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Sustainability in the MOD
IEMA Conference 2011
Dr Jon Freeman
Sustainable Procurement Strategy
If nothing else…
…sustainability must be MATERIAL to your
business.
So…how is sustainability material to the MOD?
Structure of the presentation
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MOD context
Greening Government Commitments
Sustainable procurement in Defence
Operational energy
Critical materials
MOD Context
• Defence has two high-level outputs:
– Defence policy
– Military capability
• 2009/10 Defence spending was £39 bn
• 178,000 personnel in Armed Forces (April 2010)
• 86,000 civil servants (April 2010)
• Significant reductions in personnel over the next few years
– Aim to reduce civil servants by 25,000 by 2015
– Aim to reduce military by 17,000 by 2015
• Significant budgetary pressure
• So…what does sustainability mean for this particular
organisation?
Sustainability context for the MOD
• MOD manages ~1% of UK land area, ~40,000 buildings, ~170
SSSIs
• Emits slightly less than 1% of UK greenhouse gases
– 4.7 million tonnes (2009/10)
• Strategic Defence and Security Review (2010) highlighted
concerns about energy and materials security
• SD Strategy published in 2011
• MOD has already significantly reduced its impact on the
environment
Greening Government Commitments
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By 2015:
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from a 09/10 baseline from the
whole estate and business related transport
Reduce waste by 25% from a 2009/10 baseline
Reduce water consumption from a 2009/10 baseline, and report on office water
use against best practice benchmarks
• Ensure government buys more sustainable and efficient products
and engages with its suppliers to understand and reduce the
impacts of its supply chain
– Embed Government Buying Standards in procurement
contracts
– Improve and publish data on our supply chain impacts,
initially focussing on carbon, but also water and waste –
setting detailed baselines for reducing these impacts
Sustainable Procurement for Defence
• Embedding sustainability in commercial processes and relations
with industry
• Challenge – teams need to think about what sustainability means
for them…can be hard work!
• Sustainable Procurement Assessment of Risk
– Tool that is available on the Acquisition Operating Framework
www.aof.mod.uk
• Operational Energy
• Critical materials inc. REACH
Energy in theatre
Operational Energy
• 1.3 billion litres of fuel (2010/11) at a cost of ~£600 million
• Challenge of getting an accurate baseline
• Reducing fuel helps costs, operational effectiveness and energy
security
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Operational energy – what is the MOD doing?
• Developing an operational strategy to reduce our reliance on
fossil fuel
• Certifying synthetic fuels for use aircraft
• Research with Dstl
• PowerFOB trial in Cyprus July 2011
– Intelligent power management
– Low power accommodation (esp. shelter insulation)
– Micro-power
• Future challenges – the power for our future equipment
Energy research at Dstl
Objectives:
• To understand the supply, demand and vulnerability to operational
energy supply;
• To identify energy technologies that could be matured for exploitation
in defence;
• To identify new ways of using capabilities through-life that reduces the
energy used to deliver operational effect;
• To assist in developing energy requirements and assessment criteria
for capability acquisition
PowerFOB
Intelligent Power Management
Generator
Management
Demand
Management
Energy
Storage
Management of
in-service
generators to
work with
storage or
renewable
power solutions
Controlling the
power demands
in a base
through
scheduling and
shedding
Capturing
‘spare’ power
produced by
generators or
renewables to
use when
needed
Power Architecture
Renewables
Integration
Integrating the
power from
wind or solar
solutions into
the base-wide
network
Critical materials
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Scarcity of natural resources much discussed in the media
The effects of REACH…scarcity through legislation
Does this affect defence and, if so, what should we do about it?
Potential benefits – cost, operational effectiveness, materials
security
• Working with industry is important as we need to understand
what materials are in the MOD supply chain
Critical Materials – research objectives
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To understand the supply and defence demand for certain
critical materials
To understand the vulnerabilities of MOD capabilities to
shortages of supply in certain critical materials
To identify and, where appropriate, classify possible
sustainable alternative materials
Summary
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MOD “mainstreaming” sustainable development in its management
processes and has had some successes in reducing our impact on the
environment
As complexity increases (e.g. systems, legislation etc) it gets harder to
be sustainable and to manage risks. We must, wherever possible,
make sustainability the easy option – need to develop tools and training
that help our staff work out what sustainability means for them
Energy and materials challenges are particularly important sustainability
issues in the procurement of military capability. We are using research
to help us develop the tools and options to address these
Further information:
Jon Freeman
Sustainable Procurement Strategy
[email protected]