How fit for purpose are community accounting systems?

Climate Futures

• What’s driving community carbon disclosure?

• What’s required of community footprints?

• Case study: Callander community• Discussion and conclusions

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What’s driving community footprinting?

• Has made £37.7 million available to communities between 2008-2012 - supported 345 communities

• £10.3 million available per year to end March 2015

• Primarily, carbon reduction; should lead to other community benefits and a sustainable legacy

• Includes behaviour change, business interaction, community building refurbishment

• No renewable feasibilities; no hardware eg PV panels; no home insulation

The Climate Challenge Fund

What’s required of CCF community footprints?

• ‘Routemap’ guidance and spreadsheet provided for activities in more detail than before, following Ecometrica review

• Allows evaluation of carbon impact of proposed / funded activities

• Some communities have chosen to footprint across all activities ie baseline then revisit

• No software / approach specified

Case study: Callander

• Tourist town – edge of the Lomond and Trossachs National Park

• 3500 people / 1419 households• Mix of age / size / type of homes• School + leisure centre, and seven

other public buildings• Businesses not addressed (not

allowable under funding in 2010)

Contents• Door to door interviews carried out by staff – 128 / 113 in sample• Responses fed into Reap Petite software (SEI) for calculating footprints• Data extrapolated and analysed via Excel • 2010/11 household emissions

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26,223 tCO2e 25,768

• SEI carbon factors: ‘black box’, thought to be DEFRA/DECC for housing & travel• Public buildings: kWh and DEFRA factors• Extrapolation shows reduction of 455 tCO2e, 1.7%. Separate EST calc. shows 502 tCO2e redn. from energy efficiency measures

• how can Callander reduce its carbon footprint in line with Scottish targets?

• what does this mean on the ground eg houses insulated, allotments, behaviour change

• what’s happening at a national level?

• what can people do individually?

• how can Callander benefit from reducing its footprint?

Why a 15-year plan?

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Possible pathways

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Index of reduction

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ContentsModerate emissions by source

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Outlook

• Tools are limited and non-transparent reflecting limited commercial opportunity

• Could communities be responsible for their own carbon budgets one day?

• If so, reporting requirements will tighten• Otherwise, reporting is likely to be driven by

progressive communities and funding needs

Ecometrica CCF review: “Improved measurement methods for capturing the impact of behavioural

interventions are needed so that priorities between different approaches can be assessed

fairly, including longitudinal research”

Charles Henderson

e: charles@climatefutures.co.uk t: 07740 946955

www.climatefutures.co.uk

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