Transcript Ecological Footprint of Pollutants Exploring a Methodology

Ecological Footprints
and SCP
John Barrett
Stockholm Environment Institute
Sustainable Consumption and Production Programme
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• 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
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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
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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?
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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
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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 sociodemographic 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
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CO2 emissions per capita in one year [t/cap] .
Carbon Dioxide Analysis
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10.3
11.5
14.5
11.3
Producer
responsibility
(territorial
emissions)
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6
Consumer
responsibility
4
2
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UK
Wales
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for which consumers are responsible.
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Food and
Drink
Energy
Capital
Investment
Consumables
and waste
Travel
Government
Services
Holiday
Activities
Housing
gha./cap
Breakdown of the Ecological Footprint of UK
1.60
1.40
1.20
1.00
0.80
0.60
0.40
0.20
Transport Ecological Footprint
0.50
0.45
0.40
0.30
0.25
0.20
0.15
0.10
0.05
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Car
Rail
Van / Lorry
Local Bus
Taxi
Non Local
Bus
Other Public
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Motorcycle
gha./cap
0.35
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Shopping
Commuting
Escort
Visiting
Friends
Personal
Business
Sport and
Entertainment
Business
Eductaion and
Escort
Holidays and
Day tripd
gha./cap
Car Footprint by Purpose
0.10
0.09
0.08
0.07
0.06
0.05
0.04
0.03
0.02
0.01
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EF results for Selected Local Areas
UK
Food and Drink
Energy
Travel
Housing
Consumables and waste
Barking
Services
Holiday Activities
Capital Investment
Government
Keningston
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2.00
4.00
6.00
8.00
gha./ cap
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Ecological Footprint (gha)
Transportation in Hertfordshire
1.4
1.2
1.0
0.8
Aviation
0.6
Public Transport
0.4
Private transport
0.2
0.0
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Group Description
Holidays
Transport
Group Description
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Wealthy Achievers,
Suburban Areas
10
Skilled workers, home
0.5
0.8
owning areas
2
Affluent Greys, Rural
Communities
11
New Home Owners,
Mature Communities
0.4
0.4
0.7
0.6
0.3
Prosperous Pensioners,
Retirement Areas
12
White collar workers,
0.5
better off multi-ethnic
0.3
areas
0.4
4
Affluent Executives,
Family Areas
13
Older people, less
0.3
prosperous areas
0.2
5
Well-off workers, family
areas
14
0.1
Council Estate0.2
Residents,
Better-off homes
EF/cap.
EF/cap.
3
0.2
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Minimum
Minimum
Maximum
Maximum
Average
Average
17
17
16
16
15
15
Comfortable middle
agers, mature home
owning areas
14
14
9
13
13
Multi-Ethnic, low income
areas
12
12
17
11
11
Better-off executive,
inner city areas
10
10
8
99
Council estate residents,
greatest hardship
88
16
77
Prosperous
Professionals,
Metropolitan areas
66
7
55
Council estate -residents,
high unemployment
44
15
2
2
Affluent Urbanites,
Town and City Areas
1
1
6
3
3
0.1
0.1
Sustainable Diets
Diet Com position
1.4
Cereals
Confectionary
1.2
Ecological Footprint (gha)
Beverages
Bread
1
Fruit
Vegetables
0.8
Sugar & Preserves
0.6
Fats & Oils
Eggs
0.4
Fish
0.2
Meat
Cheese
0
DEWI
GARETH
PATRICK
Milk & Cream
Diet Scenarios
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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
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Sustainable Living
Transport
Food
Holidays
Energy
Water
Services
4.50
4.00
Building a House
Consumables
3.50
EF/cap.
3.00
2.50
2.00
1.50
1.00
0.50
Typical UK
New 2002
EcoHomes
Exc.
BedZED
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Keen BedZED
York EF Projections and Target
York Target – Reduce the EF to 3.5 gha/capita by 2033
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Other Applications
• Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Community Regeneration
• Sustainable Procurement
• Behavioural Change
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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
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Resources and Energy Analysis Programme
Developed under “Eco-Budget UK” Project
Released around March
Being tested in Scotland
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