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Paul Cottington, LLM, MSc, MIEEM SW NFU Environment Adviser
The components of Net Zero
The components of Net Zero
A Basic SWOT
A Basic SWOT
Understanding the bass for
Cornwall
Understanding the bass for
Cornwall
What can Cornwall
Council do?
What can Cornwall
Council do?
Drafts thoughts of
sector actions
Drafts thoughts of
sector actions
What does Net Zero
represent for the sector?
What does Net Zero
represent for the sector?
Understanding the components to achieve Net Zero
• Know your science
• Understand the different parties and communicate to them effectively
• Communicate a complex story simply.
• Knowing your baselines
• Having the different parties with “skin in the game” with the right tools
• Develop the right tools
• Communicate effectively
• Set up the right governance and rules to make this happen.
We must understand the bass
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Understanding the data and baselines.
1. Baselines show where you are and where you have been.
2. You can create opportunity and understand reality.
3. We must have good verification and certification.
4. What does the data mean at a Cornwall Level
5. What does the data mean at an England level?
1. The role of of Cornwall for food production
1. Link to Agriculture Bill
2. The role of Cornwall for achieving climate change goals.
sheep total cattle permanent grass (ha) farmed area (ha)0
100000
200000
300000
400000
500000
600000
484438
331365
143661
277427
506628
323440
138390
263253
Cornwall Farm stats 1
2013 2016
livest
ock lf
a (ha)
livest
ock lo
wla
nd (ha)
cere
als (h
a)
general c
roppin
g (ha)
horticu
lture
(ha)
pigs
tem
p gra
ss (h
a)
farm
woodla
nd (ha)
maize
(ha)
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
60000
70000
80000
90000
41019
81325
19667
32279
9371
47313
42897
8043 6997
39791
77975
17254
32302
12887
53276
40482
81966381
Cornwall Farm stats 2
2013 2016
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
-140.0
-120.0
-100.0
-80.0
-60.0
-40.0
-20.0
-
-50.0
-62.5
-69.6
-77.8-81.6
-88.6
-95.4-98.2
-107.6-110.2
-117.5 -118.3
-125.2
Cornwall LULUCF
YEAR
CO2
em
issi
ons
esti
ma
tes
200
5-2
017
(kt
CO2)
What makes LULUCF go up and down?
5B2 Land converted to Cropland (soil)5A2 Land converted to Forest Land 5C2 Land converted to Grassland (soil) 5E2 Land converted to Settlements (soil) 5G Harvested Wood Products 5B1 Cropland remaining Cropland (lowland drainage) 5B1 Cropland remaining Cropland (Yield improvement) 5B Liming of Cropland 5C1 Grassland remaining Grassland (Peat extraction)5C Liming of Grassland 79.20 5B2 Land converted to Cropland (other) 5A2 Wildfires on Forest Land 5C2 Land converted to Grassland (deforestation to grass)5E Land converted to Settlements (deforestation to settlements)5C2 Land converted to Grassland (other)5E2 Land converted to Settlements (other)5E1 Settlements remaining Settlements 5A1 Forest Land remaining Forest Land 5D1 Wetlands remaining Wetlands 5D2 Land converted to Wetlands 5F1 Other Land remaining Other Land5F2 Land converted to Other Land
What can Cornwall Council do?
Can influence through lobbying and partnership
New agricultural and environmental
schemes
Support through regional bodies (e.g. Cornwall and Isles of
Scilly LEP)
Can enable through policy, funding and communication
Consumption
Productivity
Sequestration and preventing new losses
Governance and tools
In direct controlSupporting services• Planning• Links to other services eg. health
and well being
Procurement• Buy from local producers• Support farms that carbon
sequester, or prevent carbon loss
Management of estate• Sequestration• Improved productivity• Renewable energy
What can we do as a sector in Cornwall? Some draft thoughts
OverarchingLocal authority and residents investing in actions to improve climate resilience and environment conditions in Cornwall
• Create a platform that allows Local Authorities, businesses and residents to engage with farmers and landowners who are willing to deliver actions that provide public benefit in addition to government funded agri-environment schemes.
Greater links between producers, consumers and local authority procurement.
• A food economy that supports farming businesses taking action to have a positive impact on the environment both at a climate level but also wide landscape, biodiversity and social level.
Understanding the capability and opportunities with regard to land use and land management
• Map of fragile and vulnerable soils. • Map showing areas with greatest
opportunities and issue with regard to soil carbon and compaction.
• Map showing current land use and also Ag Land Values.
• Use this to get an understanding of that can be achieved and to then link this with multiple benefits.
Link carbon to other values and benefits • Mapping of natural capital for and ecosystem services and map these to how they will go up or down with regard to action on CO2.
Production• Create baseline emissions profile for
Cornwall agriculture• Brief report and map showing
emissions data for Cornwall farming and land use.
• Reduced net emissions per unit of output from agricultural to zero by 2030 ??????
• Farm businesses benchmarking their carbon footprinting.
• Farm businesses transitioning to best practice farming practices.
• Farm businesses adopting farming practices that deliver the net zero target.
• Improved farm economics by accessing markets that pay a better return for agricultural products at a national and international scale.
Consumption• Create a baseline of impact of
consumption for residents and local authority.
• Create a series of graphics to represent emissions and land footprint based on consumption of Cornwalls population and local authority consumption.
• Cornish residents make consumption choices that are linked to a healthy and balanced diet.
• Growth in availability and labelling of carbon friendly foods.
• Cornwall Council local procurement.
• Authority procurement policies prioritise purchasing decisions that sources food from local, UK and international sources that are climate friendly.
Sequestering
Create value of how much additional CO2 can be sequestered.
• list of measures and CO2 values for sequestering. E.g. Use of biochar.
• Link to land management measures required to deliver this.
• Improved farm economics by accessing carbon markets that pay a better return for agricultural products at a national and international scale.
Follow the money
• ELMS
• New markets
• Supply chain incentives/ requirements.
What does Net Zero represent for agriculture?
• Net Zero represents an opportunity to be more efficient and productive
• Net Zero represents an opportunity to develop new markets.
• Net Zero represents an opportunity to add value to the land
• Net Zero represents an opportunity for the sector to take the lead and deliver positive solutions that work for all of us.
And if we are successful?
Step 2: What do we need to achieve Net Zero for agriculture in Cornwall?
ValueValue
Extrinsic• Monetary value for
society and the deliverer
• Benefit as a service for society
• Value as part of the farmers wider views (conservation etc)Intrinsic
• Value for the natural capital in itself.
Feedback on results
Tools for engagement
Tools for engagement
Systems for advice and guidance
Capacity to engage with farmers and the
agricultural supply chain
Technology that enables farmers make decisions.
KISS
Feedback on results
OwnershipOwnership
We must have reliable and robust
data
Farmers must be ACTIVE and not PASSIVE.
Understanding the reasons for action, what
is needed.Making it central to the
farming business and the agricultural sector.
Having agriculture oversee its’ part of the system
Work in partnership with clear roles.
Feedback on results