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• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The CITyFiED project aims to develop a replicable, systemic and integrated strategy to adapt European cities into the smart city of the future, focusing on reducing the energy demand and GHG emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy sources by developing and implementing innovative technologies and methodologies for building renovation, smart grid and district heating networks and their interfaces with ICTs.
Laguna de Duero (Valladolid), Lund and Soma are a set of cities, strategically located around Europe, which represent a variety of demonstrative scenarios of city level refurbishment in terms of district and building typologies, ownership models, district heating and cooling schemes and technological solutions for low voltage electricity distributed generation.

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• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: In operation

Lund municipality's environmental program LundaEko has a target that says that the proportion of day nurseries and comprehensive schools with awards for teaching sustainable development shall increase to 70 percent by 2016 and to 100 percent by 2020.

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• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The incoming solar radiation from the sun for one hour is bigger than the entire world's human energy needs for a whole year, and we can through a very small effort use this almost endless source of energy in a way that meets future energy needs without affecting the climate.
Lund municipally had in 2012 photovoltaics and solar panels with a capacity of 205 MWh of electricity from photovoltaics and 271 MWh of heat from solar panels. The Service Department at Lund municipality reserve annually two million Swedish crowns for investment in renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics or solar panels.

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• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: In operation

Lund municipality strives to become fossil fuel free as an organization by 2020. The greatest challenge is the transport sector. Because of this the City Council decided to introduce a carbon fee on transport. When fuel for the municipal vehicles or business travel is payed for an extra cost is added. The size of the fee depends on the fossil content of the fuel. Some examples are 5 % extra for diesel, and 15 % extra for air travel. The first six months the carbon fee amounted to 284 000 SEK. The money is transferred to a Climate fund. From this fund the municipal departments can apply for project grants. In 2017 five projects where supported by the Climate fund. The projects regarded virtual meetings, a mobile bike workshop, electric bikes and charging points for electrical vehicles.

• Start year:
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: In operation

In spring 2002, young people, politicians and officials from Lund Municipality met to discuss how the public participation of youth in Lund could be improved. One suggestion which was brought up was to form a youth council, for and by young people. The first youth council was held in September 2003. The Youth Council is a forum where young people and adults meet and discuss. The goal is that young people's views should be brought to light. The Youth Council has three pillars; dialogue, influence and the youth’s own activities. The Youth Council is constructed around the Youth Parliament, various committees and a coordination group. The committees are doing the ongoing work with focus on different issues, such as education, international business, environmental issues and equality.

• Start year:
• Type: Regulation
• Status: In operation

The City of Lund is testing new types of housing that can make it easier to live without a car. Usually there are requirements of a certain number of parking-lots when new houses are built according to a parking standard. The municipality of Lund now offers two alternative ways for builders to reduce the number of required parking-lots. The first is called “Car-free living” and the other “Car-sharing package”. The municipality also requires parking-lots for bikes.

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• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The Science Road is a four kilometers long corridor which stretches from the historical city center of Lund all the way to the new city district of Brunnshög, a new center for research and high-technology in north-east Lund. Around 55 000 people work and study in the Science Road area - the largest knowledge-based workplace in the region.
The project includes renovation of historical environments, innovative energy solutions, densification of the university campus, sustainable mobility focusing on people’s needs, a green city and a new sustainable meeting place. The Science Road ties together the historic city center of Lund with the unique research and business opportunities in the northeast of the city. The Science Road is to be green, sustainable and open. All measures will be linked by a new tram line together with attractive pedestrian and bicycle paths. Thanks to the support of 48 million SEK from the governmental Delegation for Sustainable Cities, a total investment of 160 million SEK is made possible.

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• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: In operation

LundaMaTs stands for “environmentally adapted transport systems in Lund”, a working strategy aiming at 2030. LundaMaTs has become a well-known brand for Swedish city and traffic planners over the years. Lund's work with sustainable transportation has also sparked a good deal of international interest. In 1998 the city council adopted, with political unity, LundaMaTs I. It was the first sustainable urban mobility plan in Sweden, and a predecessor of many municipalities. In May 2014 the city council adopted the third generation of LundaMaTs III. The three sustainability concepts is still the base and human beings are in focus in the transport system.

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• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

Future by Lund is an innovation culture where society, academia and industry come together to solve global challenges with products and services for future sustainable cities. Future by Lund connects actors and stakeholders in an open innovation process. The focus areas of Future by Lund are mobility, energy, Internet of Things and lighting.
Future by Lund is for people who want to solve a need for a product or service in a more innovative, faster, easier and more sustainable way than is currently offered.
We offer a partnership where we jointly identify the challenges in our focus areas, and formulate concrete needs. Using open innovation processes, test-bed activities and matching against platform contacts for research and development, we find innovative solutions.
Thanks to our collaboration with the University of Lund, Ideon, Sustainable Business Hub and others, we reach many actors of all sizes who can become partners and suppliers.
Some innovation-projects within the focus area mobility are EC2B, dynamic public transport and Elonroad test-bed.
EC2B is a new concept of sustainable mobility as an integral part of the accommodation. It involves a mix of mobility services, combined in an integrated offer made easily accessible through the property where you live or work.
In dynamic public transport travelers' needs are collected via a mobile app and match the position of public transport vehicles. The system dynamically adjusts the vehicle's routes to the need and thus becomes an intermediate between today's public transport and taxi.
North of Lund there is a test runway where you can load the electric car while driving.

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• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: In operation

Framtidsstigen (Path to the Future) is a web-based tool for the local inhabitants of Lund to support sustainable consumption. The point of departure for Framtidsstigen is that everyone wants to do right if they just know how and understand why. Understanding how environmental impacts are related to our daily consumption makes it easier for a consumer to act sustainably and feel motivated. Framtidsstigen aims to present a new way of thinking regarding consumption. Framtidsstigen also raises awareness and spreads information regarding sustainable consumption on the project’s webpage.
Framtidsstigen is built around the four phases faced by consumers:
1. Consideration – How do I shop sustainably? Do I really need to buy a new product?
2. Purchase – How do I act in the store? How do I choose which product to buy?
3. Consumption – How do I use and take care of the product? How can I extend the product’s life span?
4. Disposal - How do I get rid of the product? Can I repair, re-use or sell it? How do I recycle the product correctly?

• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

LundaMaTs stands for environmentally adapted transport systems in Lund, a working strategy aiming at 2030. LundaMaTs has become a well-known brand for Swedish city and traffic planners over the years. Lund's work with sustainable transportation has also sparked a good deal of international interest. In 1998 the city council adopted, with political unity, LundaMaTs I. It was the first sustainable urban mobility plan in Sweden, and a predecessor of many municipalities. In May 2014 the city council adopted the third generation of LundaMaTs III. The three sustainability concepts is still the base and human beings are in focus in the transport system.

• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

A Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) is the key document in the Covenant of Mayors. The SEAP contains the Covenant signatory outlines how it intends to reach its CO2 reduction target by 2020. It defines the activities and measures set up to achieve the targets, together with time frames and assigned responsibilities.

• Start year:
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

A local reuse center is a concept that aims to prevent waste by bringing reuse and recycling closer to the local inhabitants. The idea is to promote reuse of products by creating a space close to the local inhabitants that facilitates the disposal of unwanted products. The local reuse center also acts as a meeting place where transfer of knowledge regarding reuse can take place, for example through lectures, repair workshops and other initiatives from the local residents.
Lund municipality is currently looking for funding for a local reuse center pilot project. The goal is to create a pilot facility with a space for exchanging used products, a small workshop, and a meeting room with a café. The project also seeks to engage other actors and stakeholders in the local area, such as property owners, associations and small businesses. A project manager will be recruited to run the daily operations and conduct activities to increase the participation among local inhabitants. The aim and purpose of the project is to create incentives for increased reuse among the inhabitants of Lund.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The district heating network covers 87% of the buildings in Lund. The district heating in Lund is produced in a combined heat and power plant using biofuel with 100 % efficiency due to heat recovery from flue gases, residual heat from a sugar plant, the research facility Max IV and soon ESS. Geothermal energy is used in Lund municipality to produce district heating as well as several other renewable energy sources.
In 2014 the district heating in Lund consisted of 84% renewable energy and Kraftringen, where Lund municipality is the majority owner, has targeted that the district heating will consist of 98% renewable energy by 2020.

• Start year:
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: In operation

Mobility management and communication enhance the pace and smoothens the way. When working with sustainable transportation in Lund, the strategy LundaMaTs makes sure that we use different professional perspectives and that collaboration is necessary in the machinery for sustainable choice of transport:
1. The shape of the city is considered; a round city has equally short distances everywhere.
2. Agreements and regulations support sustainable choices, like for instance parking norms which make bot individuals and bigger stakeholders more likely to support less car driving.
3. The efficiency of the infrastructure is not only made by building and designing roads, but also solutions for time saving and accessibility to improve the sustainable means of transport.
4. With mobility management we refer to the behavioral aspect, how to nudge people in to choosing the sustainable way to travel.

• Start year:
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

Biogas is a renewable energy carrier that chemically is similar to natural gas. The municipality of Lund develops the work with biogas continuously and several biogas-related projects are in progress.
Lund works actively to reduce environmental impact and, therefore, the aims are to use vehicles that only run on clean fuels. Lund Municipality together with the Lund municipal-owned real estate company (LKF) have managed to continuously purchase both the most modern and the most eco-friendly car models on the market.
Lund has many projects related to biogas for example Biogas in Lundaland. This is a project whit the purpose to strengthen the role of biogas in the community by supporting actors and coordinating actors and organizing a series of information sessions that can work as a start for a network of stakeholders across the biogas production chain.

• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

On 13 January 2010, the city executive board decided to accept a challenge from Klimatsamverkan Skåne to become a fossil-fuel-free municipality by 2020. This means that the city will work to ensure electricity, heat and transport in its own organization will be based on renewable energy. An important stage in this work is to follow the action plan for clean vehicles adopted in 2010.

• Start year:
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status: Completed

Solkartan (the Solar Map) is a map with a search feature that shows the most suitable places to install solar panels for electricity production in Lund municipality. Solkartan is an accessible and easy-to-use tool for property owners who are considering an investment in solar panels. By using Solkartan property owners can get an estimation of their buildings average solar radiation during the year and potential energy production from solar panels, should they be installed on their roof. The purpose and goal of the project is to increase the production of solar energy in Lund municipality.
Solkartan is the first large-scale solar energy potential map in Sweden. The project is collaboration between Lund municipality, Solar Region Skåne, Kraftringen and Lund University, with funding from Region Skåne’s Environmental Fund. The map was created with the intent to be used as a guideline and inspiration for future solar potential maps in other cities and municipalities.

• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

In March 2012, the Lund City Council decided to commission the municipal Executive Board of Lund to produce a comprehensive climate and energy strategy (KS 2012-03-01, § 30). The main purpose of the Energy plan is to coordinate ongoing energy and climate efforts and compose a concrete plan with measures for achieving existing goals and strategies.
The Energy Plan applies to Lund municipality as a geographical area - to the municipal organization, as well as to local residents, companies, the university, etc. The overarching climate goals cover this geographical area. The measures in the plan of action concern only the municipal organization since that is what the City Council has control over. Several measures, however, are aimed at municipality residents, businesses, etc.

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• Type: Advice / Tools
• Status: In operation

Around the highest point in the City of Lund a new neighborhood, Brunnshög, is growing in an attractive environment for enterprise, research and education. North east of the University Building in central Lund you find some of the world's foremost institutions of research and education, side by side with leading companies in IT, pharmacology and food.
In order to reduce GHG-emissions related to transport the aim in Brunnshög is to plan the area in such a way that not more than one third of all transport to and from the area is done by car. At least one third should be covered through public transport and at least one third through walking and biking.
The municipality provides a free of charge advisory service for builders. The advice covers car sharing, bike parkings, ICT, bike sharing etc.
The municipality is also providing several other services that support the one-third-goal.
1 Tram departure every 7.5 minutes (from 2020)
2. Local bus line departure every 15 min (until 2020)
3 Three regional bus lines departure every 10-15 min
4 Quick bike lanes to Lund C and the town center
5 Parking houses with car sharing and charging points for e-vehicles at the outer part of the area
6 Attractive spots for recreation, playing and intercourse in the central parts of the area
7 A vacuum system that reduces garbage truck use in the area

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

To make it easier for small households we have developed a system to aid the recycling in the convenience of their own home. The system uses two bins that are divided in 4 compartments, where every compartment has a designated waste material. This allows for collection of eight different fractions. Emptying is done with 4-compartment vehicles that empty all four fractions in the bin in one single cycle. The vehicle has divider walls, thus making mixing of fractions virtually impossible. Since 2016 the garbage trucks run on 100 % renewable fuel. The majority of this, 65%, is biodiesel and 35% is biogas. Electrical vehicles are also tested. Energy use has been reduced through optimized routes and aggregated collection of waste.
Lund ranks best in Sweden at waste management in 2017. This is evidenced by Avfall Sveriges index for best waste operations. The index is based on a large number of key figures that reflect the waste operations in a comprehensive way; Customer satisfaction, recycling of materials and food waste, waste volume and proportion of packaging and newspapers in household waste.

• Start year:
• Type: Regulatory
• Status: In operation

Sustainable procurement is a highly prioritized issue in Lund municipality, and includes a diverse range of actions. Lund municipality has a number of goals regarding sustainable procurement in Lund Municipality’s Programme for Ecologically Sustainable Development 2014-2020 (LundaEko II). Lund Municipality also cooperates with the Swedish National Agency for Public Procurement, to reach our highly ambitious procurement goals.
One example where Lund municipality has achieved noticeable success and received several awards and prizes is the procurement of organic food. For example, Lund municipality shared first place in EcoFoodCentre’s competition in 2008, became the winners in the years 2009-2011, received second place in 2012, shared first place again in 2013 and in 2014 was one of three municipalities in Sweden that reached over 50% procurement of organic food.

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• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

To maintain the sustainable growth and to make the transport system work, Lund is now planning for a tramway line that will connect the central station and the outskirts in the North East – via The Science Road. Moreover, the area is planned to be densified and urbanized with new housing, meeting points, services and office buildings. The industrial areas, that are quite desolate now, will get a mixed-use character. There will be more people in motion. Less people will use cars for transportation – as the parking lots have to leave place for the buildings; there will be more people who use bikes and public means of transportation. Until 2050, when the area is built completely, there will be approx. 40,000 people living or working along the tram route.

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• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

One prioritized area within the environmental program is called “Engage more”. Within this area a wide range of activities are carried out with the aim to make everyone who lives and works in the City of Lund engaged in creating a more sustainable city and making wiser everyday choices regarding transport, consumption and so on. This includes communicating through social media, participating in and creating different events in the city and cooperating with a wide range of stakeholders.
Some of the activities that have been carried out during the year, or will take place during the autumn 2017, include:
“Ekobibblan”
Ekobibblan – a mobile (by electric bike) library filled with books about environment, climate and sustainability that visited ten libraries in different parts of Lund during 2016-2017. The “eco library” included books about everything from climate smart food and growing your own food to sustainable private savings and green philosophy. There were also books for kids and youths, as well as books from the new genre climate fiction. When the mobile eco library parked at a library for about three weeks and during this period the library also had different ecofriendly activities. Lund sustainability Week and Festival
The Sustainability Week was arranged by the City of Lund, Lund University and other independent organizations during one week in May. During the week a wide range of stakeholders had the opportunity to meet, to discuss sustainability and to get involved in the transition to a more sustainable world. The week ended with a Sustainability Festival that was carried out in cooperation with Lund Pride Parade and Lund Bike Day.
“Eco fika”
During Lund Sustainability Week citizens and politicians met at the library over a cup of coffee to discuss how Lund can become a more sustainable city and how the politicians and the City of Lund may make it easier to live a sustainable life in Lund. The most discussed topic was transport, in particular bikes. This was a highly appreciated event, by both citizens and politicians, and the plan is to carry out more “Eco fikas” in different parts of the city.
 
Lund Culture night
Lund Culture night is a celebration of culture and a manifestation by local cultural workers, institutions, amateurs and their organizations. This is a very well visited event and thus a good opportunity to meet with citizens. This year politicians and officers from City of Lund had a tent where they met citizens to discuss how Lund can become a more sustainable city and how the politicians and the City of Lund may make it easier to live a sustainable life in Lund. There were also eco activities for chil
The environmental situation in Lund – conference
The environmental situation in Lund is a yearly conference where politicians, officers and other interested stakeholders gather during a half day to learn more about the yearly follow up on the environmental situation in Lund and the goals in the environmental program.

• Start year:
• Type: Advice / Tools
• Status: In operation

A local reuse center is a concept that aims to prevent waste by bringing reuse and recycling closer to the local inhabitants. It also reduces transport since many items can be reused locally instead of being transported for disposal. The idea is to promote reuse of products by creating a space close to the local inhabitants that facilitates the disposal of unwanted products. The local reuse center also acts as a meeting place where transfer of knowledge regarding reuse can take place, for example through lectures, repair workshops and other initiatives from the local residents.
The reuse center at Linero, FixaTill, has a space for exchanging used products, a small workshop, and a meeting room with a café. The project also seeks to engage other actors and stakeholders in the local area, such as property owners, associations and small businesses. A project manager runs the daily operations and conduct activities to increase the participation among local inhabitants. The aim and purpose of the project is to create incentives for increased reuse among the inhabitants of Lund.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

A lot of effort is taken to create well designed infrastructure for bicyclists that contributes to directness, traffic safety, accessibility, security and comfort. Yearly the bicycle net is improved both on a local and regional level.

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• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: In operation

In Lund we have introduced environmental management systems in our administrations and municipally owned companies, in which we work towards requirements (resembling those of ISO 14001) approved by the local authority. An environmental management group in each administration office assesses in which ways the office’s activities affect the environment, and draw up a policy and objectives for the environmental work.
Measures that will lead towards reaching the objectives are planned and carried out. The most cost-efficient improvements can be identified and carried out first. The motto”continual improvement” is realized in that new objectives are set when the old ones have been reached.
A certified environmental auditor regularly inspects the environmental management system of each administration. When approved by the auditor, the administrations receive certificates from the local authority. The first administrations were approved and awarded in 2003. Today all administrations and municipally owned companies have been approved by an auditor. Audits are regularly recurring to ensure that the environmental work lives on.

• Start year:
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

Lund municipality is the founder of a network called Lund´s Climate Alliance. This network aims for businesses who work actively with the climate issue and who sees value in the sharing of knowledge. The mixture of companies and the close cooperation with Lund University and the municipality turns the network into an exciting atmosphere for innovation and new collaborations. Lund’s Climate Alliance currently consists of approximately 20 members from various industries.

• Start year:
• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: In operation

The goal of Lund municipality’s environmental grant is to promote new pilot-projects and new interesting out-of-the-box thinking activities that promote sustainable development. Funding from the grant is given for projects that contribute to an ecologically sustainable development and promotes a good environment within Lund municipality. The grant can be used for all types of activities that can be linked to the municipal Environment and Health Committee’s operations. Lund’s environmental grant is currently 1.2 million SEK per year. Decisions to allocate funding are made annually by Lund Municipal Council during the budget work for the coming year.
Funding from the environmental grant can be given to municipal operations in Lund, as well as associations and organizations operating within the municipality of Lund. Funding cannot, however, be granted to commercial activities. Slightly different rules apply for municipal and other activities. Municipal activities can apply and receive funding twice a year. Associations and organizations can apply for funding once a year.
Grants are given to projects and activities implemented within the municipality of Lund. To receive funding, the project or activity must be clearly detailed and well-defined. The activity must be a temporary measure and be of a pilot-project nature. Funding can also be given as a start-up fund for new projects and activities. The reason behind this is that the grant should not be used for ongoing operations or projects.
Activities that can be linked to the implementation of Lund Municipality’s Programme for Ecologically Sustainable Development 2014-2020 (LundaEko II) are prioritized. Activities can be financed wholly or in part by funding from the environmental grant and can also be combined with other types of economic contributions. Activities that are co-funded from other sources are prioritized.
Two recent examples of funded projects are “Expanded Mobility-concept in the City hall Kristallen” and “Environmental Model-school 2.0”.

• Start year:
• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: In operation

Covenant of Mayors is an agreement launched by the European Commission and it commits signatories to go further than the EU in the climate and energy field. Lund municipally signed the Covenant of Mayors on 10 November 2009. This means, among other things, that the City of Lund has drawn up an action plan to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 50 per cent (more than 20 per cent) between 1990 and 2020. The City of Lund has endorsed the New Integrated Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and the implementation of the new 2030 EU targets, a joint approach to tackling mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and the extension of the initiative to a global scope.

• Start year:
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

Around the highest point in the City of Lund a new neighborhood is growing. North east of the University Building in central Lund you find some of the world's foremost institutions of research and education, side by side with leading companies in IT, pharmacology and food.
The development of Brunnshög is a project with high sustainability aims. The City of Lund has set clear targets for reducing GHG-emissions over the next decades and Brunnshög aims to contribute to that goal. A sustainability profile for the area is also one of the goals for the development, and the ambition with Brunnshög is to showcase technical and planning solutions for sustainability.

• Start year:
• Type: Public Participation/Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

Klimatkommunerna started as a network in 2003 and was transformed into an association in 2008. Lund was one of the founding municipalities and acts as the head office. Today (February 2015) the association has 35 municipalities and county council members with altogether roughly 3 million inhabitants.
The overall aim of Klimatkommunerna is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Sweden. The association supports municipalities that want to work with the climate change issue and be a proactive participant in the national climate work, by highlighting the opportunities, barriers and driving forces that are important for achieving good results. The association also cooperates on an international level with other similar networks and other Covenant of Mayors Supporting Structures.
Municipalities who are interested in joining Klimatkommunerna are invited to take a membership test which is designed to indicate the overall strength of their work in the field, and how diverse the work is (energy, transport, procurement, communication etc). Municipalities who score higher than a certain score on the test are invited by the board to become members.

• Start year:
• Type: Stakeholder engagement
• Status: In operation

Lund municipality strives to be a leader in environmental and climate issues. As part of this work, Lund municipality issues green bonds to finance projects aimed at promoting the transition to a low carbon and sustainable development. What projects can be included are governed by the framework.
The framework
Green projects can be carried out in the following areas:
• Renewable energy
• Sustainable transport
• Replacement of fossil raw materials
• Energy efficient premises and housing
• Waste
• Water and wastewater treatment
• Climate adaptation
• Environmental measures
The selection of projects is done in consensus by the City Office's financial department and environmental strategy unit in consultation with the executive agencies and municipal-owned companies.

• Start year:
• Type: Education / Training
• Status: In operation

Young reporters investigate Sustainable Lund
The main purpose of the project Young reporters investigate Sustainable Lund is to raise knowledge about the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development in Lund and inspire young people to participate in achieving the 17 Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda. The basic idea of the project is a competition, where students between 12 and 18 years get the opportunity to write articles about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in their local context. The winning article will be published in a local newspaper, which is delivered to all households in the city of Lund. However, there will be twenty selected articles in total. The writers of these articles will have the opportunity to present their article to politicians in Lund and they will be rewarded with a trip to Copenhagen including a guided tour in UN City. The municipality will also print a magazine with the articles and distribute them in Sweden.
The competition will be launched at a conference in the city hall in the end of September, Inspiration Agenda 2030. Almost 600 students will participate. The conference consists of lectures, workshops and an interactive part called Global Goals Café. In this last part people from organizations, companies and the different departments of the municipality will participate. The idea is to have representatives talking about each and every one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Students will be able to meet them over a coffee and discuss different ideas for their articles. The students choose their topic, and are allowed to focus on one single goal, or to investigate interactions between several goals. One possible example could be the municipal work for a sustainable transport system. Does it aim at goal 13, climate action, goal 3, good health and well-being, and goal 5, gender equality, or has some important aspect been missed? Is the municipality work hard enough to support biking? After the conference the students will have a month to write the article, deadline is the 1st of November.

• Start year:
• Type: Fiscal / Financial mechanism
• Status: In operation

The goal of Lund municipality’s environmental grant is to promote new pilot-projects and out-of-the-box thinking activities that promote sustainable development. Funding from the grant is given for projects that contributes to an ecologically sustainable development and promotes a good environment within Lund municipality. Lund’s environmental grant is currently 2.5 million SEK per year.

• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

LundaEko II is Lund municipality’s programme for ecologically sustainable development 2014-2020 and encompasses the whole of Lund municipality as a geographical area. LundaEko II indicates the priorities regarding the environment, both for the geographical area of Lund municipality and for the municipal organization. LundaEko II focuses on the ecological dimension of the concept of sustainable development, but also takes social and economic aspects into consideration.

• Start year:
• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: In operation

LundaEko II, Lund’s programme for ecologically sustainable development 2014-2020, is the municipal’s environmental programme and the overarching regulatory document for elected officials and civil servants in the work on sustainable development. The results are then compiled in an Environmental Report for the City of Lund. The Environmental Report is approved by the City Council in conjunction with the Annual Report.
The Environmental Report is aimed at both the municipal organization (elected officials and civil servants) and the general public. For the municipal organization the report gives an overview of the status of the politically adopted environmental goals, and points out areas of success and areas which require further action.
To keep track and measure the status of the environmental goals, a large number of indicators are reported each year. The most important indicators related to the goals are presented in the Environmental Report as graphs or charts
The Environmental Report also presents a selection of highlights from the plethora of environmental action carried out by the municipality during the year. Below is an excerpt from highlights in the 2016 Environmental Report:
• In 2016 Lund hosted the International School Grounds Alliance’s (ISGA's) fifth global conference Green Grounds for Health and Learning. The 220 participants from 16 different countries around the world took part.
• In the SHIFT 2016 survey, Lund was elected as the best municipality in Sweden on sustainable transport. Actions in mobility management, cycling infrastructure and public transport are some of the success factors.
• In 2016 LKF (the municipal real estate company) installed one of Sweden's largest solar energy facilities on 21 roofs of municipal residential buildings.

• Start year:
• Type: Organizational / Governance
• Status: In operation

In Lund we have introduced environmental management systems in our administrations and municipally owned companies, in which we work towards requirements (resembling those of ISO 14001) approved by the local authority. An environmental management group in each administration office assesses in which ways the office’s activities affect the environment, and draw up a policy and objectives for the environmental work.
Measures that will lead towards reaching the objectives are planned and carried out. The most cost-efficient improvements can be identified and carried out first. The motto”continual improvement” is realized in that new objectives are set when the old ones have been reached.
A certified environmental auditor regularly inspects the environmental management system of each administration. When approved by the auditor, the administrations receive certificates from the local authority. The first administrations were approved and awarded in 2003. Today all administrations and municipally owned companies have been approved by an auditor. Audits are regularly recurring to ensure that the environmental work lives on.

• Start year:
• Type: Assessment/Research
• Status: In operation

In a decision by Lund municipal’s Environment and Health Committee, all committees and boards of the municipality were requested to develop climate adaptation plans for the areas affecting each political committee. In 2012 the work to develop adaptation plans for each political board and committee was completed.
Climate change adaptation is one of the eight prioritized areas in Lund Municipality’s Programme for Ecologically Sustainable Development, 2014-2020 (LundaEko II). The climate change adaptation goal is formulated as follows: “Everyone living and working in the municipality of Lund shall contribute to a society that is fully adapted to current and anticipated climate changes and to a society where negative consequences for people, society and the environment can be avoided”. One of the sub-goals is that by 2016 Lund municipality will develop a climate adaptation plan which covers the municipality's overall climate adaptation issues. The work with developing a climate adaptation plan is currently in progress.