CES-MED: a Leap Forward to Sustainable Energy Cities
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A digital copy of this report along with supporting appendices are available on the project website: www.ces-med.eu Acknowledgements Contents he Cleaner Energy Saving Mediterranean Cities project (CES-MED) would like to thank the contributing Acknowledgements 2 authors, the project’s team and the consultants for their inputs in the preparation of this publication. Au- Tthors contributed to this report in their individual capacity and their organisations are only mentioned here Chapter 01 for identifcation purposes. The project and its achievements: 5 Lead author Publication support The story of CES-MED 5 Naguib AMIN, CES-MED Team Leader Fatima-Zahra ELGHABI (Ofce Manager CES-MED Maghreb, Rabat), Eslam MAHDY (CES-MED Eng/Ar Development and the Leap Forward 8 Contributing authors Translator), Malek MARDAM (Ofce Manager CES- MEMBERS OF CES-MED TEAM MED Mashreq, Beirut), Pierre Alain PARFOND (Eng/Fr Nadya BONEVA (CES-MED Project Director, Human Translator). Dynamics, Austria), Pierre COUTÉ (CES-MED Key Expert, Local Development in Maghreb), Myriam MAKDISSI Design, layout and printing (CES-MED Key Communication Expert) Alexandra Myriam MAKDISSI (CES-MED) PAPADOPOULOU (CES-MED Senior Energy Expert), Harry Tiho ALEKSOVSKI (CM advertising) Chapter 02 URPATYAN (Junior Communication Expert). National Focal Points (FP) The afliated countries: 9 National Report’s Consultants Algeria: Kamel DALI, (APRUE) Mohsen ABOULNAGA (University of Cairo, Egypt), Egypt: H.E. Ambassador Adel IBRAHIM, Ahmed YOUSRY 1. Algeria 9 Neji AMAIMIA (Consulting Engineer, Tunisia), Menouer (FP Representative), Ministry Of Foreign Afairs Batna 10 BOUGHEDAOUI (University of Blida, Algeria), Caroline Israel: Eddie BET-HAZAVDI, Ministry of National Boumerdès 11 HUWILER (IDE-E Consultants, Morocco), Ofer KEREN Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources Sidi Bel Abbès 12 and Yonat SCHWARTZ (KEREN ENERGY, Israel), Jordan: Saleh AL-KHARABSHEH, Maher ABDELRAHIM (FP Ricardo KHOURY (ELARD Consultants, Lebanon), representative), Ministry of Planning and International 2. Egypt 13 Omar SHARQIEH (Energy Research Center), Manal Cooperation Luxor Governorate 14 TAHA (Municipal Development & Lending Fund, MDLF Lebanon: H.E. Judge Omar HAMZA, Majid HACHEM (FP Red Sea Governorate 14 Palestine), Florentine VISSER (Architect - Consultant representative), Ministry of Interior & Municipalities Sustainable Building and Policy development, Jordan). Morocco: Maya AHERDAN, Ministry of Energy, Mines, 3. Israel 15 Water and Environment Ramla 16 SEAP Consultants Palestine: Omar SHARQIEH, Ministry of Local Rosh Ha’Ayin 17 Algeria, Egypt and Palestine: “Transitions in consortium Governance Shfar’Am 18 with Energies Demain” Tunisia: Fethi HANCHI, Oussama NAGATI (FP Tunisia: “I Care Environment in consortium with representative), ANME 4. Jordan 19 EnvirOconsult and Apex” Aqaba 20 Israel: “Keren Energy and ICCS NTUA” EU project management Irbid 20 Morocco: “I Care Environment in consortium with European Commission Directorate-General for Neigh- Karak 20 EnvirOconsult and IDE-E”. bourhood and Enlargement Negotiations Regional Pro- Lebanon: “Via Habilis SARL, Georges Tabet and grammes Neighbourhood South. Nuevomund” Jordan: “NTUA in consortium with NERC” and “ Georges Tabet” 2 3 Chapter 01 Contents The project and its achievements 5. Lebanon 21 The story of CES-MED long list of additional cities who have applied or sub- Ashkout 22 sequently requested to join the Project. Some have en- he objective of the EU-funded “Cleaner Energy gaged in preparing SEAPs and have benefted from over- Baakline 23 Saving Mediterranean Cities” or CES-MED Proj- all guidance through the CES-MED Help Desk function. Beirut 24 ect, is to “develop the capacities of local authorities T As outlined hereafer, CES-MED actions have been con- Kab Elias 25 in the ENP-South region to formulate and implement more sustainable local policies, such as those implied ducted following a participatory, institutional and techni- Menjez 26 by joining the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) and developing cal capacity-building approach, and its deliverables have 6. Morocco 27 the related Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs)”. been tailored to provide maximum beneft to those local authorities (cities, municipalities, regions and communes) Agadir 28 The CoM is the mainstream European movement that and partner national authorities with practical and efec- Benslimane 29 involves local and regional authorities, voluntarily com- tive tools to improve sustainability policies and to support Oujda 30 mitting to increasing energy efciency and use of renew- the preparations and later the funding of SEAPs: able energy sources on their territories. Closely linked to 7. Palestine 31 this, the Project is to contribute to making national au- • Assuring partnership of national and local author- thorities more aware of and responsive to the need for ities. The Project created a National Coordination Hebron 32 Group (NCG) in each country, presided by the FP and Nablus 33 and advantages of strong involvement of cities in policy issues, which impact them directly, e.g. local waste and afliating key national development and energy min- Tulkarem 34 water management, urban mobility and transport, and istries. The Group acted as the project’s implementa- local energy use. tion body at the national level, assuring that the CES- 8. Tunisia 35 MED decentralised actions at a local (cities) level are Kairouan 36 CES-MED started its activities in January 2013. It was ini- supported and are in line with national programmes Sfax 37 tially set to last three years, but later was extended for 18 and regulations, and thus more suitable to be sus- Sousse 38 months to June 2017. Following the mobilisation of the tained and replicated. The alliance of NCGs with the project’s core team of experts, including a Team Leader, cities through CES-MED project is de facto a nation- Key Experts for Maghreb and Mashreq regions, a Commu- al-local partnership in support of decentralisation nication Expert and an Energy Expert (in addition to sev- and sustainable local planning; Chapter 03 eral short term experts and consultants afliated ad-hoc • Recommending national actions. Proposals to con- The Covenant of Mayors: for diferent tasks), two regional ofces were created: a “Maghreb” ofce in Rabat, Morocco, and a “Mashreq” of- solidate the national-local authorities’ partnership CoM and CES-MED role 39 fce in Beirut, Lebanon. In parallel, and in each afliated towards applying sustainable energy policies and solutions were defned for each partner country in Acronyms 41 country, a CES-MED’s “Focal Point” (FP) was ofcially desig- nated. The FP - typically afliated to a chief national local a “Recommended National Sustainable Urban development or energy agency - has since been acting as and Energy Savings Actions” Report and “Donors the key national partner of the Project, and all subsequent and Funding Initiatives in the Areas of Sustain- activities per country have been coordinated with him. able Development at the Local Level” Report, both forming the “National Report”. This was prepared Three cities were selected per country to become CES- by CED-MED in collaboration with the NCG. Each Re- MED’s Partner Cities or its principal benefciaries, total- port gives an analytical overview of the institution- ling 21 cities in seven countries (Algeria, Israel, Jordan, al, legal and fnancial frameworks.