1. BASE Birmingham
Natural Capital City
Pat Laughlin, Chairman,
Thursday 11 April 2013
Promoting Business Opportunity

2. Agenda
Introduction Pat Laughlin, MEBC
Urban Infrastructure Initiative Matthew Lynch,
World Business Council for
Sustainable Development
Natural Capital City Nick Grayson, Birmingham
City Council
Susan Lee, Liveable Cities
Project, U of Birmingham
Discussion Panel Skanska, Fira
Session Conclusions

3. • Partner in the Natural Capital City Project
• Focus on:
– Assessing the value of natural capital to business
– Promoting the role of business in planning urban
regeneration and growth
– Developing sustainable, integrated infrastructure
– Improving economic and social wellbeing
About us

4. www.mebconline.com
@_MEBC
patl@ebc-info.co.uk
Project Strategic Partners

5. Matthew Lynch – Project Director
BASE Birmingham – Natural Capital City Fringe Event
April 2013
Urban Infrastructure Initiative

6. What is the WBCSD?

7. VISION 2050

9.  14 global companies: 2.1m people* and US$ 900bn turnover
 Operating in most countries
* Aggregated key figures (2009)
Co-Chairs
Core Group
members
The Urban Infrastructure
Initiative member companies

10. CITY
SUSTAINABILITY
VISION
ACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
UII
TRANSFORMATION
DIALOGUE
usual company area of actionUII area of interest
Vision: “A world where cities provide a sustainable environment
for people to live, work and play”
•Objective: Helping transform a city’s vision into an effective action plan
using UII companies’ multi-disciplinary expertise and global experience.
•Cost effective, integrated solutions to complex urban challenges
Private sector
A new approach for working
with cities

11. UII: city engagement process
City Engagement Process

12. Philadelphia
Guadalajara
Turku
Tilburg
Gujarat
Yixing
Kobe
African Cities
UII Partner Cities

13. Relevant partners help identify potential cities and facilitate dialogue
Europe
Latin America
USA
East AsiaIndia
China
China BCSD
Africa
Japan
UII Cities: Selection Process

14. Nicholas You (Kenya) - Chairman of the UII Assurance group - Former
Senior Advisor of UN-Habitat, Nairobi
Ms Cheong Koon Hean (Singapore) - CEO of the Housing and
Development Board
Kees Christiaanse (Switzerland) - Professor of Architecture and Urban
Design, ETH Zürich
Mario Gandelsonas (USA) - Director, Center for Architecture, Urbanism
and Infrastructure at Princeton University
Jaime Lerner (Brazil) - Architect and urban planner, former Mayor of
Curitiba
Shin-ichi Tanabe (Japan) - Professor of Architecture, Waseda University,
Tokyo
Assurance group members

16. Gujarat Cities: solution
landscape

17. • Publication of remaining city solution landscape
reports:
Kobe
Philadelphia
Yixing
African Cities
• Synthesis of key lessons
• Scoping of a follow up WBCSD program on
cities.
UII – Next Steps

18. Contact:
Matthew Lynch
lynch@wbcsd.org

19. Nick Grayson, Climate Change and
Sustainability Manager. Birmingham City
Council
Susan Lee, Liveable Cities Project. University
of Birmingham
•How can Birmingham’s work on natural capital and
liveable city concept – get us closer to a global green
city?
•What role is there for business?
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

20. Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

21. Sustainability Forum – June 11th 2012
"We the mayors and governors of
the world's leading cities. ask you
to recognise that the future of our
globe will be won or lost in the
cities of the world."
Copenhagen Climate Change
communiqué, December 2009
•BRE Guide
•Masdar
•Biomimicry 3.8
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

22. Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

23. July 2012 – Physical Activity
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

24. Key Partners
Climate Risk
Water
Green Infrastructure
Health & Well Being
Biodiversity
The LEP & Business
Community + Resilience
Planning
Transport & Infrastructure
The 9 piece jigsaw
POLICY
EVIDENCE
DELIVERY
Green
Infrastructure &
Adaptation
Delivery Group
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

25. Principle Output & Policy
An Adapted City
Plan for effects of the Urban Heat Island
Green roofs & walls
Street Canyons Research
Trees for cooling & thermal insulation
The City’s Blue
Network
Develop a Blue Corridor &’Green Streets’ Policy
Enhance and the wider Blue network.
SuDS & flood & water management
Enhance water quality & riparian habitat
A Healthy City
Adopt Natural Health Improvement Zones (NHIZ)
Introduce sustainable land management principles.
„Be Active‟ neighbourhoods
Childhood development
The City’s
Productive
Landscapes
Endorse the Birmingham Forest & Tree Bond
Promote allotments
Facilitate community food growing, orchards, and woodlands
Embed biomass production
The City’s
Greenways
Adopt A Walkable City
Greenway networks
“Quiet Roads”
Permissive access rights
The City’s
Ecosystem
Develop an Ecosystem City Model
•Ecosystem Evaluation of Birmingham’s GI and Trees
Explore new funding mechanisms & joint partnerships
Biodiversity mapping
The City’s Green
Living Spaces
Adopt Integrated Area Plans
Protection of natural & built heritage
Integrate public health concerns
Sustainable tree planting policy

26. A NEW Green Vision
We have created a new Green Vision
which pulls together our work on
carbon reduction,
ecosystems services,
adapting to climate change
and the green economy.
Achieving integration across these areas is
the mark of a leading green city.
BIRMINGHAM’S
GREEN
COMMISSION
BUILDING A GREEN CITY
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

27. BASE Birmingham
11th April, 2013

28. Civil Engineering;
Geography, Earth &
Environmental Sciences
Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts;
Imagination Lancaster
Civil Engineering;
Faculty of Engineering Science
Engineering and the Environment
Liveable Cities Team

29. • To understand how cities operate and
perform in terms of their people,
environment and governance.
• To establish how city performance relates
to the vision of low-carbon living, working,
conserving and consuming.
• To develop realistic and radical
engineering solutions, and test them as
interventions in case studies.
Liveable Cities Objectives

30. The CAM is an instrument to help a city
understand where it is, where it wants to be
and how it can get there.
The CAM

31. City Analysis Methodology (CAM)
Framework

32. Vision
Goal
Dimension
Outcome
Strategy
Indicator:
Use of timber
from
renewable
resources
UK Cities will be low carbon,
sustainable cities providing the
highest quality of life with the
highest resource security
Minimize operational
and embodied carbon
Low carbon and low impact
materials
Maximise low carbon and low
impact materials
Use of renewable resources on
all residential new builds
CAM

33. Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

34. Confederation of British Industry
John Cridland, the CBI’s Director-
General; summer 2012:-
“The so-called choice between going
green or going for growth is a false
one….With the right policies in place,
green business will be a major pillar of
our future growth”
Peter Bakker, CEO, World Business Council for Sustainable
Development
“Over the last 20 years - ever since the first Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro - business has become an important voice on sustainability
issues. It’s no longer simply part of the problem; it’s part of the
solution, if not the driver for it…..
…In fact, many companies worldwide have created their own
innovative programs to improve their sustainability.”
Annual Review
2012-13 –
“Accelerate Now”
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

35. Public
Sector
Private
Sector
“We will put natural capital at
the centre of economic thinking;
and at the heart of the way we
measure economic progress.”
NATURAL CAPITAL COMMITTEE
The City ‘Challenge’
map- can become an
‘Opportunities’ map
for private sector
investment;
A global market -$22
trillion, alliance of
Institutional
investors?
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD NOV 21
2012
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

36. Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

37. Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

38. At the City scale – potential for synergistic
public- private partnerships to meet the scale
of the ‘Challenge’;
At the Site scale – Natural Capital City Tool
pilot project:-
•to identify multiple benefits- economic,
social and environmental;
•to identify wider stakeholders;
•to identify future returns on investment
periods, per stakeholder;
Natural Capital acts as a catalyst to growth –
not a barrier.
“We will put natural capital at the centre of
economic thinking;
and at the heart of the way we measure
economic progress.”
NATURAL CAPITAL COMMITTEE
Natural Capital City Model:
Birmingham

39. • What are the key things we must do to make
Birmingham a leading green city?
• What are the priorities for 2013-2017?
• What are the barriers to achieving those
actions? What are the solutions to overcome
them?
• How can we seize the enormous social and
economic opportunities?
Discussion Session Outputs