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Stronger Resource Efficiency for Desirable Communities

Local Authority Asset Stewardship and Resilience Building for Green and Prosperous Communities and Economies

APSE Special 1/2 Day Launch EventPortcullis House, LondonThursday 18th April

Opening address

Dr Alan Whitehead, MP, Southampton Test

Stronger resource efficiency for desirable communities

Philip Monaghan, CEO, Infrangilis

House of Commons, London 2013

Pop quizQuestion: What do these events over the past decade all have in common?

Rapid surface transport in Delhi (India)

Affordable housing in Manchester (UK)

Energy efficient buildings in New York (USA)

Water conservation in Quito (Ecuador)

Answer: Examples of when an entrepreneurial council has created an innovative asset-based instrument to fund transformation that increases prosperity without spending more money:-

Applying ‘clean development mechanism’ at urban level to provide low cost travel for urban poor and reduce emissions

Redirecting municipal pension funds to ‘investable’ local low-carbon regeneration schemes

City-wide retrofits through an invest-to-save model that creates jobs, keeps GDP local, and enhances energy security

Re-evaluating the economic value of maintaining green infrastructure so conservation is reflected in industry prices

Stronger resource efficiency –fundamental to economic prosperity

DEFRA has calculated that low-cost resource efficiency ‘quick wins’ alone could save UK business £23 billion

The CBI has concluded that despite trying economic times, the UK’s green business industry continued to grow in real terms during 2010/11 by 2.3% - carving out a £122 billion share of a global market worth £3.3 trillion

A recent survey by the manufacturers organisation EEF found that 80% of senior manufacturing executives believe limited access to raw materials is already a business risk and a threat to growth

APSE believes the pivotal role of councils - leadership, regeneration & planning, asset management & procurement, transport, environmental services, education & schools, and neighbourhood management – needs to be recognised and supported

The ‘perfect storm’ for councils: Do more with less + public disinterest?RISING OBLIGATIONS(service requests, new issue demands)

SPENDING REDUCTION(efficiency savings,repaying bailout debt)

Waste recycling

Climate adaptation

Obesity?

Annual efficiencies

Recession‐induced cuts

Slow recovery?

Mind the gap?(new innovation, alternative income, reject the vulnerable)

TIME

Recovery stimulus(short‐term fix only)

[Source: Sustainability in Austerity, 2010]

Despite the fiscal cliff the economic footprint of UK councils is huge

Local authorities have £250 billion worth of property

The value of England & Wales’ local pension funds is £120 billion

The sector spends £42 billion on external contracts

Many councils have power to control or stimulate investment through their regeneration and spatial planning strategies

....And there is significant scope to influence residents’ behaviour and spending patterns through the education system.

Local levers for resource efficiency: An APSE checklist and case analysis

Redesign extraction and production processes to minimise use of materials

Reduce consumption

Recover and reuse materials

Plymouth’s low carbon development framework

Reykjavik’s eco-label procurement standard

Islington’s energy advice on the rollout of Green Deal to households and SMEs

Huntingdonshire’s Sustainable Travel Plan to promote non-car journeys

Oxford’s rainwater harvesting

North Lincolnshire’s green fuel from waste facility

Newcastle’s ultra low carbon vehicle enterprise zone

Portsmouth’s Green Neighbours scheme

Linkoping’s renewable energy from waste facility

“There was no conversation 100 years ago about the ‘high’ carbon economy. Whilst the next wave of

urbanisation must be sensitive to the transition to a ‘low’ carbon economy we also need to talk about it in a

way that meets wider social and developmental aspirations too.”

(Dr Mike Hodson, Associate Director, Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures, 2011)

But remember, efficiency is not a vote winner for politicians!

The regeneration opportunity: APSE’s resource-innovation hierarchy

Copenhagen’s use of green spaces to avoid damage from extreme weather

Cambridge’s eco management system to lower depot footprint

Barnsley’s borough-wide energy efficiency plan to stop money leakage

Milwaukee’s World Water Hub that is exporting the city’s know-how

Strong efficiency

Weak efficiency

Wealth creation

Cost exposure

Keep GDP local

Avoid cost risk

Boost local competitiveness

Reduce operating costs

‘Systems thinking for ensuring councils

A method that encourages those involved to regard a problem as a whole system as opposed to concentrating on one particular component of that system to reveal both advantageous and undesirable interactions

This means a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything else

These so called ‘leverage points’ allow one to identify the best places to intervene in a system and include: resource constraints, buffers and other stabilising stocks, information flows, rules of the system and power distribution

Avoiding rebound effects or unintended consequences (e.g. food safety standards undermining efforts to reduce packaging or refrigeration)

[Credits: Middleton & Seddon, 2010/ Forrester, 1971/ Meadows, 1997]

APSE policy recommendations to Government

Support EEF’s proposal to establish a National Office of Resource Management but with a governance role for council associations

Setup a fund to stimulate a new market in Water Municipal Bonds

Improve the pipeline of upcoming resource efficiency investment opportunities in addition to the CBI proposal for all major infrastructure

Ensure better access to data

Nurture skills development and qualifications in resource efficiency

Fix the process for grants dispersal in emergent sectors

Sharing services to combat Fuel PovertyAndrew Ford18 April 2013

Energy Advice Team

• Islington Energy Centre started over 25 Years ago

• Delivering Sustainability Advice

Sharing Services

• Co-ordinating within Islington– SHINE

• Working for / with others– Camden– Hackney– Lewisham– HYDE

‘It’s horrible. It’s gotblack stuff on thewalls and bathroomand when myMum paints it, it allgoes black again.’Ben, 8, lives in an overcrowded flat with a severe damp and mould problem (Shelter).

Co-ordinating within Islington

• Many council and third sector partners seeking the same vulnerable people – just for different reasons

• Need to reduce costs and improve resource efficiency

• Hard to reach and hardly reached people being missed

• Residents not accessing the services they need/entitled to

Season Health Intervention NEtwork (SHINE)

• SHINE is a one-stop-shop referral hub for energy efficiency services, staying safe & warm in the home, financial assistance and health checks etc.

• One referral will lead to an assessment for around 30 different services– Falls assessment– Fire Safety Check– Home security Check– Befriending– Medicine Review– Air Quality Alerts

• Has been running in Islington since December 2010

Working With To Achieve

• Age UK• Disability Action in Islington• Ground Work• Islington Residential Grants• London Councils• London Metropolitan Police• Mobile Repair Network• NHS• Origin Housing association• Thames Water• UK Power Networks

• Over 3,000 households helped

• Over 15,000 interventions

• 59% aged 55 or over

• 40% aged 75 or over

• 34% have respiratory or

cardiovascular illness

• 15% have children under 5

Case Study

25 year old single mother with 2 children under 5.In large amounts of debt, including fuel debt.

• Energy Advice Team helped to resolve electricity, gas and water debt problems, arranging a payment plan

• Energy Doctor in the Home visited and fitted draught proofing on draughty windows, fitted radiator panels and advised on efficient heating

• Benefit review increased her income• Fire Brigade fitted working smoke alarms• airTEXT helped her to managed outings with children

Working with Others - Camden

• Working together for over 12 years

• Sit on Camden Affordable Warmth Steering group

• They get expert advice and support and ability to expand to cover projects quickly

• Have a partner that shares their ethos

Working with Others - Hackney

• Working together for over 2 years

• Wanted to improve services and maximise resident benefit

• Deliver SHINE in its entirety

• Needed staff, systems and support

• Have a partner that shares their ethos

Working with Others - Lewisham

• Recent Partnership

• Had funding from DoH to spend

• Had people but not back office systems

• Pick and mix training and support

Working with Others – HYDE Housing

• Working together for 18 months

• Looking to support residents in financial troubles

• Needing quality service available all the time

• Needing help with explaining heating controls for heat pumps etc.

• Every new resident gets contacted

Questions

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Stockton on Tees – A success story

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• Reduce carbon emissions

• Target fuel poverty

• Target poor private sector housing stock

• Boost regeneration, jobs, financial and social inclusion

• Use council reserves to lever CESP funding

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The Vision -The Journey to Stockton


• Partnership with GoWarm (Community Energy Solutions) since 2006

• Procurement – Competitive funding steam

• Council data on 70,000 properties – a major asset

• Making the case to energy companies – if it’s not social we don’t want to know

• Funded via Pathfinder transition funding and Capital reserves

• Very short timescales for delivery

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The Challenge


• Reduce fuel poverty

• Halt the decline in HMR Pathfinder areas

and intervene in poor LSOAs

• Improve SAP of private sector housing

• Over 7,000 private sector solid wall properties in the borough.

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Objectives


Watch the film!

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How it worked


• It grew and grew• Residents’ expectations and community pride• Transformation of deprived areas• JobsBut not without some issues• Building Control – Compliance• BT Openreach• LSOA Boundaries• Construction site across the borough

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What happened


• Area based approach works

• Partnership via a Deed

• Delivery of Eco – Local Authority role

• Procuring or selling?

• Full evaluation of the project

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The Future

Climate Change Adaptation for Resilience: Practical tools and support for Local Authorities as a business and community leader

Jodie Davis – Climate SouthWest Project Manager

Representing Climate UK

Weather vs. ClimateClimate = the average weather in a locality

over a 30 year periodWeather = what it is doing outside right now

Mitigation= reducing our emissions of

greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2)

Adaptation= preparing for the unavoidable

impacts of climate change

We should prepare for the increasing risk of:

• Floods• Sea Level Rise• Droughts• High temperatures • Cold winters

Along with population growth and continued demographic change

2000 – flooding 2008 – snow and ice

2001 – flooding 2009 – flooding

2003 – heatwave 2009 – snow and ice


2006 – drought 2010 – snow and ice

2006 – heatwave 2012 – drought


2008 – flooding

Observed temperatures Simulated temperatures

We are already committed to this from past emissions alone

Source Met Office Hadley Centre

2040s

2003

2003 summer temperatures could become regular by the 2040s

35,000 people died across Northern Europe as a result of the 2003 August heatwave– effective planning is essential

y2003 temperatures normal by 2040s

Contribution to England & Wales winter precipitation from extreme 3-day events

Met Office Hadley Centre

More frequent and intense severe weather events

CCRA Key findingsFlooding (costs could rise from current £1.2bn to £2‐

12bn** by the 2080’s

Health risks from hotter summers (580‐5900 deaths in summer) but reduced cold related deaths (3900‐24000 deaths avoided in winter) by

2050s

Increases in drought and some pests and diseases

Ecosystem risks (changes in timing of life cycle events, species distribution and

ranges)

Pressure on water resources (e.g. Potential

supply/demand deficits of 940‐2550 Ml/d in the 2050s for the Thames river basin).

** this estimate takes into account population growth as well as climate change, and includes costs from fluvial and tidal flooding (not surface water flooding)

Impacts to LA’s Challenges• Protecting residents and business in

flood risk areas

• Impacts on natural environment

• Impacts & pressures on infrastructure

• Service delivery continuity

Opportunities• Leadership by example

• Partnership working

• Improved health – outdoor lifestyles

• Business opportunities - tourism

“Adaptation actions should be integrated into development policy and planning at every level. … ignoring climate change is not a viable option – inaction will be far more costly than adaptation”

Stern Review, 2006

1. We are not very well adapted to our current climate

2. Adaptation actions can provide wider benefits

3. Some changes will take generations to implement and need to be started now to be ready when needed

4. New and refurbished development needs to be designed for the climate it will experience over its lifetime.

Why Adapt?

Climate Change Act 2008

• UK Climate Change Risk Assessment every five years

• National adaptation programme must be put in place and reviewed every five years

• Adaptation Reporting Power

• Adaptation Sub-Committee

Working in Partnership

Climatic Data Evidence

Climate Ready

Climate Local

UK CCRA

Regional CCRAs

LAAP

Economics of Climate Resilience

NAP

The Climate UK Network

SWIMS• Kent County Council tool for monitoring the impacts

of severe weather (SWIMS)

• Produces organisational level reports following weather events, based on inputs from across services

• Provides a summary and total costs of events as well as any media reports and weather data

• Can be used to inform future planning across the county, risk management, business continuity

• Tool being developed for all LAs (funded by Climate Ready and supported by LGA)

Log an

Event

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Event Notification

Search Event

Record Impacts & Responses

(Some

Generate an Event Report

Process

Health Workshops• Climate UK and EA ran events throughout

the UK

• Included speakers from the HPA, NHS Sustainable Development Unit, EA and Climate UK

• Provided an opportunity for Health and Wellbeing Boards, LA’s, Met Office, FC, Universities etc to network

• Involved a practical element using the BACLIAT tool

• Reports for each region have been produced

http://www.climatesouthwest.org/tools/health

JRF – Vulnerability MappingThe study had two key aims, to:

• explore existing approaches to local adaptation to climate change impacts and how these take account of social justice issues

• support the development of just local responses to climate change by making recommendations for policy and practice.

IEMA;Sustainability Leaders

Social housing; Observing London

SWIMS; ARCC

Green Communities;Midlands Business Awards

Keeping Tourism Alive;Business Survey

Climate Disadvantage;TCPA

CLASP;Climate Resilient Communities

Business Accreditation;Connect Friday

Well adapting EM;Building Business Resilience

EA Climate Ready, LA ThemeAim to;– Build Council capacity– Facilitate local networking– Offer advice on embedding climate risks into

core services– Support sub-national partnership working– Develop Climate Ready web materials and

tools– Health & Joint Strategic Needs Assessment – Business Case for Adaptation

Climate Local

Adaptation Tools and Guidance• Sustainability West Midlands produced a

review of adaptation tools

• BACLIAT tool customised for health

• SWIMS

• UK and Regional CCRA’s

• Climate Ready Support Service

• Climate Local

• NI 188 Risk Assessment Process

• TCPA – Planning for Climate Change -guidance for local authorities

Thank you

Jodie Davis

[email protected]

01392 352230

Stronger Resource Efficiency for Desirable Communities

Local Authority Asset Stewardship and Resilience Building for Green and Prosperous Communities and Economies

APSE Special 1/2 Day Launch EventPortcullis House, LondonThursday 18th April

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