Maria Cruz FERREIRA-COSTA

Managing Director -ALEMMURCIA City Council, Spain

ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

STRATEGIES FOR URBAN REGENERATION

Regeneration projects for a low-carbon

economy 29 May 2009 – Baia Mare,

Romania

CooperationCultureEconomyEnvironmentKnowledge SocietyMobilitySocial Affais

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body for Europe’s biggest cities

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body for Europe’s biggest cities

Platform to share knowledge & ideasExchange experienciesAnalyse common problemsDevelop innovative solutionsOrganise Forum, WG, Projects,

activities & eventsGIVE CITIES A VOICE!Engage in dialogue with the

European InstitutionsEUROCITIES Declaration on

Climate Change

Founded in 1986, then network brings together the local governments of more than 130 large

cities in over 30 European countries

Founded in 1986, then network brings together the local governments of more than 130 large

cities in over 30 European countries

The Municipality of MurciaThe Municipality of MurciaThe Municipality of MurciaThe 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)

- 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

- 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)

- 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 CITY: Capital of the Region of Murcia MURCIA CITY: Capital of the Region of Murcia with an area of 885.90 km2with an area of 885.90 km2

• 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

• 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

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!

European Cities are very different but we Do face similar difficulties and TRY TO solve problems together and find common solutions

European Cities are very different but we Do face similar difficulties and TRY TO solve problems together and find common solutions

From Sustainable Development

From Sustainable Development

Economic Development

Environmental Protection

Mobility

Improving Quality of Life

Compromises for a Sustainable Compromises for a Sustainable DevelopmentDevelopment

Compromises for a Sustainable Compromises for a Sustainable DevelopmentDevelopment

Sustainable managament of water resources: Our Historical problem!

Agenda 21 localEnlargement & Improving

Green Public SpacesPromoting renewable

energiesSustainable Urban Mobility:

Urban PlanAir Quality & Noise

ReductionRaising Enviromental

Awareness

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21PHASES AND MILESTONES

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 the 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

Local Energy Agency & Climate Change

Principales ObjetivosLOCAL ENERGETIC PLAN

•Local Energetic Consumption

•Transport & Urban Mobility

•Construction & Urbanistic Plan

•Education & Raising Awareness

Towards Sustainable DevelopmentLow Carbon

Towards Sustainable DevelopmentLow Carbon

Pollution

Noise

Emmissions

•Environmental •Social

•Economic

•Environmental •Social

•Economic

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.

BACKGROUND

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

CHARACTERISTICS

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21INITIALLY........SOME STATISTICS

• 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 PLAN 21Signature of Aalborg

Commitments

Analysis of the current situation.

Diagnostic.

Technical Diagnosis QualitativeDiagnosis Action Plan

District Plan 21

Creation of the A21L Office

Formulation of Indicators

Participation Plan

pre-operational phase

PREPARATION SCHEMA A21L

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

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

DIAGNOSIS OF MURCIA MUNICIPALITY

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21DIAGNOSIS

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

Evaluation of Strategic Lines

Evaluation of Indicators

Update the Action Plan

SUSTAINABILITY

FEEDBACK

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PLAN

PHILOSOPHY AND VISION

Synthesis of the principal environmental aspects.

Causes of the principal environmental aspects.

Identify Actions Formulation of Objectives.

Grouping of Actions into Strategic Lines

Formulation and Selection of INDICATORS

Evaluation and Monitoring

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.

Project Prioritisation Criteria Creation of Strategic Lines in order to deal with the objectives

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21ENVIRONMENTAL 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

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21STRUCTURE OF PLAN 21

 

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:

• Water• Waste• Quality of urban

environment• Atmosphere• Biodiversity

• Landscape• Land and

Environmental Risks• Health, society and

environmental risks• Cultural resources

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21

• 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).

SOME STATISTICS

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

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21

• Energy:- Production of energy using biogas.- Number of homes with solar

installationsPreparing to Apply in order to have an Preparing to Apply in order to have an IEE AgencyIEE 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

SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS

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

CHALLENGESMURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21

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

OBJECTIVES OF THE 21 PLANS

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

MURCIA DISTRICT PLAN 21

Objectives of the Local Strategy

Objectives of the Local Strategy

To know the emissions from the MunicipalityTo Reduce the emmissions caused by Municipal activityTo develop and to enlarge green areas as reducing carbon emissionsTo promote the use of more efficinet technologies in the energetic comsuption areaTo ADAPT!To raise awareness

To know the emissions from the MunicipalityTo Reduce the emmissions caused by Municipal activityTo develop and to enlarge green areas as reducing carbon emissionsTo promote the use of more efficinet technologies in the energetic comsuption areaTo ADAPT!To raise awareness

Objetive of the Local Strategy against Climate

Change

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.

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 ACTING PLAN ACTING PLAN ACTING PLAN •Housing• Industrial and Commercial

Sector•Municipal Activity•Waste Plants•MOBILITY

102 proposed measures

102 proposed measures

Driving: Saving 15%Driving: Saving 15%

CO2CO2

2012

2012

URBAN MOBILITYURBAN MOBILITYURBAN MOBILITYURBAN MOBILITYUrban Mobility PlanTramDevelopment of the BIKE NET and GREEN PATHSBICING 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

•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!Promote WALKING!

Murcia 10.000 Murcia 10.000 stepssteps

Ayuntamiento de Murcia

Following the path, we will walk 10.000 steps6.5 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 furnitureClear enough to follow the way!

Urban Local Path Net, MURCIA

Indeed! 8 Municipal Districts will join The design has taken many

issues into considerationTransit areas, peadonal areas,

gardens, dimmesnios of the streesBuildings, squares, and

cultural places, touristcal interestLocal carachter

Urban Local Path Net, MURCIA

USE THE BIKEUSE THE BIKE!!USE THE BIKEUSE 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

OBJECTIVES:

Incentivate NEW MODELS of sustainable mobilityDesign a road’s netPromote the use of bikes

as transport-mode Facilitate the use to

citizens Proposals in new Urban

Plans

ESTRATEGIC PLAN for the USE of BIKES

Criteria to be considered during the desing:

Integrate it in urban areaContinuitySecurityAccessibilityItermodalityCONSESUM

STRATEGIC PLAN for the USE of BIKES

RENTING - BICING

Where? Capacity?ManagementServices & complementary

measuresPerformances Indicators

STRATEGIC PLAN for the USE of BIKES

Public RENTING – BICING!

Raising AwarenessRaising AwarenessRaising AwarenessRaising AwarenessSchoolsGreen HomesGreen CommerceWebGreen SuggestionsClimate Change OfficeCampaings

SchoolsGreen HomesGreen CommerceWebGreen SuggestionsClimate Change OfficeCampaings

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