Understanding Linkages and Regional Added Value Mark Atherton Director Energy & Environment.
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Transcript of Understanding Linkages and Regional Added Value Mark Atherton Director Energy & Environment.
NW Region Opportunities & challenges
• £119 billion economy with 6.9 million people and 250,000 businesses
• Largest sectors are Business & Professional Services, Food & Drink and Advances Engineering & Materials
• UK largest region for both Food and Drink and Chemicals production
• Produces 7.03m tonnes of commercial and industrial waste & 10.4m tonnes of construction & demolition waste
• SMEs produce 77% of the regions commercial waste and recycle over 67%
• In 2007 the region was responsible for of 57m T/CO2e emissions down from 63m T/CO2e in 1990
Why Resource Efficiency?
Resource Estimated Savings Opportunity (£m)
UK Northwest
Energy 3,349 373
Waste 2,659 299
Water 441 41
Total 6,449 713
Estimated savings opportunity from resource efficiency
Sector Savings
Sector Total savings (£M) Waste Energy Water
Transport - 224 -
Food & Drink 114 10 8
Retail 54 16 -
Chemicals, chemical products, rubber & plastic products 33 26 5.4
Construction 22 - -
NW Sectors with greatest identified resource efficiency savings
SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION ACTION PLAN
VISION for 2020 Achieve a more productive, resource-efficient, low
carbon Northwest by 2020 through continuous economic and social progress that makes best use of resources to meet the needs and aspirations of the Northwest for a better quality of life.
INDICATORS •a reduction in tonnes of CO2 emissions per unit of GVA against a 2006 baseline of 0.53;•a reduction in the waste produced per unit of GVA against the 2006 baseline of 2.71 tonnes (per 10 units of GVA).
ACTIONS• 5 Key Outcomes• 14 Actions
The Regional PictureAll environmental support now delivered through the Improving Your Resource Efficiency package;
•Grants for Improving your Resource Efficiency
•Embedding Resource Efficiency
•Eco-innovation Programme
•Construction Knowledge Hub
•Delivered by many partners with one point of contact Businesslink
Full details in recent IYRE brochure or from www.nwda.co.uk/publications/business
The Regional Picture
ENWORKS
Universities
NISP
Envirowise
WRAP
Business LinkOther
Envirolink NW
Environment Agency
Environment Connect
Carbon Trust
• ENWORKS is part of a wider group of expert partners
• Business can access all of these through BusinessLink
• One easy point of contact leads to a wealth of specialist knowledge
• Different levels of support enables wide-scale coverage of businesses
Referrals from Environment Connect
Addressing Sub-regional variation
Sectoral Share of GVA % (2006)
Cheshire & Warrington Cumbria Gtr Manc Lancs M’side
Business & Professional Services
(B&PS) 14.7 6.4 15.7 9.1 13.9
Food & Drink 8.7 12.5 9.8 10.7 8.9
Advanced Engineering &
Materials (AEM) 13.9 10.4 12.3 15.8 11.3
Leisure/tourism 0.7 2.3 0.4 0.9 0.5
Bio-medical 7.5 1.4 0.7 1 1.9
Construction related 7.8 9.2 10.1 10.7 8.4
location of businesses supported by ENWORKSThis map illustrates;
• Clear concentration around city regions, Fylde Coast
• Higher number of large business around Manchester, Liverpool & Pennine Lancashire
• Wider spread of businesses across NE Lancashire & Cumbria
• The need to understand specific local issues but also those wider regional factors which influence business
Monitoring & Evaluation
• ENWORKS Online Toolkit & expert central management team
• Companies able to update their actions as completed
• Can view their £ savings and environmental impact
• ENWORKS can offer ongoing support
• NWDA can view impact of the whole programme
• Identify areas of success or concern throughout programme
Value for Money
The ENWORKS programme has delivered annual savings of:
•£100 million,
•303,301 tonnes of CO2,
•4.2 million m3 of water and •3.1 million tonnes of materials•As of Dec 09 for every £1 invested £11 savings were identified
Conclusions
• Clear Regional need to de-couple economic growth from environmental impact
• Regional programme with sub-regional flexibility
• Experience built up over years of operation
• Monitoring toolkit providing key research/ knowledge
• Proven track record with demonstrable achievements
• Supports delivery of regional policy