Transcript CO 2 e - ENWORKS In a Box

Boosting resource efficiency at a
regional level
The ENWORKS business support
programme in England’s Northwest
Introducing ENWORKS
• Established in 2001; 10th anniversary in 2011
• Innovative ENWORKS partnership model in
England’s Northwest
• Award-winning environmental business support
• Decoupling economic growth from environmental
degradation, with focus on resource efficiency
• Helped over 10,000 businesses with converting
environmental pressures into competitive advantages
• Embedded in Northwest regional policy – Regional Economic Strategy, Climate
Change Action Partnership, Sustainable Consumption & Production (SCP)
Challenges we face
• Addressing market failure in business resource efficiency
• Awareness doesn’t always lead to action
- 82% of businesses believe resource efficiency is important
- BUT only 23% plan to take action in 12 months
- Majority are one-off, low-impact interventions
• Responding to common misconceptions – irrelevant / costly / new equipment / timeconsuming / energy only / threat not opportunity
Overcoming the challenges
• Tailored, hands-on, ongoing support from local / sector specific advisers
• Recognised regionally, nationally and internationally as best practice
• 10,000 Northwest businesses supported in 10 years
• Helping businesses with annual financial and environmental savings of:
• £122 million (€145m) in business costs
• 681,000 tonnes of CO2e
• 4.7 million m3 of water
• 3 million tonnes of materials
• 388,000 tonnes of waste diverted from landfill
• More than 7,370 regional jobs created and safeguarded
• £210 million (€250m) local sales contracts secured and retained
Sustained impact
Annual savings identified / being
implemented
Annual savings achieved
Achieved accrued to date
£ 93.3 million
£ 29.4 million
£ 83.8 million
€ 110.9 million
€ 34.9 million
€ 99.7 million
560,900
120,800
619.9 million
Water savings / m3
1.5 million
3.2 million
4.2 million
Material savings / tonnes
2.4 million
643,500
16.6 million
293,800
95,100
206,900
Saving type
Business cost savings
CO2e savings / tonnes
Waste diverted from
landfill / tonnes
ENWORKS average savings
Average cost savings - per business: £21,263 (€25,107) pa
- per improvement opportunity: £7,776 (€9,182) pa
Average CO2e savings - per business supported: 48 tonnes pa
- per improvement opportunity: 31 tonnes pa
Value for money
• Most cost-effective support of its kind in the UK - compared to other
regional and aggregated national environmental support programmes
• From every £100 (€119) invested in ENWORKS we create annually
recurring savings in businesses of:
£1,200 (€1,426) in business costs
8 tonnes of CO2e
55 m3 of water
30 tonnes of materials
7 tonnes of waste diverted from landfill
£800 (€951) of sales contracts retained; £136 (€162) sales won
• Breaking the mould – 65% of cost savings achieved at no capital cost
Key success factors
• Mix of public funding sources – no exclusions / no postcode lottery for businesses
• Partnership of organisations – locally embedded & trusted by beneficiaries and
other stakeholders
• Breadth of services – no barriers, we address energy, water, materials and waste,
covering eco-design, process efficiency, sustainable procurement, legal compliance,
climate change adaptation…. risk and reward
• Targeted and tailored support – linked to the potential to make savings, hands-on
on-site advice and off-site services, focus on cost effectiveness and end results
• ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit – data is turned into information, it
both catalyses action in business and the sharing of best practice across the project
ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit
• Unique web-based software, launched in 2004
• Log, prioritise, manage and report on resource
efficiency actions
• Clear audit trail, traceable to each improvement
opportunity and linked to official UK Government
CO2e conversion factors (Defra)
• Adopted by other English Regional Development
Agencies and Welsh Assembly Government
 8,881 registered businesses, across the UK
 Tracking 30,589 individual improvement opportunities
 Recording total business cost savings of £342.7 million (€407.4m)
 Tracking total CO2e savings of 829,738 tonnes
Regional support
Location of businesses
supported by ENWORKS
in England’s Northwest:
Regional impact
Distribution of cost savings ENWORKS
is helping businesses with, across the
Northwest:
Distribution of CO2e savings
ENWORKS is helping businesses with,
across the Northwest:
Find out more
Contact us on: +44 (0)161 236 6348
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.enworks.com
For further information and video case studies:
www.enworks.com/about-us
www.enworks.com/case-studies
ENWORKS In a Box: www.enworksinabox.com
ENWORKS Online Resource Efficiency Toolkit: www.efficiencytoolkit.net
ENWORKS Green Intelligence: www.greenintelligence.org.uk