Transcript 5 Quick Wins to cut your Carbon Footprint Workshop

EAUC-Scotland / APUC Seminar 1st June 2009
5 Quick Wins to cut
your Carbon Footprint
David Somervell, Sustainability Adviser, University of Edinburgh
Tel 0131 650 2073 [email protected]
Energy & Sustainability Office www.eso.ed.ac.uk
Transport & Parking Office www.transport.ed.ac.uk
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Climate Change is already happening
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Peak Oil leads to Energy In-Security
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Stern et al: We need to invest now
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5 Quick Wins to cut your Carbon
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Think what you could do / should do!
Global Energy Consumption 1860-2000
Global C02 concentrations in atmosphere
Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Global Temperature Change 1750 - 2100
Source: UN IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios 2001
“Global Warming
is Unequivocal”
Rising
atmospheric
temperature
Rising sea level
Reductions in
North Hemisphere
snow cover
Source: UN IPCC AR4 2007
Perth to Inverness railway Dec 2006
Photo: SEPA
Extreme droughts will plague sub-Saharan Africa. Children stand behind one of
thousands of livestock that died from thirst in southern Ethiopia. [REUTERS March 2006]
The big turn required …
• GE Jenbacher
612 Engine
3 CHP generate £1m saving / yr
5 Quick Wins
to Cut your Carbon
1 Meter, Monitor and Target on a
Building-by-Building basis
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Procure all equipment & services
with lowest Whole Life (CO2) Cost
3 Recommission all those existing
BEMS / Controls Systems
4 Measure your ICT impact - apply
back-office Standby to cut waste
5 Raise awareness of energy cost
and consumption with all users
• Campaign Website
• Newsletter
• The Bulletin
• Posters/Stickers
• Thermometers
• Coasters/Drip Mats
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from www.eso.ed.ac.uk/energy
Share your concerns and then
your findings with colleagues
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