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TOOLs FOR Air quality planning

Silvia MoroniAMAT - City of Milan

Partnership

Air Quality

Urban Agenda

Partnership for Air Quality: Solutions for healthier cities and regions

Brussels SQUARE,

10

th

October 2018

PartnershipAir Quality

Actions

on

Air Quality Plans

ACTION PLAN

BETTER REGULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION

ACTION 1

:

Identification of

Gaps in Regulation and Implementation

on Air Pollutant Emission Sources

ACTION 2

-

Better Air Quality Planning (Governance)2. BETTER FUNDINGACTION 3 - Better Targeted Funding for Air Quality3. BETTER KNOWLEDGEACTION 4 - BETTER FOCUS ON THE PROTECTION AND ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CITIZENS’ HEALTH ACTION 5 - AWARENESS RAISING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARINGACTION 6 - OUTREACH

MILAN

Action Leader

MILAN Action Leader

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Action 2-Better Air Quality Planning(Governance)Action Leader: City of Milan

PartnershipAir QualityACTION PLAN

Better Regulation & Implementation

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Air Quality Plans (AQPs)analysis

More than 30 existent Cities Air Quality Plans and several Cities Strategies to improve Air Quality have been collected by mean of a Questionnaire sent to Cities Members of the Partnership and other channels (Eurocities network, Futurium platform)

Cities AIR QUALITY PLANS‘Code of Good Practice’

ACTION 2Better Air Quality Planning (Governance) What Action is needed?

Best Practices in

AIR QUALITY MEASURES

Register

Code

of Good Practicefor CitiesAQPs

EC/JRC

Register

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Best Practices in Air Quality MeasuresRegister

ACTION 2Tool n. 1

EC/JRC

Register

Collection of

Best Practices examples

in AQ measures

Keep updated

the existing

EC/JRC Register

:

Your

Cities

/AuthorityLocal experience/Best practice

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https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/air-quality

Air Quality Plans Strategic Planning instruments introduced by the Ambient Air Quality Directive (Dir. 2008/50/EC)

Compulsory Plans for ‘zone’ and ‘agglomeration’ within which the concentrations of pollutants in ambient air ‘exceed any Limit value or Target value’Mandatory elements

listed under Annex XV, Section A of Directive 2008/50/EUHave to set out appropriate and cost-effective measures to achieve compliance, keeping the period of exceedances ‘

as short as possible’Infringement proceedings against MS if no AQPConnection of AQP with NAPCP

(National Air Pollution Control Plan) (Dir. 2016/2284/EU), mandatory

from April 2019

ACTION 2

Better Air Quality Planning (Governance

)

Legislation

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CODE of Good Practicefor Cities Air Quality PlansThe report will include:

Indications on how to better develop, manage and implement Cities AQPsExamples of consistent interpretation of the content listed under Annex XV, Section A of Directive 2008/50/EU

Best practice examples of AQ Plans List of

Good Practice in AQ MeasuresRecommendation in AQ planning

ACTION 2

Tool n. 2

CODE of Good

Practice

for Cities

AQPs

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(available by end of 2018)

Please, stay tuned!

https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/air-quality

Successful factors for Air Quality PlansImportance of Citizens Awareness raising since the beginning and during the process of the AQP

Firm Commitment and Integrated Planning (other sectors: Mobility, Energy, Climate, Urban Development, ..)More focus on Health Impact of Air Pollution in AQPs and associated External Cost

Participatory Approach (Stakeholders, main actors, citizens involvement)Fundamental is Multi-level Governance dialogue; more

cooperation between cities, Regions, Member States and EU is neededGood Business Model for funding implementation

ACTION 2

Better Air Quality Planning (Governance)

Lesson

learnt

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Action 3-Better targeted funding for air quality

PartnershipAir QualityACTION PLANBetter Funding

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Action Leader: City of Milan

Challenges 1/2The Partnership observed:In spite of various EU and national funds are available to prepare and implement national, regional and local air pollution policies, there is an overall

lack of specific programmes dedicated to funding of projects aimed at ‘air pollution reduction’, as funding of air quality improvement projects usually has to compete with other societal challenges

knowledge of the right procedures and conditions to access available funding instruments is required: stakeholders consider difficult the procedures

to acquire funding for clean air projects from EU/Member States

ACTION 3

Better FundingFindings

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Challenges 2/2Cities are in demand:for more possibilities to integrate existing EU/MS/regional funds for implementing air quality measures

for an increase in the relevant funding options for urban projects/plans to carry out air quality management solutions (i.e. Cities Air Quality Plans).

ACTION 3Better Funding

Findings

This issue is particularly sensitive for those

urban

areas where

the

costs of local abatement measures for Limit Values compliance are remarkable

(stronger measures and wider range of action to be taken).

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Development of a ‘Business Model’for Cities Air Quality Plans (MILAN Pilot Project with EIB)

Guidance

for funding

Cities Air Quality Plans

ACTION 3

Better Funding

What Action is needed?

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Financing schemes

or Business Models

Financial needs Sources of finance

€

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ACTION 3

Better Funding

Schemes to support AQPs

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Investment attractiveness

Financially sustainable measures

Savings/ revenues can be leveraged to repay initial investments

Private companies may be interested

Potential return

on investment

Loans can be repaid with the financial inflows generated by the investment

Other forms of private involvement can be envisaged

Non-financially sustainable measures

Benefits not monetized in the market

The public administration shall cover capital expenditures and

and

operational ones

Loans can be only repaid with public resources

When cost of capital is lower than debt, long-term conditions are favorable and/or when no sufficient public resources are available in upfront

The public initiative

The loan conditions

Private resources

Public resources

ACTION 3

Better Funding

Business Modelfor Cities Air Quality Plans

Guidance

for funding

Cities Air Quality Plans

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Partnership

Air Quality

AQ Planning TOOLS

(available by end of 2018)

Please, stay tuned!

https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/air-quality

Code

of Good Practicefor CitiesAQPsCode of Good Practice for Cities Air Quality Plans

EC/JRC

Register

Best Practices in Air Quality MeasuresRegister

silvia.moroni@amat-mi.it

PAQ Action 2 and Action 3 Leader

Thank

you

for

your

attention

!

Findings on AQPs Not official EU Guidelines available on AQPs(mandatory elements in Dir. 2008/50/CE) Template available for a large metropolitan area

Only three found with full English additional versionDifficult to share AQPs best practice and experiences

Different Countries implement Dir. 2008/50/CE in different ways, considering internal organization

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Please, give your contribute < 31 October for updating the

JRC Catalogue of Measure for Air Quality on the EU WebsiteFUTURIUM

https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/air-quality

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ACTION 2

Tool n. 1

EC/JRC

Register

…AQ measure you’ll describe could be insert in the Code

Lesson LearntCities remain the immediate level of intervention in dealing with primary pollutants produced by local activities and for health protection of citizens ……but ‘

Air quality planning’ is not always under the responsibility of citiesAQ measures defined in the AQP should address different sectors, whose enforcement and implementation are of competence of urban

, regional or national authorities, as appropriate

ACTION 2

Better Air Quality Planning (Governance)

Challenges

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Integrated planning + Multi-level Governance dialogue and cooperation is needed