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Biomass
The demand for energy is high and is expected to increase in the coming years. The Netherlands plans to ensure that ten years from now, over twenty per cent of the energy needs are met using clean, renewable sources.
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Carbon capture, transport and storage
The Rotterdam Climate Initiative (RCI) not only takes the lead in the field of energy savings and sustainable energy, but also in the capture, reuse, transport and underground storage of carbon dioxide, abbreviated as CCS (carbon capture and storage).
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Central District Rotterdam
Mobility (HSL, RandstadRail), central location in the inner city and mix of multinationals, local businesses and housing will, in the future, result in a fantastic city entrance to Rotterdam and an entrance to the Randstad conurbation.
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Connecting Delta Cities
Over 50% of the world population lives in cities. More than two thirds of the world's largest cities are vulnerable to rising sea levels as a result of climate change. Millions of people are being exposed to the risk of extreme floods and storms.
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Cooperation with businesses and institutions (SMEs)
This approach focuses on approx. 9000 small consumers and 2000 middle and large consumers, the part of the Rotterdam business sector that is not part of the large industry and the many institutions that Rotterdam has.
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Energy-efficiency at industrial companies
The objective of this project is to stimulate energy-efficiency improvements at industrial companies in the port area.
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Floating constructions and communities
Rotterdam has ambitious plans for the construction of floating communities. In the Stadshavens area, there is room for 1600 hectares of sustainable area development and by 2040, around 13,000 climate-proof houses will be built, of which around 1,200 will be on the water. In these floating districts, people will live, shop, work and recreate on the water.
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Floating Pavilion in the centre of Rotterdam
In the Rijnhaven in Rotterdam, a new, eye-catching structure has been erected: a complex consisting of three floating half-spheres. The structure is 12 metres tall, with a total floor area the size of four tennis courts, and is fully relocatable.
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Green Roofs Programme
Rotterdam tries to promote the construction of green roofs in several ways. With a subsidy scheme, for example, which will provide a financial incentive to have a green roof constructed. Where possible, green roofs will be built on top of municipal property. Building green roofs on top of third-party property, such as housing associations and businesses, will also be stimulated.
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Minister Schultz opens Eco-Driving | Electric Transport Centre
On Wednesday 31 August, Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and the Environment) officially opened the Eco-Driving | Electric Transport Centre [Het Nieuwe Rijden | Elektrisch Vervoer Centrum or HNR | EV Centre].
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Plant One
Plant One is a large experimental garden where companies can test their industrial innovations on a semi-production scale. This facility is used to fill in the gap between laboratory and full-scale production.
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RDM Campus
RDM Campus is a location for education, business and events in the former shipyard of the Rotterdam Dry Dock Company (Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij or RDM) in Heijplaat, in the centre of the Rotterdam Stadshavens.
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Research
Trendsetting research in the area of theoretical and applied delta technology enables Rotterdam to create the basis for groundbreaking innovations and international collaboration.
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Roof Park Rotterdam
Roof Park Rotterdam, located in a former marshalling yard in Rotterdam West, is a spacious roof park with an area of eight hectares and a view of the city and harbour.
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Rotterdam Climate Game
This game – sponsored by the Rotterdam Climate Proof programme, the National New Urban Developments and Restructuring Delta Programme and the Water Governance Centre – makes players aware of the dilemmas involved in climate-proof construction/restructuring and spatial developments, both inside and outside the network of dikes. Players can experiment with a realistic representation of the Rotterdam Feijenoord district.
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Rotterdam Climate Societal Cost Benefit Analysis (SCBA)
The Rotterdam Climate SCBA was developed as part of the Rotterdam Adaptation Strategy. An SCBA assesses the costs and benefits of an investment from the point of view of society as a whole. To be able to properly value the benefits, the full effect of a project needs to be defined.
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Rotterdam Electric
Rotterdam and many other parties are working on a green, clean and healthy city. Electric transport – together with other forms of sustainable mobility – fits in perfectly with this approach.
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Rotterdam pavilion at World Expo 2010
At the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, Rotterdam presented itself in the special ‘Rotterdam Water City’ pavilion. During the World Expo visitors from around the globe were able to experience how this metropolis and world port handles flood management now and in the future, despite climate change.
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Rotterdam’s Adaptation Strategy
Rotterdam's Adaptation Strategy addresses the urgent need to make Rotterdam climate proof by describing which guidelines need to be in place to effect this over the next few decades, in as targeted and effective a way as possible. The strategy is not an implementation plan, but provides a framework, establishes starting points and clarifies Rotterdam's ambitions and goals to become a resilient city.
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Solar panel roof on Central Station
The construction of the new Rotterdam Central Station is going well. Not only will the new station become an important international and regional transport hub, but the station will also have the largest solar panel station roof in Europe. New sustainable techniques can easily be applied, also to a station. The Sustainable Rotterdam Central Station serves as an example of this.
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Steam Pipe
The industrial sector in Rotterdam Rijnmond has a lot of excess heat. So much in fact, that one million households can use it to warm their houses.
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Sustainable area development
Sustainability becomes concrete and tangible through new developments and restructurings in the city. Stadshavens Rotterdam and Heijplaat, the Rotterdam Central District around the Central Station and Hart van Zuid are appealing examples.
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Sustainable Mobility
As a decisive and innovative international port, Rotterdam takes its responsibility seriously to create a sustainable future together with its citizens, companies and institutions.
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The Rotterdam Green Buildings Programme
Municipal property is placed under the Urban Area Planning Department. The buildings vary from sports halls, schools, offices, and theatres to swimming pools. In order to make the premises more sustainable and strongly reduce energy consumption and carbon emission in the coming years, the 'Rotterdam Green Buildings' programme was started.
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Water plazas: playgrounds doubling as water storage
Rotterdam has come up with a remarkable invention to provide for additional water storage in this densely built-up city: water plazas. Most of the time, these water plazas will serve as marvellous children’s playgrounds or sports fields.
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Wind Energy
On 5 September 2009, a wind agreement was concluded by nine parties, agreeing to at least double the current wind energy output. The ambition is for wind energy output in the Rotterdam port area to grow from 150 to at least 300 megawatt (MW) in 2020.
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Youth advise on sustainable business operations
On Thursday 28 April 2011, alderman van Huffelen officially closed the 2010-2011 Schools for Sustainability project.
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