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D4.4.1 S MED CITIES - Set up of Local Project Committee
The purpose of this document is to incorporate the decision-making methodology into a participatory process through the setting up of Local Project Committees.
LPCs are the primary strategy for actively engaging target groups in the sustainable Med Cities project ‘Integrated tools and methodologies for sustainable Mediterranean cities’.
In addition, based on what stated in the Application Form of the project, a Local Project Committee (LPC) will be established in each participating municipality.
Local members, representing the different stakeholders interested in the Sustainable MED Cities outcomes, will compose the LPC and they will actively participate in these informal but collective working group.
D4.2.1_Participatory Guarantee System
Starting from the experience gained in CESBA MED project concerning the development of a participatory approach through the implementation of Co-Creation labs, Sustainable MED Cities will capitalise, reply and adapt this approach to the partner cities involved in the testing activity of the project.
The key ending result of this deliverable is a guideline for PPs involved in the testing activity, for setting up and properly manage the key participative moments during the Decision-Making process (see D4.1.1).
This deliverable has been produced in conjunction with “D4.1.1 - Adaptation of CESBA MED generic Decision-Making methodology to South and East side of MED” and with “D5.2.1 - Test Protocol”. For that reason, D4.2.1 must be utilized together with the other companion deliverables mentioned before.
Furthermore, a specific chapter is devoted to the description of the Co-Creation Labs, the places where the participation process physically takes place.
D3.2.2_Collaborative Platform User Manual
A collaborative platform is an online digital tool to involve different types of stakeholders in every process where decisions need to be made. It serves governments, social groups, and other institutions to involve different types of stakeholders in all types and stages of participative processes.
D3.2.2_Collaborative Platform Moderator Manual
A collaborative platform is an online digital tool to involve different types of stakeholders in every process where decisions need to be made. It serves governments, social groups, and other institutions to involve different types of stakeholders in all types and stages of participative processes.
D3.2.1_Assessment_Platform_User_Manual
User Manual for the assessment platform:
https://sustainablemedcities.tools/
D3.1.4_MED_Passport and KPIs
The majority of the world’s population (55%) has been concentrated in large urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050 (UN, 2018). At the same time, although cities account for less than 2% of the Earth's surface, they consume 78 % of the world's energy and produce more than 60 % of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and 70% of global waste, (UN Habitat), being both a challenge for global sustainability and a tool for its solution.
In the Mediterranean region, two thirds of the population live in urban areas, while by 2050, it is predicted that the urban population will grow to around 170 million in the countries on the northern shore and to over 300 million to the south and east. Currently, northern Mediterranean countries use more energy and have higher CO2 emissions than south-eastern countries, a trend that is expected to be reversed by 2040 by improving energy efficiency, exploiting renewables etc. Most global climate models project that the Mediterranean basin will be particularly sensitive to rising GHG concentrations and thus, vulnerable to climate change, which means that cities in the south and north Mediterranean will need to adapt existing infrastructure and build new ones.
The Sustainable MED Cities project, aims to provide an easy to use, harmonized methodology and open source tools to support Mediterranean municipalities in the assessment, planning and overall decision-making process for selecting the best sustainable renovation strategies that increase the quality of the built environment. The holistic assessment focuses on energy and GHGs emissions, and other environmental vectors like economic and social indicators. The tools are used to set common targets and to measure the overall progress in terms of key sustainability issues and decarburization efforts at different scales (i.e. building, neighbourhood and city). The common method and tools will be available in different languages, with their assessment and rating approach contextualized to national (local) needs and priorities.
The approach taken in this work utilizes the CESBA MED system (CESBA MED Project – SBTool assessment system) that was developed as a generic framework, which includes an “exhaustive” list of sustainability indicators that cover all relevant themes, given that there is still no consensus on a specific number or types of indicators. In addition, some new indicators are included in order to address the priorities of the new partner cities in the MENA region. The resulting comprehensive database includes different performance indicators from which to select the ones that meet local priorities and needs, or best fit the project intent.
D3.1.2_Sustainable Cities Tool
Cities need indicators standardised, consistent and comparable over time to measure their performance. The Sustainable City Tool (SCTool) is a completely new framework, developed for the first-time within the Sustainable MED Cities project context, useful to assess the level of sustainability at city scale.
SCTool will enhance the capacity of public administration in delivering, implementing and monitoring efficient measures, plans and strategies to improve the sustainability of cities. In the CESBA MED project it has been developed a first set of indicators at city scale but not organised in an assessment tool as SBTool or SNTool. Nevertheless, the set of indicators at cuty scale prepared by iiSBE Italia in CESBA MED has been adopted by UNEP/MAP for updating the application form of the 2nd and 3rd edition of the Istanbul Friendly Cities Award. Funded by the Government of Turkey, the Istanbul Environment Friendly City Award was created in the framework of the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD) to recognize efforts of local authorities in promoting sustainable development in Mediterranean coastal cities. The collaboration between CESBA MED and UNEP/MAP has been one of the more important achievements in the capitalisation of the project. In Sustainable MED Cities, the set of CESBA MED city scale indicators has been updated and organised in a new tool, the SCTool.