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Climate ChangeUnderstanding the threats and discovering the opportunities
Carole BondEnvirowise
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
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
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
Businessactivities
Climate change
Market Behaviour
Milder winters threaten Ribena production… but longer summers are good news for strawberry growers
As temperatures rise, lemonade sales initially go up, but then fall again when it gets really hotLong range weather uncertainty affects production planning
Banana sales slump when it is hot and when it is cold
Long summers delay purchasing of autumn / winter clothing collections
Skiing days in Scotland down by 80%
Too hot to shop
Business models supply chains
Markets national or global
spread
Distribution channels product/service miles forms of distribution
Product/service life cycles and development raw material extraction centralised production manufacturing
processes packaging usable life energy use disposal
Business activities
Climate change
ADAPT to the effects:Prepare for challenges of climate change: more extreme events, change business practice, learn from recent experienceMITIGATE the cause:Reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, i.e. C02 through energy & resource efficiency, development of renewables
Is there a solution?
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
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
ENVIROWISE
Confidential, Practical and free Advice
CONFUSED ?WORRIED ?
OVERWHELMED ?
Don’t Panic !
Envirowise priorities
Resource efficiency in:
Raw materials Solid waste Water Clean design
Resource efficient = savings in resources, money and carbon
Easily IdentifiedCosts
HiddenCosts & embodied carbon
Why think about waste skips are cheap !
“Skip Hire”
“disposal cost
“Collection charge”
• Cost of raw materials in skip
• Cost of labour
• Cost of lost revenue
• Cost of wasted energy, eg material movement
• Loss in sales value
• 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 £85 Labour to fill skip £163 Cost of materials put in skip £1095
TOTAL TRUE COST £1343
(Source: AMEC)
EliminationReductionRe-use RecyclingRecovery of
energyTreatmentDisposal
Highest PriorityLowest Carbon
Lowest Priority £££££’sHighest Carbon
The Waste Hierarchy
Highest PriorityLowest Carbon
Lowest Priority £££££’sHighest Carbon
Environment & Energy Helpline
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.
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
Don't Know 3 3 1 3
79
21
concernedunconcerned
How much influence do you think … can have on limiting Climate Change?
How concerned are you about the impact of Climate Change in the UK?
National Research
Changing little habits
Actions affecting lifestyle
Radical change of car use
Reducing plane flights
Easy actions
Energy saving in home
THE BIG DIVIDE
Audience rules
Target specific groups
Awareness, attitude change or behaviour change?
Understand them
… market research
Blowing away mythsDon’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 Support01225 852533
Paul Gilbert, Envirowise SW Regional Manager0870 190 3832
