1 / 30

Jaakko Henttonen, NDEP Manager EBRD St Petersburg

EU Baltic Sea Strategy and the Northern Dimension 19 th Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference Mariehamn, 29-31 August 2010. Jaakko Henttonen, NDEP Manager EBRD St Petersburg. Common issues for EU Strategy for Baltic Sea Region and NDEP. Reduction of nutrient inputs into Baltic Sea

nen
Download Presentation

Jaakko Henttonen, NDEP Manager EBRD St Petersburg

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. EU Baltic Sea Strategy and the Northern Dimension 19th Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference Mariehamn, 29-31 August 2010 Jaakko Henttonen, NDEP ManagerEBRD St Petersburg

  2. Common issues for EU Strategy for Baltic Sea Region and NDEP • Reduction of nutrient inputs into Baltic Sea • Intensive cooperation with Russia following adoption of the HELCOM National Action Plan • Development of working relations with Belarus • Ensuring adequate funds for priority actions

  3. Background: Plankton blooms in 2002

  4. Baltic states, Poland and Belarus are also part of the Northern Dimension ► More than 50% of phosphorous load into the Baltic Sea from Poland►Belarus and Russia need more effective municipal wastewater treatment

  5. Belarus is part of the Baltic Sea catchment area Western Dvina Vitebsk ● ● Poletsk Neman Minsk ● ● Grodno Bug ● Brest

  6. Locations 2 Map of 17 Poultry Farms in Leningrad Oblast

  7. Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) – key points • NDEP is recognised as effective model for international cooperation based on co-financing structure by loans, grants and local funds; extended until 2017 • EBRD, NIB, NEFCO, EIBare the Implementing Agencies of NDEP projects to provide the inevitable loans for financial packages and to prepare project concepts • NDEP delivers real projects - €112 million committed for 22 non-nuclear projects leveraging €3.5 billion in total investment; Present non-committed balance ca EUR15 million. • Due to intensive project development new funds will be sought by the NDEP Steering Group shortly

  8. London • London 3 2010 • London 3 Dec 2010 3 December 2010 London 8 October 2010 Minsk 9 April 2010 London

  9. Sosnovyi Bor Municipal Water and Wastewater Rehabilitation € 3.3m Equity Loans Grants

  10. St Petersburg Neva Program € 186.9m

  11. Kaliningrad Water and Wastewater Rehabilitation - €110m Equity Loans Grants

  12. Environmental Benefits of NDEP Once implemented, the 16 environmental window projects will cut the pollution load by: • Phosphorous – 1,840 tonnes per year • Nitrogen – 5,568 tonnes per year • BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) – 32,284 tonnes per year • SO2 – 2,680 tonnes per year • CO2 - 351,000 tonnes per year

  13. Other benefits • Prevention of further deterioration of municipal systems and services and associated adverse environmental and social impacts • Transfer of modern project and investment planning, financing and management skills • Paradigm shift from budgetary funding to self-financing through full cost recovery

  14. Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership South-western Wastewater Treatment Plant in St Petersburg Case illustration

  15. ST. PETERSBURG - SOUTHWEST WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT(SWTP) in 2002

  16. ST. PETERSBURG - SOUTHWEST WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT(SWTP) in 2005

  17. ST. PETERSBURG – INAUGURATION OF THE SOUTHWEST WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT(SWTP) Inauguration September 22, 2005

  18. ST. PETERSBURG SOUTHWEST WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT(SWTP) Main Components: - Wastewater treatment plant EUR 149 million - Inlet pipeline EUR 15 million - Sludge incineration plant EUR 30 million (ready spring 2007) Total cost of project:EUR 194 million

  19. ST. PETERSBURG SOUTHWEST WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT(SWTP) Environmental Effects: • Reduction of nutrient to Gulf of Finland: - BOD 16.600 tons/year - Phosphorus 360 tonnes/year - Nitrogen 2.200 tonnes/year • Enough treatment capacity for treatment of all municipal wastewater • After SWTP, approx. 85% of the City of St. Petersburg municipal wastewater is treated

  20. SWTP treatment results

  21. SWTP nitrogen reduction SWTP

  22. SWTP phosphorus reduction SWTP

  23. Financial sources (1) ● Credits - where to borrow from?→ International Financing Institutions: EBRD, NIB, NEFCO, EIBoffer long-term loans, 10-15 year maturities; IFIs lead NDEP project preparation → NIB Baltic Sea Environmental Facility (EUR 500 million) → Commercial Banks: still short-term lending with various terms; guarantees possible

  24. Financial sources for BSAP (2) ●International Grants - where to find them? → Active bi-lateral programs (SIDA, Finland, Norway etc.) → Multilateral: NDEP linked with IFI loans → European Commission: EU programmes with national/ local counterpart funding, ENPI; EU Baltic Sea Strategy → Private foundations: provision of catalytic seed money and bringing high-level publicity & increased awareness

  25. Financial sources for BSAP (3) ●National funding sources → National Federal Programmes e.g. Clean Water coordinated by Ministry of Regional Development in Russia → Regional Allocations → Municipal Budget resources → Self-financing based on tariff revenues

  26. NDEP - future activities • NDEP cooperates closely with HELCOM and other regional organizations for good coordination of joint activities. EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region is a key guideline. • Project preparation has commenced in Belarus in 2010 by NIB and EBRD; significant bilateral support from Sweden, Finland and Austria • Coordination with national programs such as “Clean Water” in Russia and Belarus for multiple benefits. • 2010 challenges: ensuring good progress for Neva-project and wastewater treatment in Kaliningrad; waste management of agro-industries by NEFCO in Lenoblast ; new projects in Pskov, Petrozavodsk and Lenoblast in Russia as well as in Belarus • New funds required for the pipeline activities. EC and Russia lead financial contributors with Sweden, Germany and Finland.

  27. Our common tasks • “Every little counts” in the Baltic Sea basin • International agreements are to be integrated into national targets and policies including necessary financial commitments • National targets are applied into regional and municipal actions down to citizen level • Every household and enterprise is equally responsible for their own share - for a Cleaner Baltic Sea

  28. For more on NDEP… Please contact: Jaakko Henttonen,NDEP Manager EBRD RO, Nevsky Prospekt 25, St Petersburg Tel. +7 812 7035525; Fax: +7 812 703 55 26 Email: henttonj@ebrd.com OR Ewa Manik, NDEPAdministrative Officer EBRD, One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN Tel. +44 207 338 7196, fax +44 207 338 7486 Email: manike@ebrd.com Or visit: www.ndep.org www.ebrd.com www.nib.int www.nefco.org

More Related