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Application of tools
Name der Fallstudie
Dogme 2000
Name of tool
Dogme 2000
Description of tool - character
The network is based on political commitment to the common goals defined, on setting up measurable goals, and on annual audits on the municipality’s success. This is formulated in 3 Dogmes: </p>
<p align="center"><img src="graphics/DNDogme2.jpg" hspace="100" alt="The 3 Dogmes" width="324" height="48" align="bottom"/></p>
<p>If the annual audit reveals that the municipality is not improving its environmental standard, exclusion from the network is possible. For each Dogme there are 3 sub-goals defined, and different ways to measure them. See table below. </p>
<p align="center"><img src="graphics/DNDogme3.jpg" hspace="100" alt="The three Dogmes, the sub-goals, and suggested indicators to measure the goals. Dogme is a dynamic concept, meaning that measures of goals and sub-goals can be changed along the way, so can the sub-goals themselves, if agreed by the partners. " width="371" height="142" align="bottom"/><br>
<em> The three Dogmes, the sub-goals, and suggested indicators to measure the goals. Dogme is a dynamic concept, meaning that measures of goals and sub-goals can be changed along the way, so can the sub-goals themselves, if agreed by the partners. </em></p>
<p><a href="graphics/DNDogmegoals.pdf"target="blank">Click for the goals of the 3 Dogmes(.pdf)</a></p>
<p>The main characteristic of Dogme 2000 is the political commitment, where the city council signs the Dogme document. The participants commit themselves to have these Dogme´s audited each year by a certified accountant. If they do not show progress compared to last years audit, the municipality can be excluded from the network. The main idea is that the three Dogme´s include the entire municipality´s activities and environmental impacts; therefore it is the municipality´s entire progress according to the Dogme 2000s that has to be evaluated. This concept has several advantages: The political commitment motivates for a serious effort to improve on the three Dogme´s. It also legitimises the environmental departments’ demands to other departments. This gives the Dogme 2000 a potentially strong role internally, integrating sustainable issues in the municipality’s different policies. This is also strongly supported by the annual audit, where the auditors´ interviews 20-60 persons in the municipal administration (including the involved politicians) about their contribution to Dogme and the initiatives included in Dogme. From this, the municipality can compare this audit with last years audit, and with other municipalities´ audits. </p>
<p align="center"><img src="graphics/DNDogme1.jpg" hspace="100" alt="Example on a summary of an external Dogme-audit in a municipality. The annual audit includes an assessment that in a simple way summarises the municipality´s progress on the 3 Dogme´s and the subgoals, categorising the policy on a step from "start phase" to "fully implemented"" width="298" height="110" align="bottom" />
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<em>Example on a summary of an external Dogme-audit in a municipality. The annual audit includes an assessment that in a simple way summarises the municipality´s progress on the 3 Dogme´s and the subgoals, categorising the policy on a step from "start phase" to "fully implemented". </em> </p>
<p>In some of the participating municipalities, Dogme is used as a coordinating and collecting tool for the various sustainable policies in the municipality. Amongst the participating municipalities, Dogme functions as a forum for exchanging experiences, knowledge, innovations etc. between the participants. Also, it has the potential of making common environmental actions within the Dogme network more visible and known to other stakeholders in the municipality, and thereby enforcing Dogme as an environmental policy. Dogme 2000 is gradually becoming nationally and internationally recognised, and has been internationally awarded twice (Latest in 2003 from "Les Eco Maires", in the category "European Cities")</p>
<p> Indicators and monitoring are the characteristics of Dogme </p>
Description of tool - availability
Available for free, but participation in the network is paid. The charge for participating in Dogme 2000 depends on the size of the municipality: <br>
• 25.000 Dkr. for municipalities with less than 15.000 inhabitants<br>
• 50.000 Dkr. for municipalities with 15.000 to 100.000 inhabitants<br>
• 100.000 Dkr. for municipalities with more than 100.000 inhabitants.<br>
In reality, expenses for participating in the network can be larger. Copenhagen has a budget for 5 mill. DKr. for participating in the network. That covers 400.000 Dkr. for establishing a coordinating Dogme-secretariat, 500.000 DKr. for the annual audit of the environmental effort, 2 mill. DKr to ensure that Dogme-goals that 75% of the food served in the municipal institutions is organic, and 2 mill DKr for environmental certification of the institutions in the municipality.</p>
Description of tool - existing
Dogme 2000 is newly elaborated
Description of tool - adaptation
Dogme sets up goals to be reached in the municipalities (for instance that 75% on the food served in the municipality´s institutions has to be organic), but it is up to the local actors how to implement initiatives to reach the goal.
Welche Tools wurden verwendet, um Nachhaltigkeit zu beurteilen?
Dogme 2000
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