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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