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• Type: Strategy / Policy
• Status: In operation

In 2014, the sustainable urban mobility of Örebro municipality was accepted in the municipality council. The SUMP has three main objectives: -change in modal split to 60 % of trips by sustainable transport modes by 2020. -The total amount of fossil fuel-driven car traffic should be reduced in absolute terms by the year 2020.-Within the built-up area of Örebro, it should take at most twice as long to take the bus compared to taking the car, and at most 1.5 times as long to cycle, compared with taking the car. It also contains several principles concerning planning towards more sustainable transports.

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• Type: Strategy / Policy
• Status: In operation

The overall objective of the strategy is that "Buildings carried out by Örebro Municipality Group should have lower environmental impact than required by current legislation, have long-term perspectives on security issues and economic calculations, as well as contribute to positive experiences and living conditions in the immediate area". Environmentally-friendly construction can be linked to and have a positive impact on many of the sixteen national environmental quality objectives, especially climate, well-built environment, water and biological diversity. Objectives in the strategy includes criteria about the certification system "Environmental building", wood house construction, construction waste and outdoor environments.

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

In order to reach the local climate targets and create local jobs, the city of Örebro has started, together with neighbouring municipality Kumla, a company for production of renewable energy. The company, Kumbro AB, was formed 2013 and has started to invest in wind power, solar cells and biogas.
The target for investment in wind and solar power is to get the own organisation self-sufficient with renewable electricity. With current investment plans this will be reached by 2018. Although the price for electricity is low for the moment, the investments are estimated to be profitable in the long run. The company should also help companies as well as households to invest in renewable electricty, either as shareholders or by being a member in a production cooperative.
The target for investment in a production plant for biogas is to provide renewable fuel for road vehicles in the region, and to take care of the energy from biodegradable waste and sludge.

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• Type: Awareness-raising / Promotion
• Status: Completed

A cycle day in the city center was organised the 9th of May 2017. It consisted of information about cycling in the municipality, a bicycle show, competitions, trying out eletric bikes etc. The cycle day was organised together with the city centre organisation. There was information about the bicycle network and handout of cycle maps.

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• Type: Technical / Infrastructural
• Status: In operation

Decision by the concil in 2013 to start the project "coordinated goods transport". The purpose of the project was to 1. Reduce the environmental and climate impact of transport in the municipality 2. Increased road safety around schools and preschools, as well as reducing the number of traffic movements in the urban area (possibility of scheduling deliveries, reduced total mileage with heavy vehicles etc.) 3. Strengthen the ability of smaller companies to get agreements with the municipality. In addition to these aims, one purpose also was to create jobs for long-term unemployed according to the municipality´s guidelines for sustainable procurement. Total budget for the project was 1 400 000 SEK but only 1 023 000 SEK was used (a surplus of 377 000 SEK). Since the operation start in December 2015, the number of product areas has gradually increased and today eleven suppliers are covered. From June 2016 all transportation is carried out on renewable fuels, HVO100 and biogas. We have selected to outsource distribution and terminal to an external party and dialogue was held with potential suppliers before procurement. The work with the "coordinated goods transport" will continue to develop, among other things more suppliers will be covered and the route optimization will be reviewed.

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• Type: Technical / Infrastructural
• Status: Under construction / set up

Örebrobostäder AB (ÖBO) and InnoEnergy have entered a partnership aiming at developing and implementing solutions for sustainable local energy systems in buildings. The partnership is carried out within the InnoEnergy project “Power2U” with Örebro as the main development arena. This partnership will accelerate the transformation of buildings to automated, open and smart energy buildings all over Europe and marks the start of a paradigm shift of the energy sector and built environment.

During more than ten years ÖBO has systematically worked with developing a concept for long lasting energy efficiency in their building stock of 23 000 apartments and 1 000 commercial facilities. The unique ÖBO concept has created significant economic and environmental benefits within the company’s operations reaching 40% electricity savings and more than 12% heating savings over this period of time.

The technical platform, developed by ÖBO and based on open standard technology, has been key in achieving these results. Power2U will now take this to the next stage by bringing it as a fully modular and scalable technology platform to the market. The company will further develop ÖBO’s technology and processes, and design a solution that can be replicated in other buildings to achieve energy efficiency and sustainability at a larger scale. Commercial pilot projects with other building owners is ongoing.

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• Status: In operation

In spring 2017, all permanent employees in Örebro Municipality were offered "preferential bicycles". The employees will be able to rent a quality bicycle through gross salary. After three years the employees keep the bike or leave it bake. The employees can sign up for the offer during two order periods each year, one in spring and one in autumn. It was a great interest at the premiere offer (in spring) and over 1300 bikes were booked. The hope is that the offer of a bicycle will lead to more people choosing the bike as a transportation, which has both a positive impact on health and also being in line with the municipality's environmental goals. It also promotes the municipality's ambition to be an attractive and environmentally friendly employer.

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• Status: In operation

Sustainable and responsible investments
The Municipality of Örebro was the first Swedish municipality, and the 30th globally, to divest fossil fuels in 2014. Since then, our policy for asset management has broaden to include the SDGs and to further on invest sustainable. We have driven the market to offer fossil-free funds, which was non-existing previously. The municipality of Örebro was awarded for the sustainable finances by CFA Sweden in 2017. Once we started in 2014 we had 2,2 % (80 000 000 SEK) of our assets in fossil energy. Two years later the market had developed fossil-free funds and we were fossil-free in our asset management (0 SEK in fossil energy).

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• Status: In operation

Within the municipality we have a climate fee which is added to the CO2 emissions from operations with car trips and flights. The charges are collected on a climate account, from which all administrations can seek money for climate-enhancing measures. Employees at the City Administrative Board can also suggest actions where the money can be used for climate improvements.The purpose of the climate fee/climate account is to make climate impacts visible and stimulate the organisation to implement actions that contribute to achieving the goals in the municipality climate strategy. Many of the actions implemented have been within the framework of the municipal work with "Smarter food" (which describes in an other action).

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• Type: Technical / Infrastructural
• Status: In operation

In order to reach the local climate targets and create local jobs, the city of Örebro has started, together with neighbouring municipality Kumla, a company for production of renewable energy. The company, Kumbro AB, was formed 2013 and are investing in wind power, solar cells (no installations exist today at Kumbro) and biogas. Although the price for electricity is low for the moment, the investments are estimated to be profitable in the long run. From 2016/2017 Örebro municipality and one of the municipality owned companies are self-sufficient with renewable electricity from Kumbro. The company should also help companies and organisations to invest in renewable electricty, either as shareholders or by being a member in a production cooperative. The target for investment in a production plant for biogas is to provide renewable fuel for road vehicles in the region, and to take care of the energy from biodegradable waste and sludge.

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• Type: Strategy / Policy
• Status: In operation

Procurement is an important tool for achieving sustainability goals. Since 2012 (revised in 2014) the Municipality of Örebro has guidelines for sustainable procurement wich means that the perspective of economic, environmental and social considerations (eg increased employment, reduced exclusion, etc.) shall be considered. In the climate strategy there is a separate section describing how procurement can be used as a toul to reduce climate impact for transport, food etc. The Municipality of Örebro procures goods and services to the own organisation as well as for municipalities of Örebro County.

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• Type: Technical / Infrastructural
• Status: Completed

During summer 2015 the city street Engelbrektsgatan between Kungsgatan and Köpmangatan was temporarily changed from street with car traffic to a surface allowed for only pedestrians and cyclists. There was a cooperation with the art biennal Open art which placed three art works on the street. There was also increased space for restaurant outdoor spaces. The project was done to promote better spaces in the city and cling and pedestrians.

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• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: Completed

The Climate-friendly living campaign (in Swedish: Klimatsmart vardag) started by the municipality in 2014 in order to develop a platform for communication with individual citizens. The intention is to run and develop the campaign continuously, with a new challenge or offer every month.
Among the offers so far can be mentioned try pedelecs, try cycling during winter, cycling school for adults, try car sharing, try vegetarian food, try to grow your own vegetables, try save electricity at home.
The whole campaign runs with a low budget and is mainly web-based. Social media such as Facebook and Instagram is used frequently to engage interested individuals.
The rationale for the try pedelecs campaign was the fact that a lot of commuters use private car for distances slightly longer than normal cycling distance (up to 5 km). In Sweden pedelecs are still rather unknown and have a great potential to replace the car. The participants were offered free use of an electric bike for a week and so far about 250 people have used the opportunity, which was offered in cooperation with a local bicycle shop. About 20 per cent of the participants have bought a pedelecs after the trial period. Even more interesting is the fact that 40 per cent of the participants, a year later, used their ordinary bike instead of car for many trips.

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• Type: Awareness-raising / Promotion
• Status: Completed

During winter time the number of cyclists usually decreases compared to summer times. In order to maintain the number of cyclists, there is a winter cyclist campaign to raise the awareness of the possibility to bike during winter.. The campaign consists of a number of people get a spiked tyre and the service to put it on for free, in exchange they agree to cycle at least 3 days a week during the campaign period.

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• Type: Regulation
• Status: In operation

The "Smarter food" concept is a working method used in the organization to concretize and implement the municipality's overall food objectives in practice, as well as promote healthy eating habits. With the concept we mean that the food should not only be good and have a high quality, it should also bother the environment and the climate as little as possible. In addition, we want those who produce our food to have the best working conditions. Simply smarter food! The work is based on a number of objectives (which from 2016 are a part of the municipality's climate strategy) and concerns an increase in the proportion of ethical products, organic and local produced food, a decrease in food waste and food climate impact. We will also cook more food from scratch, have more vegetables and less meat and buy vegetables and fruit after season. Measures to achieve our objectives includes education in vegetarian cooking, measurement of food waste, coatch and observation visits for reducing food waste, workshops, lectures, discussions, etc. Our work has given results. In many ways, we have gained national attention and been recogniced as a good example in public gastronomy. We have recived several awards and been asked to talk about our successful work at conferences and fairs. This year (2017) we were praised in two categories (Climate kitchen and Meals manager) during the White Guide Junior and White Guide Senior Gala in Göteborg. Many initiatives in "Smarter food" have been funded with money from the municipality's internal climate account (which describes in an other action). The work with "Smarter food" has been coordinated from the City administrative office, this coordination cost is estimated in budget/cost below.

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• Status: In operation

Green bonds worth a total of 1,250 million SEK have been issued to fund climate-smart, environmentally sustainable investments by the Municipality of Örebro, since the first issue in 2014. According the climate strategy the external loan debt must be packaged in green bonds where possible. Ten per cent of the municipality’s total debt is now in the form of green bonds, and more is to come. The green investment projects will be implemented to achieve the goals set out in the municipal environmental programme and associated policy and regulatory documents relating to climate, construction, traffic, nature, non-toxic environment, waste and water. Investments that can be funded via a green bond are presented in our framework, which is based on the Green Bond Principles. The framework has been audited by CICERO, the Norwegian Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research. Our projects aim to:
• limit the climate impact of the municipality by promoting renewable energy sources and energy efficiency enhancement measures
• climate change adaptation measures
• focus, albeit to a lesser extent (maximum 20%), on projects related to a sustainable environment instead of direct, climate-related measures.

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• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: Completed

The Climate Strategy was decided by the City Council in 2010. It provides an overall picture of the climate issue in Örebro and what the municipality is planning to do in order to achieve its targets. The strategy is a guiding document, forming the basis for the municipality’s operational planning, its budget and its investment programme.
The Municipality of Örebro’s long-term objective is that climate impact per person in Örebro should be at a level where, if it were to be applied globally, it would not endanger the climate of the Earth. Climate impact per capita must be reduced by at least 90 per cent by 2050.
The Climate Strategy includes interim targets for 2014 and 2020 for the Municipality of Örebro’s geographical area. By these dates, climate impact will have been reduced by 24 and 40 per cent per capita respectively, calculated from 2000 levels.
As a forerunner on the road towards a future that is both climate-smart and sustainable, we place even higher demands on the municipality’s own operations. The objective is that climate impact from the entire Municipality of Örebro organisation (the administration itself and its companies) will be reduced by 50 per cent per capita between 2000 and 2020.
As the strategy is a framework for further action, it has no dedicated budget except employment of a climate strategist.

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• Type: Awareness-raising / Promotion
• Status: Completed

During May 2015, 2016 and 2017, Örebro participated in European Cycling challenge organised by the city of Bologna. During the competition time, there is extra promotion of cycling and some activities organised during the month. There is also a local competition between local teams about which team bikes the most.

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• Type: Strategy / Policy
• Status: In operation

A sustainable transport system requires fundamental changes in the structure of society and in people's habits. The policy and guidlines aims at; limit the environmental and climate impact, effectively use the municipality's time and resources, improve employee health, increase traffic safety, reduce noise, affect how the space in the city is used to provide fairer accessibility for all road users. Meetings should be planned to take into account the possibility of avoiding travel. Walking and cycling should be the first choice for short trips for meetings. In cases when trips by walking or cycling is not possible, the use of public transport should be encouraged. In the case of longer trips, the choice in mode of transport should take into account fossil carbon dioxide emissions. This means that trains are the first choice. Second choice are traveling by bus or intercourse in an environmental car. Thirdly, travelers are traveling alone in an environmental car. Flight at a shorter distance of 60 miles (one way) should be avoided.

• Start year:
• Type: Strategy / Policy
• Status: In operation

In 2014, the sustainable urban mobility of Örebro municipality was accepted in the municipality council. The SUMP has three main objectives: -change in modal split to 60 % of trips by sustainable transport modes by 2020. -The total amount of fossil fuel-driven car traffic should be reduced in absolute terms by the year 2020.-Within the built-up area of Örebro, it should take at most twice as long to take the bus compared to taking the car, and at most 1.5 times as long to cycle, compared with taking the car. It also contains several principles concerning planning towards more sustainable transports.