Climate change policies and health in Kuopio

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Scope

Question

What are potential climate policies that reach the greenhouse emission targets in the city of Kuopio for years 2010-2030? What are their effects on health and well-being, and what recommendations can be given based on this? The national greenhouse emission target is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 % between 1990 and 2020; the city of Kuopio has its own, more ambitious target of 40 % for the same time period.

Boundaries

• Time: Year 2010 - 2030
• Spatial: Activities in Kuopio, Finland. Health and well-being effects due to policies anywhere, e.g. fine particle emissions in Kuopio increase cardiovascular mortality all over Finland.

Intended users

• The city of Kuopio.
• Other cities in Urgenche.
• Urgenche researchers are users from the methodological point of view.

Participants

• Main participants:
  • City of Kuopio: Erkki Pärjälä, Mikko Savastola
  • THL: Marjo Niittynen, Jouni Tuomisto, Matti Jantunen.
• Other participants:
  • University of Exeter
  • Universität Stuttgart
  • Other Urgenche research groups
  • Other Urgenche cities

Rationale

Policies

• Plausible climate change policies in Kuopio can be found in detail at Climate change policies in Kuopio
  • Major policies/aims
    • Compared to 1990, 40% reduction in total GHG emissions in Kuopio by 2020.
    • Compared to 2005, 9% reduction in city´s own energy use by 2016.

Specific actions

• Energy production
  • New power plant unit in Haapaniemi: ability to use significantly more biomass in the production of district heat (2014)
• Building stock
  • Energy efficiency of buildings is increased: new stricter building regulations in Finland (2/2013)
  • Education to building owners and managers: semblance of best practicies in heating and other use of energy. Possible reduction in energy use of building stock is about 10%, and mere beneficial health effects are expected.
• Land use and transport
  • If possible, PM emissions and noise are calculated based on updated version of Kuopio´s traffic network
  • Alternatively, the effect of increased use of biofuels on GHG and CO2 emissions is evaluated.

Indicators

• Cardiovascular mortality
• Pulmonar mortality
• Well-being...

Assessment-specific data

• Building registry
• Use of electricity by building type
• Use of district heat by contract
• Fuels and emissions of Haapaniemi power plant
• Regional plan on public transport

Answer

Conclusions

The target of 40 % GHG reduction seems realistic due to reforms in Haapaniemi power plant, expecting that GHG emissions for biomass = 0.

See also

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

Urgenche pages Urgenche main page · Category:Urgenche · Urgenche project page (password-protected) Relevant data Building stock data in Urgenche‎ · Building regulations in Finland · Concentration-response to PM2.5 · Emission factors for burning processes · ERF of indoor dampness on respiratory health effects · ERF of several environmental pollutions · General criteria for land use · Indoor environment quality (IEQ) factors · Intake fractions of PM · Land use in Urgenche · Land use and boundary in Urgenche · Energy use of buildings Relevant methods Building model · Energy balance · Health impact assessment · Opasnet map · Help:Drawing graphs · OpasnetUtils‎ · Recommended R functions‎ · Using summary tables‎ City Kuopio Climate change policies and health in Kuopio (assessment) · Climate change policies in Kuopio (plausible city-level climate policies) · Health impacts of energy consumption in Kuopio · Building stock in Kuopio · Cost curves for energy (prioritization of options) · Energy balance in Kuopio (energy data) · Energy consumption and GHG emissions in Kuopio by sector · Energy consumption classes (categorisation) · Energy consumption of heating of buildings in Kuopio · Energy transformations (energy production and use processes) · Fuels used by Haapaniemi energy plant · Greenhouse gas emissions in Kuopio · Haapaniemi energy plant in Kuopio · Land use in Kuopio · Building data availability in Kuopio · Password-protected pages: File:Heat use in Kuopio.csv · Kuopio housing City Basel Buildings in Basel (password-protected) Energy balances Energy balance in Basel · Energy balance in Kuopio · Energy balance in Stuttgart · Energy balance in Suzhou

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