Satawu and transport climate jobs

ITF Climate Change workshop

Durban

1st and 2nd December 2011

Intro : Satawu & climate change

Satawu : 140,000 workers in all transport, cleaning and security

ITF Discussion Document : “Transport Workers and Climate Change : Towards Sustainable low-carbon mobility”

Satawu participation in building the Million Climate Jobs Campaign and providing research into transport climate jobs

Cosatu climate change policy process & July workshop Satawu workshop for 35 participants in August 2011

Some SA transport indicators

Largest CO2 emitter from fuel combustion in Africa Road freight sector consumes 27% of fuel energy and

dumped 23mt GHGs in 2009 (CSIR 7th State of Logistics Survey)

34,664 new trucks on the road in 2009 Road crashes : Annual 900,000 collisions, 17,000 deaths

and R50bn cost 700,000 kms roads. 20,000 kms rail 12% of internal freight volume by rail – despite 40% lower

rates

South Africa’s emissions

Rich countries create 60% annual GHG emissions (only 20% population).

South Africa produces1% of world’s GHG’s.

Emissions per person per year– USA 20 tons– Norway 11 tons– South Africa 9 tons (worst in Africa)– Bangladesh 0.5 tons

Transport emissions in SA 2000

9.1% of all GHG’s plus international aviation and shipping

Road transport 7.8% of all GHGs Local maritime 0.023% Local civil aviation 0.008%

Road Transport 74% transport emissions Motorised Road Vehicles Nov 2006

Motorcars 4,883,885

Minibuses 265,692

Buses 36,436

Motorcyles 278,451

LDVs – bakkies 1,684,200

Trucks 278,699

Other and unknown 210,513

Total 7,113,309

So which vehicle is the biggest challenge?

 

Current transport jobs in SA

250,000 taxis 300,000 road freight (outsourced 60,000) 60,000 maritime (mainly ports) 50,000 rail and rail engineering 50,000 bus 50,000 aviation 3,000 pipelines

Reminder: Strategy for reduction of emissions

Shift modesReduce the need for transportImprove technology

Public Transport : Number One

2003 National Travel Survey 50000 households

Public transport use 32% of commuters use private car 25% use taxi 23% walk 8% use bus 6% train

More passengers More jobs

Attract 10% of car commuters to public transport

200,000 taxi commuters 4,5000 jobs

500,000 bus commuters 7,000 jobs

800,000 train commuters 2,380 jobs

Plus 55,640 indirect jobs

Bicycles and safe walking

Increase current 400,000 bicycles and create jobs in manufacture and bicyle lane construction. Improve health at the same time.

Pedestrians account for nearly 5,000 road deaths a year! Create safe walking spaces and “green lungs”

Long distance rail

Half a million people travel to another centre every month. But currently a hopeless long distance rail system

Grow the long distance service by 10% and create 398 new jobs

Expand rail freight

Increase rail volumes by 18% Create 8,208 jobs

Keep trucking volumes steady but reduce emissions

Use cleaner fuels – tighter regulation Reduce fuel use

– Cut speeds– Run with full loads– Improve driver handling– Better maintenance

Promote SA owned shipping – especially coastal

95% of trade volumes by sea, but not a single deep sea merchant ship!

Address registration obstacles 300 merchant ships (120 coastal) would create

26,000 ratings jobs and 5,200 for officers Multiplier of 8x in support services Reduce maritime emissions by cutting speed –

even more jobs!

Reduce aviation emissions

Key to reduced aviation emissions is better air traffic control and slower speeds

More air traffic controllers More pilots and cabin crew

Summary of direct & indirect jobs

Bus 7,000 35,000 42,000 Taxi 4,500 13,500 18,000 Comm rail 2,380 7,140 9,420 LD rail 398 1,194 1,592 Rail freight 8,208 24,624 32,832 Seafaring 31,200 249,600 280,800 Total 53,486 331,058 384,644

A Win Win!Forward to a low carbon transport future, Foward