Helen Northmore

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• Helen Northmore
• Head, Energy Saving Trust Wales

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Why develop Low Carbon Citizens?

• To identify the scale of the challenge in
  meeting
• the 3 target
• To identify the biggest potential carbon savings
  
• in Wales from personal emissions
• To help EST develop its strategy and focus in
• Wales
• To feed into the Climate Change Strategy and
• Welsh Assembly Government policy

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The 3 target

• The 3 target 37 MtCO2e / year (?)
• Agriculture
• Public sector
• Residential sector (direct emissions and
  electricity use)
• Transport
• Waste management
• Industry and business (direct emissions not
  covered by EU Emissions Trading Scheme and most
  electricity use)
• Personal emissions - 13.6 MtCO2e / year
• A third of emissions likely to be included in the
  3 target

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Questions

• What is the potential for reducing personal
  emissions?
• How does it relate to a 3 reduction?
• How can we meet the potential?
• What will we do?
• What do we need support from WAG to do?
• What should the Assembly Government do?
• What does the UK Government need to do?

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Personal emissions
13.6 MtCO2e / year

• 3 - 0.41 MtCO2e / year, each year
• CERT in Wales 0.09 MtCO2 / year, each year

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Important note on figures

• Cannot be added together
• Cannot assume will be met in full
• Further modelling recommended

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Potential for cutting personal emissions

• Help to make positive choices
• Energy saving homes
• Product choices
• Water
• Energy choices
• Travel
• Less waste

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Help to make positive choices
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Help to make positive choices examples of how
we think we can make it happen

• Energy Saving Trust advice and tailored
  messages
• WAG regular policy updates, ensure co-ordinated
  and streamlined advice provision where possible
• UK Government smart meters

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Energy saving homes
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Energy saving homes examples of how we
think we can make it happen

• Energy Saving Trust advice for your home,
  technical advice for building professionals,
  convergence funding opportunities
• Working with WAG build on HEED, bring CESP
  projects into Wales
• WAG 80 by 2050 strategy, network of exemplars
• UK Government Heat and Energy Saving Strategy

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Product choices
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Product choices - examples of
how we think we can make it happen

• Energy Saving Trust Energy Saving Recommended,
  CERT offers, buying choices
• WAG boiler replacement
• UK Government work with EU on minimum standards

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Efficient transport
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Efficient transport - examples of
how we think we can make it happen

• Energy Saving Trust advice, buying choices,
  Green Fleet Review
• WAG targets, framework for low carbon travel
• UK Government work with EU on improved
  labelling and penalties to support 2020 target

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Energy choices
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Energy choices - examples of
how we think we can make it happen

• Energy Saving Trust more detailed advice
• With WAG Community Scale Generation Programme
• WAG planning, regeneration
• UK Government Feed In Tariff and Renewable Heat
  Incentives, Low Carbon Building Programme

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Food waste
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Waste

• Energy Saving Trust advice, focus on most
  potential, build knowledge
• WAG consistent facilities

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Water

• Inefficient use of hot water can waste us much
  energy as inefficient homes
• Energy Saving Trust research the impact, pilot
  advice
• With support from WAG marketing campaigns,
  availability of products
• WAG water efficiency strategy

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The big picture significant potential
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Basics for achieving the potential

• Robust policy framework
• Sectoral targets based on potential
• Citizens as the centre of climate change strategy
• Effective political leadership and reallocation
  of resources
• Benefits for people, communities and economy of
  Wales
• Now is the time to stop talking and start doing

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Thank you!
Reports available electronically
at www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/ lowcarboncitizen
swales Hard copies available Contact Helen
Northmore 02920 468340 Helen.northmore_at_est.org.uk
Dilys Howells 02920 475958 dilys.howells_at_est.org
.uk
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Welsh Assembly Government Climate Change Strategy
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Climate Change Strategy

• We welcome
• Having a strategy mapping existing work across
  government
• That the Strategy is a living document, and we
  all need to contribute our activities and impacts
  
• The emphasis on area based approaches
• The recognition of the importance of behaviour
  change
• Proposals to develop a loan scheme for
  able-to-pay households
• The wide range of proposals for supporting
  community action

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Climate Change Strategy

• What we would like to see more of
• Role of regulation
• Proof of step change
• Role of Local Authorities
• Proposals to tackle transport emissions
• Proposals to tackle water efficiency

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Questions?