Transcript Promoting a local low-carbon economy within local Agenda 21

ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
STRATEGIES FOR URBAN REGENERATION
Maria Cruz FERREIRA-COSTA
Managing Director -ALEM
Regeneration projects for a low-carbon
economy
MURCIA City Council, Spain
29 May 2009 – Baia Mare, Romania
Pan-European representative
body for Europe’s biggest cities
Cooperation
Culture
Economy
Environment
Knowledge Society
Mobility
Social Affais
Founded in 1986, then network brings
together the local governments of more
than 130 large cities in over 30 European
countries
Platform to share knowledge & ideas
Exchange experiencies
Analyse common problems
Develop innovative solutions
Organise Forum, WG, Projects, activities & events
GIVE CITIES A VOICE!
Engage in dialogue with the European Institutions
EUROCITIES Declaration on Climate Change
MURCIA CITY: Capital of the Region of Murcia
with an area of 885.90 km2
The Municipality of Murcia
- Administratively: Murcia CAPITAL + 54 districts
- Murcia City: Centralizes ALL services
- 7th most populated cities in Spain! Around 450.000
- 45% live in the city and the others in the outskirts (54 districts)
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The daily intensity of solar radiation in the municipality reaches a good
level in order to take advantage of energy (yearly average 5
KWh/m2/day)
- Rain is very poor and irregular: one of the areas with less yearly
average rain in Spain (<250 mm.) and consequently in Europe
• Murcia’s is one of the Networks with more points
of light in Spain:
84000 public lighting points and a total Power
installed of 11MW
• Reason: Disseminated population Urban area:
Murcia City and its 54 urban districts
Towards a low-carbon economy
UE: More than 60% of the population live in cities
Murcia: Half of the population live in the Urban Area
Nº of inhabitants: Currently 7 biggest city in Spain
COVENANT OF MAYORS = 3 x 20!
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European Cities are very different but we Do face similar difficulties and
TRY TO solve problems together and find common solutions
From Sustainable Development
Economic Development
Environmental Protection
Mobility
Improving Quality of Life
Compromises for a Sustainable Development
Sustainable managament of water resources:
Our Historical problem!
Agenda 21 local
Enlargement & Improving Green Public Spaces
Promoting renewable energies
Sustainable Urban Mobility: Urban Plan
Air Quality & Noise Reduction
Raising Enviromental Awareness
PHASES
AND MILESTONES
MURCIA
DISTRICT
PLAN 21
1998 Signing of the Aalborg Commitments
1999-2000 Environmental Diagnostic Study and Action Plan (EDSAP).
2000 Action plan
2000 and 2001: Participation in the Guide to Good Environmental Practice of FEMP for th
preparation of the District Plan 21
2001 District Plan 21 (9 thematic areas and 28 indicators).
2004: Participation in the 4th European Conference on Sustainable Cities (Aalborg+10).
2005 UN Prize to the EDSAP, HABITAT programme
2005 Murcia joins the Network of Spanish City for Climate
2007-2008: Local Energy Agency, ALEM
2007-2008: Local Strategy Against Climate Change 101... X – 250.000 TCo2 x year
TODAY!! An AWARD!!! MURCIA SUSTAINABLE CITY!!!
2008-2009: Join Covenant of Mayors
Local Energy Agency & Climate Change
Principales Objetivos
LOCAL ENERGETIC PLAN
•Local Energetic Consumption
•Transport & Urban Mobility
•Construction & Urbanistic Plan
•Education & Raising Awareness
Towards Sustainable Development
Low Carbon
•Environmental
•Social
•Economic
Pollution
Noise
Emmissions
BACKGROUND
MURCIA DISTRICT
PLAN 21
Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 1992.
What is A21L?
District Plan 21 is the instrument from which cities are equipped to advance
towards more sustainable communities, that is to say, more efficient and
economic, cleaner and more healthy, more integrated and supportive of other
cultures and realities… cities that aspire to improve the quality of life and the
well-being of all their citizens through maximum respect for the environment and
its resources, including human beings
-Johannesburg, 2002. 2nd World Conference on Sustainable Development.
- Aalborg + 10, 2004.
CHARACTERISTICS
MURCIA DISTRICT
PLAN 21
•Municipal Undertaking on Sustainability: Signing of the Aalborg
Commitments
•Its success is based on the combination of three aspects: environment, social
and economic
•It requires continuous and coordinated work among the various municipal
areas (environment, urban planning, transport, social matters, economic policy,
health, etc.).
•It is a continuous and long term process
•It implies the citizen participating in decision making
MURCIA
DISTRICT STATISTICS
PLAN 21
INITIALLY........SOME
• Begginers: Participants: 210 people, as well as various public
and private businesses etc..
•Interviews performed:
- Encounters with the general public: 1100
- District Mayors: 54
- Neighbourhood Associations: 52
- Ecologist Groups: 2
- Consumer Organisations: 15
MURCIA DISTRICT
PREPARATIONPLAN
SCHEMA21
A21L
Signature of Aalborg
Commitments
pre-operational phase
Analysis of the current
situation.
Diagnostic.
Participation Plan
Technical
Diagnosis
Qualitative
Diagnosis
Formulation of
Indicators
Action Plan
District Plan 21
Creation of the A21L Office
MURCIA DISTRICT
PLAN 21
FORUM 21
Central Administration
Regional Administration
Local Administration
Ecologist Groups
University
Unions
Consumer Associations
Neighbourhood Associations
District Mayors
Independent Technicians
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
DIAGNOSIS OF MURCIA MUNICIPALITY
A rigorous territorial analysis of environmental matters has been performed, that has
been considered of great importance for the Municipality of Murcia. These were
designated “subsystems” and are the following:
 Subsystem 1: Quality of the Atmospheric Environment
 Subsystem 2: Waste
 Subsystem 3: Water
 Subsystem 4: Quality of the Urban Environment
 Subsystem 5: Energy
 Subsystem 6: The Territory and Natural Risks
 Subsystem 7: Biodiversity
 Subsystem 8: Landscape
 Subsystem 9: Cultural Leisure and Free Time Resources
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
DIAGNOSIS
MATRIX
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PLAN
•The Action Plan is established from the conclusions and
recommendations set out in the Environmental Diagnosis
document
• It is a tool that enables actions directed at improving the
Local Environment to be carried out in a coherent and
sustainable manner
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
FEEDBACK
Evaluation of Strategic Lines
Evaluation of Indicators
Update the Action Plan
SUSTAINABILITY
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PLAN
PHILOSOPHY AND VISION
Synthesis of the
principal
environmental
aspects.
Causes of the
principal
environmental
aspects.
Identify Actions
Project Prioritisation Criteria
Formulation and Selection of
INDICATORS
Formulation of
Objectives.
Creation of Strategic Lines in
order to deal with the
objectives
Evaluation and Monitoring
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.
Grouping of Actions
into Strategic Lines
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PLAN
Strategic Lines:
1. Development of Urban Environmental Services
2. Improve Urban Environmental Quality
3. Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, Land
and Biodiversity
4. Training, Information and Raising Public Awareness
5. Promotion, Monitoring and Control
STRUCTURE OF PLAN
21 21
MURCIA DISTRICT
PLAN
1. Proposal in agreement with the Plenary Session of the Town Council :
• Declaration of agreement
• Model of Environmental sustainability for the municipality of Murcia
• System of Evaluation, Monitoring and Dissemination
2. Selected Indicators:
According to Thematic Areas:
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Water
Waste
Quality of urban environment
Atmosphere
Biodiversity
• Landscape
• Land and Environmental Risks
• Health, society and
environmental risks
• Cultural resources
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
SOME STATISTICS
• www. MURCIA.es more than 100 personal or group suggestions and
2107 hits.
• Meetings held: More than 150 meetings with various groups, district
committees, work teams, advisory councils etc.
• Permanent District Plan 21 Office: 112 requests for information
(university, private companies, town halls, participation in conferences
and publications).
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS
• Quality of the Atmospheric Environment:
- Noise. No. of sample points that exceed the values established by the bylaw.
• Waste:
- Kg of Urban Solid Waste inhabitant/day
- Percentage selective collection
- t of inert waste collected
- Kg of special waste collected
• Water:
- Km of sewers in the drainage system.
- Percentage of residual water treated
- Progress in contaminant load of water in COD
- Progress in contaminant load of residual water in equivalent inhabitants
- Litres of drinking water consumed.
- No of controlled companies that dump waste into the drainage system.
- Percentage of companies with purification treatments
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS
• Energy:
- Production of energy using biogas.
- Number of homes with solar installations
Preparing to Apply in order to have an IEE Agency
•Land and Natural Risks:
- No of hectares and type of vegetation affected by fire
• Biodiversity:
- Surface area of municipal forest parks
• Landscape:
- No of licences granted for refurbishment of homes
• Cultural Resources:
- No of educational cultural centres/10,000 inhabitants
- No of visitors to municipal museums
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
CHALLENGES
1. Sustainability is not just the “environment”
2. Strong leadership is THERE the highest level (Town
Hall)
3. It is necessary to move on from making speeches to
commitment and actions
4. There is a traditional weakness in taking part
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
OBJECTIVES OF THE 21 PLANS
1. To guarantee the development of the action plans of
each municipality, that is to say, the execution of the actions and
the projects foreseen in the 54 District Plans
2. To help the establishment of the 54 District Offices,
which are the bodies in charge of putting the action plans into
practice and guaranteeing a suitable level of citizen participation
in the process
3. To evaluate how good the action plans are by means
of the Municipal System of Sustainability Indicators
MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21
SUSTAINABLE PROPOSALS FOR THE FUTURE
-The network of Murcian municipalities commitment towards sustainability.
REDMUR 21
- Commitment to Aaborg+10
- Realisation of Murcia’s A21L website
- Printed and digital version of Murcia’s A21L
- Putting the A21L School into action
- Communication plan
- Publication of the sustainability indicators Report.
- Review of the Environmental Action Plan
Objectives of the Local Strategy
To know the emissions from the Municipality
To Reduce the emmissions caused by Municipal activity
To develop and to enlarge green areas as reducing carbon
emissions
To promote the use of more efficinet technologies in the
energetic comsuption area
To ADAPT!
To raise awareness
Objetive of the Local Strategy against
Climate Change
To reduce in a short term (period
2008 –2012) the 20 %, of the CO2
emmissions produced as a
consequence of urban acivity,
meaning: CO2 en 0,24 Mt.
ACTING PLAN
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Housing
Industrial and Commercial Sector
Municipal Activity
Waste Plants
MOBILITY
Driving: Saving 15%
2
0
1
2
CO2
URBAN MOBILITY
Urban Mobility Plan
Tram
Development of the BIKE NET and GREEN PATHS
BICING
Incentivate the use of hibrid & ecological vehicles
•Nº of trips made on public transport
•Development of pedestrianised areas m2 /inhabitant
•Development of green areas m2 /inhabitant
•Nº of public parking spaces
•Km of cycle paths
Promote WALKING!
Murcia 10.000 steps
Ayuntamiento de Murcia
Urban Local Path Net, MURCIA
Following
the
path, we will walk
10.000 steps
6.5 Km. – 7 Km.
Are the optimal
distance in order
to be fit 
Urban Local Path Net, MURCIA
Path & Gardens of our
City
The path is clearly
indicated with urban
furniture
Clear enough to follow
the way!
Urban Local Path Net, MURCIA
Indeed! 8 Municipal Districts will join
The design has taken many issues into
consideration
Transit areas, peadonal areas, gardens,
dimmesnios of the strees
Buildings, squares, and cultural places, touristcal
interest
Local carachter
USE THE BIKE!
ESTRATEGIC PLAN for the USE of BIKES
Object: Necessary actions to promote the use of bikes
in our CITY as a common transport, as a fact of
Mobility
ESTRATEGIC PLAN for the USE of BIKES
OBJECTIVES:
Incentivate NEW MODELS of sustainable
mobility
Design a road’s net
Promote the use of bikes as transportmode
Facilitate the use to citizens
Proposals in new Urban Plans
STRATEGIC PLAN for the USE of BIKES
Criteria to be considered during the desing:
Integrate it in urban area
Continuity
Security
Accessibility
Itermodality
CONSESUM
STRATEGIC PLAN for the USE of BIKES
RENTING - BICING
Where?
Capacity?
Management
Services & complementary measures
Performances Indicators
Public RENTING – BICING!
Schools
Green Homes
Green Commerce
Web
Green Suggestions
Climate Change Office
Campaings
Raising Awareness
COLLABORATION
Cambio climátiCO2
Climate Change
…a GLO2BAL PROBLEM
Climate Change
…a GLOBAL PROBLEM
…a LO2cal Answer