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Opportunities with the application

• Good overview of the city's

environmental work

• Independent assessment from

international expertise

• Help to identify areas with potential to

progress further

• Participate in the European green capital

network

• Marketing Umeå as a sustainable city
• Involvement from citizens, NGO:s and

companies

Opportunities with the European green capital year

• Overall objective is better environmental

status.

• Starting point for further sustainable

development in Umeå

• Co-change together with citizens, NGO:s

and companies in possible enduring partnerships.

• Increase of visits and interest from other

European cities

• A sustainable city = attractive for citizens

and visitors

Ranking 2017

Område Placering Climate change: mitigation and adaptation 2 (3) Local transport 3 (3) Green urban areas incorporating sustainable land use 4 (7) Nature and biodiversity 5 (6) Ambient air quality 1 (6) Quality of the acoustic environment 1 (3) Waste production and management 3 (2) Water management 7 (6) Waste water treatment 5 (5) Eco innovation and sustainable employment 1 (3) Energy performance 1 (1) Integrated environmental management 4 (6)

Good practice: Broparken

• Result of a long collaboration and a

collective learning process between Umeå municipality and young people.

• Representatives of parkour,

snowboarding, stage and dance

• rganizations have contributed with

their ideas.

• Contains parkour park, surfaces for

urban farming, occasional trades and surfaces for performancecs and activities such as snowboarding.

Good practice: Electric buses

• By June 2015 there will be nine ultra fast-

charging electric buses with hybrid back- up in traffic.

• The vision is to add another 24 buses by

2020, that will increase the share of electric buses in the transport system from 0 % in 2010 to 70 % in 2020.

• Noise levels can be reduced up to

10 dBA.

• Adapted to cold winter climate.

Good practice: Be Green Umeå

• Be Green Umeå is a project office

that has worked with sustainability projects

• Overall purpose to develop and test

innovative ideas that makes it easier and more fun to travel and live in a more sustainable way

• The projects’ objective has among
• ther things been that more people

will choose to bike, use public transport, recycle waste and save energy

Good practice: Sustainable Ålidhem

• A national pilot project focusing on large-

scale sustainable renovation of 1960s and 1970s buildings, side by side with new low-energy buildings.

• Overall objective to transform Ålidhem

into a more sustainable neighborhood by halving the energy use in the area with sustained rent levels.

• About 400kW of Photo-voltaic cells

installed on roofs, suppying the area with 1/3 of the building electricity.

Good practice: Waste plan 2020

• A locally decided policy document with a clear objective to work with waste prevention and

to climb up the waste hierarchy.

• Has time-bound targets with a clear defined responsibility for implementation and budgeted

funds allocated.

• The development of the waste plan has been carried out in dialogue and with the people and
• rganizations concerned.

Good practice: Dåva CHP

• Sweden’s largest CHP plant based on

solid fuels is the heart of Umeå’s district heating supply.

• The production is gentle on the

environment and minimizes emissions through advanced filtration systems.

• One of the world’s most energy efficient

and environmentally friendly plants with waste as a primary fuel producing heat and electricity from waste and bio-energy and forest industry residues.

• Fuels mainly from regional, contributing

to employment in the forestry and transport sector in northern Sweden.

Time table

June

Presentations to the jury in Bristol – the European Green Capital 2017 will be announced