Transcript Carbon Management

Carbon Management &
University of Southampton
Gary Foster
Carbon Trust
Project Leaders
Mark Turner,
Energy and Design Engineer
Neil Smith
Environment Manager
Contents
 Introduction to Carbon Trust
 What is Carbon Management?
 Why Carbon Management?
 Carbon Management at Southampton
 Next steps
Introduction to Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust helps business and public sector :
• cut carbon emissions
• capture commercial potential of low carbon technologies
•Advice & Information
•Research Grants
•Research
•Financial Incentives
•Venture Capital
•Policies & Regulation
•Carbon Management
•Technical
•Finanical
www.thecarbontrust.co.uk
What is The Carbon Management Programme?
A step by step technical and change management process to:
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Understand our Carbon Emissions Footprint
Develop a Business Case for change
Develop an ongoing management framework
Provide a methodology for prioritising action
Prepare an implementation plan
Monitor action - Quantify and Publicise benefits
Integrate carbon management into existing business practice
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What is The Carbon Management Programme?
 Understand Carbon Emissions Footprint
Example baseline
courtesy of the
University of Bath
Breakdown of 2002 annual emissions
(total emissions = 25,937 tCO2)
Buildings - electricity
6,657
26%
Transport
9,187
35%
< Typically, most
emissions are
from buildings,
then transport
Paper
284
1%
Water
194
1%
Buildings - gas
9,615
37%
Buildings - electricity
Buildings - gas
Water
Paper
Transport
Carbon reduction opportunities:
framework & examples
Activity
area
Policy
Organisational
practices
Day to day
management
“Sharp end” Individual
project initiatives
Buildings
Targets e.g.:
10% Reduction by 2010
Capital Projects
‘Standards’
IT Procurement
Energy management
Ring fenced fund
Staff/student
awareness
(switch it off!)
Controls
e.g.
Highfield and
ASSB Photovoltaics
Transport
Greening of our Transport
Policy
Vehicle Specification
Car sharing
Park and Ride
Bicycles
Car Driving
Awareness
Distribution
Logistics
New fuels, e.g. H2, CNG,
biodiesel
Water and
Waste
Water conservation, Waste
minimisation
Water metering
Recycling/resource
recovery
Staff/student
awareness
(use less)
Water tap controls
Grey water use,
Recycling facilities
Teaching
and
Learning
Sustainable learning
environment, Curriculum
integration
Climate change
course(s), low-CO2
technol. course(s)
Learning-by-doing/
practices
Climate change
modelling; CO2 scenarios
Research
Sustainability through
research
Partnerships
Low-CO2 research
Product/technology
development (eg PV,
fuel cells, appliances)
Demo projects, test sites.
PV/wind/fuel cells
Why Carbon Management?
Why Carbon Management?
Why Carbon Management?
Increasing Prices
Why Carbon Management?
Government Policy :
Kyoto Protocol
Legislation Changes
•Climate Change Levy
•Building Regulations
•Emissions Trading Scheme
•Building Energy Performance
Reputation
Cost reduction
by improved efficiency
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Improved Branding
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Attracts and Retains
Staff
Why Carbon Management?
Asset rating:
Theoretical performance of building
Operational Rating:
What building is actually achieving
The participating universities
Launch
20 Universities, 3 clusters
University of Strathclyde
University of Sunderland
University of Teesside
University of Bradford
University of York
University of Leeds
Leeds Metropolitan University
University of Wales, Bangor
University of Birmingham
University of Coventry
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
University of Warwick
The Open University
University of West of England
University of Cambridge
Imperial College
London Metropolitan University
Kings College
University of Southampton
University of Sussex
Carbon Management at Southampton
Key Stakeholders
Project Sponsor and
Co-Sponsor
ROLE:
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Promotes CM
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Engages stakeholders &
aligns CM with HEI activities
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Provides support to PL &
arranges same from others
Deans of faculties, heads of departments, academic staff,
student bodies,...etc
ROLE:
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Support Programme
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Informed on progress
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Involved as necessary
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Delegate Core Team Members
Core team
Corporate & Marketing Services, Finance, Transport and
Space Planning Officers, Engineers etc
Project Leaders
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Manages overall process
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Secures & integrates inputs
from stakeholders
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Supported by ‘core team’ as
appropriate
People with a real interest in the Programme
Assist in providing :
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Baseline data (inc that from questionnaires etc)
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Developing vision & strategy objectives
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Promoting Awareness
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Identifying projects
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Building business cases
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Defining action plan
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Implementing action plan
Carbon Management Sponsorship
Sponsor
Bill Wakeham,
Vice Chancellor
Co-Sponsor
Kevin Monaghan,
Director of Estates and Facilities
Tel:
22803
E-mail: [email protected]
Programme Leaders
Mark Turner,
Energy Manager
Tel:
27763
E-mail: [email protected]
Neil Smith
Environment Manager
Tel:
26679
E-mail: [email protected]