European Energy Award - A Comprehensive Framework for Sustainable Energy and Climate Policy
The European Energy Award offers a structured approach for cities and communities to enhance their energy and climate policies. Through a step-by-step process, participants define goals, implement action plans, and undergo regular monitoring. With over 1500 participating entities and alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goal 11, the program provides a quality management system and benchmarks for communal energy initiatives. Recommendations emphasize the importance of guidance, synergy, and public reporting to drive long-term success.
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European Energy Award Charlotte Sp rndli, 20 June 2017
The European Energy Award Step 1: Political Decision of Participation in the eea Programme Step 2: Set up of an Energy Team Step 3: Initial Energy Review Step 4: Definition of Goals and Action Plan Defining short-, midterm and long term goals Step 5: Implementation of Action Plan Step 6: Monitoring and Reporting (Annual internal monitoring and external audit every 4 years)
The European Energy Award Quality management system for communal energy and climate policy Certification & awarding system International benchmarking system National/regional support programmes for communities
The European Energy Award 6 areas of assessment > holistic approach 73 qualitative indicators (assessment between 0 100%) and set of quantitative indicators > mix of different types of KPIs No must indicators > strong incentives through benchmarking to use certain indicators
1500 participating cities and communities ~ 50 mio inhabitants 25 years of experience 2 329 104 2 233 648 116 4 16 4 3
Alignment with UN SDG11 / U4SSC Similar indicator for majority of UN SDG 11 indicators Classification according to U4SSC possible, sometime several categories applicable eea focusses on energy and climate policy (environment), BUT this implies certain co- benefits or co-responsibilities from societal or economic point of view
Conclusions / recommendations Cities and communities need guidance through all the different initiatives, need to see synergies, no double work Cities and communities need to have a benefit of public reporting / communication of indicators in the long-term Coach / accompany cities and communities
