BEP Birmingham's Carbon Savings Report 2009/10
Laura Simpson29 June 2010
Contents
• Purpose of the report
• Last year’s report
• Improvements we made this year
• Results
• Identified good practice
• Challenges
• Recommendations for next year
Purpose of report
• 2008-11 Local Area Agreement
• Save 120,000 tonnes of CO2e
• April 2009-March 2010
• Good practice reported
Last year’s report
• Target of 100,000 tonnes of CO2e saved
• Accounted for 103,039 tonnes of CO2e saved
• 18 organisations
• Discussed the actions that led to savings for a few organisations
• Didn’t separate savings into energy, water, waste and transport
Improvements we made this yearAsked organisations to:• Send the data on electricity, gas, water, waste and transport
savings • In Birmingham • Actions taken from April 2009 to March 2010• How savings were made
Defra’s and Severn Trent Water’s conversion factors
Sector and key area breakdown
Transparency
Results27 organisations contributed to final figure
Target: 120,000 tonnes of CO2e savedAccounted for 120,745 tonnes of CO2e saved
Sector CO2e savings (tonnes)
% overall reported savings
Private 15,427 13
Public 16,989 14
Voluntary 61 0.05
Domestic 83,000 68.7
Education 2,779 2
NHS 2,431 2
Transport 58 0.05
Total 120,745 100
Results
Key area CO2e savings (tonnes)
Energy 96,689Water 853Waste 21,894Transport 612Other 700Total 120,745
Carbon Trust estimates:
Saving 1 tonne of CO2e = £100 business saving
Financial saving of £12,074,500
Identified good practicePrivate sector:• Business Link West Midlands’ Improving Your Resource Efficiency programme• PowerPerfector• Smurfit Kappa UK
Public sector:• Government Office for the West Midlands• West Midlands Police
Voluntary sector:• Birmingham Voluntary Services Council and BeBirmingham projects (Women’s Aid, Supporting Independence From Alcohol (SIFA) Fireside and Castle Vale Community Regeneration Services)
PowerPerfector Smurfit Kappa UK
West Midlands Police
Identified good practiceDomestic sector:• Homes Energy Conservation Association (HECA) report• Energy Saving Trust
Education sector:• Aston University
NHS sector:• Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals• South Birmingham Primary Care Trust
Transport sector:• Centro
Aston University – electric car
Energy Saving Trust - advisors
City Hospital
Centro tram
Challenges• Lack of resources and time
• Organisations not measuring savings
• Too soon after end of year
• Excluding domestic figures outside of HECA report
Recommendations for next year• Include domestic savings outside of HECA report• Increase time and resources• Publish later• Newly introduced legal requirements• 2010/11 target needs to be revised• Net reduction/increase• Climate Change Action Plan target
Thank you for listening
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