Driving economic development through the sustainability agenda

Business in the Community Environment Leadership Team

Presentation to Local Enterprise Partnerships

Rationale for putting sustainability at the heart of economic development strategy

Opportunities from the green economy

Value that Business in the Community’s Environment Leadership Team can add to Local Enterprise Partnerships

This presentation will outline:

Significant potential for job creations, eg 100,000 jobs from the Green Deal alone over the next five years

Build resilience in businesses and communities

Prepare for increased global competition for energy and key resources

Capitalise on natural resources & industrial heritage

Encourage up/reskilling of current employees and raise aspirations of young people towards high value STEM careers

Get ahead of increasing legislation and regulation – UK targets to halve carbon emissions by 2025 to be enshrined in law

Potential to create a global centre of excellence for future energy and sustainable business

Promote connectivity in a mobility constrained world

The rationale for putting sustainability at the heart of economic development

Opportunities from the green Economy – Future Energy

Wind

Photovoltaics and microgeneration

Nuclear

Energy Coast

Tidal

Biomass

Low carbon buildingsGreater Manchester LCEA, £650m & 34,000 jobs from the Low Carbon Economic Area Programme£5m deal between Liverpool Mutual Homes & ERDF to improve more than 600 homes£7m+ ERDF projects to retrofit social housing in Cheshire & Warrington and Cumbria

Low carbon vehiclesPlugged in places, £398m investment & 5162 jobs by 2020 1,000 jobs at Jaguar Landrover to make the low carbon/hybrid Rangerover400 jobs to make the Vauxhal Astra Ampera hybrid in Ellesmere Port

Low carbon & environmental goods and services2nd largest sector in UK, 4,000+ businesses, 85,000 employees, growth >4%pa

Other opportunities

InnovationStrong HE R&D base: Manchester, Salford, MMU, Lancaster, UCLAN, LiverpoolClusters of business excellence: Capenhurst, Daresbury, Manchester Science Park, Lancaster Environment CentreEco-innovate programme

Resource efficiencyEnworks – the largest business resource efficiency support programme in the UKSupported 10,000 businesses since 2001£120m savings annually7,367 jobs created or safeguarded£213m sales increased or safeguarded

Other opportunities

AimsTo act as a catalyst to help shape the low carbon economy in the region, enabling locally based businesses to capitalise on the opportunities and promoting the North West as a focal point for inward investment for the development of low carbon and associated transformational technologies.

To inspire businesses to take action that realises the commercial benefits of improving the economic performance of their own operations by addressing sustainability.

BITC Environment Leadership Team

BITC Environment Leadership Team Members

A strong business led Leadership Team

Operates at a local level with co-ordination across the NW and UK

Provides a forum for business engagement, shared learning & support from leading businesses

Can help Simplify the landscape for LEPs and businesses

How the team can add value to LEPs

Mayday500 businesses engaged across the NWActive programme of events and support

Start Living Retrofitting Alliance40 organisations involvedCollaboration between business, public sector & community groups to upgrade buildings & infrastructure and create more sustainable places to live & work

Promoting LeadershipPartnership with Lancaster University to develop emerging leadersEngagement of senior business leadersOperates at a local level with co-ordination across the NW and UK

National Business Travel NetworkSupporting workplace travel planning as a way to save costs & carbon and benefit employees

How the team can add value to LEPs – engagement/support