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Sevilla Conference 2007

Sevilla Conference 2007. MOVING FROM AN ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO A SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HAS ITS CHALLENGES. Oslo is completing its EMS and continue on the long and winding road to SMS. GUTTORM GRUNDT Environmental Affairs Coordinator City of Oslo. Economy. Society.

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Sevilla Conference 2007

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  1. Sevilla Conference 2007 MOVING FROM AN ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO A SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HAS ITS CHALLENGES Oslo is completing its EMS and continue on the long and winding road to SMS GUTTORM GRUNDTEnvironmental Affairs CoordinatorCity of Oslo

  2. Economy Society Ecology SUSTAINABILITY TRIANGLE SMS EMS

  3. Environmental policy Budget AnnualReport EMS OSLO • Department of Environment and Transport • Agencies Organisation

  4. ECO-EFFICIENCY/ CERTIFICATION - energy efficiency/change- materials efficiency/waste - transport efficiency/change - eco-procura Oslo Forum forSustainable City Managing UrbanEurope - 25 47Agencies 176Schools 15UrbanDistricts 45Homes forelderly anddisabled 350Kindergardens Green Living Environmental management in Oslo

  5. GREEN WAVE

  6. SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?Ålborg Commitmentsin the UEP : And not: • Governance • Local management towards sustainability • Planning and design • Natural common goods • Local action for health • Responsible consumption and lifestyle choices • Vibrant and sustainable local economy • Sustainable mobility • Social equity and justice • Local to global

  7. SO WHAT IS THE CITY MASTER PLAN?Goals: • Oslo shall be an international attractive city and a motive power in the Oslo region • Oslo shall be a safe city with high quality of life for the inhabitants • Oslo shall offer user adapted municipal services of high quality • Oslo shall have a sustainable urban development

  8. City Master plan Budget AnnualReport CMS OSLO • City Hall Departments • All Agencies Organisation

  9. SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM II? • The Master plan does not have a sufficiently long term view to cater for sustainability, only medium (16 years) • The Master plan does not have sustainability indicators on social and economic development. • The Master plan does not focus on the most critical issues concerning sustainability, but on critical and uncritical issues alike. • Does the Master plan try to appeace the reader as much as to raise concern?

  10. THE SUSTAINABILITY IMBALANCE

  11. THE REGIONAL IMBALANCE

  12. INCONVENIENT RECOGNITIONS • “No city is an island” • Ecological footprint as a key indicator for sustainability requires a global perspective • A global perspective requires a new and broader public ethic (CSR, Earth Charter) • High quality of life is an inadequate measure for sustainable lifestyle; A reduction in people`s quality of life may prove more sustainable. • Adopting the Aalborg commitments is only a start.

  13. SO WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? • We need to focus on the 10 most vital, and probably the politically most sensitive, sustainability issues/indicators (of the AC 50) in an open dialogue with the major partners in the City society. • We need experts and bureaucrats who have the guts (balls) to tell this to the politicians • We need politicians who have the openness and guts to go into a dialogue with their bureaucrats and experts and put the real sustainability challenges on the local political agenda • And we need local media who has both the humility, honesty and guts, to tell the people the facts about the challenges and solutions about sustainability that their readers, listeners or viewers neither want to read, hear nor see.

  14. http://www.oslo.kommune.no

  15. 10 POSSIBLE OVERRIDING SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS • Biodiversity • Children in public custody • Climate gas emissions • School dropouts • Adults permanently outside employment • Ecological footprint • State of public infrastructure • Drinking water supply • Population health • Municipal dept

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