Small Islands, big thrills

Waar kleine eilanden groot in zijn

Statia Sustainable Conference25 septembre 2012Paul Paree, City of Breda

Sustainable Breda

• Breda-standard: high ambition and performance• Sustainability vision Breda: healthy, clean, safe, quiet,

affordable • Policy making interactive with stakeholders• Sustainability platform and Energy Council • Stakeholders work together:

1+1=3(project developers, constructing firms, technical installers, banks, marketing advisors, knowledge institutes, local government, energycompany, civilians)

Sustainable Breda

• Stakeholder working together:-Mutual goals

-Program+Action plan-Gains for every particant

• Support frontrunners• Frontrunners:

-pilot-projects with higher ambition

-show which ambition is reasonably possible -spread the word to collegaes+sharing knowledge

• Together set the higher ambition of Breda

Mechanism

• Mutual gain and interdependency

• Different actors, interests and objectives

• Level playing field• Same actors• Competition ‘forces level

playing field upwards’

Outcom

e market:

Sustainable perform

ance

FrontrunnerFrontrunner

Frontrunner

Frontrunner

Frontrunner

Slow mover

Set ambition on playing field competition

Why environmental ambition?

Saving natural resources, economical value (water, soil, air,waste)

Saving costs: less + recycled waste, lower energy- and waterbill

Independency: of other (is)lands, of rising fuel prices

More healthy (water, soil, air, safety)

Long term thinking: for our children, flexibility, climate-adaptation

Public relations: green island/hotel, visitors, international image

New jobs: recycling waste, selling knowledge, better financing

Why an environmental program?

• Wet VROM-BES: obligation• Organize stakeholders working together

(local governement and local stakeholder

and national stakeholders) • Environmental policy I&M, ELI, OCW• Make program and priorities long term (5 years)• Decide what to do first year, within possibilities• Interest investers (long term thinking, certainty)

Goals sustainable program

•Sustainable businesses

•Sustainanble mobility

•Sustainable buildings

•Sustainable energyproduction

• Sustainable government

Themes environmental program

• Water + soil• Waste• Businesses• External safety and hazardous substances• Environmental effect survey and spatial planning• Energy• Air, light, noise

Theme water + soil

• Drinkingwater

• Watermanagement, erosion, sedimentation

• Soil-and waterquality

• Mineral exctraction and -use

• Climatechange

Waste

• Waste of household and businesses

• Recycling/re-use

• Collecting-structure and recycling centre

• Landfill and final processing

• Export hazardous waste

• Biomedic waste etc.

Businesses

• Standard rules for businesses and activities

• Environmental permits

External safety and hazerdous substances

• Asbestos

• Halogenated chlorofluorocarbons

• Biocides/pcb’s

• Fireworks

• Transport hazerdous substances

Environmental effect survey and spatial planning

• Environmental effect survey

• Spatial planning

Energy

• Energysaving• Sustainable energy

• Buildings• Households• Businesses• Trafic

Other themes

• Air

• Light

• Noise

How to realize program + projects

• Support frontrunners/good initiatives• Organize stakeholders working together• Organize sharing knowledge, show possiblities• Sustainability platform• Communication about new rules, step by step• Environmental education• Maintain rules• International image, long term thinking, better

financing projects• Gain for every participant

Process environmental plan

• Concept-environmental plan:Discussed with locals government, stakeholders and some businesses

• Comments collecting and new concept• Townhallmeeting: discuss with all business and

general public• Environmental program 2013-2017 • All people of Statia participating