One Planet Cardiff - Forbury Investment Network
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One Planet Cardiff A Sustainable City
Tara King Assistant Director Environment
Why One Planet Cardiff? • Clarity of message
– coherent and simple, to bring together the Council‟s wide and diverse sustainable development work
• Move from Sustainable Council to Sustainable City – greater engagement with major players, stakeholders and citizens
• Our commitments: – Cardiff Council Sustainable Development Policy Statement
– WG Sustainable Development Charter signatory
– EU Covenant of Mayors signatory
• Our obligations: – Upcoming WG Sustainable Development Bill
– Climate Change Act – (resilience and adaptation)
City Governance and Support • Recognition of need:
• Clarity of message coming from our citizens – People face significant dilemma, to work, to heat, to eat, can they thrive
into the future where public funds face ever increasing reduction?
• Move from Sustainable Council to Sustainable City – The energy and water management agendas affect all and in those
dilemmas will either unite or divide a city
– Need to build people‟s resilience through business and the knowledge economy
– Innovate, collaborate, unite business, knowledge, innovators and public services
– To plan for significant growth of the City increasing by a third by 2026
– What are the right governance structures for local city owned utilities?
– How do we get the best for our City that can be sustained?
• Cardiff today is a three planet city. If everyone in the world consumed natural resources and generated CO2 at the rate we do in Cardiff, we would need three planet equivalent to support us.
• “Ecological Footprint” – land required to produce everything an average citizen consumes.
• The aspiration is for Cardiff to be a one planet city by 2050
• Compliments WG Sustainable Development Scheme, One Wales: One Planet
2010:
2030:
2050:
Ecological Footprint
• Key areas for action in Cardiff footprint:
– Energy
– Waste
– Transport
– Food
– Water
– Place
– People
Sustainable Development
To achieve sustainable development economic activity should work towards social progress, and that this must be achieved within environmental limits
• Aim of Cardiff being a leader in sustainable thinking and doing –
innovation for business development and job creation
• One Planet Cardiff needs one planet people, need a one planet
thinking and doing Council and City leaders
• Positive behavioural change essential to achieve the One Planet
Cardiff vision
• Making the sustainable choice for our residents:
– The easy and smart option
– The norm
• Most of our energy supply comes from finite and polluting fossil fuels, plus there are energy security issues and „peak oil‟
• We will reduce demand for energy and invest in sustainable energy supply locally
• Signatory to EU Covenant of Mayors commits us to a 26% reduction in per capita CO2 emissions by 2020
• Additionally the Council has a commitment to reduce CO2 emissions from our own activities by 60% by 2018
• Development of an “Energy Strategy” for the City
• The Energy Strategy modelling has started and engaged leading representatives from public, universities, government and business and technical to;
– Find all opportunities and assess criteria
– Prioritise those opportunities
– Develop funding opportunities and business cases
– Develop an Energy Prospectus for the City
– Integrate existing projects and opportunities
• By 2050 Cardiff will be a Zero Waste City
• Aim to minimise waste, re-use and maximise the amount of waste that can be recycled or composted, or produce energy and fuel
• First UK city to collect food waste throughout the City
• Education and awareness raising – e.g. Tidy Text service, landlord forums, business rates info, etc.
• Draft statutory target outcome has achieved 52% recycling / composting rate, new strategy in development
• Welsh Government designated Sustainable Travel City
• Range of projects:
– Cardiff Car Club
– Park and Ride facilities
– Strategic cycle network for the city
– Pont y Werin
– Travel planning
– SMART city hub to monitor and manage transport movement in the city
– LDP Transport Planning
• 50% of all journeys in Cardiff will be made by sustainable travel
modes by 2026 (essential to deliver the LDP)
• Food is the largest component of our ecological footprint – farming,
processing, packaging, distribution, catering, retail and waste
• Aim to increase consumption of fresh, seasonal and organic foods
• Worlds first Fairtrade Capital City
• Member of WHO Healthy Cities network
• Partner in Cardiff Food Council – merging of environmental and
healthy food agendas
• „Love Food Hate Waste‟ agenda ;
• Support Cardiff Food Bank
• We need to use water wisely to ensure water security – education around water efficiency
• Sustainable drainage schemes & flood water protection target to become a „Water Sensitive City‟
• We need to prepare for flooding – protection measures, spatial planning and communications campaigns
• Cardiff Bay utilises water as a resource for tourism, recreation and biodiversity
• Hydropower generation from rivers and exploration of tidal power
• The city is set to grow by – LDP will guide this growth
• Master-planning for sustainable communities
– design and build standards
– Good local facilities
– Sustainable and active travel choices
– Localised energy and water solutions?
• Cardiff - more green space per person than any UK core city
– Vast network of Rights of Way – 3 River Trails and Wales Coastal Path
– Accessible green space essential to residents physical and mental
wellbeing
• New build alternative heat sources and systems, passive heated
homes
One Planet Cardiff Delivery Plan
• A range of practical projects to illustrate and deliver the One Planet
Cardiff vision
• Year 1 of the Plan in delivery– rolling programme updated annually
• Delivery plan will:
– Measure progress and successes
– Bring together all the work on One Planet Cardiff
– Identify gaps in work
– Include aspirational projects
– Engage with the city leaders in business, education and enerprise and
partners
Existing Delivery - examples
Green Dragon Level 3
Weir sites for hydro power
Ely Mill development
Greener Grangetown
Cardiff Partnering
Scheme
One Planet Cardiff Festival
Council wide energy efficiency
and management
Prosiect Gwyrdd