Tools that can benchmark cities, including cities in South East Europe, are necessary to enable the comparison and diffusion of more sustainable practices for urban systems. The “Sustainable ...Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems Index” provides a composite indicator for benchmarking city performance based on 7
dimensions and 35 main indicators. In this research work, the Index is applied to a new sample of 18 cities in South East Europe for which data is collected, normalized, and aggregated. Klagenfurt (3.08), Velenje (3.06) and Pécs (3.01) are found to be the top three cities in the sample while an average city receives an index score of 2.85. The results are further compared to reference averages and evaluated based on the mean simulated values of 10,000 Monte Carlo experiments. The results are interpreted in quartiles for pioneering, transitioning, solution-seeking, and challenged cities. The results are then applied within a benchmarking tool of the Index that supports policy
learning to trigger collaboration between cities and further used to match cities according to a search algorithm based on index performance. In addition, the results are compared to urban hierarchy as well as development contexts and mapped onto the spatial dimension as an initial step for enabling a “Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems Future City Network”. The paper concludes with a set of four proposed steps to enable decision-makers and urban planners in using the Sustainable
Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems Index in support of more sustainable urban systems.
Benchmarking the performance of cities across aspects that relate to the sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems requires an integrated approach. This paper benchmarks a ...sample of 12 Southeast European cities based on a composite indicator that consists of 7 dimensions and 35 main indicators. The composite indicator is namely the Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) City Sustainability Index. The first three dimensions are energy consumption and climate, penetration of energy and carbon dioxide saving measures, and renewable energy potential and utilization. The last four dimensions are water and environmental quality, carbon dioxide emissions and industrial profile, city planning and social welfare, and research, development, innovation, and sustainability policy. The data collection process for the 12 cities integrates data from Sustainable Energy Action Plans and other sources. Data entries are normalized based on the Min–Max method and aggregated for a final ranking. Zagreb, Bucharest (District 1), and Ohrid are the top three cities. An average city receives a composite score of 2.69. Best practices are identified to allow cities to adopt well-rounded efforts to improve future performance. The SDEWES Index is useful to trigger learning, action, and collaboration among cities to transition to a more sustainable future.
•A composite indicator is applied to benchmark Southeast European cities.•The SDEWES Index consists of 7 dimensions and 35 main indicators.•The top 3 cities in the sample are Zagreb, Bucharest (District 1), and Ohrid.•Best practices are identified based on the top cities in each dimension.•The index can be used as a metric to improve future performance.
The interaction between macroeconomics and sustainable development is important to all countries. This relationship is of particular concern to developing countries where the economic and natural ...resource bases are often more closely intertwined than in industrialised nations. A research programme for investigating these issues in South Africa was initiated by the Macroeconomics Programme Office of the World Wide Fund for Nature (Washington, DC, USA), funded with a grant from GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit). It was carried out by a number of local research teams under the guidance of a broad steering committee and under the management of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. For the purposes of a manageable research project, two areas were selected where the South African economy and environment strongly interact - water and energy - together with a number of important economic sectors that use water and energy as key inputs in their production processes. The research examined macroeconomic and environmental interactions in these complexes of sectors, with particular emphasis on the effects of changing pricing and regulatory regimes for water and energy. This article presents and discusses first the analytical framework, followed by the results in each sector, and closes with some general policy conclusions with regard to the macroeconomy and the environment.
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Sustainable development has become the development paradigm of our new era. The present paper aims to offer some considerations regarding transnational partnerships for sustainable development, ...focusing on the European Union countries from the South-Eastern area. The research methodology is based on the literature review of the topic, as well as a quantitative and qualitative analysis. Working in transnational partnerships has been seen as a way of adrressing complex issues, such as sustainable development. These kind of partnerships are voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiatives specifically linked to the implementation of globally agreed commitments, facilitating and strengthening the process towards sustainable development. The investigated EU countries from the South-East Europe demonstrate strong commitment for being part in transnational partnerships for sustainable development from different perspectives: the significant number of transnational partnerships and the great number of partners in each partnership coming from widespread areas, the wide variety of the approached topics directly connected to sustainable development and the types of organizations involved as partners. The merit of this paper, in spite of some limitations, is to contribute with an original research regarding transnational partnership for sustainable development, setting a focus point on the way to further research.
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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced an agreement with Oesterreichische Entwicklungsbank (OeEB), the Development Bank of Austria to increase sustainable energy investment in ...Sub-Saharan Africa, starting with Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. OeEB agreed to contribute 2 million to support project development, capacity building and assistance to financial institutions under the Africa Sustainable Energy Facility. David Crush, IFC Manager for Access to Finance Advisory Services in Sub-Saharan Africa, said, Climate change is one of our key strategic priorities. By strengthening sustainable energy providers and developing projects, we aim to increase sustainable energy investments and demonstrate their viability to local financial institutions. This program is also an excellent example of cooperation between development finance institutions leveraging the expertise and resources of IFC, OeEB and EIB.
This research focuses on observing the effects of renewable and fossil fuel energy usage on the environment and economic growth in Southeast Asian countries. The study utilized the annual data of ...southeast Asian countries from 1990 to 2020 This study used gross fixed capital formation, foreign direct investment, renewable energy, population, non-renewable energy, and Labor force on fundaments of economic growth concerning sustainability. Fixed Effect, Radom Effect, and a two-step GMM methodology were used to estimate the link among the variables. The consequences of the study demonstrate that renewable energy intake has a destructive and statistically significant influence the dependent variable: CO2 emission whereas fossil energy has a noteworthy and positive influence on CO2 emissions. Foreign direct investment and population have a significantly positive influence on CO2 emission. While non-renewable and Renewable-energy intake has a momentous optimistic bearing on the economic progress of nominated ASEAN states along through labor force and capital formation. The universal energy needs depend on finite nonrenewable energy sources in the form of natural gas, oil, and coal which are exhaustible and hazardous to the environment. So, the need for hours is that the governments should escalate the use of renewable energy in their energy mix to increase the economy’s growth and environmental sustainability.
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