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COMMUNITY BENCHMARKING BENCHMARKING ASSESSMENT REPORT Submitted by Nusa Dua Resort Area Assessment conducted by Earth Check Pty Ltd OVERVIEW This assessment was undertaken against benchmarking indicators for Communities developed for GREEN GLOBE. The indicators have been carefully selected to improve environmental and social performance in key performance areas such as the reduction of energy use and the reduction of waste and potable water use. The indicators are practical and customised for each sector. As a standard policy, GREEN GLOBE will continuously improve its indicators over time, but any changes will be introduced with plenty of warning to assist customers. The following indicators apply to annual benchmarking of Communities in the GREEN GLOBE programme. •Sustainability Policy (includes travel & tourism): Policy developed •Energy consumption: Energy consumed /person •Greenhouse gas (CO2): Carbon Dioxide (CO2 ) generated / person •Air quality: Nitrogen oxides (NOx ) generated / area Sulphur dioxide (SO2 ) generated / area Particulates ( THE BENCHMARKS 1. Sustainability policy includes travel & tourism: In Place 2. Energy consumption: ………83………………. GJ pa / person years pa Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice Nusa Dua Resort Area is Above Baseline for this indicator and the performance of this indicator is considered to be good. This reflects in part the lack of significant heavy industry and other intensive users of electricity in the District. 3. Greenhouse gas production:……3.9 ……….total CO2 produced (tonnes) / person years pa Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice This is considered a very good result against the baseline value for this indicator. 4. Air quality: ……44.93………………. NOx ug / m3 (average of three monitored sites) Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice ……30.63………………… SO2 ug / m3 (average of three monitored sites) Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice …………124.71…………... PM10 ug / m3 (average of three monitored sites) Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice The air quality indicators are considered to show good performance. * See note under Recommendations 5. Water consumption: …345………. kL pa / person years pa Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice 6. Solid waste production:…0.79…………tonnes pa / person years pa Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice 7. Resource conservation:……24.8 ………paper purchased (kg) pa / total employees Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice ……0.96……..biodegradable pesticides purchased (kg) pa / total pesticides purchased (kg) pa Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice 96% of pesticides used by Nusa Dua are biodegradable which is to be highly commended by GREEN GLOBE. ……0.97……biodegradable cleaning chemicals purchased (kg) pa / total cleaning chemicals purchased (kg) pa Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice 97% of cleaning chemicals used by Nusa Dua are biodegradable which is to be highly commended by GREEN GLOBE. 8. Biodiversity:……0.78…………..native vegetation area designated for conservation in community’s region (ha) / total community area (ha) Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice Nusa Dua Resort Area is above GREEN GLOBE baseline for this indicator. 9. Waterways quality:……0.55……….samples passing quality standards pa / total samples tested pa Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice This level is below the baseline. GREEN GLOBE would expect Nusa Dua Resort Area to improve procedures and outcomes by addressing water quality issues over the next 24 months. 10. Travel & tourism:……0.56…………number of environmentally accredited travel & tourism operators / total number of travel & tourism operators Below Baseline Above Baseline Best Practice This indicator demonstrates Nusa Dua’s high level of commitment to sustaining the environment. 11. Optional Indicators: ……0.7……… Employees within a 20 km radius / total employees ……0.65 ….. Value of local goods purchased / total goods purchased 12. CEO Endorsement of information: In Place CONCLUSIONS and RECOMMENDATION Congratulations! Nusa Dua Resort Area has passed the GREEN GLOBE requirements to become recognised as a GREEN GLOBE Community for the next 12 months. In order to meet the annual benchmarking requirements of GREEN GLOBE and have the right to use the GREEN GLOBE 21 Benchmarked logo, all benchmarks should be at Baseline or better. There is an exception to this requirement. If one or two indicators are at a level no more than 20% below baseline performance, then the community will be deemed to have passed the assessment only if there is clear evidence that the community has put in place measures such as investment and/or changes in procedures within 6 months of the benchmarking exercise. These measures must specifically rectify the performance of the indicator(s) to ensure that it is likely to meet the Above Baseline level within 24 months. Nusa Dua Resort Area is required to take action in 2 indicator areas and provide evidence of this action by 1 April 2004. The indicators involved are: Waterways Quality Retention of this status in 12 months is dependent on suitable measures being initiated to improve the water quality performance figures. These measures could include: avoidance of ground water contaminants; better runoff control to ensure waste and litter is contained; and that all water treatment facilities which are discharging into waterways are providing adequate treatment. Air Quality For this assessment, the air quality indicator has been based upon the air quality data supplied by the Nusa Dua Resort Area and the international air quality parameters. Although the measured air quality was accepted as a suitable indicator for this benchmarking period, the specified GREEN GLOBE measures as listed below should used in subsequent years. Indicator measure 1: Total NOx produced by the community (kg) pa / Total community area (ha) Indicator measure 2: Total SO2 produced by the community (kg) pa / Total community area (ha) Indicator measure 3: Total PM10 produced by the community (kg) pa / Total community area (ha) The Air Quality indicator as set out in the GREEN GLOBE 21 Sector Benchmarking Indicators for Communities version 3.1 (2002) defines the air quality parameters in terms of the environmental burden using three indicator pollutants (oxides of nitrogen, sulphur dioxide and particulates less than 10 micrometers). The environmental burden approach uses the estimated quantity of each pollutant generated per unit area of the community to assess the community’s contribution to the local level of air pollution. To estimate the contribution to air pollution based on the environmental burden approach, the GREEN GLOBE 21 methodology requires that the estimates of the amounts of the indicator pollutants be calculated from the (1) fuel consumption, (2) agricultural practices and (3) industrial activity using appropriate emission factors for the different types of activity. This requires a breakdown of the energy consumption in the community into the different types of fuels used and the different types of vehicles or industry in which that fuel is used. (1) fuel consumption Information is required on the community’s vehicle fleet (types of cars, buses, motorbikes, etc) to produce accurate estimates from vehicle use. (2) agricultural practices Information is required on significant agricultural practices that would contribute to air quality,such as burning off crop residues etc. (3) industrial activity Industrial activity that would contribute to the three indicator pollutants must also be estimated, e.g. food processing factory. If you require any additional information on how to estimate pollutants please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Report sighted and authorised by Green Globe Asia Pacific ………………………………………… / / 2003 Jill Grant Executive Director Green Globe Asia Pacific |
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