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Covenant of Mayors
Monitoring strategy
Informed Cities - Forum 2011
26-27 October 2011 - Naples, Italy
Ronald Piers
European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC)

2. About the JRC
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JRC - Robust Science for Policy Making
As a Directorate-General
of the European Commission,
the JRC provides customer-driven
scientific and technical support
to Community policy making
Supporting citizen’s security, health
and environmental protection, safety of food
and chemicals, alternative energies, nuclear
safety, econometrics, prospective
technologies…

3. Role of the JRC in the CoM:
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JRC is providing the scientific and technical support to the CoM
Some key tasks:
– Development of the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) guidebook
– Operation of the technical helpdesk service
– Evaluation of submitted SEAPs, with feedback to Covenant cities
– Monitoring of the CoM implementation, including the development of specific
monitoring & reporting guidelines
JRC´s Covenant of Mayors team : Paolo Bertoldi, Giulia Melica, Ana Meijide,
Federica Paina, Ronald Piers
NB: In addition, the CoM Office in Brussels is in charge of: general
coordination, promotion (website etc), networking, administrative
support, technical heldesk (with JRC), etc

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The unprecedented growth of the
Covenant of Mayors
As of today, 3030 Local
Authorities committed to
reduce CO2 emissions on
their territories by at least
20% by 2020
Together they represent
140 million inhabitants,
over a quarter of the EU
population
CoM ceremony in the EU parliament, May 2010

5. What do Covenant Signatories commit to ?
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• Go beyond EU energy and climate objectives:
at least 20% CO2 reduction by 2020
• Prepare a Sustainable Energy Action Plan [SEAP]
• Implement their Action Plan and report periodically on progress
• Involve citizens and other stakeholders
• Adapt city structures and allocate sufficient resourcesMayors act
voluntarily
• Encourage other cities to join and take
the lead !

6. What is a SEAP?
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It is a political document: it shows how the Covenant signatories intend
to achieve their commitments: concrete measures and long-term
strategies leading to at least 20% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2020
It is a technical document: It uses the results of the Baseline Emission
Inventory to identify the most appropriate actions. It serves as a
reference for the implementation and monitoring of the actions
It is a communication and promotion instrument adressed to the
stakeholders: a clear and well-structured document
Example: SEAP of Genoa

7. The SEAP template
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The SEAP template is an on-line document which summarises key
information from SEAP:
Qualitative information on overall strategy and other key
issues (stakeholders involvement, adaptation of city sructures
…)
Overall % of CO2 reduction objective by 2020
Energy and CO2 data for the baseline year (and any
subsequent year) per sector and energy vector
Description of key actions with responsible/department,
timeframe, budget, expected energy/CO2 reduction, etc
Each SEAP template will be analysed by the JRC and
feedback sent to the signatories

8. The SEAP template
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9. Data Highlights
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Highlights of the
information collected via
the SEAP template will be
shown under the on-line
profile of each signatory:
Key energy / CO2 data of
your BEI

10. Analysis of a first sample of 425 SEAPs
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425 SEAPs representing 14,9 % of the signatories
covering 33 million inhabitants (25 % of the CoM
population) and on average 78 000 inhabitants per signatory.
Together they emit 185 million tons (5,5 ton per capita1)
They commit to reduce by 52 million tons (1,6 ton per capita),
which represents an overall reduction goal of 28%.
Those SEAPs contain 10 586 measures (about 25 measures
per
SEAP)
1Lower than the EU average (8 tons/capita) due to the fact that some sectors are
explicitly excluded from the SEAPs (industrial ETS …)

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Anticipated share of the total CO2 reduction by 2020
per type of measure / sector
Expected contribution per sector / field of action
Energy efficiency
(buildings, industry etc)
10% 1%
Transport and mobility
9%
Local heat generation
40% (district heating, CHP etc)
12% Local electricity
generation (renewables,
CHP etc)
Land use planning
10%
Behavioural changes
18% (working with the citizens)
Public procurement
Based on a sample of 425 SEAPs containing 10586 measures

12. The monitoring strategy
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- Monitoring reports to be sent by signatories every 2nd year
- A dedicated monitoring template is being finalised
- The key progress indicators will be derived from:
- Actual implementation of the planned actions and their estimated impact
- Successive monitoring emission inventories
(recommended frequency : every year; mandatory frequency : every 4 years)
- Other elements: financial investments, jobs creation, governance issues (citizens
involvement etc) etc
- Detailed information on 1-3 key actions per SEAP
- First monitoring reports to be received this year

13. Essential information provided by the monitoring
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- Evolution of the energy and CO2 data with time
- Energy / CO2 Reductions per sector and per energy vector
- Progress so far with implementation of the actions
- Potential impact in 2020
- Contribution by type of measure
- Catalogue of most efficient measures (difficulty to get
reliable data about cost and impact per measure)
- Data per country, per type of signatory (size)
- Etc

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Thank you for your attention
Ronald Piers
+39 0332 78 9703
Ronald.PIERS-DE-RAVESCHOOT@ec.europa.eu
IET - Institute for Energy and Transport
Petten - The Netherlands & Ispra - Italy
http://ie.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu