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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