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SITGES TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY

SITGES TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY. Bologna, November 27 th 2002. Departament de Medi Ambient. Location. Objectives of the project. 1. To carry out an environmental and socioeconomic analysis of the municipality. 2. To design a sustainability management system in sitges.

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SITGES TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY

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  1. SITGES TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY Bologna, November 27th 2002 Departament de Medi Ambient

  2. Location

  3. Objectives of the project 1. To carry out an environmental and socioeconomic analysis of the municipality 2. To design a sustainability management system in sitges 3. To implement and obtain the new european union - ecomanagement and audit scheme (emas) at the city council level (municipal administration) 4. To create the sustainability committee of sitges and to draw up the local agenda 21

  4. 5. To develop an intensive communication and environmental education campaign addressed to all the population and all the agents 6. To develop the different environmental programmes agreed in the forums and in the EMAS 7. To create the “sitges observatory of sustainability” (environmental and socioeconomic indicators)

  5. Principles for an environmental municipal policy 1. To plan the urban growth with sustainability criteria 2. To provide the municipality with the infrastructures and services needed 3. To introduce and promote environmental management tools in the municipal council and in all the activities and organizations of the municipality 4. To create mechanisms of environmental information and awareness among the different sectors and inhabitants 5. To balance andintegrate services, work and housing through all the areas 6. To open participation in local development planning to all social and economic agents

  6. Weak points of hundreds of LA21 in the world since Rio’92 1. Not extended in all the territories, yet 2. Voluntary commitment (not certified): low real application of the local action plans 3. Partial implication: focused mainly in one of the stakeholders: the local goverments and some sectors

  7. WITHOUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS, SUSTAINABILITY IS IMPOSSIBLE: • GOVERNMENTS • ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SECTORS • POPULATION IN GENERAL • (NEIGHBOURS COMMUNITIES) WE NEED REFLECTION AND INNOVATION...

  8. ...WE NEED REFLECTION AND INNOVATION…: EMAS + AGENDA 21 A STEP TOWARDS SOLUTION OF THOSE WEAK POINTS

  9. EMAS + AGENDA 21 - External verification - Better application guarantees of the action plans - Continuous improving - ENVIRONMENTAL ANALISYS: DIRECT AND INDIRECT ASPECTS - PROCEDURES: GENERAL AND OPERATIVE EMAS +Goals and programmes: the intersection - Multilevel - Progressive extension in a tree structure - Separation of SECTORS and POPULATION (neighbour communities): independent NEIGHBOUR ASSEMBLIES and SECTORIAL ASSEMBLIES - Permanent participation A21

  10. EMAS implementation within the Council Public participation: Local Agenda 21 2 3 1 Environmental analysis The Sustainability Management System: EMAS + AGENDA 21

  11. Municipal Environmental Analysis 1 Review of different environmental aspects of the municipality of Sitges related to: Direct aspects Public services: cleaning, picking solid waste up, beaches, social assistence, education, health, public transport,... Municipal Instalations and buildings Territorial aspects: natural systems, urban systems Indirect aspects (more significatives) Economic activities, population behaviour, economic models, tourism, mobility, local culture, employment, immigration, use of natural resources...

  12. General Municipal Aspects URBAN PLANNING WATER CONSUMPTION ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION MOBILITY REFUSE PRODUCTION SEWAGE DISPOSAL AIR POLLUTION

  13. General Municipal Aspects NOISE PRODUCTS AND RAW MATERIAL CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL SYSTEMS PREVENTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

  14. EMAS at the Local Administration 2 Is the mechanism to assure a good environmental behaviour, in order to include sustainability criteria in policy, as to the internal going. Is reviewed periodically through an external audit.

  15. SUSTAINABILITY COMISSION OF THE COUNCIL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ASSEMBLIES (A21) EXTERNAL AUDIT. VALIDATION AND REGISTRATION GOALS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMES INTERNAL AUDIT ORGANIZATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT EMAS DOCUMENTATION: PROCEDURES AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONS CONTROL AND FOLLOW-UP INDICATORS PROCEDURES AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONS INTERNAL TRAINING AND COMMUNICATION planning Continual improvement follow-up implementation

  16. Procedures General (9): -Aspects identification -Legislation control -Goals and achievements -Internal and external communication -Public participation -Internal training -Documentation control -Audit, etc.

  17. Procedures Operatives (21): -Project construction -Water management -Traffic management -Waste management -Urban cleaning -General services: gardens, beaches, maintenance, etc. -Purchases and contracts -Natural spaces management -Economic activities control -Buildings: consumes and emergencies -Police controls - etc...

  18. EMAS + AGENDA 21 - External verification - Better application guarantees of the action plans - Continuous improving - ENVIRONMENTAL ANALISYS: DIRECT AND INDIRECT ASPECTS - PROCEDURES: GENERAL AND OPERATIVE EMAS +Goals and programmes: the intersection - Multilevel - Progressive extension in a tree structure - Separation of SECTORS and POPULATION (neighbour communities): independent NEIGHBOUR ASSEMBLIES and SECTORIAL ASSEMBLIES - Permanent participation A21

  19. Public participation: Local Agenda 21 (LA21) 3 Townspeople have the capacity to decide the future agenda of the environmental actions of their town. They only have to obtain general consensus in their proposals.

  20. Neighborhood meeting Neighborhood meeting Neighbours Sectors, organizations, technicians City Council, Regional administrations Neighborhood meeting Neighborhood meeting Agreements (AL21) To develop by MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY Neighborhood meeting Neighborhood meeting Neighborhood meeting Neighborhood meeting SECTORIAL ASS. (technicians &sectors) Development agreements Proposals by neighborhood and General CONSENSUS Focused information by neighborhood Look for consensus information Information and consensus in the streets and home assembly Sitges towards Sustainability Participation process FOR EACH ASPECT SECTORIAL ASS. (technicians &sectors) Offer their knowledge and work for assembly discussion MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY Plan the thematic cycle decision

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