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Bologna Carbon Market (BoCaM) project
Through the project BoCaM (Bologna Carbon Market), the City of Bologna offered reliable carbon credits to private purchasers, verified according to standard ISO 14065 and tied to projects that can be verified over time, in order to increase the environmental sustainability of all actors in society.
The companies could insert the purchase of credits within paths of social business responsibility at the end of a course for company improvement.
The City of Bologna therefore tested the creation of a real market in which public administrations could ‘create’ third-party-certified carbon credits generated by their projects and policies which private companies could purchase to neutralize CO2 emissions.
Our activities in the project included: supporting communication of the project, organization of the final event, and collaboration in developing the printed material aimed at greater diffusion of the project.
Transition Cities: ‘La sostenibilità è il nostro centro’ project
The city of Bologna participated in the project ‘Transition Cities’ with the proposal ‘La sostenibilità è il nostro centro’ [Sustainability is our Centre], to transform the former ghetto area of Bologna into a high-energy-efficient neighbourhood through the involvement of retailers in energy savings and sustainability businesses.
Our activities in the project considered: accounting, development of the proposal and creation of the project, communication, and coordination of partners, including CNA Bologna, the Energy Agency of Modena, and the City of Bologna.
Phd Summer School ‘Design for Adaptation. Resilient Urban Communities’
In September 2015, the Fondazione per l’Innovazione Urbana (formerly Urban Center Bologna) was occupied with the PhD Summer School of Climate-KIC organized together with Aster, the University of Bologna, and the City of Bologna. This edition centred on the issue of resilience.
The intensive two-week programme concentrated on adaptation to climate change and the impacts that cities find themselves facing with increasing frequency.
Taking a cue from the city of Bologna, with its particular environmental, climate, and structural characteristics, and analysing projects implemented by the city to counter the effects of climate change on site, the students were called to design innovative solutions through a ‘learning by experience’ approach.
Our activities within the Summer School included: involvement in activities to coordinate, design, and define the scientific programme and guided tours, consultation on the issue of adaptation to climate change, organization of logistics and transport, accounting, communication, and involvement of some local and national stakeholders.
One Tonne Society project
The goal of the project, inspired by the One Tonne Life project (successfully concluded in Gothenburg), was to study and develop a business model to reduce the carbon footprint of a volunteer group of private citizens in three European cities (Uppsala, Berlin, Bologna).
In Bologna, financing regarded the phase to investigate the concrete possibility that the project would be viewed favourably by citizens.
To facilitate the conversion of the group of volunteers to a more sustainable lifestyle compatible with the environment, several local stakeholders were involved (LegaCoop, Caab, Confabitare, ANCE, University of Bologna) to assess their interest in participating in a future, potential implementation of the project.
Our activities in the project consisted of: scientific design, communication, accounting, organization of the kick-off meeting in Bologna, participation at the meeting in Uppsala (Sweden), finding the data necessary to develop the business model, participation in a workshop in Frankfurt on the active involvement of stakeholders in projects to reduce emissions, organization of a focus group to assess the interest of citizens in participating in the project, and publication of a questionnaire on the platform ‘Comunità della Rete Civica Iperbole’ [Iperbole Civil Network Community].
