Domestic Carbon Emissions Joint Learning Programme Session I 15th October 2009

Phil NewcombeAssociate Project Manager

Scaling up cuts in domestic

carbon emissions

<Structure of JLP>

• What’s good? (Best Practice)

• Who can help us? (Provider Landscape)

• What can we deliver? (Plan)

• What else do we need? (leadership, £, regulation, knowledge?)

Richard DaviesDirector

Scaling up cuts in domestic

carbon emissions

<Introduction to MEA>

Good Morning

We’re seeking to deliver

on the 3Ds:

Demand Reduction

Decarbonisation

Decentralisation

Richard DaviesDirector

Scaling up cuts in domestic

carbon emissions

<WHY?>

‘We have an addiction to fossil fuels, and it’s not sustainable. The developed world gets 80% of its energy from fossil fuels; Britain, 90%. And this is unsustainable for three reasons. First, easily-accessible fossil fuels will at some point run out, so we’ll eventually have to get our energy from someplace else. Second, burning fossil fuels is having a measurable and very-probably dangerous effect on the climate. Avoiding dangerous climate change motivates an immediate change from our current use of fossil fuels. Third, even if we don’t care about climate change, a drastic reduction in Britain’s fossil fuel consumption would seem a wise move if we care about security of supply: continued rapid use of the oil and gas reserves will otherwise soon force fossil-addicted Britain to depend on imports from untrustworthy foreigners.’

Professor David MacKay FRS Chief Scientific Adviser

to DECC see www.withouthotair.com

‘The best scientific projections indicate

that we have very little time left -

indeed, less than one hundred months - in

which to alter our behaviour drastically.

Although I wish it were otherwise, I fear we have reached the point when if we do too little, too late to tackle this problem,

the consequences could be

catastrophic.’

Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell

28th January 2008

"Regardless

of which route we

choose, the world's

current predicament

limits our maneuvering

room. We are

experiencing a

step-change in the growth

rate of energy demand

due to population growth

and economic

development, and Shell

estimates that after

2015 supplies of

easy-to-access oil

and gas will no

longer keep

up with

demand."

Climate Change Act Targets

• 1990 baseline of CO2 emissions was approximately 590 million tons of CO2.

• An 80% reduction is based on the minimum reductions necessary to avoid causing catastrophic and permanent changes to the climate

• 80% of 590m tons = 118 million tonnes.

• The UK level of CO2 emissions (1.76 tonnes/capita cf. ~10 tonnes today) hasn’t been that low since…… when?

1950’s?

1920’s?

1900?

1850?

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<It’s the delivery stupid!>

‘The public discussion of energy options tends to be intensely emotional, polarized, mistrustful, and destructive. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrage, anti-fuel-duty, and anti-nuclear.’

David MacKay FRS

Anti compact fluorescent lighting, anti cavity wall insulation, anti condensing boilers…..

Questions

• Too much rhetoric & not enough action?

• Are organisations taking climate change seriously?

• Is lack of progress simply because no-one is ACCOUNTABLE

• How do we create more WILLFUL INDIVIDUALS and LEADERS?

• Do LSPs understand what the potential is?

Richard DaviesDirector

Scaling up cuts in domestic

carbon emissions<Blue Book: Energy Descent>

Sub Title

If you don’t know where

you are going you are

almost certain to end

up there.

Questions

• How many organisations, localities or LSPs have an understanding of the DESTINATION & ROUTE MAP?

• Who should be deciding on what options are most appropriate? Central Govt. / LSPs / Elected Members……

• Is this much too complex for ‘lay-people’?

Richard DaviesDirector

Scaling up cuts in domestic

carbon emissions<History & Existing Homes>

The Great ………. Refurb

In February 2009 Ed Milliband

announced that by 2050 all

British homes will be near

carbon zero. Is now the right

time for ???? to step forward &

seek to be the first place in the

UK to deliver this in existing

homes?

Planning for new Policy & Programmes

How can localities benefit from

what DECC are planning.

Community Energy Saving

Programme, Feed In Tariffs,

Heat & Energy Saving Strategy

Unfair Share: Maximise Uptake

Ensure that ???? know what Sustainable Energy &

Climate Change services

are available in their locality and then consume them or

promote the consumption of them.

The Art of the Possible……

Explore what has been

achieved within the system as it

is. Why can’t ???? replicate

examples of ‘Good Enough

Practice’. The Domestic Energy

Support of Kirklees, the

Biomass Uptake of Barnsley,

the Leadership of

Woking………

• What’s good? (Best Practice)

• Who can help us? (Provider Landscape)

• What can we deliver? (Plan)

• What else do we need? (leadership, £, regulation, knowledge?)

Questions?

• Wait for clarity OR make a plan & go for it?

• What is the role of the LSP in this?

• How is your own home?

• Where does the money come from?

Richard DaviesDirector

Scaling up cuts in domestic

carbon emissions<New Build>

• What’s good? (Best Practice)

• Who can help us? (Provider Landscape)

• What can we deliver? (Plan)

• What else do we need? (leadership, £, regulation, knowledge?)

Questions

• 2016 is not very far away – should we be encouraging local architects, builders and developers to try out some of the technologies?

• How can we maximise the ‘Green Collar Jobs’ dimension of this ambition?

• Do any of you have examples of good practice?

Richard DaviesDirector

Scaling up cuts in domestic

carbon emissions<Let’s not forget FUEL POVERTY>

Affordable Warmth

Eradicate ‘Fuel Poverty’

Maximise share of support e.g. Warmfront, CERT, Community Energy Saving Programme etc

Place Based approach –Affordable Warmth Community

• What’s good? (Best Practice)

• Who can help us? (Provider Landscape)

• What can we deliver? (Plan)

• What else do we need? (leadership, £, regulation, knowledge?)

Questions

• How could your organisation help

reduce FUEL POVERTY?

• What is the role of an LSP?

• Who in the region is accountable for

FUEL POVERTY?

• How could we better spend the

existing resources?

Richard DaviesDirector

Scaling up cuts in domestic

carbon emissions

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• What’s good? (Best Practice)

• Who can help us? (Provider Landscape)

• What can we deliver? (Plan)

• What else do we need? (leadership, £, regulation, knowledge?)

Questions

• How can we accelerate the uptake of MICROGENERATION?

• Examples of what works?

• What might the ‘supply chain’opportunities be for our locality?

• How might we engage the Economic Development Group of the LSP?

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood... Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.”Daniel Hudson Burnham 1846-1912

“Search all the parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees.”David Ogilvy 1911-1999

“Leaving mobile phone chargers plugged in” is

often held up as an example of a behavioural

ecocrime, with people who switch their chargers

off being praised for “doing their bit.” The truth is

that a typical mobile phone charger consumes just

0.01 kWh per day. The amount of energy saved by

switching off the phone charger, 0.01 kWh, is

exactly the same as the energy used by driving an

average car for one second. I’m not saying that

you shouldn’t switch phone chargers off. But don’t

be duped by the mantra “every little helps.”

Obsessively switching off the phone-charger is like

bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon. Do switch it off,

but please be aware how tiny a gesture it is. David MacKay ‘Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air’ www.withouthotair.com

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“What we think, or what we

know, or what we believe is, in

the end, of little

consequence. The only

consequence is what we do.”

John Ruskin

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