GREEN HEAT – towards collaborative local decarbonization
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Date:
1 Feb 2021 - 31 Jan 2024
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Project duration:
01.02.2021 - 31.01.2024
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Karolina Zubel
Environment, Energy and Climate Change Director
Karolina Zubel holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and BA from the University of Warsaw and Sciences Po Paris. Currently, she is a PhD student at the Warsaw School of Economics, focusing her research endeavours on smart cities developments. Her work has been at the intersection of sustainability, low-carbon … <a href="https://case-research.eu/project/green-heat-towards-collaborative-local-decarbonization/">Continued</a>
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Local and regional success stories of investing in disaster resilience
The aim of the study is to collect, map and share good practices, examples and success stories of investing in disaster resilience (including but not limited to in response to past disasters and the lessons learned from them) at local and regional level. The study focuses on collecting evidence on initiatives, good practice examples and measures taken by the NAT commission members to improve disaster resilience. The study will be built on interviews with NAT commission members based on a questionnaire. The study will also draw conclusions on the benefits of investing in disaster resilience and make some recommendations to local and regional authorities for moving forward based on the success stories collected from the members demonstrating that smart investment at local and regional level can make a difference in disaster risk reduction. The focus will be mainly, but not exclusively, on extreme weather events and climate-related disasters, given their growing frequency, intensity and impact. The study will contribute to knowledge sharing and exchange of good practices, by collecting and sharing success stories from and by members who have invested in reducing vulnerabilities and strengthening disaster resilience at local and regional level. As a repository of local and regional good practice examples, initiatives and measures relating to disaster preparedness and resilience, the aim of the study is also to feed into a bigger and longer-term project to map success stories of investing in disaster resilience on the ground.
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Marek Peda
Marek Peda is responsible for managing research projects funded by European, national, multilateral, and private donors. Mr. Peda has over 10 years of professional experience as a project manager and in conducting research. He gained international exposure while working on projects for international organizations and academic institutions in Spain and the United States. Mr. Peda … <a href="https://case-research.eu/project/green-heat-towards-collaborative-local-decarbonization/">Continued</a>
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How the EU should prepare for the enlargement in terms of governance, policies and investments: options and choices made from a territorial perspective
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The means for cities and regions to support the energy transition in the Mediterranean
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Natural disasters: anticipatory governance and disaster risk management from a local and regional perspective
The COVID-19 pandemic, the war right on our doorstep, the devastating floods in Slovenia, wildfires in Greece and Cyprus, relentless heatwaves in Italy and Spain, to name just a few: all of them highlight the need to better prepare for, cope with and recover from disasters and crises. It is one of the most important challenges for … Continued
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How the EU should prepare for the enlargement in terms of governance, policies and investments: options and choices made from a territorial perspective
Despite the fact that many Polish cities have a very well-developed district heating system, a huge number of houses still use individual boilers for heating and domestic hot water preparation. The vast majority is based on fossil fuels, mainly coal, causing air pollution and emitting huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
For the selected Pilot Case in Legionowo, Poland, a participatory procedure for the gradual elimination of individual fossil fuel boilers will be developed and carried out. This will lead to a recommendation on the target structure of the new local energy system based on renewables, indicating potential technology suppliers, listing financing sources and providing the business model of operation worked out together with local stakeholders. System should be socially and economically accepted and feasible in a reasonable time. This process will be used to develop a methodology to ultimately eliminate individual fossil fuel boilers from other locations/cities
Project employs a multidisciplinary approach to achieve the project objectives, literature review, data analysis, surveys, individual and group in-depth interviews, system dynamic models, energy system analysis and modelling, co-creation and participatory process to support decision making processes.
The work is divided into thematic work packages looking at the problem from different perspectives; these are social, technical and economical. There is also one work package combining all of the aspects and developing tools – system dynamics (SD) models to support the transdisciplinary analysis.
Representatives of various stakeholders will be invited to cooperate: residents, technology suppliers, city council representatives, local businesses, potential investors, government agencies and NGOs.
Leader: Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych im. Roberta Szewalskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Partners: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego, Norsk institutt for luftforskning (Norway), Universitetet i Bergen (Norway), Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej, CASE – Centrum Analiz Społeczno-Ekonomicznych, Fundacja KEZO affiliated to Centrum Badawcze Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Grant: IDEALAB – Programme ‘Applied Research’ – NCBiR
See the project website: https://greenheat.kezo.pl/