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Sustainability Reporting
Workshop: Carbon Management Plans
and the Carbon Metric
Originally delivered in March 2013 by:
Colin McNaught and Chris Hoy (Ricardo-AEA)
On behalf of Zero Waste Scotland and the Carbon Trust
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Content
• Introduction
• Why carbon emissions are important
• The policies driving reduction
• Introduction to the Carbon Metric
• Integration with Carbon Management Plans
• Impact on Carbon Management Plans
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About Zero Waste Scotland …
Zero Waste Scotland delivers a range of support
programmes, campaigns and other interventions to
help people and organisations on the journey to Zero
Waste. These include:
– Services to business
– Local and national campaigns
– Voluntary waste reduction agreements (Courtauld,
Halving Waste to Landfill)
– Expert support to Local Authorities, resource
management businesses and the third sector
– Capital investment
– Research, training and identifying best practice
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About the Carbon Trust …
The Carbon Trust is a world-leading organisation
helping business, governments and the public sector
to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy
through carbon reduction, energy-saving strategies
and commercialising low carbon technologies.
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Aim of the workshop …
• Give an insight into the Carbon Metric and its
Phase 2 development
• Provide guidance on waste in Carbon
Management Plans
• Identify how they can be integrated in the
future
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Policy Backdrop
Context on why Carbon Management Plans
and the Carbon Metric are required:
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Climate Change
Climate Change (Scotland) Act
Safeguarding Scotland’s Resources
Zero Waste Plan
Establishment of the Carbon Metric
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Climate Change
• Remains a key threat
• A global issue
• Global emissions &
impacts
So global emissions matter
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Sources of emissions
• Fossil fuel use
Coal, gas, etc.
• Transportation
Petrol, diesel, etc.
• Land use change
Deforestation, release of carbon in soils
So policy needs to address global sources
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Emissions savings
• Action in Scotland reduces
emissions across the global
supply chain
• So increases the carbon
benefits of the actions you
take
Scotland
Rest of the
World
• The Carbon Metric allows you
to take full credit for the total
global savings
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Climate Change (Scotland) Act
• Sets the key targets on carbon in Scotland
• 1990 baseline to -42% by 2020, -80% by
2050
• Introduces Public Sector Duty:
A public body must, in exercising its
functions, act:
“In the way best calculated to contribute to
delivery of the Act’s emissions reduction
targets.”
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Measuring carbon (1)
• Annual targets measured on a territorial basis,
i.e. emissions released in Scotland:
– Fossil fuels in boilers
– Petrol and diesel in cars, trucks, etc.
– Methane from landfills
• So includes part of the waste cycle
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Measuring carbon (2)
• Scottish Ministers must lay before the Scottish Parliament a
report in respect of each year in the period 2010-2050
• This report must, in so far as reasonably practicable, set out
the emissions of greenhouse gases (whether in Scotland, or
elsewhere), which are produced by or otherwise associated
with the consumption and use of goods and services in
Scotland during that year.
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Measuring carbon (3)
• Consumption basis includes emissions outside of
Scotland:
– To produce the goods and services we consume
– To deal with the recyclables and waste we export
• So includes all stages of the waste cycle
• This will be outlined in more detail later
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Quiz: Impact of waste reduction
Question:
• How much higher are the
consumption based carbon
savings from reducing waste by
one tonne?
A) 5%
B) 55%
C) 800%
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Scotland
Rest of the
World
Quiz: Impact of waste reduction
Question:
• How much higher are the
consumption based carbon
savings from reducing waste by
one tonne?
A) 5%
B) 55%
C) 800%
Paper & Card recycling
Wood recycling
Ferrous prevention
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Scotland
Rest of the
World
Safeguarding Scotland’s Resources
Recognises that every item we
use is a resource that has a value
Efficiency, avoiding waste and
reusing items deliver financial and
environmental benefits
Sets a wider context for the Zero
Waste Plan
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Zero Waste Plan
• Sets out the Scottish Government’s
vision for a zero waste society
• Describes a Scotland where all waste
is seen as a resource
• Sets new measures for:
Waste prevention
Landfill bans
Separate collection of materials
Restriction on inputs to energy from
waste
– Good practice and improved
information
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Zero Waste Plan
• Set two new targets to be achieved by 2025 and
that will apply to all waste:
– 70% target recycled
– Maximum 5% sent to landfill
• A requirement to measure the carbon impacts of
waste
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Carbon Metric
• Published in March 2011 to meet the Zero
Waste Plan action to “introduce a Carbon
Metric for waste, to identify and prioritise
the materials with the highest
environmental benefit for recycling.”
• Domestic recycling targets for wastes to be
Carbon Metric based targets
• The UKs requirement to meet the EU target
of household waste recycling/composting of
50% by 2020 on a tonnage basis remains.
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This concludes Section 1.
You are now ready for the next module:
Section 2 – Measuring and Reporting
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Scottish Government and Sustainability Reports
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Climate Change
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Carbon Management Plans
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Development of reporting