Funchal

Capital city of the A.R. of Madeira

• Population (2017): 104 442 hab. (DREM, 2018)

Cultural and Natural Treasures to Be Preserved for an Inclusive and Sustainable Europe

• Sustainable city?

Fotografia: http://www.visitfunchal.pt, 14-11-2019

Mobility (public transportation)

• Horários do Funchal: public transport company

urban and long distance

① Electric minibuses [CIVITAS DESTINATIONS (EU) project, 2016]

• Aim: make the city of Funchal friend

of the environment

• 100% electric: clean and quiet
• 2 routes: City Line and Eco City Line
• Prepared for the transport of persons

with reduced mobility

• No stopping points; just raise your hand

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• Horários do Funchal
• Get to know the island by bus [SEEMORE Project– Travel Smart:

See More (EU), 2012]

• Aims: (1) improve tourist information, encouraging them

to use public transport;

(2) reduce car travel by 8%

• Provides guide that allows tourists and residents

to discover the island by bus:

• maps of the chosen locations
• map of the starting points in the center of Funchal
• Madeira map with the main destinations and

careers of all regional transport companies

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Mobility (public transportation)

Energy

• Company of Electricity of Madeira (EEM)

The environmental, economic and social sustainability

① Porto Santo (Baleira City): Laboratory island - Smart Fossil Free Island

• Aims: (1) increase the quality of life of the island's inhabitants and

of those who visit it;

(2) reduce external dependencies and value natural resources

• SMart IsLand Energy systems (SMILE Project); EU
• It will be a fossil free island and will have minimum CO₂ emission level
• Project based on renewable energies, energetic efficiency, electric mobility and smart grids
• Developed by Madeira’s Regional Government, the Company of Electricity of Madeira and the Regional Agency of Energy and Environment

Imagem: https://www.turbo.pt, 17-11-2019

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Electric Power

• Company of Electricity of Madeira (EEM)

The environmental, economic and social sustainability

• Environmental Certification (APCER)
• Environmental performance (2017 para 2018)
• Carbon footprint reduction: 5%
• Reduction of fossil fuel consumption: 6%
• Reduction of billing paper: 1.1% (1 day = 77 trees)
• Facilities Energy efficiency

improvement;

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Socorridos Hydroelectric

Power Station

Paul da Serra Wind Farm

https://www.eem.pt/

Urban Green Spaces

• Municipality: encourages active community participation for a

common good;

• Contests:

① ‘A School, A Garden’

• Aim: to make Funchal teachers, students and parents aware of the importance of gardens in schools
• HBG School: 1^st place in 2014 and 2018; 2^nd place in 2017 and 2019

② ‘Flowered City’

• Social housing gardens; single family gardens
• Balconies; balconies; terraces and staircases
• Municipal urban vegetable gardens;

social urban vegetable gardens

• Hotel units.

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Imagem: https://www.jardinsdolago.com,17-11-2019

Quinta do Lago Hotel: garden view

Imagem: https://smarterfunchal.wordpress.com, 18-11-2019

´Municipal urban vegetable gardens

HBG School : Biological vegetable garden “Bio-Horta”

Urban Green Spaces

• Municipality: encourages active community participation

for a common good

• Eco-Schools Program
• Aim: encourage action and recognize the work done by schools to benefit the environment
• Green flag awarded (Eco-Schools award) to environmentally friendly

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HBG Eco-school Project

• Decrease bottled water consumption
• Experience organic farming
• Sort waste for recycling
• (…)
• 7 Green Flags since 2012-2013

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HBG School: Green Flag 2018-2019

Urban Green Spaces

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Fonte: http://www.cm-funchal.pt

Imagens: http://www.visitfunchal.pt/t,17-11-2019

• Municipality parks and gardens
• Aims:
• Biodiversity preservation
• Improving air quality
• Funchal Ecological Park
• Created in 1994
• Area: 10 km²
• Aims:
• Nature preservation
• Promoting environmental education
• Providing leisure facilities 
• Activities for schools, businesses and the general population
• Plantation of indigenous species produced in the park's own nursery

Santa Catarina Park (Funchal downtown)

Municipal Garden (Jardim Municipal; Funchal downtown)

Massaroco: Madeira endemic plant Madeira

HBG school trip to Funchal Ecological Park (2019)

Banana tree

Urban Green Spaces

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Imagens: http://www.visitfunchal.pt/t,17-11-2019

• Municipal Master Plan (PDM)
• Legal instrument for municipal territory management
• Green areas of Municipal master Plan
• Prohibits the construction of buildings and the opening of streets in these places.
• Funchal city from above
• Amphitheater full of cultivated terraces and banana trees
• Layout of the houses by the slopes

resembles a Christmas crib.

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Monumental and emblematic trees

Funchal Ecological Park

Xerophyte grove (Zambujal)

Urban solid waste

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• Municipality: selective collection
• Separation of recyclable waste on commercial surfaces, hotel units, condominiums, bars and restaurants is mandatory.
• Ecopoints (private and public)
• Homeowners get their ecopoints
• Apartment buildings, hotels, schools,… have collective ecopoints
• In streets and squares
• On a fixed day, known to residents: collection by own vehicles for the selective transport of waste
• Forwarded to Solid Waste Transfer and Sorting Station (ETTRS)

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HBG school trip to ETTRS (2019)

Urban Solid Waste

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• Municipality: compost
• Aim: to prevent the accumulation of organic waste
• Municipal educational project: ‘Composting Another Way

to Recycle’

• Composers distributed to Funchal residents with backyard or vegetable garden in their homes
• Composting: decomposition of household waste by microorganisms
• The compost obtained: fertilizes and assists in the elimination of pests (pathogens) from plants and soil

‘ Ecocide’

Pope Francisco wants to introduce ‘ecological sin’ in Catechism.

Name of the project

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