Transcript Who are Envirowise?

Climate Change
Understanding the threats and
discovering the opportunities
Carole Bond
Envirowise
Understanding the Threats, Discovering the
Opportunities
 What does Climate Change mean for businesses in the South
West?
 What are our own impacts on Climate?
 How might we go about addressing our impacts?
 Getting help
 How do we communicate climate change issues?
Who are Envirowise?
 UK wide government funded programme
led by industry and coordinated by DEFRA –
programme value £14M
 Provide businesses with a range of free &
confidential environmental services to improve
their competitiveness & productivity
 Primarily funded by the Business Resource
efficiency & Waste (BREW) programme .
 Complemented by WRAP , NISP and Carbon
Trust
“We should be very, very scared of global
warming …. the scientific debate is
over.”
David Milliband
Stern conclusions
"Climate change is the greatest market failure
the world has ever seen, and it interacts with
other market imperfections.”
Stern conclusions
Three elements of policy are required for an effective
global response:
 price carbon through tax, trading or regulation;
 implement policy to support innovation and the deployment of
low-carbon technologies;
 act to remove barriers to energy efficiency, and to inform,
educate and persuade individuals about what they can do to
respond to climate change.
2080: Changes for the South West
Sea-level:
20-80cm rise
Summer:
Warmer : 2 to 5.5ºC, drier by 25 to 55%
Winter:
Milder by 1.5 to 3.5ºC, wetter by 10 to
30%, snowfall decrease by 70 to 90%
Source: WTI 2003, UKCIP
The Two-Way Street
Business
activities
Climate
change
Business
activities
 Markets
 decreased or disappearing
demand for present range of
good & services
 competitors’ position
enhanced by changing climate
 new markets created for
substitute or new products and
services
 Distribution channels
 vulnerability of transport &
delivery systems
Climate
change
 Product/service life cycle
processes & development
 vulnerability or scarcity of
supplies of raw materials
 disruption to utilities
 business disruption due to
weather effects
 People
 new customer requirements &
expectations
Market Behaviour
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Milder winters threaten Ribena production… but longer summers are
good news for strawberry growers
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As temperatures rise, lemonade sales initially go up, but then fall again
when it gets really hot
Long range weather uncertainty affects production planning
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Banana sales slump when it is hot and when it is cold
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Long summers delay purchasing of autumn / winter clothing collections
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Skiing days in Scotland down by 80%
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Too hot to shop
Business
activities
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Business models
 supply chains
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Markets
 national or global spread
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Distribution channels
 product/service miles
 forms of distribution
Climate
change
 Product/service life cycles and
development
 raw material extraction
 centralised production
 manufacturing processes
 packaging
 usable life energy use
 disposal
Is there a solution?
ADAPT to the effects:
Prepare for challenges of climate change: more
extreme events, change business practice, learn from
recent experience
MITIGATE the cause:
Reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, i.e. C02
through energy & resource efficiency, development of
renewables
Products/Services
 Ensuring new product development processes are
informed by the company’s climate change
mitigation objectives & emerging regulatory and
voluntary schemes.
 Understanding the nature of customer interest in
climate change issues, and the potential market
for climate change - focused products and
services.
Carbon Labelling
 White goods
 Cars
 Houses….
 What’s next?
Read, reduce, reward
• Ethics initiative
• Designed to
encourage
customers to
use LESS.
• Loyalty benefits
for company
Cyclus Maximus
Raw materials
 Furniture built from tropical hardwoods vs sustainably
managed forests
 Use of virgin materials like aluminium which have
higher embodied energy than recycled
Rika Pellet oven
The 12KW Evo Aqua wood
pellet fired central heating
apparatus:
 85% of the energy is
transported to the radiators
 can be used to heat the
entire house.
Laing Housing Development
 500,000 roofing tiles recovered
for re-use
 40,000 tonnes demolition spoil
as sub-base
 Total cost savings £525,000
(3.5% project costs)
Product/service provision
 Carbon emissions from manufacturing processes
and embodied carbon in waste
 Energy use in service industries – keeping
equipment switched on
 Making sure that any packaging is
fit for purpose
Marks & Spencer launches
"Plan A"- £200m 'eco-plan'
CLIMATE CHANGE - making our operations in UK and Republic of Ireland carbon
neutral by 2012.
Bandvulc Tyres
 Company has invested some £68,000 over
the past year in 15 energy saving projects
and equipment
 Savings of £45,000 per year with an
average payback of one and a half years.
 Includes a heat recovery system that
saves 624MW per year, insulation devices
that save 379MW per year as well as
energy monitoring software and energy
saving lighting that has already cut
222MWh of electricity usage
Pasta King 2006
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Waste is a KPI
Reduction of 139 tonnes to landfill
Unit cost reduced to 33%
£33,000 saving on tomato sauce
£120,000 savings to date
Burt's Potato Chips
 Raw material costs reduced by over £25,000
(0.6% of turnover) - flavorings
 Potential to reduce frying rejects by 90%,
saving an estimated £175,000/year
 Potential to use production waste as animal
feed rather than sending it to landfill
 Potential to reduce water consumption by up
to 25%
 Now using their ‘green’ image for PR etc
Product/service miles
 Local seasonal produce vs green beans from
Kenya
 Video conferencing vs national and
international travel for meetings
 Attracting customers through new distribution
channels (e.g. Internet), which minimise
social and environmental impacts.
Otter Farm
CONFUSED ?
WORRIED ?
OVERWHELMED ?
Don’t Panic !
ENVIROWISE
Confidential, Practical and free
Advice
Envirowise priorities
 Resource efficiency in:
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Raw materials
Solid waste
Water
Clean design
Resource efficient = savings
in resources, money and carbon
Why think about waste skips are cheap !
“Skip Hire”
Easily
Identified
Costs
“Collection charge”
“disposal cost
• Cost of raw materials in skip
Hidden
Costs &
• Cost of wasted energy, eg material movement
embodied carbon
• Loss in sales value
• Cost of lost revenue
• Cost of labour
• Cost of Administration
True cost of waste is
between 10 – 20 times
the price of disposal
Audited waste costs
8 cu yd skip
 Skip hire + collection
 Labour to fill skip
 Cost of materials put in skip
TOTAL TRUE COST
£85
£163
£1095
£1343
(Source: AMEC)
The Waste Hierarchy
Highest Priority
Lowest Carbon
 Elimination
 Reduction
 Re-use
 Recycling
 Recovery of energy
 Treatment
Lowest Priority  Disposal
£££££’s
Highest Carbon
Highest Priority
Lowest Carbon
Lowest Priority
£££££’s
Highest Carbon
Environment & Energy Helpline
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Gateway to Envirowise
Freephone 0800 585794
Any environmental question
2 hours free specialist advice
No call limit (except for Consultants !)
Signposting to other sources of information
Requests for publications
Company Visits
 Fast Track Visits- ‘a fresh pair of
eyes’
 Up to 8hrs from our specialist
 Walk around site
 Highlight the issues
 Deal with specific problems
 Written report and action plan
Publications & Tools
 Good Practice Guides (how to do it)
 Case Studies (how others have done it)
 Videos & software (tools to help do it)
 Updates and newsletters
All available from wesbite
www.envirowise.gov.uk
Communicating Climate Change
“What changed in the US with Hurricane Katrina was a
feeling we have entered a period of consequences”
Al Gore
 Paramount Classics announced on 4 August 2006 that An
Inconvenient Truth had grossed more than $20 million,
the fourth highest grossing documentary of all time.
 The company made an unprecedented pledge of 5% of
all box office receipts to be donated to the Alliance for
Climate Protection. A total that will exceed $1 million.
 LOS ANGELES, Feb 25 From the best documentary award
for a slideshow on global warming to the first ever
environmentally friendly ceremony, Hollywood turned
green at the Oscars thanks largely to the urgings of Al
Gore.”
Carbon Trust
WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE!
National Research
 Most people in the UK think that climate change:
 is confusing – they can't see how it relates to them;
 won't affect them personally;
 is a problem for the future, not now; and
 can't be affected by their individual actions, because the
problem is so big.
National Research
How concerned are you
about the impact of
Climate Change in the
UK?
How much influence do you
think … can have on limiting
Climate Change?
21
concerned
unconcerned
79
The UK Government
Industry and
businesses
You,
personally
Your local
community
1.
No influence
11
10
26
17
2.
A little influence
13
17
45
40
3.
Some influence
21
21
21
29
4.
A large influence
52
50
7
12
3
3
1
3
Don't Know
Easy actions
Actions affecting
lifestyle
Energy saving
in home
Radical change of
car use
Changing little
habits
Reducing plane
flights
THE BIG DIVIDE
Audience rules
 Target specific groups
 Awareness, attitude change or behaviour change?
 Understand them
… market research
Blowing away myths
Don’t rely on concern about children’s future or human
survival instincts
Don’t create fear without agency
Don’t attack or criticise home or family
Forget the climate change detractors
There is no ‘rational man’
Information can’t work alone
A New Way of Thinking
Do link climate change mitigation to
positive desires/ aspirations
Make climate change a ‘home’ not
‘away’ issue
Create a trusted, credible, recognised
voice on climate change
Raise the status of climate change
mitigation behaviours
If you remember…
 Be positive
 Be targeted
 Be creative
Getting in Contact with Envirowise
Helpline: 0800 585794
www.envirowise.gov.uk
Carole Bond, Envirowise SW Regional Support
01225 852533
[email protected]
Paul Gilbert, Envirowise SW Regional Manager
0870 190 3832
[email protected]