Making sustainability reality – the Malmö
example
Ola Nord
City of Malmö
12 February 2010
The City of Malmö
• Sweden's third largest city
• 290,000 inhabitants
• 24% of the city’s inhabitants were
born abroad
• 164 nationalities are represented
• Young inhabitants – 40% are under
35 years of age
From manufacturing town to
city of knowledge in 15
years
•
Malmö university was
founded in 1998
•
21,000 university students
Local sustainability
in three steps
1. From Rio 1992 to Local
Agenda 21 in Malmö
2. From Agenda 21 to pilot
projects such as Western
harbour and Augustenborg
3. From pilot projects to
mainstreaming
sustainability
Success factors
•Networking (Eurocities, UBC,
etc)
•Co-operation with a number of
different stakeholders, citizen
involvement
•Political support
•Combination of regional,
national and international
funding
•Action rather than plans
Comprehensive
Plan for
Malmö
Malmös new Environment
Programme 2009-2020
Energy Strategy
10
Other political
statements
Covenant of Mayors
Malmö signed in November 2008
Eurocities Climate
Declaration
Ålborg Committments
Malmö first city to sign at the
Ålborg conference in 2004
Western Harbour
• 140 ha former industrial
landfill area will house
30.000 residents, students
and workplaces.
Development on a 20-year
perspective
• The Bo01-area, the first
step in the development, 9
ha, 600 apartments started
as a housing expo in 2001
Environmental focus areas,
Bo01
 Land reclamation, soil
decontamination
 Architecture and construction
 Energy
 Waste management and ecocycle
 Biodiversity
 Transport
 IT for the environment
Energy
100 % locally renewable energy
•
•
•
•
•
Sun, wind and water
District heat pump
Annual energy balance
Minimised energy consumption
Campaign for take off award
Second and third phase of
development
Flagghusen - finalised
Fullriggaren:
Largest Swedish housing area with
passive and low energy housing.
Starts 2010
P-house with integrated wind power,
lending bicycles etc.
Intensive dialogue with building
companies
Hyllie
 New area, citytunnel station opens in december
2010
 New city district with hotel, shopping centre,
housing
 Housing area very innovative. Through
dialogue with housing companies, the use of
innovative materials, new technologies etc.
Ekostaden
Augustenborg
 Open storm water system
 Retrofitting – energy efficiency
 Green roofs
 Uppgrading of green areas and
courtyards, Biodiversity
 Waste-recycling and composting
 Solar panels
 Resident participation
 Traffic, carsharing and local
electric train
Solar City Malm - Sege Park
 Sweden's and Scandinavia’s largest PV
installation
 1 250 m2
 Maximum effect 166 kW
Wind power –
urban wind
Drömmarnas hus,
Rosengård



Put up in December 2008
Maximum effect 0,5 kW
Runs the ventilation
for bee hives
Existing large scale
wind power Lillgrund
 Running since 2007
 One of the largest off-shore
wind parks in the world
 Installed effect 110 MW
 Electricity production per
year ca 0,33 TWh
 Owned by Vattenfall
The Environment Choir
Adaptation to
Climate
Change
Thank you!
Ola Nord
ola.nord@malmo.se
www.malmo.se/sustainablecity