Abstract

This paper will put focus on two parts of Stockholm’s green investment programme: The first part contains a general presentation of 13 projects and strategies used in the City of Stockholm’s Green Investment Programme with emphasis on three city districts. The city of Stockholm has within the frame of national green investment allowances received 635 million Swedish crowns (79 MECU). The programme is organised in four sections:

Increase green planning and infrastructure, more effective resource use, reduced spreading of environmentally harmful substances and stimulating changes in people’s behaviour.

The green investment projects combine technology and co-operative procurement, environmental impact analysis, competitions, environmentally directed project counselling, and financial incentives for green investments with public education and advising. Procedures, goals and assessment of investments will be described in the first part of the paper.

The second part presents a quantitative tool, an Environmental Profile, used for the assessment of environmental performance primarily in three city districts. The tool is computer based and involves the possibility to compare the flows of energy and materials through the three city districts as well as various sub-parts thereof. Sub-parts considered are at present: the individual, the household, the building, the real estate boundary and the city district area. For each of these, it should be possible to assess material and energy flows for construction, operation and disassembling. In a first phase, material and energy flows are surveyed for the present situation in the existing housing areas Östberga and Skärholmen, while a reference case 1990 has been established for the new district Hammarby Sjöstad. In the next phase, various new solutions will be simulated and compared to the reference case. In the paper, the work with the Environmental Profile is presented and discussed, with special emphasis on the connections between material flows and energy efficiency.

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Panels of

Panel 1: Policy (incentives, normative measures, policy mixes to achive CO_2 reduction)

Panel 2: Technologies and Products (innovation, marketing, market transformation)

Panel 4: Environmental Perspective (externalities and life cycle approaches, local and global impacts and incentatives)

Panel 3: Dynamics of Consumption (social and cultural perspectives, actors and their interactions)

Panel 5: Land use,Transportation and infrastructure (urban and regional planning, approaches to change in well entrenched systems)