Planners' workshop on the Bonn Viktoriakarree from 31.8. to 2.9.
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The planners' workshop embedded in the participation process for Viktoriakarree will take place between 31 August and 2 September. During these three days, four teams of planners will develop an independent planning concept on site, taking into account the results of the previous participation processes.
The planner workshop will open with the planner workshop kick-off event on Thursday, 31 August 2017, at 6.30 pm in the St. Remigius Chapter House. The evening event offers the opportunity to get to know the four planner teams and to find out about further opportunities for participation during the planner workshop. The evening will also address two of the main topics of the participation process to date, for which opposing views became apparent during the ideas workshop. The topics of "culture/education/history/leisure" and "work/commerce" will be explored in greater depth in two open discussion rounds, which will also involve the audience. The aim is to work out the conflicts of interest and commonalities in order to give all those present and, above all, the planning teams from outside the area an insight into the interests.
Climate-active municipalities and regions wanted! The "Municipal Climate Protection" competition, which has been running since 2009, is now called the "Climate Active Municipality" competition and will run from January to the end of March 2016.
The new name of the nationwide competition emphasises the comprehensive commitment of local authorities to tackling climate change. We are looking for cities, municipalities and districts as well as regions in which topics such as climate-friendly construction and renovation, climate adaptation, climate-friendly mobility, sufficiency or transnational climate activities play a role. We are looking for successfully realised and effective climate projects.
The competition
Together with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) organises the annual "Climate Active Municipality" competition (until 2015 the "Municipal Climate Protection" competition). Co-operation partners: German Association of Cities, German Association of Counties and German Association of Towns and Municipalities.
Application deadline: From January to 31 March 2016 municipalities and regions can apply. Competition participants from previous years are also welcome to take part again - especially if their projects have progressed further in the meantime. The necessary application documents can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
The award
The nationwide competition gives municipalities and regions the opportunity to present their successfully realised climate projects to a broad public and serve as a good example for others. To this end, we support the winners in publicising their award-winning projects. Among other things, the winning projects are presented as a film and in a competition documentary. The winners of the "Climate Active Municipality 2016" competition will be presented at the Municipal conferencewhich was published on 28 and 29 November 2016 in Berlin will be publicly announced and awarded prizes.
The prize money
The winning municipalities will receive prize money of 25,000 euros each. The winners must reinvest the prize money in projects that serve to protect the climate or adapt to climate change and will be asked to name the measures before the award ceremony. In this way, the award does not mark the end of the activities, but is also the starting signal and motivation for continuing, optimising and for new activities. How the prize money from previous years was used.
The jury is made up of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, the Federal Environment Agency, the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Districts and the German Association of Towns and Municipalities.
The application documents
The necessary application documents can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. There is a special application form for each category, which must be completed and submitted together with a detailed project description (see page 4 of each form). Multiple applications are possible. Please use a separate application form for each application. Please send your application documents by post or e-mail to: German Institute of Urban Affairs, Auf dem Hunnenrücken 3, 50668 Cologne, e-mail: klimaschutz@difu.de. Legal recourse is excluded.
The competition team will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the competition:
Telephone: 0221/340 308-12, e-mail: klimaschutz@difu.de
Answers to frequently asked questions about the 2016 competition can be found here...
Competition flyer "Climate Active Municipality 2016" (barrier-free) PDF | 3 MB
Competition flyer "Climate Active Municipality 2016" (print version) PDF | 4 MB
NATURSTROM is expanding its largest local heating project to date in Markt Erlbach, Franconia. In future, the eco-energy supplier will supply more than 130 customers with sustainable and locally generated heat - not only households but also municipal buildings and a large commercial enterprise. On 2,400 m2 Bavaria's largest solar thermal plant is being built for this purpose.
In the current second construction phase, NATURSTROM is connecting more than 70 new heat consumers, including the largest customer, the honey bottler Breitsamer & Ulrich GmbH & Co. KG. The company is providing the land for an energy centre and Bavaria's largest solar thermal plant with an area of 2,400 m2 available.
"The current turbulence on the European energy markets shows that we in Germany absolutely have to make ourselves less dependent on imports of fossil fuels," says NATURSTROM CEO Dr Tim Meyer. "With the heating turnaround towards decentralised renewable energies, we are not only doing the climate a great favour, but also ourselves and our economy. The local heating supply in Markt Erlbach is a great example of how the changeover can succeed."
Since 2019, NATURSTROM has been supplying 40 consumers with ecological heat at long-term stable prices via a wood pellet heating centre. After completion of the second construction phase, the local heating network will be 6.4 kilometres long. In addition to numerous private households and the Breitsamer company, the heat consumers also include smaller businesses and municipal buildings such as the school, the indoor swimming pool and an event hall. "We are pleased that so many and such different players in Markt Erlbach want to be part of the local heat turnaround," says Meyer.
After connecting all consumers, the total heat demand in the network is around 5,350 megawatt hours (MWh) per year; by covering this demand from renewable sources, approx. 1,800 tonnes of CO2 saved. In addition to solar heat, NATURSTROM uses wood pellets from the region as fuel in the existing energy centre, and regional wood in the form of wood chips will also be used in the second energy centre once the second construction phase is completed. "With the raw material supply from the region, we can provide affordable and sustainable energy for our citizens in the long term. Especially for future generations, it is important to act decisively for climate protection," emphasises Markt Erlbach's First Mayor Dr Birgit Kreß.
The two energy centres and the local heating network are designed to be open to new technologies, so that modernisation and expansion to supply new consumers are possible.
The impetus for planning the local heating supply came from a renovation of the main street. The connection to the local heating network will mainly replace old, climate-damaging oil heating systems. Particularly due to the lack of gas supply infrastructure, more than 80 percent of the inhabitants in Markt Erlbach still used heating oil before the start of the first construction phase.
Even before the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, it is clear that the implementation of the 2030 Agenda is making slow progress. The global community now needs action instead of words to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The international report on the status of SDG implementation shows that there are major gaps in implementation worldwide. The number of hungry people is increasing again worldwide. Social inequality continues to rise. The climate crisis and species extinction are advancing.
It is particularly dramatic that Germany is not a pioneer. In sustainability policy, the German government permanently acts according to the motto "too little, too late". Germany has a double responsibility: firstly, as an industrialised country, to demonstrate that it is taking the implementation of the Agenda seriously as a pioneer. And secondly, to contribute more than it has so far to financing the 2030 Agenda at the international level.
There is no coherent national legislation aligned with the SDGs. Still not all departments have prepared SDG action plans or provided additional funding. The climate cabinet's proposals are far from sufficient to achieve the climate sustainability goal and the Paris Climate Agreement. Biodiversity is declining, nitrate pollution for groundwater is not decreasing, environmentally harmful subsidies amounting to over 40 billion euros annually are not being eliminated.
We demand binding targets for SDG implementation for all ministries and ambitious measures where there are particularly large deficits in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, the German government must develop more ambitious indicators to meet the requirements of the SDGs. There is also a need for a sustainability TÜV for new laws.
At the international level, sustainability summits need to be organised in a more goal-oriented and inclusive way. It is incomprehensible that the private sector is invited to the SDG Business Summit at the United Nations, while there is no comparable forum for civil society. This is a fatal sign at a time when civil society actors worldwide are increasingly suffering from restrictions. This approach runs counter to the "Leave no one behind" guiding principle of the 2030 Agenda.
Source: Press release of 24.9.2019 by Buendnis 90/The Greens in the Bundestag Uwe Kekeritz, Spokesperson for Development Policy, and Bettina Hoffmann, Spokesperson for Environmental Policy
By a large majority, the city council has instructed the administration to increase the use of wooden building materials in new municipal buildings such as schools and day-care centres. Complete wooden buildings are to be erected wherever possible.
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