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| 701 | Cities 2021 | 46470 | Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz | Spain | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 3 | Waste | Project delivery - Public Private Partnership | “Proyecto demostrativo de prevención y upcycling de los residuos de envases PET del sector turístico de Vitoria-Gasteiz”,Se trata de un proyecto de economía circular, puesto en marcha por el Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz y 38 alojamientos turísticos de esta ciudad para reducir el consumo de envases de plástico PET, recoger y reciclar los que se utilicen y dar nueva vida (en forma de alfombra o manilleros) a los envases que ya han cumplido su ciclo de vida. Al citado objetivo se le unen los siguientes: reforzar la imagen de Vitoria como destino turístico sostenible, y del Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz como administración involucrada en la protección del medio ambiente que sirva como referente a sus grupos de interés, sensibilizar al sector alojativo local y a sus grupos de interés (turistas, proveedores y ciudadanía local) sobre los problemas ambientales derivados de los residuos plásticos, y, más concretamente, los envases ligeros, la necesidad de hacer prevención en origen y las posibilidades de reciclarlos y convertirlos de nuevo en productos útiles, siempre en ese orden, porque el mejor residuo es el que no se genera, y el valor del agua de red como recurso local, así como potenciar la corresponsabilidad de los grandes productores de residuos de envases para minimizar los residuos urbanos, y conseguir que cualquier persona que visite la ciudad, cuando se aloje en un establecimiento, perciba que está en un destino turístico sostenible. El proyecto está financiado por el programa Berringurumena 2017-2018 de Udalsarea 21, la Red Vasca de Municipios hacia la Sostenibilidad.http://www.udalsarea21.net/Noticias/Ficha.aspx?IdMenu=962e7b38-0afb-4923-ab28-976208ff08c3&Cod=bfcfed92-7cf2-4e3a-81b4-c68dbb1245b1&Idioma=es-EShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OxpySLApeE | |
| 702 | Cities 2021 | 46470 | Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz | Spain | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 4 | Industry | Economic development | “Red de Centros de Empresas”La red de Centros de Empresas del Ayuntamiento ofrece un entorno de estabilidad que facilita la instalación de empresas de nueva creación en la ciudad. Dotados de infraestructuras, pabellones y oficinas a precios competitivos, y de una amplia oferta de servicios comunes dirigidos a facilitar tanto el lanzamiento inicial de la empresa como su posterior desarrollo y consolidación, ofrecen el soporte necesario para relacionarte con otras empresas, establecer contactos profesionales y llegar a acuerdos de colaboración.Existen 3 centros de empresas, ubicados en el Casco Medieval (para trabajar de forma diferente con nuevos proyectos empresariales relacionados con la innovación, la tecnología y los sectores del audiovisual y de la industria de contenidos digitales), el de Jundiz (destinado a alojar empresas industriales de reciente creación, y el Centro de Empresas Agroecológicas Basaldea (agroincubadora para generar nuevas explotaciones de agricultura ecológica orientadas a personas emprendedoras que deseen desarrollar un proyecto de estas características, poniendo a su disposición terrenos, equipamientos e infraestructuras comunes). https://www.vitoria-gasteiz.org/wb021/was/contenidoAction.do?idioma=es&uid=u252bce45_148c9ee58b6__7ef7 | |
| 703 | Cities 2021 | 46470 | Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz | Spain | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 5 | Waste | Collaborative initiative | Proyecto BIrGURPIL, RE-inventando la ruedaEs un proyecto demostrativo de economía circular, que consiste en recoger y reciclar ruedas de bicicleta en desuso, para recuperar el material que contienen, y fabricar nuevos productos con él. El proyecto busca los siguientes objetivos: i) dejar de considerar los neumáticos fuera de uso de bicicleta un residuo y empezar a considerarlos un recurso, ii) reducir el consumo de materiales vírgenes y de energía para producir bienes de consumo a partir de la normalización del uso de materiales reciclados en las distintas cadenas productivas, iii) reducir el impacto ambiental que generan las ruedas de bicicleta al final de su vida útil, iv) generar nuevos nichos de negocio y de empleo en torno al reciclaje de las ruedas de bicicleta, v) hacer aún lás sostenible la movilidad ciclista en Vitoria-Gasteiz, y vi) familiarizar a la ciudadanía y a las empresas locales con la economía circular. Participan un total de 27 empresas (comercios y talleres de reparación) y entidades del sector de la bicicleta. Se inició a finales de 2019, y continuará hasta prácticamente el final de 2020.https://www.vitoria-gasteiz.org/wb021/was/contenidoAction.do?idioma=es&uid=u50cb0b1a_16d66a9b49a__7d5ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdvwQMciNMk | |
| 704 | Cities 2021 | 46473 | City of Zaragoza | Spain | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Question not applicable | Question not applicable | Question not applicable | |
| 705 | Cities 2021 | 46514 | City of Porto | Portugal | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Agriculture, forestry and other land use | Knowledge or data sharing | With the Portuguese Association of Green Roofs and associated companies to inventory and study green roofs in the city, potential for expansion and regulatory proposals. | |
| 706 | Cities 2021 | 46514 | City of Porto | Portugal | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 2 | Spatial Planning | Project implementation and management | In a project to promote Native Urban Forests in the city, expanding the urban green infrastructure. In this context, several partnerships were created with universities (Catholic University), companies, namely Infraestruturas de Portugal S.A. (which manages land along the road network, where native trees are installed) and others, which collaborate in genres and volunteer work in the production of native plants. Several companies are also invited to host native trees (free) for installation in their gardens, contributing to the city's global goal of installing 10,000 native trees by 2021 (7,000 have already been planted). | |
| 707 | Cities 2021 | 46514 | City of Porto | Portugal | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 3 | Water | Project delivery - Build Operate Transfer | A new green area, Parque Central da Asprela, with 6 hectares in the University Campus, will enhance the Ribeira da Asprela, harmonizing it with the green space and guaranteeing good drainage (reducing floods and increasing natural infiltration). The work will be completed in 2021. It results from a partnership with the University of Porto, owner of the land, and the Polytechnic Institute of Porto | |
| 708 | Cities 2021 | 46514 | City of Porto | Portugal | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 4 | Business and Financial Services | Entrepreneurship support programmes | With the company 3Drivers in organizing a Hackaton on Circular Economy (to respond to municipal challenges).ScaleUP Porto is developed in partnership with key stakeholders in the city, as the first step in a coordinated program, included in a municipal strategy for innovation and competitiveness. | |
| 709 | Cities 2021 | 46514 | City of Porto | Portugal | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 5 | Energy | Policy and regulation consultation | Development of projects in the scope of the network extension, promotion of friendly tariffs and decarbonization (replacement of diesel vehicles with natural gas) in partnership with Metro do Porto and the Municipal Public Transport Service (bus)With EDP Distribuição, technology solutions are being developed in areas such as decentralized production, the optimization of charging for electric mobility and public lighting, with the common objective of accelerating, effectively and efficiently, the energy transition. | |
| 710 | Cities 2021 | 46514 | City of Porto | Portugal | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 6 | Business and Financial Services | Knowledge or data sharing | With several companies in the distribution and food sector, a wide network of work was created in the area of the transition to a more circular economy in the city of Porto (since 2019), a project accompanied by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.With the two FabLabs in Porto, circularity projects for materials were developed, namely for products resulting from plastic recycling. | |
| 711 | Cities 2021 | 46514 | City of Porto | Portugal | Europe | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 7 | Waste | Knowledge or data sharing | Development of various projects in partnership with the Municipal Environment Company of Porto and Lipor - Intermunicipal Waste Management Service of Greater Porto, namely in the collection of recyclables and organic waste, as well as prevention (particularly in the area of food waste). | |
| 712 | Cities 2021 | 49172 | City of St. Petersburg, FL | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Energy | Technical assistance | Building Benchmarking Pilot | |
| 713 | Cities 2021 | 49172 | City of St. Petersburg, FL | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 2 | Energy | Funding (grants) | Fund solar co-ops for residents and small non-profits to take advantage of. City funding goes to staffing the co-ops, marketing, technical assistance. | |
| 714 | Cities 2021 | 49172 | City of St. Petersburg, FL | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 3 | Energy | Financing (investment) | Fund non-profit CDFI (SELF) to finance and manage projects with vetted contractors - funding seeded a local office with staffing. | |
| 715 | Cities 2021 | 49172 | City of St. Petersburg, FL | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 4 | Transport (Mobility) | Project implementation and management | Funding and partnerships related to bike share, Tampa Cross-Bay Ferry, SunRunner BRT, first/last mile to transit, scooters, complete streets program with community committees for complete streets and bike/ped groups. | |
| 716 | Cities 2021 | 49172 | City of St. Petersburg, FL | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 5 | Natural environment | Financing (investment) | Funding and project implementation partnerships with Tampa Bay Esturary Program, Tampa Bay Watch, USF College of Marine Science, Eckerd College, and more. | |
| 717 | Cities 2021 | 49172 | City of St. Petersburg, FL | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 6 | Agriculture, forestry and other land use | Financing (investment) | Funding and partnerships for urban agriculture, a youth farm, community gardens, and a 2020 formed food policy council. | |
| 718 | Cities 2021 | 49172 | City of St. Petersburg, FL | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 7 | ICT (Information and Communication Technology) | Project implementation and management | Innovation District and more to expand digital inclusion through hot spots and partnerships with broadband. | |
| 719 | Cities 2021 | 49327 | City of Providence, RI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Energy | Capacity development | Providence was one of 20 cities participating in the City Energy Project, a National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) initiative that aims to increase energy efficiency in large buildings. Through this collaboration the City of Providence launched RePowerPVD, a voluntary energy use reduction challenge. Property owners can enter any building larger than 10,000 square feet into the challenge by committing the building to a 20% energy use reduction by 2025, or enter the building into the race to become the first Zero Energy Building in Providence. This will help property owners by increasing the value of their buildings, and by providing them with resources and assistance to meet their energy reduction goals. City Energy Project is also working with the City of Providence to promote benchmarking among local businesses using Energy Star's Portfolio Manager. Portfolio Manager allows users to compare their building's energy use records with those of similar property types, and identify key areas for energy savings. The City's Energy Manager offers technical assistance to property owners new to Portfolio Manager. | |
| 720 | Cities 2021 | 49327 | City of Providence, RI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 2 | Industry | Convening industry groups | Stakeholders of the Providence Port meet quarterly to improve the resilience of the port. The Climate Justice Plan outlines a broader vision for this stakeholder group, to create a long-term vision and process to address the negative health impacts, eliminate climate and other pollution, ensure the port is resilient to the impacts of climate change, and increase the positive benefit of the port for neighboring communities, workers and businesses. | |
| 721 | Cities 2021 | 49327 | City of Providence, RI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 3 | Waste | Circular economy business model support | Zero Waste Providence (ZWP) launched "100 by 2022" to get 100 Providence restaurants composting by 2022. With partners, we continue to educate the general public and restaurant owners on issues of food waste in landfills and what it truly means for a business to compost. We are encouraging the general public to ask their restaurant "Do you compost?", and to write positive reviews of those that already do. Finally, we are celebrating the restaurants that are already committed to composting their food scraps by highlighting them through articles, our social media outlets, and talking about them at community events. This includes offering "WE COMPOST" stickers for storefronts and menus of restaurants that already compost. | |
| 722 | Cities 2021 | 49327 | City of Providence, RI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 4 | Waste | Convening industry groups | The City of Providence's Office of Sustainability convened compost haulers and stakeholders in early 2021 to discuss the Providence composting landscape and solicit feedback on the development of a residential composting plan. The group discussed common challenges and opportunities for expansion, as well as equity and access. Data on tonnage of food waste diverted and number of households composting was also collected from haulers for a citywide aggregate baseline. | |
| 723 | Cities 2021 | 49327 | City of Providence, RI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 5 | Public Health and Safety | Knowledge or data sharing | Pesticide Free PVD encourages residents, property owners, and businesses to commit to eliminating the use of harmful chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers in lawns and gardens, as well as other toxins in the home. The new website, sustainpvd.com/pesticidefree, offers resources to help people shift away from harmful chemicals, from information about health impacts and pesticide free lawn care to trainings and resources. | |
| 724 | Cities 2021 | 49327 | City of Providence, RI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 6 | Building and Infrastructure | Collaborative initiative | The Providence Stormwater Innovation Center aims to demonstrate strategies for improving urban water quality and associated wildlife habitat through the use of innovative green stormwater practices. A wide range of green infrastructure has already been implemented in Roger Williams Park, to reduce stormwater contaminants from entering the ponds and degrading water quality. These structures and practices provide hands-on training for municipalities, engineers, construction companies and scientists who will learn from the successes and failures of their design, implementation, and maintenance.Education projects have included an annual Rain Harvest Arts Festival, Stormwater Innovation Trade Expo, and regular learning/training opportunities for audiences ranging from industry professionals to elementary schools and the general public. In November of 2021, the Providence Office of Sustainability hosted the regional meeting of the New England Municipal Sustainability Network, sharing the work of the Providence Stormwater Innovation Center as well as Providence's chemical reduction work. | |
| 725 | Cities 2021 | 49327 | City of Providence, RI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 7 | Public Health and Safety | Technical assistance | As part of an effort to reduce exposure to neurotoxic chemicals, the City's Office of Sustainability and Purchasing Department will provide technical assistance to city departments on purchasing choices that minimize negative impacts on human health and the environment. Adoption of an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing policy will support local and regenerative, or circular, businesses and industries as part of municipal purchasing. | |
| 726 | Cities 2021 | 49330 | Kansas City, MO | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Building and Infrastructure | Policy and regulation consultation | In 2006, KCMO City Council directed the City Manager to begin the process of climate change planning in Kansas City. Staff assembled a very diverse planning group of over 80 public and private individuals, organizations, institutions, spanning the Missouri-Kansas state line for the purpose of developing KC’s first climate protection plan. This group worked together for the next 18 months developing a plan in two phases. The first phase introduced the general concept of a plan to address climate change that included 32 sets of recommendations; under phase 2, an additional 23 sets of recommendations were developed. The plan was adopted in July 2008 as the first Climate Protection Plan in Kansas City and the first such plan in this region of the Midwest.Each of the three local investor owned utilities and one municipally owned utility participated in the planning group as did the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, the USGBC and AIA. As part of the process of arriving at specific greenhouse gas reduction methodologies and resultant emissions reduction, the Chamber of Commerce undertook a separate analysis and to determine whether to support the general and specific recommendations to be presented to the Mayor and City Council for adoption. The committee determined the recommendations to be acceptable and potentially feasible and was one of the original signatories to the final plan.In this process, the first GHG emissions targets were established both for KCMO municipal operations and citywide. The targets projected both municipal and citywide GHG reduction targets at 30% reduction by 2020, relative to the baseline year of 2000. In addition, there were several interim targets adopted that differed for municipal operations as opposed to citywide. Updates completed for 2005, 2013, 2017 and 2019.More recently, the city established a Mayor's Energy Challenge for businesses, institutions, etc. The challenge is first, to benchmark their respective buildings, using ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager under our "Energy Empowerment Program", and then to show annual improvements. Reports, based on Portfolio Manager data, are due annually. The challenge is hosted by the city and Greater KC Chamber of Commerce.This collaboration has continued with their representation on the Mayoral appointed oversight group - Climate Protection Steering Committee. | |
| 727 | Cities 2021 | 49330 | Kansas City, MO | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 2 | Energy | Collaborative initiative | KCMO has partnered with Evergy, the local electric utility, Metropolitan Energy Center (MEC) and Bridging the Gap, two local non-profits, to increase awareness of the City's Energy Empowerment (Benchmarking) Program. Bridging the Gap and MEC reach out to building owners that have not met KCMO benchmarking requirements and those that have met requirements but are energy inefficient to help them understand the value of the program and assist them with identifying and applying for energy efficiency rebates offered by Evergy. This information, in part, is used in support of applications to the utilities to apply for rebates.This partnership will continue through 2024. | |
| 728 | Cities 2021 | 49330 | Kansas City, MO | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 3 | Energy | Project delivery - Public Private Partnership | KCMO has partnered with Evergy (local electric IOU) to create the Renewables Direct Program in our area. The City signed contracts with Evergy to purchase energy from newly constructed wind and/or solar farms. Through this collaboration, the City will achieve 100% carbon free electricity in city facilities by 2022. The first of two wind farm installations is now online with the balance to be completed in 2022. When complete, this will provide the city with about 82% fossil fuel free electricity with another 10% covered by the utility's ever cleaner energy fuel mix. Renewable energy certificates are expected to fill the gap to bring city operations to 100% fossil fuel free electricity in 2022. | |
| 729 | Cities 2021 | 49333 | City of Louisville, KY | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Energy | Knowledge or data sharing | Louisville Metro is working with stakeholders from Louisville Gas & Electric, EnergyCAP, and Xebec Data Corporation to track its energy usage, pay its utility bills, and streamline the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager submission process. After more accounts are added to the EnergyCAP software, Louisville will be able to better analyze its building efficiencies, determine which city-owned buildings need improvements, and save resources by managing energy costs. | |
| 730 | Cities 2021 | 49333 | City of Louisville, KY | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 2 | Agriculture, forestry and other land use | Capacity development | Louisville Metro's Division of Community Forestry has established partnerships with TreesLouisville, Louisville Grows, Brightside, and the Partnership for a Green City to increase tree plantings and help achieve and maintain a 45% tree canopy coverage. | |
| 731 | Cities 2021 | 49333 | City of Louisville, KY | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 3 | Waste | Knowledge or data sharing | Louisville Metro Public Works partnered with Recycle Coach to help residents stay up-to-date on waste and recycling programs in Louisville. In 2018, Public Works released a smartphone app and website to provide instant access to local recycling and proper disposal information for any material. | |
| 732 | Cities 2021 | 49333 | City of Louisville, KY | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 4 | Energy | Financing (investment) | In 2021, Louisville Metro's Office of Advanced Planning and Sustainability announced a new partnership with Energize Kentucky, LLC on third-party administration of Louisville's Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program (known locally as EPAD). | |
| 733 | Cities 2021 | 49333 | City of Louisville, KY | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 5 | Energy | Climate Action Plan consultation | Louisville Metro hired Stantec Consulting, LLC to complete its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan and hired the GEOS Institute to complete its Hazards Identification, Vulnerability Assessment, and Climate Adaptation Plan. | |
| 734 | Cities 2021 | 49333 | City of Louisville, KY | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 6 | Energy | Collaborative initiative | The Louisville Metro Office of Advanced Planning and Sustainability partners with the Louisville Energy Alliance to help promote energy efficiency and conservation efforts and encourage business owners to report and track their energy usage in Portfolio Manager. | |
| 735 | Cities 2021 | 49334 | City of Richmond, VA | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Question not applicable | Question not applicable | Question not applicable | |
| 736 | Cities 2021 | 49335 | Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, TN | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Waste | Collaborative initiative | The Mayor's Office, Metro Nashville Department of Public Works, and the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) Nashville Food Waste Initiative, Nashville Originals, and the Greater Nashville Hospitality Association are challenging local businesses to prevent wasted food, donate surplus food, and recycle their food scraps.https://www.nashvillefoodsaver.com/https://www.nashville.gov/departments/mayor/transportation-infrastructure-and-sustainability/food-saver-challengeIn the inaugural challenge, 55 restaurants committed to taking on several food-saving actions for 30 days. Actions included educating staff and customers on food waste reduction, donating surplus food to nonprofits, donating food scraps for animal consumption, and setting up processes to compost organic waste. A local compost hauler found that their monthly poundage nearly doubled in the challenge time frame.Food service businesses and grocers/retailers can also participate in the Mayor’s Food Saver Challenge, which will be ongoing. Participating in the Mayor’s Food Saver Challenge will reduce the amount of food sent to Middle Tennessee landfills, while helping to relieve hunger by donating wholesome, edible food to local nonprofits serving over 100,000 food-insecure residents in Davidson County.Both the Nashville Food Waste Initiative and the Mayor’s Food Saver Challenge focus on food waste strategies based on the U.S. EPA’s Food Recovery Hierarchy, which prioritizes wasted food prevention, then food rescue, then food scrap recycling as a strategic approach offering the greatest environmental, social and economic benefits. Up to forty percent of all food in America goes uneaten, with 95 percent of that wasted food ending up in landfills or incinerators, according to NRDC. In 2015, NRDC selected Nashville as its pilot city for developing high-impact local policies and on-the-ground actions to address food waste. | |
| 737 | Cities 2021 | 49339 | City and County of Honolulu, HI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Energy | Policy and regulation consultation | The City is an intervenor in the Performance-Based Regulation Docket (N0. 2018-0088) before the State Public Utilities Commission. Through this investigatory docket, the City has collaborated with State government, the local utility, and other stakeholders to shape electric utility policy and renewable energy development. | |
| 738 | Cities 2021 | 49339 | City and County of Honolulu, HI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 2 | Building and Infrastructure | Convening industry groups | The City is working with two energy service companies to implement investment grade audits and energy service performance contracts. These projects will construct energy conservation measures across the City's facilities and properties utilizing third-party know-how and financing from the business community. | |
| 739 | Cities 2021 | 49339 | City and County of Honolulu, HI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 3 | Energy | Policy and regulation consultation | The City led a robust stakeholder engagement process, including intensive negotiations with the local building and real estate industries, to get input into the update of its Energy Code to IECC 2015 plus local amendments. | |
| 740 | Cities 2021 | 49339 | City and County of Honolulu, HI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 4 | Energy | Climate Action Plan consultation | The City has various stakeholder working groups that have informed the Oʻahu Resilience Strategy, One Oʻahu One Climate plan and Climate Ready Oʻahu initiatives to ensure that business, industry and community-based organizations have a voice in policy development. | |
| 741 | Cities 2021 | 49339 | City and County of Honolulu, HI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 5 | Energy | Policy and regulation consultation | The City has a Climate Commission which is a five-member body to advise the City on the latest climate change science. Its members include one private industry member and this year they have hosted specific stakeholder input sessions with diverse stakeholders from the construction industry and trades. | |
| 742 | Cities 2021 | 49339 | City and County of Honolulu, HI | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 6 | Transport (Mobility) | Convening industry groups | The City is an active member of the Drive Electric Hawaii Coalition, which was created with an MOU between utilities, state and local government, and other key partners across Hawaii who work together to focus on accelerating cost effective electrification of transportation toward a shared vision of 100% renewably powered ground transportation. | |
| 743 | Cities 2021 | 49342 | City of Rochester, NY | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Transport (Mobility) | Collaborative initiative | The City of Rochester has been heavily involved with the process of establishing a bike share program in the community. An independent private entity is now running the bike share program, in part through the partnership of the City in the early stages of the process. | |
| 744 | Cities 2021 | 49342 | City of Rochester, NY | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 2 | Energy | Collaborative initiative | The City of Rochester played a key role in a Solarize campaign run by a local non-profit. As part of the campaign, a list of solar developers were vetted through an RFP process in order to be selected as part of a pool of companies that had access to a number of customers for solar installation projects. The City of Rochester has partnered with local non-profits to vet energy efficiency installation contractors to run a similar campaign specific to energy efficiency and clean heating and cooling technologies focusing on heat pumps. Working to develop a public outreach campaign. | |
| 745 | Cities 2021 | 49345 | City of Birmingham, AL | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 0 | Question not applicable | Question not applicable | Question not applicable | |
| 746 | Cities 2021 | 49346 | City of Allentown, PA | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Building and Infrastructure | Project delivery - Public Private Partnership | The City provided the workers and UGI provided financing of sidewalk upgrades conducted in conjunction with UGI's gas pipeline replacements. | |
| 747 | Cities 2021 | 49346 | City of Allentown, PA | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 2 | Water | Financing (investment) | The City is in the process of developing a Community Engagement Program. Allentown residents and businesses will be able to apply for City funding to implement projects that will reduce the pollution of stormwater and ultimately improve the water quality of our streams and rivers. Thegoal of the program is to provide an incentive for the community to voluntarily implement stormwater stewardship practices that will help the City meet long-term water quality targets. Under the program, the City willpay a portion (and sometimes all) of the cost for a property owner to install approved practices that reduce pollution and flooding. Metrics are tracked as data is calculated for all voluntarily installed BMPs which reduce pollutants as measured in pounds per year. Additionally, this programprovides funding to allow for the development of educational outreach opportunities. One type of outreach activity, for example, includes rain barrel giveaways.As part of its protocol under the Public Outreach Program, the Stormwater Bureau identifies groups and tracks all outreach activities and the metrics involved with each to include surveys and distributed materials. | |
| 748 | Cities 2021 | 49346 | City of Allentown, PA | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 3 | Building and Infrastructure | Project implementation and management | In 2021, the City made a policy decision to promote green roof installation through automatic removal of impervious surface associated with their footprint, despite storage capacity. Green roof installation is further promoted through the award of credits provided to reduce the City's Stormwater Utility fee. Additionally, the City promotesthe reduction of impervious surfaces through its appeals process which allows for residents to reduce their stormwater fees by actively managing the impervious surface of their properties. In 2021, credit was awarded for one green roof, one voluntarily installed rain garden, one water quality basin that managed off site stormwaterabove development standards, and five water quality bmps installed as part of land development. | |
| 749 | Cities 2021 | 49346 | City of Allentown, PA | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 4 | Building and Infrastructure | Collaborative initiative | The City has entered into an agreement with the Lehigh County Authority to coordinate its City Streets program with LCA's water pipeline replacement projects, allowing the City to achieve complete street upgrades (e.g. complete repaving from curb to curb, repaired stormwater infrastructure attributes, ADA access to sidewalks, etc.) to enhance sustainability at a lower cost | |
| 750 | Cities 2021 | 49347 | City of Omaha, NE | United States of America | North America | 6. Opportunities | Collaboration | 6.2a | Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below. | 1 | Energy | Project implementation and management | Public EV Charging Stations are managed in partnership with Omaha Public Power District and Park Omaha, the Parking and Mobility Division of Omaha's Public Works Department. |
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The dataset contains 2021 data on cities collaborating with businesses, reported by cities through the CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System in response to question 6.2a ("Please provide some key examples of how your city collaborates with business and/or industries in the table below.") in the 2021 Cities questionnaire. View cities questionnaire guidance at https://www.cdp.net/en/guidance/guidance-for-cities. Please contact cities@cdp.net if you have any questions.
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