Environmental Management System Sustainability Management System

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Environmental Management System Sustainability
Management System
Anna Karlsson
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ecoBUDGET

• ecoBUDGET manages the environmental policy
• Steering and reporting system
• Copies the financial system

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Managing Urban Europe-25

• Can ecoBUDGET also manage other policy areas
  which crosses all sectors for example gender
  equality, integration, health?

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Managing Urban Europe

• Integrating health, gender equality, integration,
  democacy,children and youths rights into the
  ecoBUDGET system
• One system for several policy areas
• Improved steering and reporting of the new
  policy areas.
• Improved overall view

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Steering documents - indicators

• Environmental programme
• Programme for integration
• Gender equality programme
• Health policy
• Action plan for democracy
• Youth policy (under development)
• Selection of indicators
• Indicators instrument to measure, gives
  information about fulfillment of the goals
• The indicators are connected to targets in the
  programmes and policies
• Data is available or can be available.

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ecoBUDGET cornerpillars
Steering documents Ambitions in environmental
issues?
Act
Plan
How to improve?
Ecological budget (adopted by the assembly) What
are our targets?
Routines for EMS- Political directives-
Organisation- Responsibilities- Quality
assurance
Check
Internal budgets and action plans (boards
municipality owned companies)
Half year account and annual account Sums up work
and data
Do
Work according to action plans and gather data
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Internal budget and action plan
 
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Environmental budget indicators

• Area of ecologic agriculture in relation to total
  agriculture area ()
• Biologic treatment of organic waste (tonne)
• Use of printing/copying paper (sheets)
• Purchase of ecologic foods in relation to total
  foods ()
• Protected land area in relation to total land
  area ()
• Area of productive forest maintained according to
  FSC or corresponding in relation to total
  productive forest ()
• Nitrogen and phosphorus emissions to the Mörrum
  river (tonne)

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Indicators

• Gender equality
• Percentage of parental leave used by the fathers
• Percentage of females in city council
• Percentage of females in manegerial positions
• Integration
• Percentage of municipal employees born abroad
• Percentage in city council born abroad
• Employment rate people born abroad
• Children and youth
• Percentage of 15 year olds who say they have been
  harassed
• Percentage of 15 year old who smoke several times
  a week or more often
• Youth unemployment

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Presentation of annual account
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Environmental report
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Challenges with ecoBUDGET

• The terminology
• Integration with other steering documents
• Internal/ external audit
• Management system

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Advantages with ecoBUDGET

• Managements system
• Continuous arena for environmentaldiscussions
• Financial integration gives status
• Systematic in planning, implementation and
  follow-up of the environmental results
• Enhances the knowledge
• Cross-departmental contacts
• Flexible system

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Future

• Improve the EMS by tackling challenges
• Integrate democracy issues, equality issues,
  integration issues, health and child issues
• Inspire other municipalities to use ecoBUDGET

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• Thank you for listening!
• anna.karlsson4_at_kommun.vaxjo.se