Climate change policies in Basel

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What are plausible policies to the city of Basel to mitigate and adapt to climate change? The emphasis is on mitigation policies.

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Climate change policies in Basel: Difference between revisions(-)

Obs	Row	Policy	Target year	Comparison year	Sector	Target	Action	Description
1	1	Emission policy	2020	1990	All	0.4	Reducing greenhouse gas emissions.	Greenhouse gas emissions have decreased by at least 40% of the 1990 levels before 2020.

Rationale

The strategy of Basel’s climate policy for GHG-reduction is predominantly an energy policy: 1.Use energy efficiently. 2.Advocate renewable energy. 3.Save energy. Sufficiency

5 pillars of Basel-City’s energy policy

1. Conventional law

• • Buildings:
    • Most stringent requirements in whole Switzerland regarding the insulation of new building (wall, roof, windows).
    • 50% of the energy requirements for hot water must come from renewable sources in case of new buildings or renovations of heating systems
    • New buildings must have a sunblind and thermal insulation for summer season
  • Industry:
    • Large-scale electricity consumer in industry can be ask to do a safe-energy-analyse and do some ameliorations.
    • etc.

1. An incentive levy

• • 5% Levy on each electricity bill for support (royalty) of:
    • Modernising insulation of buildings (energy efficiency)
    • Renewable energy
    • Pilot & Demonstration Buildings

1. A steering tax on electricity

• • Mid 1990s the steering tax was introduced to the same amount as energy-prices reduction to avoid people wasting electricity
  • The revenue is paid back; household-bonus & company-bonus

1. Advancement in solar power

• • Requires the regional energy supplier to accept an additional 2000 kWp of solar electricity annually at cost-covering prices and to feed this into its grid.

1. 2000-Watt-Society and Partnerships

• • A Project by the Canton of Basel-City and Novatlantis
  • Main focus of the 2000-watt-society:
    • buildings
    • mobility
      • “Near Zero Emission Vehicle"
      • “Clean Engine Vehicle“
      • Hydrogen-Driven Municipal Vehicle (hy.muve); a oxygen road sweeping vehicle
      • 100 ecological biogas taxis
      • e-mobility
        • Testing e-mobility
        • event packet for companies
        • carefree packet for companies and administration
        • e-sharing for private persons
        • Development strategy for e-bikes
        • Energy-tours www.energy-tours.bs.ch
    • urban development
    • carbon neutral administration
      • Effect as a prototype (paradigm)
      • Minergy P-Standard (shell and technical facilities) for new construction-buildings
      • Minergy Standard (shell) for renovation-buildings

Air pollution control with influence on GHG-reduction

Most important political instrument:

• Clean air regulation of Switzerland
• Clean air plan of Basel-City and Country

Clean air plan of Basel-city and country

Expamples with influence on GHG-reduction in target traffic:

• Ecological motor vehicle tax
• Tightening commercial control over parking space
• Mobility management and agglomeration program (urban planning)
• Public intensive infrastructures are obligated to decrease their traffic intensity
• Regulations and limitations in prestressed air polluted city quarters

Infrastructure enhancing climate policy of Basel

• Waste incinerator
  • Integrated into the district heating. Function as a thermic power plant: 200,000 tons of waste supply our city with the power the equivalent of about 50,000 tons of oil.
  • Equipped with the most effective smoke exhaust filter systems
• Wood-fire power station
  • Integrated into the district heating. Function as a thermic power plant.
  • Substitutes about 11‘000 tons of oil
• Aquifere of the community Riehen*
  • A geothermal power station with deepgroundwater of 66 °C connected together with the block heat and power plant into the community heating of Riehen.
• Deep heat mining project
  • This project had to be stopped unfortunately because the drillings have caused an earthquake on 2006.
• Electricity by the IWB
  • Electricity in Basel is 100% renewable.
  • 99 % is hydraulic energy.
  • The rest is solar energy or wind power.
  • Basel is not allowed to consume nuclear power because due to law

Most important shifts of climate change which are expected in Switzerland till 2050

• In winter, fall and springtime temperature will increase around 2°C in summer around 3°C
• Decrease of Rainfall in summer of 20% and increase of 10% in winter
• Generally more heatwaves, dry periods, strong rainfalls and floods

The Canton Basel-Stadt is most affected by:

• Heat wave hot-spot-effects in the City (“heat-island”)
• Rising ground-water temperatures, which decreases the possibility to use ground-water only for cooling-process.
• Rising temperatures of the river Rhein during heat-waves, which results that industry is not possible to cool their production-process with Rhein water (fish kill).

See also

Urgenche research project 2011 - 2014: city-level climate change mitigation

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