Implementing ecoBUDGET

in Asian Local Governments

Implementing ecoBUDGET

in Asian Local Governments

A co-operation project between Europe and Asia

eng. Raffaella Guêze

Municipality of Bologna

Environmental Quality Unit

Fifth European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns

• ecoBUDGET concept

• ecoBUDGET project in Asia

• ecoBUDGET experience in Bologna

CONTENTS

ecoBUDGET CONCEPT

The “environmental budget” adopting the same principles as a financial budget, provides a set of indicators and relative short term targets for the planning, monitoring and reporting of the consumption of natural resources within the municipal territory, as a result of sustainability-oriented policy

ecoBUDGET is an environmental management tool designed specifically for local authorities and first implemented by ICLEI in 1987.

ecoBUDGET experience in Bologna

THE CITY OF BOLOGNA - GENERAL INFORMATION

Capital of the Crucial railway and motorway junction Emilia-Romagna Region

Population: Strong presence of small and medium 373.592 inhabitants industry (Emilian model)

Land area: Biggest middle ages city center in Europe 140,846 Km2 (restricted traffic zone)

ecoBUDGET LIFE PROJECT

The adoption of the ecoBUDGET method in Bologna started in September 2001, thanks to the European ecoBUDGET project, funded by the European Commission’s LIFE programme

The positive result of this experience led the municipality to adopt ecoBudget as a stable environmental budgeting system for the city

The project, co-ordinated by the city of Växjö (Sweden) under the ICLEI technical assistance, led to the ecoBUDGET implementation in different European cities (Greece, Italy, Sweden, UK)

In 2004, the LIFE project closed the first ecoBudget cycle

THE DOCUMENTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL BUDGET

The Master Budget defines critical and priority resources, indicators, targets and actions plan to reach the target

The Budget Balance shows the achievements of the targets

The Set of context indicators refers about the trend of the selected indicators

HERE WE ARE

Ist ECOBUDGET CYCLE

L.I.T. APRIL 2002

MASTER BUDGET FEBRUARY

2003

BUDGET BALANCE MAY 2004

IInd ECOBUDGET CYCLE

MASTER BUDGET JULY 2006

BUDGET BALANCE ? APRIL 2007

MASTER BUDGET ‘07 ? JUNE 2007

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December 2004 Ecobudget Asia started

• New Structural Plan

ON GOING

• UNICA project

• Social balance

• Context indicators

• Economic aspects

• Integration with SEA

• Aalborg Commitments

• Social sphere

ecoBUDGET Asia

Programme Asia-Urbs, Europe - Asia co-operation

Duration 36 months (December 2004 - December 2007)

Total cost 983.510 €

EU funding 733.060 €

Partners

» Bologna Municipality (Italy) - co-ordinator

» Guntur Municipal Corporation (India)

» Växjö Municipality (Sweden)

» Province of Bohol (Philippines)

ecoBUDGET ASIA

Transfer to the Asian partners the experiences gained by European

partners from the previous project ( Bologna- Italy and Vaxjo-Sweden)

MAIN GOALS

Activities:International workshops, field visites, seminars

Technical consultancy and distance learning courses

MUNICIPALITY OF GUNTUR

GUNTUR District

• Area 45,79 km

• population: 511.992 inhabitants• 270 km from Hyderabad, Guntur is the Head Quarters of the Guntur

district

• Guntur is a very Popular Commercial Centre. It is the Production, Marketing and Distributing centre of Agricultural produce like Chillies, Onions, Corriander, and also for tobaco

www.gunturcorporation.com

1st WORKSHOP IN BOLOGNAThe Mayor of Bologna with project delegations

Working sessions

Guntur delegation Bohol delegation Vaxjo delegation

THE GUNTUR ENVIRONMENTAL MASTER BUDGET

Res

ou

rces

(rel

ated

to

issu

es) Indicator Current value

Long-term target Short term targetvalue (March 2007) Source/justification

Monitoring of the quality(number of parametersmonitored)

1 (Only ResidualChlorine)

14 (with full fledgedlaboratory) by 2010

14 (with indicative figure)

The number of parameterschecked is instrumental to a bettercontrol and thus a better quality ofwater

Wat

er Q

ualit

y

Frequency of themonitoring(n. analysis per month,at each reservoir, on abasis of 30 samples perday)

2 (on 1 parameter)5 (on 14 parameters)

by 20102 (on 14 parameters)

To monitor the water morefrequently and regularly helps inidentifying the proper measures toimprove the quality

Monitoring of loss ofwater in the pipelines

Water supplythrough pipedNetwork covered:80% area; throughTankers 20% area,but water quantity isnot quantified

Address to Minimisethe losses to minimumfrom both piped andtanker supply by 2010

Quantity of water throughTankers is going to bequantified and the supplymonitored through aspecific software

The loss of water is a waste of thenatural resource ‘water’ andcauses severe financial losses tothe municipal corporation and tothe community

Wat

er q

uant

ity

Supply of potable water[Condition of thetargets: Liters percapita per day (LPCD)and supply of hours per7 days]

110 LPCD, no 24hour water supply

135 LPCD and theentire city will have 24hrs water supply by2015

120 LPCD and at least 4pilot areas of 24 hourwater supply

Guntur is currently below thenational standards for delivering ofwater quality.

City councillors

In autumn 2006, the Guntur’s city council approved the Environmental Master Budget

City councillors

FIELD VISITS IN GUNTURWaste treatment plant

1st Field visit (June 2005). Bologna municipal experts did some inspections in Guntur environmental management.

WASTE was considered the critical issue.

House-to-house separate wastecollection

2nd Field Visit (September 2006). The HERA enviromental Manager provided a useful Technical support on waste management system.

Sweepers

NEXT STEPS

• 4th Workshop in Växjö (April 2007)

• Asia Budget Balance ratification

• Final conference in India and Philippines

(Autumn 2007)

• Project Results

Citizenship participation is recommended

LESSONS LEARNED SO FAR

Define an Action plan identifying a person responsible for each action

Identify a technical person responsible for each indicator

Find a strong relationship between indicator results and action contributions

We can sustain the dream to create a poverty-free world!

(Muhammad Yunus - The Nobel Peace Prize 2006)

More info: www.ecobudget-asia.net rgueze@comune.bologna.it

Thank you!

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