ECO2 – Eco-efficient Tampere 2020
Elli Kotakorpi
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Content of the presentation
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ECO2 – what and why
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How we work
3
ECO2 themes and project examples
4
Partnerships and networks
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From new ideas to established practices
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Tampere and Tampere Central Region in
figures (2010)
■ Tampere has 213,000
inhabitants, 3rd biggest city of
Finland
■ Tampere Central Region has
356,826 inhabitants, 2nd
biggest growth centre of
Finland
■ 2/3 of the Finns live within 200
km range from Tampere
■ In Tampere Central Region
GDP/inhabitant over 35,000
Euros (anticipated information
2009), GDP-index 108
(Finland=100)
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The Climate Commitments of Tampere
 Aalborg Commitments 2007
 Covenant of Mayors 2008 –(EU/ energy): over 20 %
decrease CO2 emissions from 1990 level until 2020 >
 Sustainable Energy Action Plan
 Eurocities Declaration of Mayors 2009
 Agreement with Ministry of Employment and the Economy >
Energy Efficiency Plan 2008-2016, the City will decrease its
energy consumption 9 % from 2005 level until 2016
 Regional Climate Change Strategy > at least 30 % less
CO2emissions in 2030
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Why ECO2?
 The idea for ECO2 came about when the strategic
regional planning for Tampere region started in
2007
 Regional Climate Strategy 2010
 The implementation of the Regional Climate
strategy required cross- sectoral coordination
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The benefits of tackling climate change:
Supporting green growth
Cost benefits
A more comfortable city for citizens
The benefits for city image
Preparing for stricter climate regulation in the
future
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ECO2 – ECO-EFFICIENT TAMPERE 2020
Objectives
 Implementing the Climate commitments of city of
Tampere
 Changing city development practices towards
sustainability
 Facilitating growth in sustainable business
 Becoming a forerunner in climate change
abatement
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ECO2 – ECO-EFFICIENT TAMPERE 2020
• ECO2 team coordinates and supports the climate
activities of the city of Tampere and initiates cooperation and new projects
• Wide-ranging cooperation between various actors
• New city planning tools
• Development projects
• Energy-efficient pilot projects
• Eco-efficient built environment, mobility and
renewably energy
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Keys to succes
Keys to success
 Back-up from political and city management level
 Cross-sectoral coordination
 Wide cooperation locally, nationally and
internationally
 Active marketing and communication
 Enthusiasm, courage
 Know-how on eco-efficient city planning (training
own staff & getting expertise from outside)
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ECO2 – ORGANISATION
:
City Board
Sitra
Economic and
Urban
Development
Advisory Board
Director Kari
Kankaala
Mayor
Timo P. Nieminen
Steering Group
Director of Environmental policy
Kaisu Anttonen
Project Team
Manager Pauli Välimäki
Project specialists:
Elli Kotakorpi
Antti Nikkanen
Elina Seppänen
Project secretary: Wilma Karikko
Construction
Forum
Mobility
Forum
Energy
Forum
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Sustainable energy – Tampere Power utility’s
vision
Our goals 2010 - 2030
• Reduce our emission more than 50 %
• Increase the amount of renewable energy at
least up to 40 %
• Renovating existing power plants for using
onlybiomass or biogas  1000 - 1500 GWh
• Renovating hydro power plants
• Increasing ownerships on both Onshore and
Offshore Wind Power companies  200 GWh
• Waste burning plant building project in
cooperation Regional Solid Waste Management
Ltd  50 - 70 MW
• Large scale heat pumps to exploit waste water
heat  2x18 MW
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Renewable energy
 Renewable energy pilot project
together with 6 largest cities in Finland
• Tampere: solar energy, wood pellet
power plant, small-scale bio district
heating, carbon neutral Särkänniemi
Adventure Park and Tampere Hall
Congress and Concert Centre
 Charting the potential for small-scale
wind power and solar energy in the
city area
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Eco-efficient built environment
 Tools for ecoefficient urban planning
 Economic incentives for low energy buildings (piloted in Vuores)
 Energy system analysis as a part of the urban planning process (e.g. Koukkuranta, Isokuusi)
 All new buildings constructed by the city are at least energy class A
 All new buildings (2012 ) built in city owned plots have to be at least energy class A
 A new information center for sustainable building and construction and energy use in housing
 Promoting eco-efficient complementary construction (Tammela)
• Eco-efficient urban development projects in: e.g. Härmälänranta, Vuores housing fair area, Koukkuranta,
Nurmi-Sorila “Sun City”, wood Vuores
 Steering the whole urban planning process towards eco-efficiency
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Eco-efficiency tool for urban development
Project aim is to create an eco-efficiency tool
for urban development. Tool is developed
together with 7 cities, 2 developers and Ministry
of Environment. Research is done by VTT
Research Centre of Finland, Aalto-university
and Finnish Environmental Institute.
Tool is designed to be usedboth by public and
Private sector.
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Eco-efficient renovation
 Tapre and Tarmo -projects
 Information centre for energy efficient
construction
 Energy efficiency goals in city’s own
renovations.
 Energy-efficient renovation and
complementary construction project in
Tammela district
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Low energy buildings
 Finland’s first passive energy day care
centre will be built in Luhtaankatu this
year
 The Vuores housing fair will have
around 10 passive and zero energy
houses
 Near zero energy house ”Lantti”,
partners: Aalto University, Sitra, ARA,
TA-Yhtymä Oy, Lapponia House Oy,
City of Tampere
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Sustainable mobility
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Partnerships
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ECO2 – Eco-efficient Tampere 2020
Partnerships
The project implements the climate and
energy objectives of the City of Tampere.
The programme supports projects that
promote a low-carbon and carbon-neutral
urban structure in the fields of sustainable
construction, energy and mobility.
Project examples
Partners
Role of ECO2
Expected Outcomes
Härmälänranta Housing
area
Skanska Construction Ltd
Expert advice
Low-carbon living area
Tampere Central arena
NCC, Tampereen keskusareena oy
Co-funding for eco-efficiency
study
Eco-efficient Central Arena
Tool for eco-efficient urban
planning
Tekes, VTT, Syke, Skanska, YIT, other cities,
Ministry of Environment
Joint development project
A new tool for eco-efficient urban
planning
TAPRE
Tampere real estate services, Axovaatio oy, Local
retailers Kesko and POK, The Evangelical Lutheran
Congregation, Pirkanmaan hospital district,
Pirkanmaan isännöitsijät
Joint development project
Energy efficient renovations in public
buildings
Vuores housing area
Vuores-project, construction companies, Tampere
power utility, research partners,
Expert advice, funding, joint
projects
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Low-carbon living area, new practices
in urban development
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International cooperation
 City networks Eurocities ja Civitas
 Covenant of Mayors
 Cascade: Cities exchanging on local energy leadership
 International competitions:
• The first price in Solutions 2011 -competition
• A finalist in Nordic energy city 2011 –competition
• A finalist in European Public Sector Awards 2011
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Mayors’ climate network
• The mayors of the the six largest cities of Finland established the Mayors’
climate network in Spring 2011.
• The mayor of Tampere Timo P. Nieminen is the chair and the ECO2 team
acts as secretary.
• In August 2011 six climate initiatives were announced:
• development of a roadmap on energy-smart construction for each city
• development of construction instructions and supervision in the direction of
energy information and quality management
• development of climate information and support for citizens’ climate acts through
a joint project by the cities
• assignment of eco-support staff for workplaces
• lowering the need for travel by introduction of teleconferencing
• climate impact assessment in budgeting
13.4.2015
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From new ideas to established practices
examples
The Mechanism
Example
What is still needed
Integrating eco-efficiency in policy
guidelines
New regulations for energy efficiency were
integrateding in land use policy in November 2011
Implementation follow-up
Capacity development through
pilots
Vuores area as a platform for eco-efficiency, i.e.
Energy system analysis as a part of planning
process
Resources and education
for planners, nominating a
responsible person for
energy aspects
New regulations
Developing easy-to-use tools and
checklists
Eco-efficiency tool for
urban planning
A decision that the tool
will be used in all urban
planning processes
Developing new practices and
ownership of energy efficiency
through projects (choosing the
right owner for the project)
Tapre-project, funded partly by ECO2, coordinated
by Tampere Real Estate services
Scaling-out the project to
residential sector
Learning from good examples
ECO2 forums
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Thank you!
Elli Kotakorpi
Elli.kotakorpi@tampere.fi
+358 40 800 7254
www.eco2.fi
www.facebook.com/eco2tampere
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