Transcript - Low Carbon Liverpool

Liverpool: An Environmental Audit
Interim Findings
5th March 2013
Peter North and Alex Nurse
Foresight Centre
The Partners
The Audit
• Directly based on the European Green Capital
Judging criteria
• 12 categories on which any city is measured
1. Local Contribution to Climate
Change
2. Transport
3. Green Urban Areas
Incorporating Sustainable Land
Use
4. Nature and Biodiversity
5. Air Quality
6. Noise Pollution
7. Waste Production and
Management
8. Water Consumption
9. Waste Water Treatment
10. Eco Innovation and Sustainable
Employment
11. Environmental Management of
the Local Authority
12. Energy Performance
Audit Structure
• Stage One: Data Gathering
• Stage Two: Performance against plans and
strategy
• Stage Three: Revisions in light of performance
The Partners
The Audit
Failing
Average
Good/Excellent
1: Contribution to Climate Change
•Total emissions
•Co2 from domestic electricty
•co2 from natural gas
•co2 from transport
•co2 per kwh used
•Details of Targets achieved or not
•Plans to meet/revise targets
NO DATA
1: Contribution to Climate Change
total carbon emissions per capita (tonnes)
8.0
7.5
7.0
Liverpool
Birmingham
6.5
Bristol, City of
Leeds
6.0
Manchester
Newcastle
5.5
Nottingham
Sheffield
5.0
4.5
4.0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2. Local Transport
Cycle Lanes
300m from a bus-stop
Proportion of journeys under 5km made by car
Proportion of public transport classed as low emission
Details of Targets achieved or not
Reduction of overall demand
reduction of individual motorised transport
Promotion of less environmentally damaging modes of
transport
NO DATA
2: Local Transport
Cycle Lanes Metres Per Capita
1.2
1
0.8
Liverpool City Council
Stockholm
Hamburg
0.6
Vitoria
Nantes
0.4
Copenhagen
0.2
0
1
2: Local Transport
Liverpool's Cycle Lanes by Type
on-road advisory
on-road mandatory
off-road
Other
Hamburg's Cycle Lanes by Type
Copenhagen's Cycle Lanes by Type
on-road advisory
on-road advisory
on-road mandatory
on-road mandatory
off-road
off-road
Other
Other
•Proportion of areas within the inner city/on city boundaries
3: Green Urban Spaces
•The distribution across the city
•Size of areas
•Fragmentation
•Soil Sealing
•Proportion of population living 300m from green space
•Percentage of green areas/water areas/industrial economic areas. Residential
areas/brownfields
•New developments (proportion of brownfield sites)
NO DATA
•population density in built up areas
•Population density for new developments
NO DATA
•Minimising the total area of derelict and contaminated land
NO DATA
•increasing or sustaining population density while protecting green areas
NO DATA
•renovating urban land and renewing urban design
•Limiting urban sprawl through cooperation with neighbouring municipalities
•Integrating current and future changes such as economic growth
•People’s quality of life and recreation
•Additional ecosystem services
•Rehabilitation of brownfield sites
NO DATA
3: Green Urban Spaces
Open Space per capita m2
70
Open Space m2
60
50
40
Liverpool
Hamburg
Vittoria
30
20
10
0
Nantes
Copenhagen
4: Nature and Biodiversity
•Details of the Most Recent action plan
•Details of targets achieved or not
•Plans to meet/revise
5: Air Quality
•PM10
•ozone
•NO2, PM10, PM2.5
•Existence and Implementation of an Air Quality
Management Plan
•Local measures taken and their effect
•Information to the public
•Plans to meet/revise
6: Quality of the Acoustic Environment
•>55db (Day)
•>45db (Night)
•Details of targets
achieved or not
•Plans to meet/revise
7: Waste Production and Management
Waste per capita
Total/biodegradable sent to landfill
% Recycled
Reduction of waste produced
amount of waste sent to landfills
Measures which have promoted
awareness raising
Plans to meet/revise
7: Waste Production and Management
Recyling Rates for Competitor Cities
Historical Recycling Rates (%)
45%
45.00%
40%
40.00%
35%
35.00%
30%
Liverpool City Council
30.00%
Birmingham City Council
Bristol City Council
25%
25.00%
Leeds City Council MBC
Halton
Knowsley
Manchester City Council MBC
Sefton
Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council MBC
St Helens
Nottingham City Council
Wirral
Sheffield City Council
20%
20.00%
15%
15.00%
10%
10.00%
5%
5.00%
0%
0.00%
Liverpool
2007-08
2002/03
2008-09
2004/05
2003/04
2009-10
2005/06
2006/07
2011-11
2007/08
2011-12
2009/10
2008/09
2010/2011
2011/12
8. Water Consumption
•Urban Water supply subject to metering
•Water consumption per capita
•Water loss in pipelines
•Compliance with EU water framework directive
•Leak management
•Network Rehabilitation
•Non-domestic Metering
•Byelaw implementation in relation to efficiency in water
use
•efforts to use the tariff system to improve water supply
•Awareness raising campaigns
•Plans to meet/revise
NO DATA
NO DATA
NO DATA
NO DATA
NO DATA
NO DATA
NO DATA
8: Water Consumption
9: Waste Water Management
•Access to Service
•Flood Occurrences and Management
•Economic Sustainability
•Infrastructures (Treatment Capacity, Treatment Level)
•Environmental Sustainability (energy efficiency,
sludge treatment)
•Integration into water management in general closing
the cycle
•Details of targets achieved or not
•Plans to meet/revise
NO DATA
NO DATA
NO DATA
NO DATA
The River
‘Today the river is an affront to the
standards a civilised society
should demand of its
environment. Untreated
sewage, pollutants, noxious
discharges all contribute to
water conditions and
environmental standards that
are perhaps the single most
deplorable feature of this
critical part of England’
(Lord Heseltine, 1983)
The River
10: Eco-Innovation
•Material Security
•Environmentally friendly technologies
•Social Innovation
•Jobs created in green sectors
•Share of energy from renewables
•Hybrid or fully electric cars
•Details of targets achieved
•Plans to meet/revise
11: Environmental Management of
the Local Authority
•ISO14001/EMAS
•Procurement
•Details of targets achieved
•Plans to meet/revise
12: Energy Performance
•Energy Consumption and performance of Municipal
buildings
•Development and Goals for Renewable energy share
•Strategy for renewable V non-renewable mix
•Integration and performance of renewable energy
technology in municipal buildings and homes
•development of compatible integrated systems
•Increasing the energy performance of buildings
•maximising the use of renewable energy in municipal
buildings and homes
•Measures to improve overall energy demand
performance
•Plans to meet/revise
The Audit: Where Are We
Stage One - Data Collection
Climate Change
Transport
Green Spaces
Nature and Biodiversity
Air Quality
Noise Pollution
Waste Production and Management
Water Consumption
Waste Water
Eco-Innovation and Employment
Environmental Management of the Local Authority
Energy Performance
Stage Two
Stage Three
The Audit: Where do we think we
are?
Failing
Average
Good/Excellent
5.6%
52.8%
41.6%
Moving Forward
• Focus on where we are falling short
• Realise the potential of upcoming strategies
• Don’t rest on our laurels where we perform
well.
Contact Details
Website: www.lowcarbonliverpool.com
Twitter: @lowcarbonlpool
Facebook: facebook.com/lowcarbonliverpool
Email: [email protected]
In Your Groups
• Recycling – what can we recycle?
• Cycling – but whose responsibility is it to improve?
(cyclists/drivers/the council)
• Better communication – apply strategies, clear messaging
• Public Transport – Quality and Health
• Seize the opportunities to promote a green economy
• Focus on Eco-Innovation (as it underpins everything else)
• Transport – need to move towards being able to move between
areas to improve liveability