Design and development of an environmental action plan

Design and implementation of an environmental action plan

(EAP)

Diana Carolina Sierra Cárdenas

Ecóloga de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Magíster en Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo de la

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

To have in mind

Plans

Measurements to take

Statagic features

To carry a problem

Wide contexts

Build up a plan

Take similar topics or grops of problems.

Organize the actions of the planPrograms

Proposal on an issue or solving of a problem in specific

Objectives,targects, actions and indicators clearly defined

Especific contexts

Projects

It consists of objectives, targets, actions and General indicators

(Definiton adpated from Vega, 2001; Ley 152 de 1994)

Conceptos importantes…

Effective: When the project achieves

its objectives and goals.

Efficiency: Obtains and develops their

goals by using resources in an optimal

manner (materials, time, etc.).

Effectiveness: Effective and efficient

at the time

(Vega, 2001)

What is an environmental action plan?

It is an operational instrument, which operates within the framework of the

environmental management plans ,carried out in a specific environmental

context, where it is necessary to treat and/or solve environmental problems,

providing operational solutions of strategic type

(Definition adapdted from Vega, 2001; Corporación Ambiental

empresarial, 2008)

• It is materialized in a document that serves as a tool Guide for the purposes proposed in previous lines; This must be raised by the members of an organization, under the precept based on the balanced use of natural resources, without neglecting economic and financial resources management, as well as human, for the minimization of environmental impacts caused by the same organization.

¿Qué es un Plan de Acción Ambiental?

(Definition adapdted from Vega, 2001 ; Corporación

Ambiental empresarial, 2008)

Estructure of an EAP

EAP

Estrategic component

ObjectivesGoals

Estrategies

Resource component

Human, technical and economical resources

ProgramsProjects

(Definition adapdted from la Ley 152 de 1994)

Estretegic component

Objectives: Are environmental purposes authorized under the

Organization's policy. They pose as comprehensive and achievable

statements that seeks to achieve a reality .These must be

realistic, effective, coherent and quantifiable.

Goals: Arising from the environmental objectives, and evaluate

the achievement of them.They pose a delimitation and

quantification of the objectives in quantity and time, being a

temporal and quantitative target

Strategies: The paths and steps to follow through ,which later

becomes the objectives the goals articulated.

(Definition adapdted from Corporación Ambiental empresarial, 2008)

Resource component

• Resources available: technological, human and

financial.

• Programs: set of guidelines that determine media that

articulated from the head of the organization can

provide a comprehensive solution to the problems.

• Projects: Articulate programmes as such, developing

them by segments and making them easy to use with

regard to the fulfilment of objectives, indicators

analysis and resource management.


Basic elements of a EAP

Environmental Diagnose

Solutions

Follow and evavluation


Environmental diagnose

Important:

Define a period of time, long enough to establish a pattern and behavior . Not so long, in order to avoid making futile efforts; or which is sufficiently short to

not set the behavior of the organization.

Environmental situation of the institution

Environmental evaluation

Principal environmental problems are postulated

Actiond than have been carried out so far to solve the issue

(Definition adapdted from la Corporación Ambiental empresarial, 2008)

Environmental situation of the institution

Process Entries ExitsEnvironmental

aspectEnvrionmental

factor

Possible environmental

impact

Break and recess hours

Packaged food

Solid wastes

Deposition of solid wastes in incorrect

places

Kg of solid wates produced in an

hour at break time

Visual pollution of the

stablishment

Guideline of the processes

Importante: Processes are defined, depending on the nature of the Organization, or area and part of the processes of that area.


(Definition adapdted from Corporación Ambiental empresarial, 2008; ICONTEC, 2004)


Entries Processes Exits

Packaged food

Break hour

Classified solid wastes

Noise produced by students

Excess noise

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Process Diagram

(Definition adapdted from Corporación Ambiental empresarial, 2008; ICONTEC, 2004)

Environmental evaluation

Central problem

Primary causes

Primary causes

Possible solution

Secondary causes

Secondary causes

Secondary causes

Secondary causes

Secondary causes

Possible solution

Possible solution

Possible solution

Possible solution

Possible solution

Possible solution

Possible solution

Guideline of environmental issues

(Definition adapdted from la Corporación Ambiental empresarial, 2008)

Solution(programs and projects)

Program Objetive Goal Indicator

Management of solid wastes

Reduce the daily amount of solid waste generated in the educational institution during the school day.

50% Daily reduction of solid waste generated in the educational institution during the school day, in pro to control the impacts associated with impaired quality of visual of the educational environment and the soil contamination in the regional context of the institution.

Kg/day/waste generated in the institution. Kg/day/waste sent to recovery by the percentage of recovered waste in the educational institution total waste generated

(Definition adapdted from Corporación Ambiental empresarial, 2008; Sánchez, 2011)

Managemente of solid wastes project

Project: "Give a break to the world" (proper management of solid waste during the hour of rest)

Project: "Renew your creativity" (reuse of solid waste to develop artistic projects and to incorporate them in the work of the subjects of the institution)

Objetives Objetives

Goals Goals

Indicators Indicators

Solution(programs and projects)

Cycle of the developmen of an EAP

Planification

ExectuionControl

Planified vs. exectuted

(Vega, 2001)

What has been done (to account for organization and coordination among the

members, assign responsibility and resources).

Follow and evaluation

Indicators

They are the particular instrument that applies to quantify or to make qualitative analysis of relevant aspects in each of the processes, results, impacts or effects a plan object.

They qualify the evolution of an organization over time, thus

noting trends that may in any particular case allow early

warning; additional, but no less important, they allow an

assessment of programmes and projects


Indicadores ambientales“… quantitative descriptors of the changes both in the environmental

pressures (caused by humans) in the State of the environment“ (Opshoor and Reijnders ;Kuik and Verbruggen, 1991: 8; Cuello and

Durbin, 1995)

Environmental performance indicators

Environmental quality indicators

Environmental treatment indicators

They provide specific information about the results of the environmental performance of an organization.

Describe the quality of the surrounding of the institution

Evidenced by the organisational actions are undertaken to minimize the environmental impacts caused.

(ICONTEC, 2004; Toro and Requena, 2007))

Mechanisms for the monitoring of variables and environmental indicators (success,

environmental quality and compliance) used in the diagnosis and assessment of impacts;

continuous improvement.

Role of environmental indicators in the Organization

System of environmental indicators

Set of instruments and technological resources for the operation, generation, storage and analysis of information, as well as the monitoring and evaluation of the environmental situation of the company.

Organization must be defined based on the nature of each indicator and its own means, how to structure this system.

(Definición adaptada de la Corporación Ambiental empresarial, 2008)

¿Resourcess?

SchoolInstitution

Human resources primarly

Technologycal(Depends clearly on the

economical resources)

Economic resources (That the process is self-sustaining),

Genetal structure of the contents of an EAP

(Definición adaptada la Corporación Ambiental empresarial, 2008)

General structure and summary of goalsIntroduction

Cover page


Situation

Evaluation

Problems

Actions

Programm structure

Objectives, targets, indicators, and global resources

Projects

Evaluation mechanism (Indication systems)

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