder

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Then this happens…..

JULY 2011 – THE CITY IS VULNERABLE

• 150 mm rain in 2 hours

• Damages close to 1 billion euro

• Damages to critical infrastructure

• A game changer for the city

• Development of a Cloudburst management Plan

THE GAME CHANGER

• High political attention (nationally and locally)

• More speed - and to hell with uncertainties

• Change in legislation - new finance mechanisms to enable surface solutions

10. September 2012

THE CLOUDBURST MANAGEMENT PLAN

FOLLOWING THE NATURAL FLOW OF WATER

DIVIDING THE CITY INTO CATCHMENT AREAS

TYPES OF SOLUTIONS

• Cloudburst boulevards – transporting water

• Retention boulevards – delaying water

• Central delays – for storing water

A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE

• Citywide project• Connected system• 300 projects• 20 years to implement• The biggest construction project

for the city in many years• Calls for a lot of innovation

THE OPPORTUNITIES OF ADAPTATION

• Focus on urban spaces• Green and blue urban spaces • We are developing af concept for the

integration of water in the urban space

• Green adaptation – using the synergies to create green corridors and hopefully increase biodiversity

• Synergies – saves times and money

CREATING MULTIFUNCTIONAL URBAN SPACES

• Storm water management system on the surface

• Water management 1-10% of the time

• When it is not raining it serves as normal roads, parks, squares etc.

• Urban Nature as one of the main goals

LONG TERM IMPLEMENTATION

• Will take approximately 20 years of implementing• Flexibility in the implementation phase • In choice of solutions• In capacity (following climate projections)• In multifunctionality (the use of the city changes)

• No city has ever done what we are doing• Smart solutions • How do we combine water management with urban

space improvement• How do we combine cloudburst solutions with

solutions for harvesting water?• Cleaning• Controlling the flow of water?• Real time monitoring and warning systems?• Emergency measures?

INNOVATION AND SMART SOLUTIONS

COOPERATION WITH CITIZENS

• In all projects!• Citizens know their city –and

their local neighbourhoods• Challenge to make urban

space improvements, recreational activities and storm water management to work together

• Also cooperation through local district councils and regeneration projects

• Communicating the challenge also to citizens

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A CITY WITH MANY AGENDAS – AND NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR THEM ALL

• Traffic – bikes vs. Cars• Bikes vs. Pedestrians• Parking vs. Green spaces and trees• Housing• Schools and institutions• Carbon Neutrality

CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION

• Constant organisational and political backup

• Economic – keeping prices low – and keeping adaptation from stopping economic development

• Different wishes to urban life – how do we fit in?

• We need to work within the existing infrastructure in the city

DIFFERENT PLANNING LOGICS

• Adaptation the Copenhagen way interferes with a lot of different planning logics

• When engineers meet architects• When planners meet the

environmentalists• And they in turn meet the

economists• And then we haven’t even

mentioned the legal experts….• Then we have to work a little bit

for sweet music to appear

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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IS THE BACKBONE OF THE LIVEABLE CITY OF THE FUTURE• Hydraulic structure will be the

backbone for all urban space developments for the next 20 years.

• It is through the cloudburst projects that other strategies for the city will be implemented – such as urban nature, bicycling etc.

• Annual project packets based on the hydraulic structure – with urban space improvements as parts of the projects

Thank you for your attentionLykke Leonardsenlykleo@tmf.kk.dk