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Ecological Footprints

and SCP

John Barrett

Stockholm Environment Institute

Sustainable Consumption and Production Programme


Content

• Adapt National Footprint Accounts to make it more relevant to SCP

• Make this relevant to Devolved Countries and Local Authorities

– Eco-Budget Project

– Scotland’s Global Footprint Project

– Resources and Energy Analysis Programme


UK Policy

• One Planet Economy (Chapter 3 of SDS)

• Scottish Sustainable Development Strategy

• Sustainable Consumption and Production Framework

• Decoupling Economy from Environment

• Concern related imports of goods and services


Relevant to Devolved Countries and Local Authorities

• How can Scotland contribute to a “One Planet Economy”

• What understanding do we have of the consumption in Scotland?

• How effective might be different policies be?

• Transport, Housing, Energy Efficiency, Procurement, Waste

• Closer or further away from our goal?


UK Accounts to Local Level

• Robust approach to move from National to Local

• Used in Scottish LAs

• Using Input-Output Tables to understand indirect flows

• Allocating the Carbon Dioxide Emissions and EF to expenditure

• Employing Local Data to Calculate the EF of all local authority areas


The Result

• Detailed understanding of the impact of consumption patterns by 70 categories

• Carbon Dioxide Emissions and EF of every devolved country, regional and local authority area in the UK

• Breakdown of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and EF by 54 socio-demographic groups

• Model that has a significant number of applications at devolved country and local level (policy and communication)

• Under Eco-Budget Project, Scot – Material Flow Accounts for UK, Scotland, Wales and regions


Carbon Dioxide Analysis

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Producerresponsibility(territorial emissions)

Consumerresponsibility


Breakdown of the Ecological Footprint of UK

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Transport Ecological Footprint

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Car Footprint by Purpose

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EF results for Selected Local Areas

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Keningston

Barking

UK

gha./cap

Food and Drink

Energy

Travel

Housing

Consumables and waste

Services

Holiday Activities

Capital Investment

Government


Transportation in Hertfordshire

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Public Transport

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Group Description Group Description

1 Wealthy Achievers, Suburban Areas

10 Skilled workers, home owning areas

2 Affluent Greys, Rural Communities

11 New Home Owners, Mature Communities

3 Prosperous Pensioners, Retirement Areas

12 White collar workers, better off multi-ethnic areas

4 Affluent Executives, Family Areas

13 Older people, less prosperous areas

5 Well-off workers, family areas

14 Council Estate Residents, Better-off homes

6 Affluent Urbanites, Town and City Areas

15 Council estate residents, high unemployment

7 Prosperous Professionals, Metropolitan areas

16 Council estate residents, greatest hardship

8 Better-off executive, inner city areas

17 Multi-Ethnic, low income areas

9 Comfortable middle agers, mature home owning areas

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Holidays

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Sustainable Diets

Diet Composition

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DEWI GARETH PATRICK

Diet Scenarios

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t (g

ha)

Beverages

Cereals

Confectionary

Bread

Fruit

Vegetables

Sugar & Preserves

Fats & Oils

Eggs

Fish

Meat

Cheese

Milk & Cream


Transport

In the Wales Ecological Footprint Project the following policies were analysed;

1. Increasing car use

2. ‘Intra-Wales Air Service’

3. Demand Side Management


Sustainable Living

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BedZED Keen BedZED

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Energy Transport Building a HouseW ater Food ConsumablesServices Holidays


York EF Projections and Target

York Target – Reduce the EF to 3.5 gha/capita by 2033


Other Applications

• Strategic Environmental Assessment

• Community Regeneration

• Sustainable Procurement

• Behavioural Change


Releasing Data

• In January

– EF of all Local Authority Areas

– Carbon dioxide emissions of consumption for LAAs

– Standardised report of all findings

– PowerPoint presentation of findings

• In March

– Same for Scotland and UK regions

– Complete mass balance of Scotland

– Eco-Budget Report


Resources and Energy Analysis Resources and Energy Analysis

ProgrammeProgramme

Developed under “Eco-Budget UK” ProjectReleased around March

Being tested in Scotland



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