26.11.2008

Susanna Kankaanpää

Regional-scale responses to climate change in Finland

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Regional –scale climate adaptation strategies in Finland

3 Cases:

• Helsinki Metropolitan Area• Uusimaa Regional Council• Tampere Region

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The Helsinki Metropolitan Area

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Helsinki Metropolitan Area has a climate change mitigation strategy in place

• The strategy was prepared by YTV and the cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen

• The strategy was published in 2007 and approved by the four cities and YTV

• The focus of the strategy is in: The sectors with largest GHG

emissions Measures that can be carried

out by the cities Decreasing use of energy

• Implementation of the strategy has started

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Adaptation strategy for the Helsinki Metropolitan Area

• Preparation of the adaptation strategy will start in 2009

• Key words for the strategy are: Regional Urban area Built environment Joint strategy of the cities

• Regional climate scenarios for the area will be prepared

• Impacts of climate change to the urban environment will be assessed

• Focus of the strategy will be in risk management and security issues

• Prepration in cooperation with YTV and the cities of Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen

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Source: Uusimaa Regional Council

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Uusimaa Regional Council

• Uusimaa Regional Council is a joint regional authority for Helsinki-Uusimaa Region. Its members are the municipalities in the region, from which it receives its funding. Like all 19 regional councils in Finland, it is mandated in law.

• The tasks of Uusimaa Regional Council include: regional and land-use planning the promotion of local and regional interests in general. the Council articulates common regional needs, long term

development goals and conditions for sustainable development.

Source: Uusimaa Regional Council

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Uusimaa Region Climate Strategy work

• Uusimaa Climate Strategy • In a planning stage

• Determines the role of Uusimaa Regional Council in climate work in the province

• Gathers the information and actors in the region • Sets climate targets for the region

• Potential for renewable energy in the Uusimaa Region• Identifying all potential renewable energy sources in the region and

• Next regional land use plan • Climate change will be an important issue

• Adaptation to climate change• A adaptation trainig course/session for planners and politicians of the region

will be organised in the spring

Source: Jarkko Hintsala

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Väestö 31.12.2007Kangasala 27 733Lempäälä 19 291Nokia 30 485Pirkkala 15 778Tampere 207 866Vesilahti 4 086Ylöjärvi 26 384Orivesi 9 555• 8 municipalities

• 341 168 citizens• Growth 1,4 %

Tampere Region

Source: Kaisu Anttonen

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Basic questions

Land use planning -Land use model?- How large growth in the region?- Where should new areas be built?- Timetables and sizes of new areas?

HousingHow much housing should be built?Pleasant housing areas!

TransportHow to minimise need for transport?How to enhance use of public transport and walking and cycling?

ServicesHow to create an efficient service structure for thewhole region?How to get services close to thecitizens?

EnergyHow to use little energy for heating and transport, save energy and use renewables?

Private sectorCompetetive enterprisesand regional intergration

Source: Kaisu Anttonen

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Strategy work based on land use structure models

1. Denser urbanregion

2. Urban regionsupported bypublic transportchannels

3. Multi-centreurban region

4. Current trends

Source: Kaisu Anttonen

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Structure models are described in terms of

• Land use and community structure• Transport• Private sector and enterprises• Services• Climate change and energy use• Need for transport and modes of transport• Adaptation• Recreational and ecological networks

Source: Kaisu Anttonen

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Climate strategy work

• ”Preliminary climate change assessment” of the structure models – incorporating the climate change issues into the work

• Stakeholder workshops in urban planning and industry/energy• Preliminary scenarios (storylines) • A working group for adaptation measures in the municipalities will start

in December• Impact assessment of different structure models, also climate impacts

will be assessed • One strucutre model will be chosen and climate impacts assessed

Source: Kaisu Anttonen

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Adaptation strategy – planned adaptation

• Identifying risks of extreme events- Technical networks- Flood prone areas: zoning and building- Increased wind burden- Building technologies > erosion, inundatio, land slides, snow, moisture- Water management > ground water, water quality, drought periods- Waste water management> networks, extreme events and waste

watertreatment plants, toxins- Storm water management

Source: Kaisu Anttonen

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More information:

• Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council and climate change work: http://www.ytv.fi/ENG/future/climate_change/

susanna.kankaanpaa@ytv.fi• Uusimaa Regional Council: http://www.uudenmaanliitto.fi/?l=en

jarkko.hintsala@uudenmaanliitto.fi• Tampere Central Region: http://www.tampereenseutu.fi/in_english/

kaisu.anttonen@tampere.fi

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Thank you!