Transcript Garrick Stevens Eco Teams

DACORUM ENVIRONMENTAL
FORUM
MARCH 2009
CLIMATE CHANGE &
ECO TEAMS
Cllr Garrick Stevens - Berkhamsted
ECO TEAMS
WHAT ?
WHAT THEY DO
WHAT THEY ACHIEVE
SUPPORT for PROPOSAL
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What?
An EcoTeam is a group of 6-8 households
who would like to commit themselves
for 4-5 months.
• Monitor their habits with regard to
different environmental issues, including
waste, gas, electricity, water, transport
and shopping.
• Led by a facilitator
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EcoTeams – what do they do?
Supported by written materials that let
them measure and monitor their actions
Wide range of practical ideas on actions
that could be undertaken
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Eco Teams
• Results collected
• Database – analysed
• Individual and joint achievements fed
back
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Eco Teams
• Not simply a discussion group
• Practical workshop
• Thoughts translated into action
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Eco Teams
Project based on experience in Netherlands
Key findings [U Leiden] - 445 participants
• 27.6% cut in waste immediately on completion of
the programme.
• 39% waste reduction nine months after
completing the programme.
• 27.2% saving in electricity consumption
• 23.1% reduction in gas consumption
• 9% increase in the installation of energy saving
lamps
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Eco Teams
• Started 1993
• Now over 150,000 participants worldwide
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Eco Teams
• UK experience has been assessed
• U East Anglia – report 2008
• DEFRA funded study
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Eco Teams
• reduced their waste by an average of
20.0%
• increased their recycling as a proportion
of total waste by an average of 5.1%
• reduced their electricity consumption by
an average of 7.0%
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Eco Teams
• reduced their gas/ heating energy
consumption by an average of 20.8%
• reduced their direct CO2 emissions by
an average of 16.6%
• reduced their water use by an average
of 14.9%
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Eco Teams
• Context – helping DEF/Borough hit our
goals
• Other Authorities are already using
Eco Teams
• Process has already been tested
• Don’t re invent the wheel…!
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Eco Teams
• Video from GAP site
• Broxtowe BC
• Gedling BC - reduction
of residual household
waste by 23.7%, gas
use reduced by 8.5%
and electricity by 8.9%.
The carbon dioxide per
household has reduced
by 515kg per year
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Eco Teams
• Any-one can form an Eco Team
• Neighbours, friends, in workplace or a
community group
• Pensioners, mothers and toddlers,
gardening clubs, Scouts,Cubs,Guides
etc, Church Groups, WI
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Eco Teams
• Cross cutting work
• Impacts all the climate change objectives
• Has lasting impact on participants’ habits
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Eco Teams
• "The best organisation to engage people in
environmental change is Global Action
Plan."
Jonathon Porritt, Chair, Sustainable
Development Commission
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Eco Teams
• "If you think one person's actions won't do
much to achieve change then the obvious
answer is to team up."
• David Miliband MP, Foreign Minister on
EcoTeams
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Eco Teams
• The benefits of strong, early action
on climate change outweigh the
costs
• Building and sustaining collective
action is now an urgent challenge.
• There is still time to avoid the worst
impacts of climate change if strong
collective action starts now.
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Eco Teams
Does Forum Support idea to set up Eco
Teams locally?
Next steps
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