MicroKyoto Project:
A Province is challenging its
Municipalities
Emanuele Burgin
Assessore all’Ambiente - Provincia di Bologna
Provincia di Bologna
Main Competencies:
Roads and school buildings,
territorial planning,
environment, economic
development and
professional formation.
The President and the
Provincial Council are
directly voted by citizens
every 5 years.
370.219 km2
1.000.000 inhabitants
60 municipalities.
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Provincia di Bologna – Assessorato Ambiente
Background
2000  The Dept. of Environment of Provincia di Bologna
promotes Local Agenda 21
2002  The Forum of Local Agenda 21, worried about the
lack of common commitment to the Kyoto Protocol
targets, conceives the MicroKyoto Project
2004  The Ministry of Environment approves and gives
financial support to the the project
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Provincia di Bologna – Assessorato Ambiente
Objectives of the project
Contribute to the Kyoto emission reduction
target at a Local Authority level
• Create a database of the best practices for energy saving
and efficiency
• Assess the energy needs of buildings along with the energy
consumption habits of the households
• Ehance public awareness about energy saving and efficiency
• Increase participation of local governments (Municipalities),
NGOs, enterprises and citizens in Local Agenda 21
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MicroKyoto Protocol
The document is a “reworking” of Kyoto Protocol, jointly
reviewed and officially signed by the Province and the
Municipalities involved.
It commits the signers to plan and implement new actions for
reducing CO2 emissions.
Each year:
• the Local Authorities present the action program planned
• the subsequent CO2 reduction is calculated
• At the end of the year, a final balance is issued.
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The signers
Signed in May 2006
by 25 municipalities,
the Micro Kyoto
Protocol has been
joined by 4 more
municipalities
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The working group
2004  A working group has been established, involving
representatives of the Provincia di Bologna and all the Municipalities
that agreed to take part in the project.
The working group planned and promoted the actions and initiatives
described.
The group also defined the contents of MicroKyoto Protocol, to have
it approved by each Municipality.
2006  After the official signature of the MicroKyoto Protocol, the
Working group has turned into a Steering Committee, composed of a
representative from each of the signatories, to evaluate the results
achieved
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Successful / useful tools in
achieving the objectives
Participation: working groups; seminars; forum
Awareness: newsletters; newspapers; radio; information points;
surveys; leaflets …
Training: 10 seminars on: 1) sustainable building; 2) energy from
biomass; 3) renewable energy; 4) financial tools and opportunities
for energy efficiency
Dissemination / Diffusion: presentation at some conventions.
In november 2006 the Project has been awarded the prize 'Enti
locali per Kyoto 2006‘
Network: Provincia di Bologna, 27 municipalities, 1 Comunità
Montana, along with other stakeholders.
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What is innovative –1
- The network: Provincia, municipalities, other non
institutional stakeholders
- The calculation of CO2 reduction for each action: About
35 good practices are already evaluated and listed in a
database on line
- The analysis of energy consumption habits of the
citizens: 6 buildings have been analyzed and 120 interviews
realized. 1200 forms, listing questions about energy
consumption habits have been filled in by citizens of the 25
Municipalities involved
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CO2 reduction
calculation
 For each action a checklist is filled in
1.
Technical characteristics (gray)
2.
Description (yellow)
3.
Technical info including energy and CO2 saving
(green)
4.
Attachments if any (blu)
CO2 Checklist (1)
SCHEDA CENSIMENTO BUONE PRATICHE
AREA DI INTERVENTO (RIF. A, B, C ,D, E)
B
Sostituzione di lampade a vapori di mercurio con
SCHEDA TECNICA
lampade a vapori di sodio ad alta pressione negli
B- 1
impianti di Pubblica Illuminazione
TIPOLOGIA DI
Intervento sui sistemi di illuminazione pubblica
INTERVENTO:
settore di
Terziario
intervento
tipo di utilizzo
Illuminazione Pubblica
Potenza
Numero Lampade istallate (Ni)
lampada
70 W
Potenza lampada
ai vapori di sodio
100 W
installata
150 W
100
250 W
400 W
Regolatore di
flusso luminoso
Caso 1 = Regolatore di flusso luminoso assente
q
Caso 2 = Regolatore di flusso luminoso presente
CO2 Checklist (2)
COMUNE
INDIRIZZO
DESCRIZIONE DELL’INTERVENTO
MONTE SAN PIETRO
VIA LANDA
AZIENDA CHE
REALIZZA I LAVORI
LOLLI IMPIANTI
NOTE AGGIUNTIVE
SULL’INTERVENTO
INFORMAZIONI TECNICHE SPECIFICHE:
INDICATORE
METODOLOGIA DI CALCOLO
9,47
Risparmio lordo di RL =
energia primaria
conseguibile
RL [tep/anno]
i RLS i  N i
[tep/anno]
Ni è il numero delle lampade ai vapori di sodio di potenza
i-esima installate.
RLSi è il risparmio lordo di energia primaria annua
conseguibile per lampada ai vapori di sodio di potenza iesima installata e si calcola seguente tabella:
Potenza
della
RLSi [tep/anno·lampada]
Lampada
[W]
Caso 1
Caso 2
70
44,8 · 10-3
37,7 · 10-3
100
63,7 · 10-3
53,6 · 10-3
CO2 reduction
calculation
 Start-up phase  savings by 15,000 tons
of CO2
 By 103  1.5 millions of tons of CO2
 20% of the Kyoto Protocol target for Italy
What is innovative - 2
- The competition on energy saving. On 16 February 16,
2006 a competition was carried out among the 25
Municipalities and some schools.
- Goal: saving energy as much as possible by cost-free
measures only (i.e. behavioural changes such as turning off
lights, turning down the heating etc.). The winner
Municipality saved 42% !!!
- Next step: school  In these 3 months 18 schools are
running a energy saving competition
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The Microkyoto site
Possible and/or implemented good practices, along with
proper indicators, listed by:
1. Energy efficiency in the Public Administration buildings
2. Energy consumption, optimisation and alternative sources
3. Green areas
4. Transportations
5. Energy / Environment policy
6. Information and awareness
www.provincia.bologna.it/ag21/microkyoto.htm
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Thank you
for your attention
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