CES-MED Publication EN-final 2018-WEB

Algeria
Boumerdès
A Green,
Welcoming Eco-city
Global Strategy of the SEAP
The recent signing of the CoM is a clear demonstration of the
involvement of the Assemblée Populaire Communale (APC) in
the CES-MED project to develop a SEAP. The elected representatives
of Boumerdès see the SEAP as a potential way to develop
the municipality. By devising this action plan, the municipality
has decided to work towards three main objectives:
• Promoting a low energy consumption housing programs:
there are many construction projects in the area that include
participative, social or promotional housing. They do not,
however, respect any of the environmental or energy standards
currently in force;
• Integrating the limitations imposed by commuting (vicinity
of Algiers): the touristic nature of the city must be a key element
in developing the SEAP;
• Working to raise citizen awareness: a pilot project of separated
recycling (as part of the Ecojem mechanism) in a
Boumerdès neighbourhood was cancelled following protests
by the inhabitants. It is therefore vital to support the city and
develop good practices for raising awareness so that this
scenario doesn’t happen again.
The Action Plan proposed focuses on the following areas:
1 The assets and public services directly controlled by the Local
Government Popular Assembly (APC)
2 All of the activities across the municipal area, including all actors,
to strengthen their commitment to reduce energy consumption
and to increase the local production of renewable
energy.
Overall results of the Baseline Emissions
Inventory (BEI)
• Consuming Sectors: The housing sector represents more
than half of the energy consumption in the municipality
(51%), followed by transport, the tertiary sector and industry.
• Emitting Sectors: Housing (39%), transport (17%), the tertiary
sector (16%) and waste (13%) are the sectors that produce
the most GHG emissions, and as a result should be the
focus of any action.
• Municipal assets’ emissions: Public lighting is responsible
for more than 65% of the emissions coming from municipal
assets. As a result, the APC will develop actions focused in
this area to become a model for the reduction of GHG emissions.
Actions and results
• While the effect of many “standalone” measures is difficult to
assess, by implementing a full set of actions, we should be
able to reach the 2020 target of reducing GHG emissions by
20.3% compared to the forecast data.
• Total emissions avoided, without taking into consideration
any secondary effects (only the actions that are found in
the action plan), correspond to 20,274 t CO2 eq/year.
SEAP Priority projects and costs in Euro
Today, the municipality of Boumerdès hopes to make the fight
against climate change one of its key priorities. The APC aims
to create and implement new models for energy consumption
and production. The municipality’s targets could be reached by
working on the following four strategic levers:
• Strengthening and promoting energy efficiency across the
municipality;
• Increasing the share of energy produced through renewable
resources in the municipality;
• Promoting sustainable construction and building projects
across the municipal area;
• Involving all of the stakeholders in the territory in promoting
energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions.
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