City of expertise Stad van deskundigheid Motse wa Baitsanape

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City of expertise Stad van deskundigheid Motse wa
Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
Towards sustainability-Reducing the city of
Potchefstrooms (South Africa) carbon
footprint-examples and lessons learned for a
medium sized African city

• Satish Roopa
• Executive Mayor
• City of Potchefstroom
• South Africa
• LGS - WSSD
• Johannesburg
• 2002

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City of expertise Stad van deskundigheid Motse wa
Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
Topics of discussion

• Location
• City Profile
• Citys journey towards a more sustainable future
• Contributing factors
• City of Potchefstroom philosophy
• Environmental challenges
• Record of delivery
• ICLEI Cities for Climate Protection Programme
• Improved energy efficiency
• Reducing the GHG emissions
• The CCP projects
• Lessons learnt

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City of expertise Stad van deskundigheid Motse wa
Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
LOCATION

• Republic of South Africa
• North West Province
• 120 km south west of Johannesburg
• Map

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City of expertise Stad van deskundigheid Motse wa
Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
JOHANNESBURG AIRPORT
130KM
POTCHEFSTROOM
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CITY PROFILE

• Population size 230 000
• Income profile 71 of households more than R18
  000 per annum (US1800)
• Employment profile Unemployment 36,6
• Prevalence of poverty 29 earn less than R18 000
  per annum (US1800)

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City of expertise Stad van deskundigheid Motse wa
Baitsanape
Potchefstroom

• The citys journey towards a more sustainable
  future

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
CITY OF POTCHEFSTROOM MORE THAN JUST A LEAVY CITY

Tom Street Potchefstroom
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Potchefstroom
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS

• Strong political will and leadership
• Political support, empowerment and leadership
• Existing capacity and skills base
• Administrative leadership
• Technical expertise
• Intellectual capacity building and support from
  the Centre for Environmental Management
• Use all local expertise to assist in the process
  partnerships across many divisions

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS

• Institutional support
• Short lines of communication
• Absence of silosm and institutional rivalry
• Recognition of the fact that environmental and
  sustainability are cross cutting
• Capitalization on supporting programmes
• Sewage treatment upgrades
• Waste handling etc

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City of expertise Stad van deskundigheid Motse wa
Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS

• Combination of environmental programmes with
• Entrepreneurial development
• Job creation
• Skills transfer
• i.e links with the critical, political agenda
  points.

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City of expertise Stad van deskundigheid Motse wa
Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
THE CITY OF POTCHEFSTROOM PHILOSOPHY

• Start small and
• Get sustainability issues on the political and
  administrative agendas
• Demonstrate success rather than
• Be too ambitious and fail
• Eat the elephant piece by piece
• Pick the low hanging fruits first

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES

• CHALLENGE
• Air quality
• Housing
• Access to potable water
• Hunger
• Access to energy
• Access to sanitation
• Access to waste management
• Unemployment
• Water quality due to upstream mining

• CITYS RESPONSE
• Electrification
• RDP housing
• Provision of water
• Eco-circles
• Electrification
• Provision of sanitation
• Delivery of services
• Mooi River Forum

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
RECORD OF DELIVERY

• PROGRESS MADE
• 11 000 new connections
• 3500 subsidised houses
• 544 to feed the poor
• Main sewerage system but not connected to all
  households
• Weekly removal from all households
• Community chest, preference procurement
• Rehabilitation and closure of existing land fill
  sites
• New sanitary landfill site

• CHALLENGE
• Electrification
• Provision of housing
• Eco-circles
• Provision of sanitation
• Waste removal services
• Poverty alleviation
• Sanitary land filling

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom

• ICLEI CITIES FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION PROGRAMME

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom CCP Partners
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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
REDUCTION OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT BY IMPROVED
ENERGY EFFICIENCY

• Ecological footprint
• reduction for every
• Kilowatt/hour saved in
• South Africa

Source Eskom, 2000 Environmental Report 2000,
Towards Sustainability
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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
The City of Potchefstrooms CO2 emission base
case 1995 to 2001 (in Tons)
Year Total Electricity CO2 emissions Total Petrol CO2 emissions Total Diesel CO2 emissions Total CO2 emissions
1995 17 565 594 801 18 960
1996 19 867 602 815 21 284
1997 17 900 667 854 19 421
1998 17 342 687 872 18 901
1999 16 700 669 852 18 221
2000 15 556 679 866 17 101
2001 15 105 686 876 16 667
Total 120 035 4 584 5 936 130 555
Data investigations by Guillaume Nel CEM
Calculations with ICLEI Software
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Potchefstroom

• Reducing the citys contribution to GHG emissions

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Potchefstroom
THE CCP MILESTONES

• Conduct a GHG emissions inventory of current
  council and community activity and a forecast of
  GHG emissions growth in the future
• Establish a GHG emissions reduction goal
• Develop a local action plan
• Implement the local action plan
• Monitor and report on the implementation of the
  local action plan.

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom CCP-PROJECTS

• CCP-project
• Retrofitting airport
• Redesigning new administration wing
• Investigate energy efficiency of existing
  buildings
• Investigate energy efficiency of street lighting

• Status
• Phase 1 completed
• Phase 1 completed
• Tentative MOU to be signed with Invirovest of
  Canada
• Retrofitting of some Thoroufares and Mieder
  Park(suburb)

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Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom CCP- Projects (2)

• CCP-project
• Methane recovery at the water treatment works
• Investigate energy efficiency of water treatment
  works
• Planting of trees to sequestrate GHG

• Status
• Fully operational
• Phase One completed
• Conceptual design-phase completed
• 4070 Trees have already been planted

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
CO2 and ZAR savings achieved per year
FACILITY CO2 REDUCTION KG/YEAR ZAR SAVING/YEAR
Airport runway and taxiway 48 657 12 021.00
Street lights 358 333 89 735.00
Tree planting 12 505.2 -
Methane recovery 8 292 310 -
TOTAL 8 712 174 102 104.00
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Potchefstroom
Trading Carbon

• Carbon saved may be traded internationally
• Current rate US5.00/ton
• Potential revenue for the City of Potchefstroom
  against demonstrated CO2 savings
• US50 000.00 /year

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Potchefstroom
Retrofitting the airport Runway and taxiway
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Potchefstroom
Energy savings Airport

• Retrofitting of
• Runway
• Taxiway
• 48 657 kg of CO2
• / year
• Donation of a wind turbine
• Further CO2 reductions

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
REDESIGNING NEW ADMINISTRATION WING

• Phase 1 Audit envelope against SAEDES
• Completed
• Found to be 80 in conformance
• Corrective design action for remaining 20
  completed
• Phase 2 Audit windows, lighting and air
  conditioning design against SAEDES
• In progress
• Phase 3 Calculation of GHG savings
• Scheduled for December 2002

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SAEDES South African Energy Demand and
Efficiency Standard
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INVESTIGATING ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF EXISTING
BUILDINGS

• Four Council facilities investigated
• In association with EnviroVest Canada
• Public Private partnership
• Current energy bill ZAR3m/pa
• Project cost ZAR2.5-4m.
• Projected ZAR energy bill savings ZAR 9.5m over
  15 years
• No capital cost at to Council

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Potchefstroom
Methane Recovery

• CO2 kg reduction/year
• 8 292 310 kg/year
• Benefits
• Incineration of hazardous sewage screens in stead
  of land filling
• Replacement of diesel fired incinerator by a
  methane fired one
• Significant GHG reduction

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Potchefstroom
Planting Trees

• To date 4070 trees planted
• 12 502 kg of CO2 sequestrated per year
• Plans to plant another 15 000 trees
• Linked to
• socio-economic development
• Skills transfer
• Job creation

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City of expertise Stad van deskundigheid Motse wa
Baitsanape
Potchefstroom
CCP LESSONS LEARNT

• Political and senior administrative support are
  key
• Build internal capacity to understand the issues
  and solutions and to drive the initiative
• Ensure P3 efficiencies
• Look for partners that can bring expertise or
  other partners to the table
• Start with modest proposals and ensure that
  environmental issues become an acceptable
  political agenda point
• Pick the low hanging fruits first
• Green House Gas reduction programmes do make
  financial sense
• Green House Gas reductions and energy savings
  excites politicians and administers alike
• The challenge of sustainability is a journey
  rather than the outcome of a few programmes

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Baitsanape
Potchefstroom

• Mother Earth is sick. The source of her illness
  is an uncaring humanity. We can replace our
  clothing or change our diets, but we cannot
  replace our globe. It is all we have. It is our
  people, our planet and our prosperity. We must
  make a difference.