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Public administration sector

Best Practices for sustainable offices

Best Practices for sustainable energy and climate change

Establishing an inventory of energy use and emissions of the territory of the municipality
Establishing and implementing a municipal energy and climate action plan
Establishing and implementing a strategy for climate change adaptation within the territory of the municipality
Implementing energy-efficient street lighting
Improving the energy efficiency of public buildings
Improving the energy efficiency of social housing
Achieving energy efficiency in public buildings through energy performance contracts
Improving the energy performance of existing public buildings through monitoring, energy management and fostering of behavioural change
Implementing district heating and/or district cooling networks
Implementing on-site renewables and mini-CHP systems in public buildings and social housing
Setting higher energy efficiency standards and renewable energy requirements
Exemplary role of the public sector
Information and advice citizens on energy efficiency and renewable energy for citizens and business and set up of public private partnerships
Thermographic surveying of the built environment in the territory of the municipality

Best Practices for mobility

Best Practices for land use

Limiting urban sprawl into green spaces and agricultural land

Best Practices for green urban areas, nature and biodiversity

Best Practices for water supply

Best Practices for waste water management

Best Practices for green public procurement

Systematically including environmental criteria in all public procurement

Best Practices for environmental education and dissemination of information

Environmental education and information for citizens and businesses

Public administration sector

Best Practices for sustainable offices

Managing and minimising energy use

Managing and minimising water use

Managing and minimising waste production

Minimising consumption of paper and consumables

Minimising the environmental impact of commuting and business travel

Minimising the environmental impact of canteens and coffee bars

Minimising the environmental impact of meetings and events

Best Practices for sustainable energy and climate change

Establishing an inventory of energy use and emissions of the territory of the municipality

Establishing and implementing a municipal energy and climate action plan

Establishing and implementing a strategy for climate change adaptation within the territory of the municipality

Implementing energy-efficient street lighting

Improving the energy efficiency of public buildings

Improving the energy efficiency of social housing

Achieving energy efficiency in public buildings through energy performance contracts

Improving the energy performance of existing public buildings through monitoring, energy management and fostering of behavioural change

Implementing district heating and/or district cooling networks

Implementing on-site renewables and mini-CHP systems in public buildings and social housing

Setting higher energy efficiency standards and renewable energy requirements

Exemplary role of the public sector

Information and advice citizens on energy efficiency and renewable energy for citizens and business and set up of public private partnerships

Thermographic surveying of the built environment in the territory of the municipality

Best Practices for mobility

Enacting a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan

Fostering cycling and walking through cycling infrastructure, bike-sharing schemes and promotion of walking

Implementing a large car sharing scheme

Integrated ticketing for public transport

Improving the uptake of electric vehicles in urban areas

Fostering passenger intermodality

Implemeting a congestion charge

Limiting free parking spaces in cities

Implementation of logistic service centres

Best Practices for land use

Limiting urban sprawl into green spaces and agricultural land

Best Practices for green urban areas, nature and biodiversity

Establishing and implementing a local biodiversity strategy and action plan

Creating blue-green networks

Fostering the deployment of green roofs

Giving new environmental value to derelict green areas and fringe areas

Best Practices for local ambient air quality

Improving local ambient air quality

Best practices for noise pollution

Monitoring, mapping and reducing noise pollution

Best Practices for waste management

Taking into account the EMAS Sectoral Reference document for the waste management sector

Best Practices for water supply

Deploying full water metering at the household/final user level

Minimising water leakages from the water distribution system

Best Practices for waste water management

Energy efficient waste water treatment achieving full nitrifying conditions

Minimising waste water emissions with special consideration of micropollutants

Anaerobic digestion of sludge and optimal energy recovery

Drying and incineration of sludge

Promoting the use of reclaimed water from waste water treatment effluents

Retention and treatment of overflows from combined sewer systems and of storm water from separate sewer systems

Sustainable urban drainage systems

Best Practices for green public procurement

Systematically including environmental criteria in all public procurement

Best Practices for environmental education and dissemination of information

Environmental education and information for citizens and businesses