Climate change, sustainable energy

1. Scaling up cuts in domestic
carbon emissions
<Structure of JLP>
Phil Newcombe
Associate Project
Manager

3. • What’s good? (Best Practice)
• Who can help us? (Provider
Landscape)
• What can we deliver? (Plan)
• What else do we need?
(leadership, £, regulation,
knowledge?)

4. Scaling up cuts in domestic
carbon emissions
<Introduction to MEA>
Richard Davies
Director

5. Good Morning

11. We’re seeking to deliver
on the 3Ds:
Demand Reduction
Decarbonisation
Decentralisation

27. Scaling up cuts in domestic
carbon emissions
<WHY?>
Richard Davies
Director

28. ‘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

29. ‘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.’

30. "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."
Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell
28th January 2008

39. 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?

40. 1950’s?

41. 1920’s?

42. 1900?

43. 1850?

44. 900
800
700
600
(carbon dioixde equivalent)
million tonnes
500
400 Basket of greenhouse gases (CO2 equiv)
Carbon Dioxide
300
200
100
0
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Source: AEA

48. <It’s the delivery
stupid!>

49. ‘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…..

55. 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?

56. Scaling up cuts in domestic
carbon emissions
<Blue Book: Energy Descent>
Richard Davies
Director

57. Sub Title
If you don’t know where
you are going you are
almost certain to end
up there.

66. 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’?

67. Scaling up cuts in domestic
carbon emissions
<History & Existing Homes>
Richard Davies
Director

68. 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?

86. 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

88. 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.

89. 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………

94. • What’s good? (Best Practice)
• Who can help us? (Provider
Landscape)
• What can we deliver? (Plan)
• What else do we need?
(leadership, £, regulation,
knowledge?)

95. 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?

96. Scaling up cuts in domestic
carbon emissions
<New Build>
Richard Davies
Director

100. • What’s good? (Best Practice)
• Who can help us? (Provider
Landscape)
• What can we deliver? (Plan)
• What else do we need?
(leadership, £, regulation,
knowledge?)

101. 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?

102. Scaling up cuts in domestic
carbon emissions
<Let’s not forget FUEL POVERTY>
Richard Davies
Director

118. Affordable Warmth
Eradicate ‘Fuel Poverty’
Maximise share of support e.g.
Warmfront, CERT, Community
Energy Saving Programme etc
Place Based approach –
Affordable Warmth Community

123. • What’s good? (Best Practice)
• Who can help us? (Provider
Landscape)
• What can we deliver? (Plan)
• What else do we need?
(leadership, £, regulation,
knowledge?)

124. 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?

125. Scaling up cuts in domestic
carbon emissions
<Microgeneration>
Richard Davies
Director

126. Sunshine I

127. Sunshine II

128. Wind

129. Biomass

130. Ground Energy

131. Micro CHP

141. • What’s good? (Best Practice)
• Who can help us? (Provider
Landscape)
• What can we deliver? (Plan)
• What else do we need?
(leadership, £, regulation,
knowledge?)

142. 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?

143. “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

144. “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

145. 2
big

146. “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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148. thank you

153. kg CO2/
month