Resource Efficient Scotland Growth that doesn’t cost the earth

Low Carbon: High Savings?

Claire Guerin, Key Account Manager - Public Sector

Agenda

• Resource Efficiency and a Circular Economy

– Preparing for Reuse

– Sustainable Procurement

• Carbon Management Plans

– Manage and report your organisations’ contribution to a low carbon, circular economy

Resource Efficiency & The Circular Economy

Resource Efficient Scotland

• Help businesses, public and third sectors save money by using energy, water and raw materials more efficiently.

• Funded by Scottish Government, delivered by Zero Waste Scotland.

• Delivered in partnership with stakeholders

• Public Sector Support:

– Practical: feasibility studies, options appraisals, develop the business case

– Strategic: pilot projects

– Workshops: advice, tools demonstration

– Online Training: energy, green champions

Low Carbon: High Savings

• 74 projects delivered in 2013-14

• Demand led projects in:

– energy efficient lighting,

– boiler replacement,

– biomass,

– building energy management systems,

– internal waste management

– behaviour change.

• Identified savings of £4M

• Carbon savings of ~18,000 CO2e

Zero Waste Scotland

Overall aims:

• Prevent waste

• Increase resource efficiency

• Enable a shift towards a more circular economy.

Resource Scarcity

• Developed nations are ‘three-planet-living’

• 300% global predicted increase in demand for natural resources by 2050

• Critical resources mined from virgin

sources are running out: – Indium (LCD screens): <10 years; – Silver (industrial catalyst): <30 years; – Zinc (construction steels): <40 years. – Mined in areas of water scarcity

Impact of unsustainable use

Resource Scarcity

Peak Oil

• Using 5.5 million barrels of oil/hr.

• Peak oil production by 2020.

• Oil costs will rise steadily as reserves decline.

Circular Economy Project Areas

• Innovative Product Design: Royal Society of the Arts

• Reuse of materials e.g. oil and gas decommissioning pipeline for carbon capture & storage

• Recovery of process materials: waste water (phosphorus), anaerobic digestion (soil enhancers), industry (separation of specialist alloys)

• Remanufacturing: establish baseline & intervention

What about the Public Sector?

• Prepare for Reuse: Furniture & Electrical Appliances

• Sustainable Procurement

Preparing for Reuse

House

Reuse & Redeployment of Decommissioned Mobile Assets

• Re-use and redeployment of furniture, textiles and small electrical equipment

• Aim: to create tools and supporting guidance for the development of a register of mobile assets and improve data capture

• Phase 1: Modify asset tracking software used on a tablet

• Phase 2: 3 student placements in 3 large hospitals

• Phase 3: Create a route map and guidance document by Jan-Feb 2014

Preparing for Reuse: Strategic Work

• Regional repair and reuse hubs – Feasibility & business case

– Pilot programme

• Development & roll out of Revolve accreditation: – Can donate or buy refurbished

– www.revolvereuse.com

• What are the benefits to you? – Support business development of 3rd sector

– Consumer confidence - assurance of quality

– Community benefits – employment & training

• Reuse helpline – householders – www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/reuse-phoneline

Sustainable Procurement

Procurement: Upcoming Projects

• Evaluation of Marrakech sustainable procurement training.

• Work with Scottish Government & key stakeholders to review Procurement Reform Bill Statutory Guidance components that relate to resource efficiency & circular economy.

• Engagement events to embed Procurement Guidance.

• Targeted assistance for public sector. Identify and support pilot projects.

Procurement E-learning Modules

www.resourceefficientscotland.com/resource/public-sector-procurement

Facilities Management Procurement Tool

Aim: to assist organisations with realising cost and material savings by improving resource efficiency of FM services. Toolkit: • information and guidance; • templates and model wording; and • example Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Procurement of the following services: Maintenance; Catering and Food Services; Furnishing Services; Waste Management Services; Uniform & Laundry Services; and ICT Services.

Questions?

Carbon Management Plans

What is a Carbon Management Plan?

• Almost all Scottish Public Bodies have a Carbon Management Plan (~150)

• Key step to meet the Duties under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act

• Key components of a Carbon Management Plan:

– Carbon baseline [carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions]

– Carbon reduction target

– Project plan to meet target

– Governance and reporting

What are the pieces of the CMP jigsaw?

Targets – where do

we want to be?

Drivers – why are we

going there?

Baseline – where are we now?

BAU – which

direction are we

going in?

Projects – can we get

there in time?

Governance – who is

navigating & who is driving?

Strategy – how are we going to get

there?

Annual Carbon

Footprints – how far to

go?

Project Register – map and

directions

Your Carbon Management Plan

• Aim is for use, not shelf-filler

• Above all it’s a manual for CM in your organisation – relevant and bespoke

• Keep it simple (detail in appendices, graphics)

• Make it attractive & personal (graphics, photos)

• Consider what needs minimal or no regular updating…

– Policy

– Drivers

– Baseline and (possibly) target

• …and what does need regular/annual updating

CMP ‘Circle of Life’

• What may change in a year?

– Annual carbon footprint

• new year’s data

• new emission factors

– Projects register

• level of completion of projects

• abandoned/superseded projects

• post implementation evaluation

– Financing

• changes to old source/deadlines for applications

• new sources

– BAU – population/housing/estate changes; outsourcing

– Other reporting requirements

– Internal structures

Do you need to re-baseline?

• Baseline previously viewed as something that you calculated once

• 5 year plan – each cycle needs a new baseline

• Baseline = best guess at the current time. Have things changed?

– Update to historical factors

– Relevant data emerged

– Increasing/decreasing estate (buildings/sites) because services are growing/shrinking

– Outsourcing operations to a third party

– Taking over responsibility for additional service delivery

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Financial year end Beginning collation of CFP data

Climate Change Declaration

CRC reporting

CMP Circle of Life – fitting in with other reporting

SG Public Sector Sustainability Reporting

Also: • Waste data flow

(quarterly) • Carbon metric • Internal reporting • Audit Scotland

Annual Carbon Report

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plans

What/Why develop a carbon reduction project list?

• One central record of all opportunities

• Reference list of old projects

• ‘Live’ list of new projects

• Like data, it allows for analysis

• All project info in one location

• Helps keep track of projects (type, size, timescale etc)

• Helps you review/monitor historic, current and future carbon savings from projects

• Supports business case development

How does your current project list compare?

• Are you currently capturing all the project information?

• How is it being captured?

• Are you updating it on a regular basis?

• Are you keeping track/reviewing projects for success?

• What are the barriers to implementation?

Further Support To Develop and Implement your Carbon Management Plan

Technical Consultancy Support

• Support to review, update and develop your carbon management plan (co-funded)

• Waste minimisation and reuse action plans, green champions training (5-10 days support)

• Energy and water efficiency implementation support: feasibility studies, options appraisal, develop the business case

• Package of Support

Staff Engagement

Lunchtime webinar - How to run staff engagement campaigns

26th June 2014

Green Champions Training - a free one day workshop

24th June 2014 in Glasgow or

25th Jun 2014 in Edinburgh

www.resourceefficientscotland.com/staff-engagement-toolkit

Technical e-modules

• 4 sets of modules covering various aspects of energy management (technical level).

– Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning

– Building Fabric

– Decarbonisation of heat generation

– Heat Recovery

• Free, downloadable, web-based, available from September

Green Champions Training www.resourceefficientscotland.com/resource/green-champions-training

Discussion: What could you do to contribute to the creation of a circular, low carbon economy?

• Keep your carbon management plan up-to-date, regularly develop, review and implement projects from your register.

• Think before you buy – could you repair and reuse?

• Leasing of equipment (warranty for repair)

• Buy refurbished or repaired goods

• Buy goods with recycled content

• When procuring goods always consider best achievable energy & water efficiency using life cycle costing

Thank you

For more information:

Claire Guerin

Key Account Manager – Public Sector

www.resourceefficientscotland.com

claire.guerin@resourceefficientscotland.com

@ResourceScot