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1 Event webpage: REGISTER HERE #EEFcities Tuesday 3 rd April afternoon morning WG Meeting Waste Urban Agenda Energy Transition Partnership/ Air Quality EUROCITIES Climate session Welcome coffee and registrations Wednesday 4 th April all day (including lunch) WG Meetings: WG AQCCEE (air quality, climate change, energy efficiency) WF Water WG Waste WG GAB (green areas and biodiversity) WG Food late afternoon evening Steering committee (WG chairs only) Reception at the official residence of the Mayor Informal dinner (at own costs) morning Session 1 Session 2 Setting the scene Circular economy and cities Next steps to close the circle: The EU and Cities Thursday 5 th April midday Session 3 Site Visits (including lunch) afternoon Session 4 Session 5 Financing Circular Economy and the role of private sector How to make circular economy work locally evening Optional: travel to Westerliefde by prearranged bus Official dinner Westerliefde Friday 6 th April morning Session 6 Session 7 Session 8 Session 9 Urban Agenda Partnership on Circular Economy Network update City networking Wrap-up - Imagine the Urban Future CONTACTS: Chair Juliane Kürschner J.Kurschner@amsterdam.nl EUROCITIES Joana Cruz joana.cruz@eurocities.eu Pier Saraceno pier.saraceno@eurocities.eu Amsterdam Sara Gradstein s.gradstein@amsterdam.nl

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3 DAY 0: Tuesday 3 April (16:00 19:00) Venue: Stadstimmertuin, Amsterdam, Netherlands WG Waste Meeting Urban Agenda Energy Transition Partnership/ Air Quality Updates Room 1: Urban Agenda Energy Transition Partnership Updates - Marcin Wróblewski, City of Warsaw - Timo Wyffels, City of Roeselare Room 2: Urban Agenda Partnership Air Quality Updates - Jeroen Schenkels, City of Utrecht - Silvia Moroni, City of Milan EUROCITIES Climate session The session aims to discuss the future work of EUROCITIES on the climate issues, understanding the role cities can play in the roadmap to the next COP24 in Katowice. How cities can contribute to more ambitious national climate policy? :20 18:45 Keynote speech - Natalène Poisson - Policy and Advocacy Officer at United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Urban Agenda Partnership on Climate Adaptation Updates - Paolo Castiglieri City of Genova, Coordinator UAP DAY 1: Wednesday 4 April Venue: Casa 400, Eerste Ringdijkstraat 4, Amsterdam 8:30-9:00 Welcome by Esther Agricola, Director Sustainability and Spatial Planning Coffee and registrations, open all day WG AQCCEE (air quality, climate change, energy efficiency) WG Waste WG Water WG GAB (green areas and biodiversity) WG Food Buffet lunch Working group meetings continue Steering committee Venue: Official Mayors Residence, Herengracht 502, Amsterdam 3

4 Reception Venue: Official Mayors Residence, Herengracht 502, Amsterdam Informal dinner (at your own expense) Venue: Mediamatic, Dijkspark 6a, 1019 BS Amsterdam, Netherlands DAY 2: DAY 2: Thursday 5 April Venue: Tolhuistuin, IJpromenade 2, Amsterdam Welcome coffe and registrations Moderator Peter Woodward Session 1: Setting the scene Circular economy and cities The Session aims to set the discussion on the urban dimension of the circular economy and how and what is needed to implement such transition in cities. Participants will be also introduced to the work the city of Amsterdam is carry on in this field. Welcome by forum chair and host, Abdeluheb Choho, Amsterdam deputy mayor for sustainability - Setting the scene: Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme, Director INSID, Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (TBC) - Key note speaker: Towards circular cities: what does it need? Harald Friedl, CEO Circle economy - Q&A with audience 09:45 10:45 Session 2: Next steps to close the circle: The EU and Cities A panel discussion to showcase cities achievements and challenges in the field of circular economy, as well as to identify the next steps necessary at the EU level for ensuring the implementation of the transition in cities. Panellists: - Gilles Gantelet, Director in charge of Policy, Coordination and Resources, DG ENVI - MEP Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, ALDE Coordinator ENVI Committee - MEP Theresa Griffin, S&D MEP - North West of England - Filipe Araujo, City councillor - City of Porto Lot van Hooijdonk, Deputy Mayor for Environment, City of Utrecht Political Contributions: - Abdeluheb Choho, Deputy Mayor for Sustainability - City of Amsterdam - Züleyxa Izmailova, Deputy Mayor for Environment Tallinn - Christel Kohler, Deputy Mayor for Environment Strasbourg - Matteo Campora, Deputy Mayor for Environment Genova Coffee break 4

5 Session 3: Site Visits 1. Circular area development: Buiksloterham area in Amsterdam North. This was once the site of Amsterdam s most polluting industries. Now the area will develop into a sustainable district by the local project partners based on circular principles. This visit includes a tour and lunch at De Ceuvel. (by bicycle) 2. Circular business models: Almere paper factory where unwanted alien invasive species of aquatic plants are turned into paper and furniture. Lunch is included. (by coach) 3. Circular communities: Knowledge Mile Amsterdam in the inner city. Here the university and university of applied science foster local engagement and create sustainable communities. Lunch is included. (by public transport) 4. Circular buildings: ABNAMRO pavilion Circl at Zuidas business district - learn how to make high density area development circular and sustainable. This visit includes lunch at Circl. (by public transport) 5. Circular innovation: Prodock - explore the Amsterdam harbor area as a location for innovative, circular start-ups and scale-ups. Lunch is included. (by boat and by coach) Coffee break 14:45-15:45 Session 4: Financing Circular Economy and the role of private sector This session will discuss innovative ways of scale up private and public finance to support cities transition to a circular economy. It will also explore the role that private companies can play in promoting innovation and circular economy. Panellists: - Michel Bande, Senior Principal Advisor External Relations, CSR Europe - Jonas Byström, Lead Engineer, Urban Development Division, EIB - Hildegarde McCarville, CEO Veolia Nederland B.V. - Ulf Kamne, Deputy Mayor for Climate and Environment -City of Gothenburg - Liz Goodwin, Chair of the London Waste & Recycling Board City of London - Hein Brekelmans, Head Sustainable Finance Desk ABN Amro Bank Political contributions: - Peter Pluscke, Deputy Mayor for Environment City of Nuremberg - Aleksi Jäntti, Deputy Mayor for Environment City of Tampere - Jeanne Barseghian, Councillor of waste reuse and reduction City of Strasbourg Tea break + family picture (16.00) 5

6 16:15-17:30 16:15 16:30 16:30 17:30 Session 5: How to make circular economy work locally The session focus on practical examples of circular economy projects in cities and how to unlock benefits. The Amsterdam Case - Eveline Jonkhoff, Circular economy manager - The Amsterdam case Followed by 8 parallel roundtables (TBC) on: Circular Action Plan Circular Textile system Circular Reuse Centre Circular Heating Circular Economy City manager Circular Procurement Circular Food system Circular Construction Name TBC, City of Porto Name TBC, Amsterdam business case Franziska Howorka-Samii, City of Vienna Name TBC, City of Paris Zala Strojin, City of Ljubljana Jan Harko Post, City of The Hague Els Verwimp, Government of Flanders Simone Mangili, City of Turin Name (TBC), City of Amsterdam 19:30 22:00 Official dinner Venue: Westerliefde, Klonne plein 4-6, Amsterdam DAY 3: Friday 6 April Venue: Tolhuistuin, IJpromenade 2, Amsterdam 08:30 09:00 Welcome coffee and registrations Moderator: Peter Woodward 09:00-09:45 Session 6: Urban Agenda Partnership on Circular Economy Presentation of first steps of the Urban Agenda Partnership on Circular Economy and interaction with audience. - Hakon Jentoft, City of Oslo, city-coordinator urban partnership on circular economy, WG Waste chair - Jan Harko Post, City of The Hague, city partner urban partnership on circular economy 6

7 09:45 10:15 Session 7: Network update Session designed to update members on the latest network and policy developments. EUROCITIES Brussels Office 10:15 11:15 Session 8: City networking Roundtable speed networking sessions moderated by cities which are interested in presenting an environment topics/project. Each roundtable will last 30 minutes. - Circular Gothenburg acceleration of the circular economy: City of Gothenburg - Paris Composting Plan: City of Paris - Weenmodels project: City of Genova - (Title TBC), City of Almere - Re-naturing cities through Nature-Based Solutions, City of Valladolid - IRIS smart cities project, City of Utrecht More information in the Annex Coffee 11: Session 9: Wrap-up - Imagine the Urban Future The Session aim at identifying future urban challenges and decide on which it may be meaningful to work at EUROCITIES level in the coming decade, considering also the new UN framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. - Carol Lemmens, ARUP, Director Global Management Consulting Business Leader - Ana Lisa Boni, EUROCITIES Secretary General - Abdeluheb Choho, Deputy Mayor for Sustainability, Amsterdam - Reaction + Q&A from the audience 13:10 Closing remarks by Abdeluheb Choho, Deputy Mayor for Sustainability, Amsterdam 13:15 14:0 Sandwitch Lunch Optinal: visit the Amsterdam city museum 7

8 ANNEX Session 8: City Networking Session 1. Circular Gothenburg acceleration of the circular economy Nina Wolf process- and project leader City of Gothenburg What can the City of Gothenburg do to minimize construction and demolition waste and make room for circular initiatives through the city planning process? How can the City make it easier for citizens and visitors to share, reuse and repair and find sustainable consumption alternatives in Gothenburg? And how can the departments of the City itself act as circular role models? Ms Nina Wolf will share some success stories, experiences, plans and ways of working from the City of Gothenburg. She will give examples of how the City uses a needs- and result driven, holistic and open innovation approach to prevent waste and move towards a sustainable, circular and sharing city. In a co-creation process, together with stakeholders from businesses, universities, the civic society and municipalities, Gothenburg now moves from a linear to a circular city in practice. 2. Paris Composting Plan: City of Paris - Name (tbc) More information to come 3. Weenmodels project Alessandra Risso European Project Coordinator - City of Genova The Weenmodels project aims to define and implement a collection system compliant with the European Directive, implemented by Legislative Decree no. 49/2014, consisting of a set of complementary services to the collection that bring together all the main players involved in a single integrated supply chain; Create more synergies in the management of the waste cycle between private individuals and public bodies, as well as with the end user; identify and test new methods for measuring WEEE collection and assessment of their life cycle; 4. Almere More info to come 5. Re-naturing cities through Nature-Based Solutions - Mrs Rosa Huertas (Director) and Mrs Alicia 8

9 Villazán (Project manager) City of Valladolid While the conservation and sustainable development community considers Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to be a strong method of addressing climate change and its associated challenges in urban environments, there is still a tendency to implement mainly traditional engineering and architectural solutions. In order to address in depth, the aforementioned needs and demonstrate the potential of the NBS to contribute to the main cities challenges, URBAN GreenUP aims at obtaining a tailored methodology to support the co-development of Renaturing Urban Plans focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation and efficient water management, and to assist in the implementation of NBS in an effective way. Examples of the planned initiatives in Valladolid are the deployment of green bike and pedestrian routes, the installation of green infrastructure, parks and urban farming facilities, the usage of smart soils and bio pollutant filters, as well as the construction of a floodable park and the implementation of sustainable drainage systems, which reduce the impact of floods and for irrigation purposes. 6. IRIS smart cities project, City of Utrecht More info to come 9