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BASE BirminghamNatural Capital City
Pat Laughlin, Chairman, Thursday 11 April 2013
Promoting Business Opportunity
Agenda
Introduction Pat Laughlin, MEBC
Urban Infrastructure Initiative Matthew Lynch, World Business Council for
Sustainable Development
Natural Capital City Nick Grayson, Birmingham City Council
Susan Lee, Liveable Cities Project, U of
BirminghamDiscussion Panel Skanska, Fira
Session Conclusions
• Partner in the Natural Capital City Project• Focus on:
– Assessing the value of natural capital to business– Promoting the role of business in planning urban
regeneration and growth– Developing sustainable, integrated infrastructure– Improving economic and social wellbeing
About us
Matthew Lynch – Project DirectorBASE Birmingham – Natural Capital City Fringe Event
April 2013
Urban Infrastructure Initiative
What is the WBCSD?
VISION 2050
14 global companies: 2.1m people* and US$ 900bn turnover Operating in most countries
* Aggregated key figures (2009)
Co-Chairs
Core Group members
The Urban Infrastructure Initiative member companies
CITY SUSTAINABILITY
VISIONACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
UIITRANSFORMATION
DIALOGUE
usual company area of actionUII area of interest
Vision: “A world where cities provide a sustainable environment for people to live, work and play”•Objective: Helping transform a city’s vision into an effective action plan using UII companies’ multi-disciplinary expertise and global experience.•Cost effective, integrated solutions to complex urban challenges
Private sector
A new approach for working with cities
UII: city engagement processCity Engagement Process
Philadelphia
Guadalajara
Turku
Tilburg
GujaratYixing
Kobe
African Cities
UII Partner Cities
Relevant partners help identify potential cities and facilitate dialogue
Europe
Latin America
USA
East AsiaIndia
China
China BCSD
Africa
Japan
UII Cities: Selection Process
Nicholas You (Kenya) - Chairman of the UII Assurance group - Former Senior Advisor of UN-Habitat, Nairobi
Ms Cheong Koon Hean (Singapore) - CEO of the Housing and Development Board
Kees Christiaanse (Switzerland) - Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zürich
Mario Gandelsonas (USA) - Director, Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure at Princeton University
Jaime Lerner (Brazil) - Architect and urban planner, former Mayor of Curitiba
Shin-ichi Tanabe (Japan) - Professor of Architecture, Waseda University, Tokyo
Assurance group members
Gujarat Cities: solution landscape
• Publication of remaining city solution landscape reports:
KobePhiladelphiaYixingAfrican Cities
• Synthesis of key lessons• Scoping of a follow up WBCSD program on
cities.
UII – Next Steps
Nick Grayson, Climate Change and Sustainability Manager. Birmingham City Council
Susan Lee, Liveable Cities Project. University of Birmingham
•How can Birmingham’s work on natural capital and liveable city concept – get us closer to a global green city? •What role is there for business?
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
Sustainability Forum – June 11th 2012
"We the mayors and governors of the world's leading cities. ask you to recognise that the future of our globe will be won or lost in the cities of the world."
Copenhagen Climate Change communiqué, December 2009
•BRE Guide•Masdar•Biomimicry 3.8
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
July 2012 – Physical Activity
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
Key Partners
Climate Risk
Water
Green Infrastructure
Health & Well Being
Biodiversity
The LEP & Business
Community + Resilience
Planning
Transport & Infrastructure
The 9 piece jigsaw
POLICY
EVIDENCE
DELIVERYGreen Infrastructure & Adaptation Delivery Group
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
Principle Output & Policy
An Adapted CityPlan for effects of the Urban Heat Island
Green roofs & wallsStreet Canyons ResearchTrees for cooling & thermal insulation
The City’s Blue Network
Develop a Blue Corridor &’Green Streets’ PolicyEnhance and the wider Blue network.SuDS & flood & water managementEnhance water quality & riparian habitat
A Healthy CityAdopt Natural Health Improvement Zones (NHIZ)
Introduce sustainable land management principles.‘Be Active’ neighbourhoodsChildhood development
The City’s Productive
Landscapes
Endorse the Birmingham Forest & Tree BondPromote allotmentsFacilitate community food growing, orchards, and woodlands Embed biomass production
The City’s Greenways
Adopt A Walkable CityGreenway networks“Quiet Roads”Permissive access rights
The City’s Ecosystem
Develop an Ecosystem City Model•Ecosystem Evaluation of Birmingham’s GI and TreesExplore new funding mechanisms & joint partnershipsBiodiversity mapping
The City’s Green Living Spaces
Adopt Integrated Area PlansProtection of natural & built heritageIntegrate public health concernsSustainable tree planting policyIntroduce a Birmingham GI Index
A NEW Green VisionWe have created a new Green Vision which pulls together our work on
carbon reduction,ecosystems services, adapting to climate change and the green economy.
Achieving integration across these areas is the mark of a leading green city.
BIRMINGHAM’SGREENCOMMISSIONBUILDING A GREEN CITY
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
BASE Birmingham11th April, 2013
Civil Engineering;Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts;Imagination Lancaster
Civil Engineering; Faculty of Engineering Science
Engineering and the Environment
Liveable Cities Team
• To understand how cities operate and perform in terms of their people, environment and governance.
• To establish how city performance relates to the vision of low-carbon living, working, conserving and consuming.
• To develop realistic and radical engineering solutions, and test them as interventions in case studies.
Liveable Cities Objectives
The CAM is an instrument to help a city understand where it is, where it wants to be and how it can get there.
The CAM
City Analysis Methodology (CAM) Framework
Vision
Goal
Dimension
Outcome
Strategy
Indicator:Use of timber
from renewable resources
UK Cities will be low carbon, sustainable cities providing the highest quality of life with the
highest resource security
Minimize operational and embodied carbon
Low carbon and low impact materials
Maximise low carbon and low impact materials
Use of renewable resources on all residential new builds
CAM
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
Confederation of British Industry
John Cridland, the CBI’s Director-General; summer 2012:-
“The so-called choice between going green or going for growth is a false one….With the right policies in place, green business will be a major pillar of our future growth”
Peter Bakker, CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable Development“Over the last 20 years - ever since the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro - business has become an important voice on sustainability issues. It’s no longer simply part of the problem; it’s part of the solution, if not the driver for it…..
…In fact, many companies worldwide have created their own innovative programs to improve their sustainability.”
Annual Review 2012-13 – “Accelerate Now”
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
Public Sector
Private Sector
“We will put natural capital at the centre of economic thinking; and at the heart of the way we measure economic progress.”NATURAL CAPITAL COMMITTEE
The City ‘Challenge’ map- can become an ‘Opportunities’ map for private sector investment;
A global market -$22 trillion, alliance of Institutional investors?SYDNEY MORNING HERALD NOV 21 2012
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
At the City scale – potential for synergistic public- private partnerships to meet the scale of the ‘Challenge’;
At the Site scale – Natural Capital City Tool pilot project:-•to identify multiple benefits- economic, social and environmental;•to identify wider stakeholders;•to identify future returns on investment periods, per stakeholder;
Natural Capital acts as a catalyst to growth – not a barrier.
“We will put natural capital at the centre of economic thinking; and at the heart of the way we measure economic progress.”NATURAL CAPITAL COMMITTEE
Natural Capital City Model: Birmingham
• What are the key things we must do to make Birmingham a leading green city?
• What are the priorities for 2013-2017?• What are the barriers to achieving those
actions? What are the solutions to overcome them?
• How can we seize the enormous social and economic opportunities?
Discussion Session Outputs