URBACT City Lab Metropolitan Governance WORKSHOP 3 Light

URBACT City Lab – Metropolitan Governance WORKSHOP 3 – Light Footprint Urban Environments 12 February 2010 - Lille

Light Footprint Urban Environments KEY QUESTIONS 1 ) How do cities deal with the complexity of managing both the morphological and functional city regions which are cleaved by national, regional and local administrative boundaries? § How can cities develop forms of governance appropriate to functional and morphological city regions at supra municipality level in order to manage environmental questions (considering possible differences in approach with regard to morphological, functional & administrative urban areas, relevant spatial scales, partition of competences. . . ) ? § What are the important obstacles to achieving effective, integrated environmental management for cities, which require to be recognised, understood and countered ? Title of presentation I 13/02/2022 I Page 2

Light Footprint Urban Environments KEY QUESTIONS 2) What types of innovative arrangements do cities develop in order to overcome the resulting political, financial and/ or administrative divisions? § How can national finance, taxation and pooled funding be organised across boundaries and form part of the metropolitan response package in relation to environment issues ? § How can the metropolitan framework best support or integrate local area or resource based initiatives in order to maximise impact at city level ? Title of presentation I 13/02/2022 I Page 3

Speakers (morning session) § Gildas Le Saux, Communauté Urbaine de Lille (FR), Biogasmax project § Ola Nord, City of Malmö EU office (SE) § Gerrit Van Bilj, City of Heerlen (NL) § Moderator: Philip Stein, URBACT Thematic Pole Manager § Rapporteur: Sylvie Harburger, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (FR) Title of presentation I 13/02/2022 I Page 4

Speakers (afternoon session) § Patrick Moyersoen, Project leader Sustainable Development – SUM project/ District contract « Canal du Midi » , Anderlecht (NL) § Bernd Gassler, Lead expert City Regions Net § Moderator: Philip Stein, URBACT Thematic Pole Manager § Rapporteur: Sylvie Harburger, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (FR) Title of presentation I 13/02/2022 I Page 5

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