Engaging Stakeholders in Dialogue
Challenges And Achievements
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Engaging Stakeholders
Jørgen Lund Madsen
City of Copenhagen
Agency of Environmental Protection
Engaging Stakeholders
• Why engaging stakeholders
• New Metro
• Valby District, solar collectors
• Middelgrunden, offshore wind farm
• Challenges and achievements
Why Engaging Stakeholders?
• Information• Dialogue• Participation
-democratic
-financial
Why Engaging Stakeholders
• Information:
-To help stakeholders
-To avoid complains
-To establish god relations for the future• Information is good when you want to keep a
distance to your stakeholders
Why Engaging Stakeholders
• Dialogue:
-To be sure your information is correct and have reached your stakeholders
-To know the opinion of the stakeholders
-To improve the quality of your project• Dialogue is good when you want to give the
stakeholders some ownership to the project
Why Engaging Stakeholders
• Participation (democratic):
-To anchor the project among stakeholders
-To use stakeholders property, engagement or other strengths
• Participation (financial):
-To fund the project
Information, New Metro
New Metro
• Information to citizens• No dialogue• Few complains
Dialogue, Valby DistrictSolar collectors
• 150.000 m2 in 2025• 5.000 m2 in 2005• 15 % electricity• 40.000 inhabitants
Dialogue, Valby district, Solar collectors
• City of Copenhagen• Copenhagen Energy• Engineering company• Urban renewal
company
Dialogue, Valby District,Solar collectors
• Objectives:
-develop competence on solar collectors and holistic solutions
-implement sustainable energy production
-create a social, cultural, environmental and economic development in the district
Dialogue, Valby District, Solar Collectors
• Leaflet to all stakeholders
• Information in media and on homepage
• Dialogue meetings• Exhibition with model
buildings• Action programme • Dialogue
• Schools• Institutions• Companies• Shops• Owners of
apartment houses• Tenants
Dialogue, Valby DistrictSolar Collectors
• Achievements:
-Project team with strong partners
-Local engagement in the project
-Some financial interest
-Good experiences with children learning parents
• Challenges:
-”Talking the same language”
-”Keeping the pot warm” in a long process
-”Selling” the holistic point of view
Middelgrunden, Offshore Wind Farm
Middelgrunden,Offshore Wind Farm
• 20 wind turbines• Located on a former
dumping area• 40 MW• 89.000 KWh per
year• 3 % of electricity
consumption of Copenhagen
Middelgrunden,Offshore Wind Farm
• 10 turbines owned by Copenhagen Energy
• 10 owned by a co-operative:
-40.500 shares
-500 Euro per share
Middelgrunden,Offshore Wind farm
• Achievements:
-Engaging the citizens in a practical and sustainable action
-Popular ownership contributes to the installation of extra capacity
-An outstanding exhibition of wind turbines
-Results in popular acceptance of large-scale projects, no complains
Middelgrunden,Offshore Wind Farm
• Challenges:
-Co-operation between energy company and stakeholders representatives
Achievements, Engaging Stakeholders
• A better process for projects when engaging stakeholders
• A possibility for future anchoring of projects
• An increased sustainable development in the city and in districts
• A better acceptance of changes
Challenges, Engaging Stakeholders
• To overcome the fear for “troublemakers”
• To see the benefits from a more holistic point of view (a longer and more expensive planning process will pay back in the end)
• To see the stakeholders in general as “a resource” and potential partners
• To convince stakeholders that it is in their interest to participate
• To ensure that it is not only the few that participate but a representative group
