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Satawu and transport climate jobs

Satawu and transport climate jobs. ITF Climate Change workshop Durban 1 st and 2 nd December 2011. Intro : Satawu & climate change. Satawu : 140,000 workers in all transport, cleaning and security

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Satawu and transport climate jobs

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  1. Satawu and transport climate jobs ITF Climate Change workshop Durban 1st and 2nd December 2011

  2. Intro : Satawu & climate change • Satawu : 140,000 workers in all transport, cleaning and security • ITF Discussion Document : “Transport Workers and Climate Change : Towards Sustainable low-carbon mobility” • Satawu participation in building the Million Climate Jobs Campaign and providing research into transport climate jobs • Cosatu climate change policy process & July workshop • Satawu workshop for 35 participants in August 2011

  3. Some SA transport indicators • Largest CO2 emitter from fuel combustion in Africa • Road freight sector consumes 27% of fuel energy and dumped 23mt GHGs in 2009 (CSIR 7th State of Logistics Survey) • 34,664 new trucks on the road in 2009 • Road crashes : Annual 900,000 collisions, 17,000 deaths and R50bn cost • 700,000 kms roads. 20,000 kms rail • 12% of internal freight volume by rail – despite 40% lower rates

  4. South Africa’s emissions • Rich countries create 60% annual GHG emissions (only 20% population). • South Africa produces1% of world’s GHG’s. • Emissions per person per year • USA 20 tons • Norway 11 tons • South Africa 9 tons (worst in Africa) • Bangladesh 0.5 tons

  5. Transport emissions in SA 2000 • 9.1% of all GHG’s plus international aviation and shipping • Road transport 7.8% of all GHGs • Local maritime 0.023% • Local civil aviation 0.008%

  6. Road Transport 74% transport emissions Motorised Road Vehicles Nov 2006 Motorcars 4,883,885 Minibuses 265,692 Buses 36,436 Motorcyles 278,451 LDVs – bakkies 1,684,200 Trucks 278,699 Other and unknown 210,513 Total 7,113,309 So which vehicle is the biggest challenge?

  7. Current transport jobs in SA • 250,000 taxis • 300,000 road freight (outsourced 60,000) • 60,000 maritime (mainly ports) • 50,000 rail and rail engineering • 50,000 bus • 50,000 aviation • 3,000 pipelines

  8. Reminder: Strategy for reduction of emissions • Shift modes • Reduce the need for transport • Improve technology

  9. Public Transport : Number One 2003 National Travel Survey 50000 households Public transport use • 32% of commuters use private car • 25% use taxi • 23% walk • 8% use bus • 6% train

  10. More passengers More jobs Attract 10% of car commuters to public transport 200,000 taxi commuters 4,5000 jobs 500,000 bus commuters 7,000 jobs 800,000 train commuters 2,380 jobs Plus 55,640 indirect jobs

  11. Bicycles and safe walking • Increase current 400,000 bicycles and create jobs in manufacture and bicyle lane construction. Improve health at the same time. • Pedestrians account for nearly 5,000 road deaths a year! Create safe walking spaces and “green lungs”

  12. Long distance rail • Half a million people travel to another centre every month. But currently a hopeless long distance rail system • Grow the long distance service by 10% and create 398 new jobs

  13. Expand rail freight • Increase rail volumes by 18% • Create 8,208 jobs

  14. Keep trucking volumes steady but reduce emissions • Use cleaner fuels – tighter regulation • Reduce fuel use • Cut speeds • Run with full loads • Improve driver handling • Better maintenance

  15. Promote SA owned shipping – especially coastal • 95% of trade volumes by sea, but not a single deep sea merchant ship! • Address registration obstacles • 300 merchant ships (120 coastal) would create 26,000 ratings jobs and 5,200 for officers • Multiplier of 8x in support services • Reduce maritime emissions by cutting speed – even more jobs!

  16. Reduce aviation emissions • Key to reduced aviation emissions is better air traffic control and slower speeds • More air traffic controllers • More pilots and cabin crew

  17. Summary of direct & indirect jobs • Bus 7,000 35,000 42,000 • Taxi 4,500 13,500 18,000 • Comm rail 2,380 7,140 9,420 • LD rail 398 1,194 1,592 • Rail freight 8,208 24,624 32,832 • Seafaring 31,200 249,600 280,800 • Total 53,486 331,058 384,644

  18. A Win Win! Forward to a low carbon transport future, Foward

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