Charlotta Faith-Ell WSP Sweden

1. A model for inclusion of biodiversity in a Swedish system for sustainability assessment of transport infrastructure Charlotta Faith-Ell WSP Sweden

2. A systematic method for sustainability declaration of infrastructure projects (SYSTAIN) Three parts • Climate/ Energy -> KEEP • Biodiversity • Hazardous materials and chemicals Aim of the biodiversity project To find methods that can plan, steer and follow-up the performance with regards to biodiversity in projects of various size and report how the work with biodiversity is progressing in the Swedish Transport Administration. The goal is that Swedish infrastructure projects shall be able to account its performance with regards to Climate/ Energy, Biodiversity, and Hazardous materials and chemicals in an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).

3. Where to start a model? Initial Impact Categories (based onTriekol) • Barrier effects • Mortality • Disturbance • Habitat loss • Natural values within the road side • Invasive species

4. Where to start a model? Initial Impact Categories (based onTriekol) • Barrier effects • Mortality • Disturbance • Habitat loss • Natural values within the road side • Invasive species Current categories - Consideration to / goals (Trafikverket) Safe passages for animals Minimise disturbance from noise in sensitive nature areas Maintain, develop and supply infrastructure environments with high biodiversity Fight and counteract feral invasive species

5. Where to start a model? Initial Impact Categories (based onTriekol) • Barrier effects • Mortality • Disturbance • Habitat loss • Natural values within the road side • Invasive species Current categories - Consideration to / goals (Trafikverket) Safe passages for animals Minimise disturbance from noise in sensitive nature areas Maintain, develop and supply infrastructure environments with high biodiversity Fight and counteract feral invasive species

6. How do existing declaration schemes match the impact categories? Sustainable declaration schemes • CEEQUAL • Greenroads • Environment declaration of infrastructure (Swedish) • Method for inventory of natural values (Naturvärdesinventering) • Biotope method • Proposal for requirements on nature and cultural heritage in the Swedish highway design manual (VGU) • Swedish Transportation Agency guidance on landscape • SUNRA

7. Comparison of schemes and Triekol categories Förklaring: Well dealt with Partly dealt with Inadequate Not dealt with

8. Development of a model From categories of impacts… … to an indicator based model for sustainability declaration of planning and construction of transport infrastructure with regards to biodiversity.

9. Model Environmental quality objective: Biodiversity Invasive species Maintain, develop and supply infrastructure environments with high biodiversity Safe passages for animals Disturbance Strategic choice of measures Planning Detailed design Construction Maintenance and operation In the case of alternative alignments Indicators per goal category Indicators per goal category Indicators per goal category Indicators per goal category Indicators per goal category Indicators per goal category

10. Prerequisites of the model • Different categories of measures - Mitigation hierarchy • Basis for evaluation • Previous year • Baseline • Law • Planetary boundaries / nature boundaries • The evaluation will be made at specific phases of the planning process

11. Prerequisites Leda ochstyra Investeringsprojekt Utarbeta lokaliserings-alternativ och påbörja MKB Ta fram, bearbeta och analysera underlag Begära länsstyrelsens beslut om BMP Underlag för beslut om BMP TRV valt alternativ Länsstyrelsens beslut: ja Färdigställ plan med slutlig samrådsredogörelse Utforma planförslag och MKB Begära länsstyrelsens godkännande om MKB Plan med slutlig samrådsredogörelse Godkänd MKB av länsstyrelsen Kungöra förslag till plan och möjliggöra granskning Begära länsstyrelsens yttrande Begära fastställelseprövning Plan med granskningsutlåtande Länsstyrelsens yttrande Begäran Genomföra fastställelseprövning Leda ochstyra Investeringsprojekt Bygge Lagakraft vunnen plan Bygghandling

12. Background Impact categories Planning phase

13. General outline of the model Example: barriers Selective model For each stage in the process: • Introductory control questions (flow chart) • In order to scope out project where it is not relevant to evaluate barrier effects 2) Following indicators • In order to evaluate projects in which barrier effects are relevant to study Flexible model (?) - References to the Highway design manual - No species specific questions Simplified model • Few and clear indicators • The indicators are “repeated” in several stages • Clear scoping • Simplifications / assumptions • Definitions are placed outside of the indicators Definition ”Barrier effects” (N.B. this will be adjusted based on the new guidance) Ungulates • The predicted traffic exceeds xx vehicles or • The speed is xx km/h or higher or • Fauna fencing will be constructed along the road/rail way Fish and Otter • One or more of the alternative alignments cross at least one watercourse. Amphibians • One or more of the alternative alignments cross a migration route for amphibians.

14. Conclusions • Existing declaration schemes covers different impact categories • Be selective when applying declaration schemes – what questions do you want to have answers to? • A model for inclusion of biodiversity in a Swedish system for sustainability assessment of transport infrastructure has been developed in the project. The model is based on the following impact categories: • Safe passages for animals • Minimise disturbance from noise in sensitive nature areas • Maintain, develop and supply infrastructure environments with high biodiversity • Fight and counteract feral invasive species

15. Next stage • Adjustment of the model according to the new guidance from the Transport Administration (Trafikverket) • Continue the development of indicators • Test in real cases • Finalisation of the model