Abstract
The increasing attention and sensitivity to issues related to Global Warming and Climate Change are strengthening the actions and policies related to Sustainable Development trying to give to this concept a clearer engineering dimension. Not only policymakers are involved in this aim and experts of interdisciplinary aspects but also the irreplaceable involvement of citizens which with their behavior can make the difference and get much closer to the seventeen goals of the sustainable development by 2030. In this framework, the Territorial Energetic and Environmental Planning provides operational solidity to the concept of Sustainable Development, giving more responsibility to local administrations (as it is due according to subsidiarity), with the Central Government that guarantees the respect of the principles of Subsidiarity and Glocalization. Province of L’Aquila (in the Abruzzo Region, Italy) has been a leading player of this program and, in 2012, has realized the ambitious goal of having favored a Covenant, joining all the 108 Municipalities of the Province. Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics (DIIIE) of the University of L’Aquila designed the Sustainable Energy Action Plants (SEAP) and the monitoring phase of all the Municipalities through a scientific methodology which matched the goal of SEAPs with the dimension of the Municipality. In order to go deep into SEAP’s analysis, in this paper Authors describes the second uploading and necessary steps: a quantitative analysis of the Baseline Emission Inventory, the quantification of the SEAPs planning actions and the definition of the Monitoring Emission Inventory. This second step was done for the Municipality of Avezzano, one of the main Municipality of the L’Aquila Province, and gave the quantitative dimension of the CO2 emissions referred to the year 2017, compared with 2005 baseline emissions. The reduction commitments to be reached in 2020 defines the present distance to the target.
Highlights
The mitigation of Climate Change related to Global Warming (GW) is the most important challenge to be taken up considering that it represents an emergency whose solution can no longer be delayed
The Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics of the University of L'Aquila (DIIIE), through a scientific cooperation appointed by the Province of L'Aquila, developed a technical role in the project which consisted in the implementation of a methodological approach for the Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) drafting: in particular, the drafting of the Baseline Emission Inventory (BEI), the energy quantification of the actions financed by the Covenant of Mayors” program (CoM), the proposal of specific actions for each municipality in order to achieve the objective defined through a set of actions that could guarantee an economic intervention, the availability to monitor the different phases till the 2020 target
This paper analyzes from a qualitative point of view SEAP updating, quantifying the single consumptions for each energy sector, drafting a new Monitoring Emission Inventory (MEI) for a specific year: the data analysis revealed the state of the implementation of the actions in 2017, in order to have a global analysis of municipal state and interventions and to verify the correct planning process to the 2020 goal CO2 reduction of 20%
Summary
The mitigation of Climate Change related to Global Warming (GW) is the most important challenge to be taken up considering that it represents an emergency whose solution can no longer be delayed. The Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics of the University of L'Aquila (DIIIE), through a scientific cooperation appointed by the Province of L'Aquila, developed a technical role in the project which consisted in the implementation of a methodological approach for the SEAPs drafting: in particular, the drafting of the BEI, the energy quantification of the actions financed by the CoM (and of the relative emissions for each action), the proposal of specific actions for each municipality in order to achieve the objective defined through a set of actions that could guarantee an economic intervention, the availability to monitor the different phases till the 2020 target. In the face of this commitment (SEAP implementation and monitoring phase management), in the followings the Authors present the methodological approach developed with the intention of providing operational guidelines for generalizing the drafting of a SEAP
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