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Aberdeen City Council’s Priorities• Environment Management Policy (2001)
– Climate Change - carbon emissions
– Resource Use
– Sustainable Procurement
– Waste Management
– Biodiversity
– Strategic Environmental Assessment
– Environmental Awareness & Education
Climate Change
• Climate Change Action Plan and Carbon Management Plan
• Target CO2 emission target
– 10% by 2008
– 15% by 2010
• 2007 - 31 % reduction in CO2 emission
• Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group
• Renewables Connection
Sustainable Procurement
• Joint Sustainable Purchasing Policy– Timber– Copiers– Food– Fairtrade
• The Canny Buyer - www.cannybuyer.com
Waste Management
• Waste Strategy - Area Waste Plan
• Issues of landfill vs energy from waste
• Landfill fines from EU will begin - £150 tonne
• Target - 40% recycling by 2011
• Current recycling rate 20% - domestic
• Strategic Waste Fund (£25m - 20 yrs)
Biodiversity
• Legislation
– Nature Conservation Act 2004
– Access Legislation - Core Paths
– Local Biodiversity Action Plans
• Parks and Greenspaces management
– Aberdeen City Countryside Rangers
• Partnerships
– Volunteers and Aberdeen Countryside Project
– East Grampian Coastal Partnership
Awareness Raising
• Leaflets - climate change, health, trails, biodiversity, fairtrade, etc
• Environmental Forum
• EcoCity
– Highland Games
– Award Scheme
– Spring Clean Ups
• www.aberdeencity.gov.uk - Your City - Your Environment
Strategic Environment Assessment• Statutory Requirement for all new policies and
programmes in Scotland• Similar to Environment Impact Assessment• Assesses 8 Environment indicators
Air Biodiversity
Water Soil
Cultural heritage Material Assets Landscape & Cultural Heritage
• Process requires SNH, Historic Scotland SEPA consultation and approval
Ecological Footprint
• North East project was a three year pilot to develop global footprint as a tool for policy making
• Scotland Global Footprint Project• Objectives
• Measure the North East’s Footprint• Develop a footprint software tool• Develop strategies and projects to
reduce footprint
What is Ecological Footprint?
• Calculates the area of land and sea needed to:– Support how much resources we use.
– Absorb how much waste we produce.
• Measured in global hectares per person (gha/person).
Ecological Footprint vs Carbon Footprint• Carbon footprint measure direct carbon emissions
– CO2 tonnes/per person
North East Scotland’s Footprint
• Currently all Earth resources can provide 1.9 gha/person
• North East Scotland global footprint is:– Aberdeen City 5.80 gha/person– Findhorn, Moray 2.60
gha/person– Scotland 5.37
gha/person
What does this mean?
What contributes to our Footprint?• Energy Use (23%)
– Energy Use
– Gas, Oil, Electricity
• Transport (14 %)– Cost of Fuel
– Private Car Use
– Transport Services
• Food and Drink (20 %)– Consumption
– Food miles
How Aberdeen City will use Ecological Footprint
• Environmental Baseline • Measure of Sustainable Development
– Links with Best Value
• Policy decision tool– Increased knowledge and choices
• Environment awareness tool– Links individual consumer behaviour to the
environment
Useful References
• Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, Penguin (1962)
• WCED, Our Common Future, Oxford, (1987)
• The Real World Coalition - From here to Sustainability, Earthscan (2001), www.earthscan.co.uk
• www.earthsummit2002.org
• www.defra.gov.uk/environment/sustainable
• www.aberdeencity.gov.uk
• www.sustainable-scotland.net
• www.cannybuyer.com
• www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment
• www.scotlandsfootprint.org
• www.nesbiodiversity.org.uk