One Planet Cardiff A Sustainable City

Tara King Assistant Director Environment

Why One Planet Cardiff? • Clarity of message

– coherent and simple, to bring together the Council‟s wide and diverse sustainable development work

• Move from Sustainable Council to Sustainable City – greater engagement with major players, stakeholders and citizens

• Our commitments: – Cardiff Council Sustainable Development Policy Statement

– WG Sustainable Development Charter signatory

– EU Covenant of Mayors signatory

• Our obligations: – Upcoming WG Sustainable Development Bill

– Climate Change Act – (resilience and adaptation)

City Governance and Support • Recognition of need:

• Clarity of message coming from our citizens – People face significant dilemma, to work, to heat, to eat, can they thrive

into the future where public funds face ever increasing reduction?

• Move from Sustainable Council to Sustainable City – The energy and water management agendas affect all and in those

dilemmas will either unite or divide a city

– Need to build people‟s resilience through business and the knowledge economy

– Innovate, collaborate, unite business, knowledge, innovators and public services

– To plan for significant growth of the City increasing by a third by 2026

– What are the right governance structures for local city owned utilities?

– How do we get the best for our City that can be sustained?

• Cardiff today is a three planet city. If everyone in the world consumed natural resources and generated CO2 at the rate we do in Cardiff, we would need three planet equivalent to support us.

• “Ecological Footprint” – land required to produce everything an average citizen consumes.

• The aspiration is for Cardiff to be a one planet city by 2050

• Compliments WG Sustainable Development Scheme, One Wales: One Planet

2010:

2030:

2050:

Ecological Footprint

• Key areas for action in Cardiff footprint:

– Energy

– Waste

– Transport

– Food

– Water

– Place

– People

Sustainable Development

To achieve sustainable development economic activity should work towards social progress, and that this must be achieved within environmental limits

• Aim of Cardiff being a leader in sustainable thinking and doing –

innovation for business development and job creation

• One Planet Cardiff needs one planet people, need a one planet

thinking and doing Council and City leaders

• Positive behavioural change essential to achieve the One Planet

Cardiff vision

• Making the sustainable choice for our residents:

– The easy and smart option

– The norm

• Most of our energy supply comes from finite and polluting fossil fuels, plus there are energy security issues and „peak oil‟

• We will reduce demand for energy and invest in sustainable energy supply locally

• Signatory to EU Covenant of Mayors commits us to a 26% reduction in per capita CO2 emissions by 2020

• Additionally the Council has a commitment to reduce CO2 emissions from our own activities by 60% by 2018

• Development of an “Energy Strategy” for the City

• The Energy Strategy modelling has started and engaged leading representatives from public, universities, government and business and technical to;

– Find all opportunities and assess criteria

– Prioritise those opportunities

– Develop funding opportunities and business cases

– Develop an Energy Prospectus for the City

– Integrate existing projects and opportunities

• By 2050 Cardiff will be a Zero Waste City

• Aim to minimise waste, re-use and maximise the amount of waste that can be recycled or composted, or produce energy and fuel

• First UK city to collect food waste throughout the City

• Education and awareness raising – e.g. Tidy Text service, landlord forums, business rates info, etc.

• Draft statutory target outcome has achieved 52% recycling / composting rate, new strategy in development

• Welsh Government designated Sustainable Travel City

• Range of projects:

– Cardiff Car Club

– Park and Ride facilities

– Strategic cycle network for the city

– Pont y Werin

– Travel planning

– SMART city hub to monitor and manage transport movement in the city

– LDP Transport Planning

• 50% of all journeys in Cardiff will be made by sustainable travel

modes by 2026 (essential to deliver the LDP)

• Food is the largest component of our ecological footprint – farming,

processing, packaging, distribution, catering, retail and waste

• Aim to increase consumption of fresh, seasonal and organic foods

• Worlds first Fairtrade Capital City

• Member of WHO Healthy Cities network

• Partner in Cardiff Food Council – merging of environmental and

healthy food agendas

• „Love Food Hate Waste‟ agenda ;

• Support Cardiff Food Bank

• We need to use water wisely to ensure water security – education around water efficiency

• Sustainable drainage schemes & flood water protection target to become a „Water Sensitive City‟

• We need to prepare for flooding – protection measures, spatial planning and communications campaigns

• Cardiff Bay utilises water as a resource for tourism, recreation and biodiversity

• Hydropower generation from rivers and exploration of tidal power

• The city is set to grow by – LDP will guide this growth

• Master-planning for sustainable communities

– design and build standards

– Good local facilities

– Sustainable and active travel choices

– Localised energy and water solutions?

• Cardiff - more green space per person than any UK core city

– Vast network of Rights of Way – 3 River Trails and Wales Coastal Path

– Accessible green space essential to residents physical and mental

wellbeing

• New build alternative heat sources and systems, passive heated

homes

One Planet Cardiff Delivery Plan

• A range of practical projects to illustrate and deliver the One Planet

Cardiff vision

• Year 1 of the Plan in delivery– rolling programme updated annually

• Delivery plan will:

– Measure progress and successes

– Bring together all the work on One Planet Cardiff

– Identify gaps in work

– Include aspirational projects

– Engage with the city leaders in business, education and enerprise and

partners

Existing Delivery - examples

Green Dragon Level 3

Weir sites for hydro power

Ely Mill development

Greener Grangetown

Cardiff Partnering

Scheme

One Planet Cardiff Festival

Council wide energy efficiency

and management

Prosiect Gwyrdd