SPOTLIGHT
particulate matter by 90 percent, and nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide (CO2) by at least one-quarter.
Strong partnerships
No less crucial for EBRD Green Cities are partnerships to complement our work by bringing in different expertise and project co-financing. One successful arrangement is with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, with which the EBRD cooperates in Warsaw, Poland, where the Group focuses on the city’s long-term carbon pathway to harmonize with the city’s GCAP. Likewise, the Green Climate Fund has not only made an ¤87 million contribution to EBRD Green Cities
but also is co-financing specific projects. This includes ¤10 million to modernize the metro system in Tbilisi, Georgia and funding electric buses in Amman, Jordan. Just as the broader EBRD cooperates with a range of interlocutors - including the recent signing of a US$114 million financing package together with the OPEC Fund, the African Development Bank, the Green Climate Fund, and the Arab Bank of Economic Development for the 200 MW Kom Ombo solar plant in Egypt, EBRD Green Cities thrives on, and is enhanced by, its collaborations.
Learn more about EBRD’s Green Cities program here:
https://www.ebrdgreencities.com/
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EBRD HELPING DRIVE SDG 7
ENERGY COMPACT On June 25, 2021, a preparatory meeting for the UN High Level Dialogue on Energy (which will take place in New York in September 2021) saw the launch of the EBRD Green Cities Energy Compact, in which the EBRD joins other organizations in making voluntary commitments toward achieving the SDGs by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. In EBRD’s case, this will involve a series of actions aimed at forwarding SDG 7 within the EBRD Green Cities program, tied to energy efficiency in buildings, urban mobility, water, waste management and digitalization of city services. The EBRD Green Cities Compact’s ambitions for energy savings will be fleshed out over the summer to provide program-level targets before a full launch in September.
More about the UN meeting here:
https://bit.ly/3jcEKae
FORWARD Cities can support energy transitions envisaged by Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) on clean and affordable energy in multiple ways. This SDG is at the heart of EBRD Green Cities’ work. Here are just a few examples how: • EBRD Green Cities is discussing ways to substantially increase the share of renewable energy in its cities (SDG 7.2).
• By definition, GCAPS enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology (SDG 7.a).
• EBRD’s investment in projects identified through GCAP promotes the goal of expanding infrastructure and upgrading technology to supply modern and sustainable energy services (7.b).
• Extending the reach of the district heating system in UlaanBaatar, Mongolia is helping ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services (SDG 7.1).
• Introducing electric buses in Batumi, Georgia is improving energy efficiency by decarbonising urban transport (SDG 7.3).
• Updating the water and wastewater treatment plant in Skopje will reduces energy use and improve efficiency, as the new plant will produce its own energy by burning sludge from sewage. Other projects include refitting city- owned buildings in Chisinau, Russia and retrofitting and thermo-modernizing city buildings in, Poland by converting to either heating pumps or gas heating.
SDG 7 tracker:
https://sdg-tracker.org/energy 41
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