From global goals to local action

How we implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asker municipality Editor Asker municipality

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The content of the document is made available under the license Contents

Preface 5

Why? 7

How do we do it? 9

Collaboration to reach the goals 17

Examples of how we work 23 Lene W. Conradi Mayor, Asker municipality Preface

Asker is a new municipality in 2020, The work with the SDGs has already following a merger between Hurum, inspired us to work across political and Røyken and Asker municipalities. professional divides. In addition, we see We use the UN Sustainable Development that the goals inspire our citizens, Goals (SDGs) as an overall and integral businesses and NGOs. framework for our new large municipality, because we are part of a larger whole We find that the SDGs give us many and it helps us expand our perspective. opportunities to work together for the This means that we remain aware of our benefit of the Asker community - and in global responsibility while working to solidarity with the rest of the world. achieve sustainable local communities. I hope this booklet will inspire continued In this booklet, we have compiled an efforts towards sustainable solutions, overview of what we have done so far to both locally and globally! make the 17 SDGs relevant to our municipality, and how we will work to achieve the goals going forward.

5 UN Sustainable Development Goals Why?

Sustainable development is about taking care of the needs of today’s people, without ruining the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

The UN Sustainable Development 2019-2023”, the government Goals are the world’s common provides clear guidance for plan to eradicate poverty, fight municipalities to use the SDGs as inequality and stop climate the basis for community and land change by 2030. planning.

The SDGs consist of 17 goals and Asker has challenges related to all 169 targets that will provide three dimensions of sustainability. countries, businesses and civil Climate change is serious, lower society with a common, global economic growth is expected, the direction. The goals are divided proportion of working age people into three dimensions - economic is declining, and the inequalities in sustainability, social sustainability society are growing. Therefore, and environmental sustainability. when the municipality makes The sustainability goals apply to decisions, they must be evaluated all countries in the world, and the on the basis of all three dimensions. government has committed The municipality will ensure that Norway to work to achieve those the entire Asker community is goals. involved in the work to achieve the environmental, financial and Through ”National expectations for social goals. regional and municipal planning

7 Goal 3 good health and well-being

Goal 4 good education

Goal 9 innovation and infrastructure

Goal 11 sustainable cities and communities

Goal 13 stop climate change

Goal 17 collaboration to achieve goals How do we do it?

The most important tasks of the municipality are to provide good services to its citizens, ensure a holistic social development and facilitate an open and inclusive local democracy.

To achieve this, we must ensure SDGs must be integrated into all both efficient operation, the management, planning and necessary development work and governance. innovation in line with the needs of the community and its inhabitants. We do this through our strategic plans, as part of the ordinary measurement and management Implementation system and in the budget work. Asker has developed its own set of It has been decided that the UN indicators on which the SDGs shall constitute the overall organisation is measured, and we framework for the development of use national and international the Asker community. The SDGs will indicators and make them local. help us expand our perspective, steer in the right direction and Management is crucial in order to develop good solutions locally succeed in the sustainability work that also contribute globally. within our own organization. If the municipality is to succeed The SDGs give the direction for in translating the global goals into management in the municipality, local action and practices, the and how the individual employee

9 works in everyday life. Therefore, sustainable management and leadership development are part of the work of building a new These goals now form the basis municipality. All municipal leaders for eight focus areas in the draft participate in a two-year municipal master plan for the management programme. 2020-2032 period:

The municipal plan’s social • Collaboration to reach the aspect goals In the work on Asker’s municipal • Sustainable cities and master plan, the municipality’s over- communities all strategic governing document, • Action against climate change the elected representatives have • Good health prioritised work on the following • Good education Sustainable Development Goals • Innovation, digitalisation and during the first municipal master business development plan period: • Economy • Employees • Goal 3 good health and well-being The 17 main goals are broad and • Goal 4 relatively general, while the 169 good education targets are more limited and • Goal 9 specific. The challenges vary both innovation and infrastructure between countries and locally in • Goal 11 each country. Therefore, the targets sustainable cities and do not cover all the challenges we communities face nationally and locally, and the • Goal 13 UN encourages local adjustments. stop climate change In addition, we see that many of • Goal 17 the SDGs have been formulated as collaboration to achieve goals a mix of goals and strategies.

10 The result of this work is that the proposal for a municipal master plan for the period 2020-2032 consists of a total of eight goals and 28 targets. Approximately half of the targets are based on the UN In our efforts to make the goals targets, but adapted and made relevant to Asker and adapt them relevant to Asker. The other to our planning and management targets relate to other challenges system, we have made the facing the Asker community. All following changes: focus areas in the municipal plan are cross-sectoral and apply to all • Goals and targets have been service areas. We must work reformulated to better match together across sectors to achieve our local conditions, while the development we want. ensuring linkage with the Nevertheless, the goals affect the original UN goals. service areas differently, and • All of the goals have been some goals are particularly refined by removing the relevant to some service areas. strategy formulations, and relevant strategy formulations Here is how we did it - examples have been reused or rewritten of goals, strategies and indicators as strategies for the targets Below is an example of how, based • We have had to formulate on the Sustainable Development some very specific targets that Goals, Asker municipality has relate to challenges that are defined goals, targets and not specifically expressed in strategies for one of the areas of the UN targets. focus in the municipal master plan, namely Good health and wellbeing.

11 Main goals

Original UN goal Ref. Main goal – Good health

Ensure good health and promote quality of UN-T The Asker community ensures good health life for everyone, regardless of age. 3 and promotes quality of life for all, regardless of age

Targets and strategies

Original UN goal Ref. Targets - Good health

By 2030, reduce by one third premature UN-T The Asker community will, thorough health mortality from non-communicable 3.4 promotion and prevention achieve good diseases through prevention and treatment public health, prevent exclusion and reduce and promote mental health and well-being. the risk of illness and premature death.

Achieve universal health coverage, UN-T Citizens have access to basic, holistic and including financial risk protection, access to 3.8 sound health services of good quality and quality essential health-care services and on time. access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.

AK Residents who receive health services live active and independent lives, take responsibility for their own health and participate in designing the services based on the individual’s conditions and needs.

AK Asker Municipality actively collaborates with citizens, voluntary resources and the business community to meet the health challenges of the future.

12 Ref. Strategies - Good health

The Asker community will, thorough health AK Asker Municipality will focus its resource efforts on health-promoting and preventive work and activities. public health, prevent exclusion and reduce AK Asker Municipality will make it possible for citizens to live active lives and live safely in their own homes for as long as possible. UN-T Asker Municipality will facilitate information and educational measures 12.8 and other means that help citizens make good choices for their own health and quality of life. AK UN-T Asker Municipality will promote work on the prevention of substance 3.5 abuse and treatment of drug-related injuries. UN-T Asker municipality will work actively to ensure that all citizens follow 3.8 the vaccine programme. UN-T In cooperation with various actors, Asker Municipality will work actively 10.2 to prevent exclusion and the consequences of social inequalities, and to promote a sense of belonging and community participation.

AK Asker municipality will ensure a differentiated service offering, holistic user processes, good interdisciplinary coordination and a strategic and flexible resource management.

AK Asker municipality will facilitate active user participation.

AK Asker municipality will work actively with various actors to mobilise the citizens' own resources and networks, and to facilitate self-mastery and participation in the community.

AK In collaboration with various actors, Asker municipality will develop and coordinate activities and measures that promote good health and quality of life.

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Indicators, Norwegian conditions. In anticipation of further national measurement and work on indicators, based on reporting Statistics Norway’s memorandum of 2018/01, Asker Municipality has defined some preliminary We use indicators to measure indicators related to each focus whether the municipal organisation area in the municipal master plan. is progressing towards the goals We have chosen national indicators we have set and to indicate where the figures for Asker can be specific political ambitions for compared with those of other the various targets. municipalities and regions.

The UN has prepared a set of The table below shows the indicators related to the various preliminary indicators for the targets, and Statistics Norway focus area of Good health. (SSB) evaluated these against

Good health - preliminary indicators Data source

Percentage of upper secondary students who are Ungdata satisfied with their own health (percent)

Vaccination coverage (measles) among Municipal Health 9-year-olds (percent) Statistics Bank (Kommunehelsa)

Percentage of children in low-income households Municipal Health acc. to municipal low-income thresholds (EU-60) Statistics Bank (percent) (Kommunehelsa)

Proportion of the population aged 0–74 years with Municipal Health musculoskeletal disorders (per 1000) Statistics Bank (Kommunehelsa)

Percentage of upper secondary students who say Ungdata they have drunk so much that they have clearly felt intoxicated at least once in the past year (percent)

sustainability and 37120 for ISO-certification sustainable cities and communities. This will help us Asker Municipality wants to be strengthen and concretise the ISO certified according to the ISO work on sustainability goals 9001 quality standard and the two throughout the organisation. new standards ISO 18091 on

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Collaboration to reach the goals

Asker municipality has a clear ambition for community and service development with a high degree of citizen participation and collaboration with relevant actors to address the Sustainable Development Goals. Collaboration to achieve the goals represents opportunities for innovation with a focus on social, economic and environmental sustainability. Working together in new ways challenges • Service and community innovation traditional ways of working, and there is • Digital transformation therefore a need to build new competence • Programme for smart and sustainable in the municipality and in civil society, as communities well as new models for leadership and • Project and portofolio office organisation in networks and partnerships. • Innovation lab The municipality should be a driving force • Leadership and organisational and stimulate a broad cooperation to solve development societal challenges. Through innovative • Learning and sharing arena partnerships with various community • Active and value-adding collaboration actors, business and social entrepreneurs, and partnership the municipality will facilitate a comprehensive and coordinated The centre brings together the municipality’s development of society and services, expertise in innovation and collaboration, contributing to good and inclusive service design, project management, communities. innovative procurement and digitalisation. Mechanisms are established that ensure that the municipal organisation safeguards Asker establishes a new this competence internally, but also to ensure good cooperation between the centre for innovation and municipality, business life, research and learning academia.

The centre will be the municipality’s The UN Network of common resource centre and powerhouse for open social innovation based on the Excellence SDGs. In order to support local work and build In order to achieve a better, more strong partnerships for sustainable coordinated and effective investment in development in cities and towns, several community and service development in Norwegian municipalities, county councils, collaboration with the business organisations and companies have initiated community, a programme for sustainable a cooperation with the UN under the development is established at the centre. United for Smart Sustainable Cities The programme will include Smart City- (U4SSC) umbrella. As part of this effort, a based on a sustainable development that national Network of Excellence on SDG involves a holistic financial, social and Societal Transition has been established in environmental responsibility. Main features Norway. The network originates from The of the future innovation centre are: Geneva UN Charter Centre of Excellence on SDG City Transition in Trondheim,

18 established by the United Nations Economic for important activities and processes, and Commission for Europe (UNECE). thus provides the municipalities with a useful management tool when deciding Asker municipality participates in the what can happen when, and which network together with Trondheim, Stavanger, activities and actors are each other’s Ålesund and Bærum municipalities. prerequisites. The goal is to increase the The network works based on a framework speed of the transition work in the developed by Trondheim municipality and municipalities. NTNU, in collaboration with Limerick City and Council in Ireland. The framework The illustration shows the framework for a represents a holistic approach to smart comprehensive transition for cities and sustainable societal change. It accounts communities:

Engage Design Activate Accelerate Support

Standardize Evaluate Visualize Simulate Finance Share

Develop Review Revise Plan Budget Analyze policies

Establish Make Link Manage the innovation Collaborate Prioritize appointments together portfolio partnerships

Make room Change the Support the Identify Lead for self- Twin organization intrapreneurs organization

Involve the Acknowledge Deliberate Localize Connect Amplify citizens

Develop Create Pitch Deliver Capitalize Tell stories projects prototypes

D3.1 The Bold City Vision Framework, Framework-for-Bold-City-Vision-Guidelines-and-Incentive-Schemes (2019)

19 Situation analysis 2019 theme plans and needs prior to organisational and leadership development. In the autumn of 2019, Asker Municipality We can compare Asker Municipality to will conduct a baseline measurement to other municipalities, particularly within the obtain a knowledge base for further Network of Excellence, and the survey will development and prioritisation of activities form the basis for cooperation on the related to the implementation of the SDGs. development and exchange of competence We will use a methodology developed by and methodology between municipalities. United for Smart Sustainable Cities Last but not least, we hope the survey can (U4SSC). The methodology is based on be used as an incentive for dialogue with SDG 11: ”Make cities and human business, academia and other community settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and actors about innovative partnerships and sustainable” and 92 indicators. projects. The indicators are designed to give cities and communities a consistent and standardised method for data collection Involvement and and measurement of efforts and development in order to: knowledge sharing

• achieve sustainable development If we are to stand a chance of reaching the • become a smarter city/community goals of Agenda 2030, we must mobilise • become a more sustainable city/ not just the municipality’s elected officials community and administration, but residents, businesses, NGOs and the voluntary The indicators enable Asker to measure community as well. In the new Asker, we progress over time, compare their own use various approaches to spread efforts to those of other cities and knowledge about the SDGs and their communities, and facilitate the relevance to our local community. dissemination of best practices. We do this in different ways:

Use in Asker Innovation Camp 2018 The survey will provide us with a basis for Innovation camp was held at all lower targeted development measures in all of secondary schools in Asker, Røyken and the municipality’s areas of work when Hurum in June 2018. The theme was the implementing the SDGs. This will form the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The basis of knowledge for our Sustainable 8th Grade pupils worked for two days on Asker programme, and will serve as a how they can help solve one of the SDGs. benchmark for the programme and for the The pupils were divided into 230 groups, municipal plan’s social component. all the groups presented their proposals to a jury consisting of representatives from The results of the survey can highlight the municipalities and the local business approach choices in policy formulation in community. The three winners had

20 proposals related to public transport in a Solberg, Minister for Local Government new municipality, sustainability as an and Modernisation Monica Mæland and independent school subject and a digital Minister for Children and Equality Linda solution related to mental health. Hofstad Helleland were present at the conference to hear how the youth proposed The Innovation Camp was conducted in that the new municipality can be built in collaboration with Ungt entreprenørskap, line with the SDGs. Young Entrepreneurship. The input from the conference has been The 2018 Asker Conference: Youth compiled in the Asker Conference report. In 2018, the Asker Conference was held on October 24, the United Nations Day. Night walk on the United Nations Day Along with youth representatives from the Spreading knowledge about sustainability UN organisation UN Habitat, 55 youths goals and involving our citizens in different from Asker, Røyken and Hurum ways is an important part of our participated in workshops and prepared sustainability work. As part of this work, input for a sustainable development of the on the UN Day on October 24, 2018, we new municipality. Both Prime Minister Erna organised a night walk up Vardåsen for all

21 inhabitants of Asker, Røyken and Hurum, Brukertorget, Community health and in order to highlight the SDGs, but also to integration and Sydskogen school. bring citizens together over some common values and mark the merger of the three The purpose of the pilot is twofold: municipalities. Along the walk up the Vardåsen ski slope, participants were 1. Test out methodology for introduced to all the 17 Sustainable operationalising the goals through Development Goals in various ways. specific measures, including risk and opportunity assessment, so that this Sustainability work in school can be used as a tool for all units from On its meeting on November 21, 2017, the 2020. Young People’s Local Government (DUK) in 2. Come up with good examples of new Asker decided that all the principals and sustainable measures, as should prepare a teaching course on the inspiration for other units in the Sustainable Development Goals at all process of planning operations for levels of Asker schools. During 2018 and 2020. 2019, all schools in the new Asker Municipality have worked on the The results of the pilot work will be SDGs. We believe schools are a good presented in a separate report and will arena for spreading knowledge about the inspire further work in all municipal units SDGs and creating understanding among from 2020. children and young people in our municipality. The business community Our local business community is strongly We are therefore very pleased that involved in the sustainability work. Some knowledge of the UN’s Sustainable companies, such as Tomra and IKEA, have Development Goals and sustainable been and remain leading companies both development has become part of the locally and internationally. But small and national curriculum of 2020, so that we medium-sized businesses have also taken can continue the good sustainability work ownership and shown an interest in the being done in the Asker schools. SDGs. Through the Asker business council, they have established their own Sustainability pilots sustainability network and, for two Over the course of 2019, seven units of the consecutive years, they have arranged Asker and Røyken municipalities have networking days with sustainability as the tested possible new initiatives for the SDGs theme. In addition, the business council within their own operations. The seven offers its own competence programme for units are: Project and development, small and medium-sized businesses on Borgensonen daycare centres, Hagaløkka how sustainability work can increase the school, Landøya after school, company’s competitiveness.

22 Examples of how we work The recycling workshop organises open days, workshops and courses so that those who want to can do something new, learn something new, upgrade or repair - all in a more sustainable and environmentally friendly way. Omattatt – creative recycling workshop

The association Omattatt works with recycling and circular economy in practice and is a collaborative project between Heggedal Nærmiljøsentral and Asker Municipality.

At the local recycling workshop, Omattatt is primarily run by we teach citizens to see the volunteers, and all residents are resources in our waste and trans- welcome to participate, either by form materials into something learning about or sharing their ”new”. The sustainable recycling knowledge of recycling projects. workshop has a large treasure trove of recycled materials, tools Omattatt - creative recycling and equipment. workshop is funded with support from Asker Municipality, The recycling workshop organises the Workers’ Common Economic open days, workshops and courses Association (AØF) Friheim, so that those who want to can do Akershus County Council, something new, learn something Sparebankstiftelsen DNB and new, upgrade or repair - all in a the Environmental Directorate. more sustainable and environmentally friendly way.

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Recycling – relocation of employees

As a result of the municipal merger, around 650 employees in the new Asker will change their place of work, and 15 to 20 buildings will be affected. In this process, Project Recycle has been created to avoid throwing away inventory that can be recycled, repaired or re-designed.

At all relevant premises, inventory, The relocation project is a great furniture and building materials opportunity to work with recycling have been mapped for recycling. in practice. ”Recycling” is a good Two summer students from the starting point for further work on REdu collaboration (www.redu. recycling in the new Asker, and no), the waste and recycling provides useful experiences and industry’s great competence lift, inspiration. have digitised the information in a new digital platform, GreenStock. The project has received funding The platform enables recycling of from the Environmental materials and inventory and Directorate’s Climate Investment calculates savings in both financial Fund, which is a support scheme terms and building waste and for climate measures in the greenhouse gas emissions. Asker municipalities. Municipality has an innovation collaboration with Zero Emission Developments AS, who developed the platform.

26 Regional centre for Marine Pollution

In collaboration with the No Waste! industry cluster and Mepex, Asker Municipality has carried out a preliminary project to investigate the possibility of a regional centre for marine pollution.

With the Oslo coast’s longest knowledge sharing between coastline, and as one of the most different actors. The competence populous areas in the country, the centre will house innovation and new Asker Municipality wants to business development, be a leading municipality when it dissemination and research. comes to reducing pollution, release of microplastics into The project has received support nature and circular economics. from Buskerud County Council. Asker Municipality also A regional centre will give us new contributes funds. knowledge about the pollution of the fjord, and contribute to

27 Idea bank for sustainable daycare centres

Borgensonens daycare centres are located in an area with great diversity and socio-economic differences. Sustainability and equalization of differences has been a focus area for the daycare centres for a long time.

Through the pilot project on the the bank. We also want to make it UN’s Sustainable Development possible to add measures to the Goals, we have looked at what we bank, so that we can share good do and what practices we have practices. that can be related to the SDGs. It turns out that a lot of measures We have around 50 unique fit, which spawned the idea of measures related to the Sustainable compiling all the good initiatives in Development Goals. There is a an idea bank. In the idea bank, wide range of measures, from we share specific measures that simple measures such as physical can be taken in daycare centres to activity and play to promote good meet the SDGs. Some measures health, exchange cabinets to are small and require little, others facilitate recycling and reduce require more time, planning, consumption, to major initiatives finances and organisation. such as a transitional educators between daycare and school and In the idea bank, you get inclusive lunch. Our goal with the inspiration and specific recipes on idea bank is to make it easier for how to implement the measures in daycare staff to think sustainably your own daycare centre. When and put the goals into practice. measures are introduced, sustainability points are earned in 28 There is huge diversity in the measures, from simple efforts such as exchange lockers to contribute to recycling and reduce consumption to larger initiatives such as a transitional educator between daycare centre and school. Ethical investment strategy and financial management

When Asker Municipality invests, we must follow the UN rules for responsible investment, the Principles for Responsible Investments (PRI) and the Government Pension Fund Global’s ethical guidelines.

Our entire portfolio must consist Furthermore, companies must be of sustainable and responsible excluded if there is an obvious and investments. Therefore, all our unacceptable risk that, through its financial service providers have investments, the municipality will received our ethical regulations contribute to gross or systematic and been instructed not to offer violations of human rights, such the municipality products that as torture, deprivation of liberty, violate these regulations. forced labour and child labour, serious violation of individuals’ Among other things, these guide- rights in war or conflict situations, lines include the exclusion of serious environmental damage, companies that produce gross corruption and other inhumane weapons. violations of basic ethical norms.

30 Our entire portfolio must consist of sustainable and responsible invesments. FutureBuilt, a collaboration for sustainable buildings and urban areas

Asker Municipality is a FutureBuilt partner. This is a 10-year programme that will end in 2020. FutureBuilt’s vision is to demonstrate that it is possible to develop climate-neutral urban areas with high-quality architecture.

FutureBuilt is to develop model contribute to a good urban projects that will help reduce environment. FutureBuilt is a greenhouse gas emissions for the national and international show- buildings from a lifecycle perspe- case, and will stimulate innovation ctive, both during the construction and changed practices. phase and their operation. The goal is a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from Model projects energy, materials and transport relative to today’s standards. The in Asker pilot projects that are part of the FutureBuilt programme commit to Kistefossdammen daycare meeting a set of quality criteria, as centre well as documenting that these Kistefossdammen daycare centre qualities are actually achieved. in Heggedal is one of Asker Municipality’s first model projects The model projects must have a in the FutureBuilt programme. high architectural quality and

32 Holmen swimming pool Kistefossdammen daycare centre

Holmen swimming pool climate agreement states that all The Holmen swimming pool was growth in passenger transport completed in the spring of 2017, must take place in public and is one of the country’s most transport, bicycling and walking. energy-efficient swimming facilities. Bicycle park in Heggedal Trans’matorn bicycle park in Korpåsen group home Heggedal was Asker’s first Future- Asker Municipality is building a Built model project. new group home with 12 housing units for people with disabilities at The municipality saves millions Gullhella in Asker. through green loan financing for environmentally friendly The homes will be very energy- investments efficient - close to the zero-energy Asker Municipality has chosen standard. Electricity is provided by Kommunalbanken’s green loans a full 250 m2 of solar cells on the to finance the FutureBuilt projects roofs. The building will be Kistefossdammen daycare centre supplied with local, renewable and the Holmen swimming pool. energy from energy wells. Over ten years, the municipality will save NOK 3 million on interest FutureBike bicycle decleration expenses. Until 2020, the FutureBuilt municipalities of Asker, Bærum, Green loans are granted to projects Oslo and Drammen will collaborate that lead to reduced energy on FutureBike, a joint political consumption or less greenhouse declaration of intent regarding gas emissions, or contribute to bicycle initiatives. The cross-party local climate adaptation. 33 Fossil-free construction site

By 2025, all municipal building and construction sites in Asker must be free of fossil fuels and emissions. A fossil-free construction site is a construction site that does not use fossil energy sources. This means that all construction equipment must run on non-fossil fuel.

The municipality is currently This electric construction machine building a new competence centre alone equals a reduction in green- for vocational training and work house gas emissions from inclusion for people with disabilities construction sites of 13.5 tonnes with a fossil-free construction site. of CO2 equivalents per year. The building itself has water- These emission reductions in the borne heating, geo-wells and same magnitude as a 100- rooftop solar installations, just as passenger plane flying from Oslo an electrically powered wheel to Malaga, or a medium-sized loader is used, which is passenger car making the emission-free in operation. Asker-Trondheim round-trip 115 times.

34 For further information on how we work with the UN Sustainable Development Goals:

The Chief Municipal Executive’s draft for the social component of the municipal master plan for 2020-2030 The Chief Municipal Executive’s draft Action Programme for 2020-2023 Operations management in Asker municipality New Asker Municipality based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals The 2018 Asker Conference. Report prepared by Pure Consulting All documents are available on Asker Municipality’s website, www.asker.kommune.no Network of Excellence: The sustainability pledge - a national project https://sites.google.com/trondheim.kommune.no/barekraft/start Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities (2017) D3.1 Framework-for-Bold-City-­Vision-Guidelines-and-Incentive-Schemes (2019)