Abstract
CoME EASY is a European Union H2020 project started in May 2018, which aims to help local public authorities secure a more sustainable energy and climate policy, in line with the New Green Deal and Fit for 55 initiatives. The main idea of CoME EASY is to offer an integrated package of on-line tools that synchronize European Energy Awards (EEA) with Covenant of Mayors (CoM), ISOs, Smart Cities, and other initiatives that allow local communities to have multiple commitments for energy efficiency and climate with less effort. EEA is a quality management and awarding system for municipalities and regions, which started in 1988 in Switzerland and now includes more than 1700 municipalities from 8 countries and 10 new pilot countries with more than 65 million people belonging to the local communities that are involved. There are six main areas of activity in EEA (Development and Spatial Planning Strategy, Municipal Buildings and Facilities, Supply and Disposal, Mobility, Internal Organization, Communication and Cooperation) through which municipalities are driven by advisors so as to receive a score in percentage for each area, which further allows them to compare with other communities. Romania has been an EEA pilot country since 2016 and, despite initial problems in implementing the system, now has three communities, Iași (Romania second largest city), Alba Iulia (the so-called other Romanian capital), and Vama Buzăului, included in CoME EASY. These cities tested frameworking tools and managed to be assessed with EAA tools, and developed a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan synchronously. Owing to the CoME EASY tools, all of these communities were able to deliver key performance indicators that are in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Highlights
The main target of the H2020 project, CoME EASY [1,2], is to synchronize European Energy Award (EEA) [3] certification instruments with other EU initiatives, mainly Covenant of Mayors (CoM) [4], concerning energy and climate policies to accompany increasingly more municipalities in their 2030 performance and decarbonation process
Mitigation actions calculator: a downloadable supporting tool for the three initiatives to evaluate the overall impacts of the mitigation measures; Public buildings database: a supporting template for the data collection regarding public buildings to fulfil ISO information needs and to enrich EEA and CoM; The data collected yearly during an EEA process in the EMT and through the CoME
The effects will continue after the project end, owing to the promotion and dissemination activity; some results have already been provided for the impacts by 2030, based on the partners (EEA network) active involvement
Summary
The main target of the H2020 project, CoME EASY (grant agreement number 785033) [1,2], is to synchronize European Energy Award (EEA) [3] certification instruments with other EU initiatives, mainly Covenant of Mayors (CoM) [4], concerning energy and climate policies to accompany increasingly more municipalities in their 2030 performance and decarbonation process. EEA is a bottom-up private initiative whose aim was to support municipalities for planning and implementing energy and climate measures by improving energy efficiency and increasing the use of renewable energy sources It began in 1988 in Switzerland under the name Energiestadt or Cite de l’Energie, and currently the most-used energy and climate management tool, which is endorsed by Swiss Federal authorities. The operative target of CoME EASY (Figure 2) is to create an open “support package” for the planning and implementation activities in the fields of Sustainable Energy andPolicy, Policy, to achieve thetargets. BEI/MEI results together with future reduction paths and reduction evaluates the ambition of planned and realized reduction paths compared with national and EU goals (e.g., COM targets)
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