Diapositiva 1

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Province of Rome for Kyoto
P. Prignani Provincia di Roma Dipartimento IV
Servizio Tutela Aria ed Energia, tutelaaria_at_provin
cia.roma.it
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The Province of Rome is an administrative body
located in the Lazio Region. It is named after
the biggest and most impor-tant city situated on
its territory, Rome.
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The Province of Rome governs one of the largest
metropolitan areas in Italy. It is twice as big
as the Provinces of Milan and Naples taken
together, and it includes 121 municipali-ties,
among them the capital city.
Province of Rome
Lazio
Almost four million people live and work in the
district administered by the Province.
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• The Province is responsible of many
  administrative tasks assigned to it by the
  national state and the Lazio Region.
• The most important ones are
• environmental protection (soil, natural areas
  and parks)
• regulation of the use of waters and natural
  energies
• transport and communication systems
• secondary education
• professional training
• data processing and technical assistance to the
  local
• authorities
• coordination of economic, touristic, social,
  cultural and sport activities

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It manages also other important tasks, like
planning the general development and specific
activities of the municipalities by means of
long-term programs. Moreover, the Province of
Rome manages about 350 school buildings and about
2000 km of road network.
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• The national legislation delegates to the
  territorial and local administrations the
  protection of the environment.
• Regions, Provinces and Municipalities are
  also putting into force the national legislation
  with regard to climate protection, energy
  conservation and renewable energy sources.

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• The recent regulations introduced by the present
  government improve substantially our frame work
  conditions
• up to 55 payback in three years of costs of
  retrofitting for higher energy efficiency and for
  energy production from renewable sources
• installation of photovoltaic and solar panels is
  compulsory for new buildings
• photovoltaic installations are strongly
  stimulated through attractive feed-in tariffs
  (that improve combined with energy efficiency)
• substantial resources have been assigned to a
  rotation fund for greenhouse gas reduction
• sustainable mobility will be promoted
• bio-building and eco-industry are stimulated

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Province of Rome for Kyoto Presently, one of the
central actions of the Province of Rome in the
field of climate protection is the application of
the Kyoto protocol to the public administration
itself with a formal commitment by the Provincial
Council in July 2006 of reducing its own
emissions of greenhouse gases by 6,5 in 2012.
This is also meant as a guideline for industry.
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Start at home This is a highly innovative
political and strategic decision, because today
in Italy there is no local administration neither
a Region nor any other Province that has
undertaken such a commitment. This goal is
concrete, achievable and, in our belief, an
economically advantageous endeavour.  
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• Province of Rome for Kyoto
• moves in parallel on four levels
• empowerment of its own personnel
• elaborate a CO2 balance
• define a climate strategy and an action plan
• enact no regret measures to get the process
  moving and render it visible

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With this objective in view the project Province
of Rome for Kyoto has been put into action.
The Province of Rome for Kyoto starts from the
idea that the time of pilot actions is over. The
worrisome situation of climate changes in
progress and a high probability for this
situation to worsen in the next years imposes the
necessity to act also as a public body and to
contribute to the mitigation of the greenhouse
effect and to create a basis of credibility from
which to address the 121 communes of its own
territory and propose to them authoritatively
similar actions.
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Empowerment of personnel A course Climate
Compass In a first step the Province of Rome
has trained, in collaboration with Climate
Alliance Italy in a course in January, thirty of
its collaborators to use the Climate Compass for
developing a mitigation strategy for greenhouse
gases at their work place.
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CO2 Balance In parallel work has started to
elaborate a CO2 balance as a basis for the
climate strategy quantifying the emissions of
carbon dioxide which the Province is directly
responsible for through the heating and cooling
of its real estate, the use of its vehicle fleet
and other energy consuming activities
(illumination, sport facilities, etc.). Basis of
the work is an Energy Plan of the Province of
Rome that was completed in 2006.
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The Energy Plan of the Province of Rome The
Provincial Energy Plan from 2006 proposes, on the
basis of the Provincial Energy Balance, a
techno-logically innovative energy scenario,
planning and distribution over the territory of
various primary sources of energy and of new
energy production installations with particular
regard for the production of electric energy from
renewables and the identification of the
technical and financial instruments for an energy
action plan.
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Climate Strategy On the basis of the CO2 balance
and the survey of all the present activities of
the Province of Rome in the field of energy
conservation, rational use of energy, employment
of renewable energies and sustainable mobility, a
Climate Action Plan 2007/2008 will be worked out
as a first step to stabilise and then reduce the
carbon dioxide emissions of the public body.
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Problems to overcome The real estate of the
Province is very large (about 400 buildings
including schools, offices, employment centres,
professional training centres, etc. distributed
over the provincial territory), thus the
communication between people in charge of energy
management is not simple Moreover, the
awareness of the problem among the administrators
and the directors is not yet sufficient, thus the
sensitization process is slow, but it continues.
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• Get the process moving
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• Installation of photovoltaic panels on school
  buildings for a total amount of 310 kW and of
  solar thermal equipment for the production of
  warm water and the heating of swimming pools in
  12 public facilities (schools and sport centers).
• Participation in the European project Ener in
  Town that involves the energy analysis and the
  planning of energy efficiency projects in eight
  schools.

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Educate   Educational programmes aimed at the
youth in order to increase their sensibility
towards sustainable mobility through instructive
lessons, that address the students of elementary
and middle schools, and provide combined
campaigns of environmental and traffic education
and activities aimed at the public transport
promotion.
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• No regret measures
• A programme of energy efficiency in school
  buildings and offices
• About 200 high-efficiency boilers were installed
  (out of nearly 400 buildings)
• The whole heating system is being managed through
  a centralized telecommunication control which
  assures the heat supply is linked to external
  temperature in order to avoid waste of fuel
  during mild winters (like the current one)

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• Render the process visible
• Participation in the project Country of the Sun
  training courses for solar technicians have been
  carried out as well as environmental education,
  pilot experiences, local campaigns, promotion of
  communal regulations and building codes promoting
  the use of renewable energy.

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• Some results
• Introduction of GPP and insertion of ecological
  criteria into tenders for services and supplies.
• Purchase of n.11 Vivalto trains, each having a
  capacity of 1.200 passengers, that will allow a
  consistent increase of the total railway offer,
  thus assuring 70 more trips a day. The coaches
  that will join those already operating will allow
  a decrease of the road traffic estimated at
  14.000 cars/day and of the air pollution equal to
  630.000 kg/day of carbon dioxide 1.700 kg/day of
  carbon oxide.

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Thanks for your attention Grazie per
lattenzione  
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Provincia di Roma Vice Presidenza Assessorato
Tutela Ambientale Dip. IV Servizi di Tutela
Ambientale Servizio n. 3 Tutela Aria ed
Energia Via Tiburtina, 691 - 00159 Roma tel. 06
67663126 fax [phone] Funzionario
Responsabile dott.ssa Patrizia Prignani e-mail
tutelaaria_at_provincia.roma.it