Expert Workshop on Adaptation Financing and Implementation, Putting Priorities into Practice in OECD Countries, Paris, 18-19 June, 2014

1. Copenhagen Climate Adaptation Plan
www.kk.dk

2. Main challenges
Heavy Rain Flooding from the sea

3. Reality og Model

4. ”Reality check”

5. Copenhagen Climate Adaptation Plan
www.kk.dk

6. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
COPENHAGEN CLOUDBURST
MANAGEMENT PLAN

7. 7 WATER CATCHMENT PLANS

8. Principles of catchment analysis

9. CONTENTS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION
PLAN
– Break down of water
catchments into
projects
– Investment statement
– Prioritisation of
projects
– Time-schedule
– Communication

10. 10.18
1.20
3.51
2.20
0.97
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4.00
6.00
8.00
10.00
12.00
Samlede
investeringer
Privat sikring mod
oversvømmelser
Klimatilpasning
takstmidler
(hverdagsregn)
Skybrudstiltag
takstmidler
Kommunal andel
(skybrud og
klimatilpasning)
Kystsikring/hav
Samlede investeringer

11. cost 7,8 mia. kr.
Reduced damage 13,7 mia. kr.
Netto ”gains” 5,9. mia. kr.
Cost and benefits
Rain

12. Cost and benefits
Storm surge
Udgifter til tiltag 2,3 mia. kr.
Reduced damage 19,9 mia. kr.
Netto ”gains” 17,6mia. kr.

13. INVESTMENT STATEMENT
• Recalculation of the construction costs
• Cloudburst solution typologies
• Socio-economic figures – as part of the wider
picture of the investment costs
• Synergies with other projects

14. INVESTMENT STATEMENT
– Sensitivity analysis and new risk assessment
– The economics of the solutions for climate adaptation divided into
• The portion of a climate adaptation project that can be managed and owned
by the utility companies in the usual way – the traditional sewer solution.
• The portion of a climate adaptation project owned and paid for by the
municipality but funded through reimbursement from the utility company:
Joint climate adaptation project reimbursed by HOFOR the joint climate
adaptation project.
• The portion of a climate adaptation project paid for by the municipality that
adapts the surface solution to the urban space: Municipal portion of climate
adaptation project for urban-space improvement - urban space
– Socioeconomic effects of the investments in the climate adaptation of
Copenhagen
– Choice of and prioritised sequence of climate adaptation projects
– Innovation strategy

15. INVESTMENT STATEMENT -
RECALCULATION OF COSTS
• In order to reduce the overall estimated costs
we are currently recalculating the total costs
• Limited number of reference projects make
the present estimates very uncertain
• Differences in standards – from de luxe
solutions to more basic.

16. INVESTMENT STATEMENT -
CLOUDBURST TYPOLOGIES
• By reducing complexity we aim to reduce the
construction costs
• A number of different types of solutions -
typologies will make implementation more
cost effective
• Of course with possibilities for local variations

17. INVESTMENT STATEMENT - SOCIO-
ECONOMIC DATA
• Cost of investments
• Value of estimated damages
• Value of ”green solutions”
• Saved investments in expanding the present
sewer system
• Other aspects (waste water treatment plant)

18. INVESTMENT STATEMENT - SYNERGIES
WITH OTHER PROJECTS
– Saving money through coordination
with other construction works in the
city (maintenance of roads, district
heating improvements etc.)
– Ongoing process that we have
already started with projects like
Skt. Annæ Plads and on bicycle
routes on Amager

19. QUESTIONS WE ARE
LOOKING FOR ANSWERS TO
• Are there any blind spots that
we are not seeing?
• Any problems that we are
addressing that could be
solved in an easier way?
• The political and
communication process –
which arguments will be the
most significant?
• Comments and feed back in
general on the work

20. •High uncertainty - both regarding
prognoses and technology
•We have chosen to aim towards the
upper estimates in the IPCC scenarios
•Will only matter after about 50 years -
until then the scenarios follow more or
less the same path.
•Continuous revision of the plan allows
for adjustments.
Choice of scenario - what are we protecting us
against?

21. Urban Heat Island

22. Risk calculation
Probability * cost

23. Risk calculation

24. Risk map

25. The game changer - July 2nd 2011

26. The game changer
• High political attention
(nationally and local
• Fast implementation
• Cloudburst Management Plan -
new service level - planning for
100 year event
• Change in legislation - new
finance mechanisms to enable
surface solutions

27. Decision of safety level

28. A green and blue city -
adapted to a future climate = more quality of life
• Adaptation is not just a
negative meassure
• We can increase the
recreational area and
create more quality of
life for copenhageners
• We can help make
copenhageners more
healthy
• We can create synergy
with other planning

29. Methods to ensure the city from flooding

30. New possibilitys

31. City of Copenhagen as front runner on climate
adaptation
Strategic planning
Longterm planning embedded in the
city’s planning system
Great potential, locally, nationally and
internationally
Global investment needed
Partnership
Copenhagen Municipality will partner
universities, foundations and private
companies in the development of
solutions
Innovation
Copenhagen will create new solutions
regarding adaptation that can be
attatched to the Copenhagen brand on
high quality of life

32. •Will influence the way we
utilise and plan urban spaces
•Will influence the use and
development of recreative
areas in the city
•In the future we have to
make sure that we can
manage and control water
when we develop the city,
and we will actively use water
as a ressource to improve the
urban life
Adaptation is a new precondition in
urban development

33. Kan det betale sig ?
Citat: ”Vi kan ikke gå med til stramme skatteskruen”
Gør ingenting scenarie:
• Husforsikring vil stige med måske 40% afhængig af risikoen for vandskade
svarende til 3.000 kr./år
Klimatilpasnings scenarie med finansiering via takster
• 600-900 kr./år
Eksempel: Almindeligt parcelhus

34. Thank you for your attention
Jeppe T
City of Cope
ag6n@tm
www.kk.dk

35. A BRIEF RECAP OF 2013
• Detailed plans of the 7 water catchments of
Copenhagen
• Public hearing of the water catchments
• Political process – deciding on the main principles of
storm water management in the 7 water catchment
areas
• Municipal elections – new mayor for the Technical and
Environmental Administration – and a new Commitee.
• Oh yes – and a small storm surge in December just to
remind us to start working more on that as well.....

36. ORGANISATION OF THE PROCESS
• Steering commitee
– City representatives (construction, planning,
traffic, authority and regulations)
– Water Utility Company
• Project secretariat
• Cooperation with Water Utility
• Coordination with Financial Administration

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COORDINATION WITH WATER UTILITY
– The implementation of the cloudburst management plan is a
close partnership with Greater Copenhagen Water Utility
according to national regulations for financing climate
adaptation works.
– The major part of the works is paid through the water fees, but
there is a need for continuous municipal co-financing to secure
progress.
– The establishment of a cooperation and coordination forum that
can coordinate the work – also regarding other initiatives in the
city.
– Cooperation and coordination with neighbouring municipalities
– Ongoing coordination with projects in the city that so far has
not taken adaptation into consideration.

38. TIME SCHEDULE FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
• Tight schedule – we have to finish the political
process by December 2014 in order to achieve
the optimal financial model (100% water fee
financed for storm water management)
• Implementation plan has to be finished by mid
September to allow time for political
treatment

39. THE PROJECTS
• Breaking down of the
7 water catchment
areas into projects
(only of the main
structures – the
backbone of the new
storm water
management
infrastructure)
• About 470 different
projects

40. THE PROJECTS
• Some will be traditional
projects (underground
reservoirs, pipes etc)
• Some will be surface
solutions (cloudburst
boulevards, parks, green
roads etc). Here we want
to have a number of
signature projects
highlighting the
possibilities for improving
the city through green and
blue solutions

41. TIME SCHEDULE AND PRIORITISATION
OF PROJECTS
• Where do we start?
• Water management issues – combined with
other issues (synergies with other projects,
urban development other political priorities)
• We have to produce a plan to show the
implementation of the 470 projects and
especially the projects that we start up now.

42. POLITICAL PROCESS AND
COMMUNICATION
• Implementation of the cloud burst
management plan is one of the biggest
political decisions in many years
• High investment costs
• Transformation of the city in many aspects
• Therefore the political process and the public
communication has to be carefully planned

43. POLITICAL PROCESS
• Seminar for politicians in Technical and
Environmental committee in June – 1½ hours of
presentation and first discussions
• Offer of separate meetings between administration
and the political party-groups
• Seminar for politicians in August – 2 day seminar
with the final prioritisations
• Political treatment of final implementation plan from
October to December – final decision by City Council
in December

44. COMMUNICATION
• Political communication
– We have to tell the story in a simple way – but
without losing the main points
– Complicated – also because it is unknown territory –
they are worried about what they are committing
themselves to.
– We need to make them understand the necessity of
the connected infrastructure even if there are some of
the suggested solutions they do not like
– We need to make them understand that they HAVE to
make a decision before 2015 to secure the optimal
financing model

45. PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
• New committee with a strong focus on public
involvement
• Local committees for each city district – with a strong
desire to be involved
• We have had a public hearing period with a lot of
public meetings – but we need to have more
• Local prioritisations to be presented for politicians