BalticClimate Project: Outcomes and Experiences Gained

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BalticClimate Project Outcomes and Experiences
Gained

• Head of the International Research Projects
• George Varlamov

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Pskov State University is established by merging
5 educational institutions in the Pskov
Region Total number of students and staff is
more than 13000 people There are more than 700
teachers at PskovSU There are 15 faculties and
57 chairs at PskovSU, The number of basic
educational programmes of higher professional
education is more than 100 (for bachelors,
specialists, masters) Vocational programmes on a
wide range of directions are implemented at the
university Post-graduate studies in 19 directions
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Implemented Projects

• Council of the Baltic Sea States
• EuroFaculty-Pskov
• Nordic Council of Ministers
• NotaBENe
• Innovations in Northern Europe
• INTERREG programmes
• Product Development Methodologies and
  Impementation in Estonian and Russian Border
  Regions (PRODEMET)
• Potentials for a Spatial Development under the
  Aspects of Decline (HINTERLAND)
• Innovation Circle
• Baltic Sea Region 2007-2013 programme
• Baltic Challenges and Chances for local and
  regional development generated by Climate Change
  (BalticClimate)
• ERASMUS MUNDUS
• European-Russian Academic Network (ERANET-MUNDUS)
• TEMPUS
• Environmental Governance for Environmental
  Curricula

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• Baltic Challenges and Chances for local and
  regional development generated by Climate Change
  (BalticClimate) is being implemented within the
  Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013
• The project was awarded status as a flagship
  project that anticipates regional and local
  impacts of climate change through research within
  the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

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• Three main stages of the project the Inventory
  phase, the Vulnerability Assessment phase and the
  Capitalisation phase
• The challenges and chances generated by climate
  change were identified in 7 Target Areas
• Deeper analyses focused on selected
  Implementation Cases in 4 sectors (transport,
  energy, housing and agriculture)

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• The project aims to identify how the climate
  change phenomenon will present opportunities and
  chances for the development of municipalities and
  regions when they are accounting for climate
  change information in their long term strategies
  and planning

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Baltic Climate (4)

• BalticClimate main objectives
• To enable Baltic Sea region municipalities,
  regions and local actors to deal with the climate
  change issue in a cooperative, integrated and
  sustainable way
• To make the climate change phenomenon understood
  as challenge, as well as a chance for local and
  regional overall and sustainable development
• To make Baltic Sea region municipalities and
  regions more competitive for future challenges to
  maintain and enhance the common existing identity
  of the region

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Baltic Climate (5)

• BalticClimate team is comprised of 23 partners
  from Estonia, Finland, Germany (Academy for
  Spatial Research and Planning (ARL) Lead
  Partner), Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden
  plus further 16 Associated Organisations,
  including from Russia (the Bezhanitskiy Rayon,
  the Pskov Region)
• The projects main outputs are packaged into an
  information and communication technologies (ICT)
  Toolkit - http//toolkit.balticclimate.org
  (Toolkit DEMO)

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BalticClimate Toolkit (1)
http//toolkit.balticclimate.org
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BalticClimate Toolkit (2)

• BalticClimate Toolkit aims to
• raise the understanding of the phenomenon
• identify how climate change will affect specific
  areas
• inform about the essential elements with regard
  to climate change as well as sustainable
  development
• support knowledge transfer from the global to the
  local level and trans-nationally
• enhance capacities to deal with the issue of
  climate change in a cooperative, integrated and
  sustainable manner
• detect and develop opportunities and chances,
  and, hence, to
• increase the attractiveness and competitiveness
  of small and medium sized cities and rural areas
  and their surrounding regions

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BalticClimate Toolkit (3)

• BalticClimate Toolkit addresses three relevant
  groups of actors policy makers, spatial planners
  and business people
• For policy makers the information focuses on the
  most crucial aspects facing the problem and
  getting activated
• Spatial planners are addressed with more detailed
  and scientific information
• Business people will be led into the issue
  through their main concerns to know about the
  impacts on a business in a given region and to
  know what kinds of opportunities exist under new
  situations and circumstances

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BalticClimate Toolkit (4)

• BalticClimate Toolkits structure
• The Toolkit
• About climate change
• Climate change scenarios
• Climate change impacts
• Examples
• The Project
• Glossary
• NB! The Toolkit is available in 11 languages of
  the Baltic Sea Region

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BalticClimate Conference (1)

• Pathfinding through Climate Change (Riga,
  Latvia, November 8th-9th 2011)
• Objective summing up the realizations of the
  project
• The Conference gathered more than 150
  participants
• Conference highlights included Climate Change in
  the Baltic Sea Region, Experiences in the
  Transport, Energy, Agriculture and
  Planning/Housing Sectors, Climate Change and
  Business, Visualisations in the Multimedia Dome
  plus BalticClimate Idea Bazaar Publication of
  the multi-language BalticClimate Toolkit and
  Posters, Panel Discussion with Multipliers for
  Policy Making, Spatial Planning and Business

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BalticClimate Conference (2)
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BalticClimate Outcomes (1)

• Further main outputs mainly summarizing results
  and experiences can be found on the overall
  project website - http//www.balticclimate.org/en
• Report on project participants' perceptions of
  climate change and experiences made by applying
  and testing the questionnaire
• Easy-to-use strategic climate change tool for
  decisions in the business sector
• Easy-to-apply criteria to analyse sustainable
  development in spatial planning and development
• Specific and easy-to-use and apply step-wise
  approach for climate change vulnerability
  assessments in BSR cities and rural areas

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BalticClimate Outcomes (2)

• Supporting and training material for climate
  change impact assessment and step-wise approach
  on vulnerability assessment as tools specific for
  BSR cities and rural areas
• Integrated solutions for BSR municipalities and
  regions to integrate climate change information
  in their spatial planning processes and
  cross-sectoral development as well as in their
  joint urban-rural cooperation
• Baltic Sea Region and local level climate change
  impact assessments and vulnerability assessments
  in different countries' Target Areas

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BalticClimate Outcomes (3)

• Common report "Capitalise Climate Change - C³"
  Application of the elaborated Climate Change SWOT
  and activities to support decisions in the
  business sector considering climate change as
  chance for future development in the Target Areas
• Report on climate change impact assessments and
  vulnerability assessments and experiences made by
  applying/ testing the outputs/ tools in project's
  Target Areas and implementation cases
• Report and conclusions on experiences and results
  on alternatives for land use, spatial structures
  and in implementation cases considering climate
  change in the Target Areas

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BalticClimate Outcomes (4)

• Major activities / outcomes for PskovSU
• Two Questionnaires on the perceptions of climate
  change in the Bezhanitskiy Rayon
• Target Area Assessments a preparatory inventory
  phase / a vulnerability assessment phase / a
  capitalization phase
• Implementation Cases (housing / agriculture)
  developed
• Experience exchange (participation in project
  seminars, conferences, public events etc.)
• Dissemination of materials on climate change
  phenomenon, including in the RU language (flyers,
  booklets, posters, publications in local and
  regional mass-media, movie etc.) and many other
  (Pskov Movie)

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BalticClimate Outcomes (5)
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BUILDING WOODEN HOUSES IN BEZHANITSKIY RAYON
Saara Hasu Emilia Joenniemi Laura Mustonen
Building wooden houses offers future
possibilities for Bezhanitskiy Rayon. Investments
and expertise are needed in order to utilize wood
as construction material to work in favor of
climate change mitigation and local development.

• Bezhanitskiy Rayon
• 353528 ha
• Located in Western Russia
• 30 forest
• Population 14462
• Superiority of wood as building material
• Renewability
• Carbon storage
• Availability, price and energy efficiency

SWOT for Building wooden houses in Bezhanitskiy
Rayon
Based on the analysis climate change will
evidently increase the potentiality of using wood
as construction material in the target area. Wood
as carbon storage is crucial for climate change
mitigation but building wooden houses in
Bezhanitskiy Rayon also offers social and
economic advantages such as local development,
improvement of infrastructure and cost
effectiveness of housing. Creation of jobs can
additionally increase the attractiveness of the
entire area and turn around the declining
population trend. To ensure profitability,
feasibility and sustainability of building wooden
houses it is essential to attract investments and
know-how in all life cycle stages of building
wooden houses.
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MODERNIZATION AND TRANSFER ON LOCAL FUELS USE OF
BOILER HOUSES IN BEZHANITSKIY RAYON
Bezhanitskiy Rayon Pskov Region Russia
Aim The research is aimed at modernization of
boiler houses in Bezhanitskiy Rayon (BR). This
will help to optimize heat and power supply in
housing and industries and to decrease
dependence of the Rayon on imported oil, as well
as to increase energy efficiency and to decrease
GHG emissions.

• Description
• It is necessary to construct new boiler houses
  working on peat and wood in order to optimize
  power and heat supply in BR
• The suggested activities are relevant for BR as
  key assets wear rate of existing gas boiler
  houses is very high (68), processing equipment
  efficiency is very low (KPI 50), the rate of
  pumping equipment with frequency regulation
  systems is very low (20)
• Only 2 of heat energy are produced by boiler
  houses working on local fuels
• BR has great peat deposits and forest estates
  with unmerchantable wood

Modernized boiler house in Luschik village of
Bezhanitskiy Rayon (inside view)

• Boiler houses modernization will help to increase
  their energy efficiency and to decrease green
  house gases emissions by
• Boiler houses equipment Key Performance Indicator
  (KPI) increase by 28
• Decrease in transport costs (at the present
  moment transport costs can make up to 50 of
  total costs of coal and 20 of oil fuel costs)
• Coal and oil fuel will be substituted with local
  fuels
• Costs of energy for industrial needs will
  decrease by 30

Responsibility Bezhanitskiy Rayon
Administration Further information in
Russian http//bezhanicy.reg60.ru
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IMPROVEMENT OF FOREST ESTATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN
BEZHANITSKIY RAYON
Bezhanitskiy Rayon Pskov Region Russia
Aim The research is aimed at an increase of the
effectiveness of timber resources processing by
introducing new forms of forest estate management
system in Bezhanitskiy Rayon (BR). This will help
to mitigate climate change impacts such as
bogging, bushing, forest fires, etc.

• Description
• Main features of BR forest estates lack of raw
  materials base, underdevelopment of milling
  sector and hardwood processing, domination of
  hard wood
• The main reason for forest estates
  underdevelopment is forest legislation with a big
  amount of shortages and confusions
• The main disadvantages of existing forest estate
  management system are low quality of forest
  ranges, hard-to-reach forest lands, bushing of
  agricultural lands, lack of control of trees and
  shrubs cutting, unwarranted clearance,
  territories cluttering up, etc.
• Its necessary to introduce new forest
  management system to improve the situation

Forest in Bezhanitskiy Rayon

• The following ways to improve the situation with
  forest estates in BR were defined
• To enlarge powers of local authorities
• To simplify the procedure of forest areas renting
  for small business and local population
• To reintroduce auction system for parceling
  forest areas
• To stimulate non-woody forest resources use
  berries, mushrooms medicinal herbs
• To stimulate forest estate use for ecological
  tourism
• To introduce new form of forest estate management

Responsibility Bezhanitskiy Rayon
Administration Further information in
Russian http//bezhanicy.reg60.ru
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Contact Information
Address Russia, 180000, Pskov, Lenin sq., 2
Phones 7-8112-797642 7-8112-797702
Fax [phone]
E-mail varlamovgeorge_at_mail.ru,
projects-pskgu_at_yandex.ru Website www.pskgu.ru
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PSKOV STATE UNIVERSITY
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