Transcript Strategic Solutions for Resource Efficiency Dr Gavin Bunting Swansea University / Technium

Strategic Solutions for
Resource Efficiency
Dr Gavin Bunting
Swansea University / Technium
GIN Conference, Cardiff
2 July 2006
Presentation Summary
• Resource Efficiency
• Expert Panel on Resources Management (EPRM)
o
Terms of Reference
o
Work Structure
o
Biggest Impact Areas
• Strategic Solutions
• Smarter Support
Resource Efficiency
• In 2002, organisations within Wales accounted for 53% of Wales’
energy consumption and 60-80% of waste.
‘the efficient use of materials or energy throughout the product or
• Energy efficiency is cost
effective:
rates of return around 15%
process
lifecycle’.
• Potential to reduce non-domestic emissions by around 20%
• UK businesses lose up to 4.5% of annual turnover every year
through avoidable waste
Expert Panel on Resources
Management
Terms of Reference
‘Providing well-informed policy and independent evaluation of
business and environment support in Wales’
The Expert Panel is tasked with:
Advising the Welsh Assembly Government on resource
management current and likely future business best practice.


Comment on progress of the implementation of BEAP.
Advise the Welsh Assembly Government on the formal
evaluation of BEAP.

Advise the Welsh Assembly Government on the development
of further phases of BEAP.

Work Structure
• Identified Materials & Energy as key themes
• Communications critical in delivery
Resources
management
Materials
Delivery
Energy
Communications
Biggest Impact Areas
ENERGY
MATERIALS
• Energy Efficiency
• Eco-design
• Microgeneration
• Reducing and re-using
• Construction
• Recycling
• Transport
• Construction
The strategic solutions can significantly influence all of the
above areas
Strategic Solutions
Strategic Solutions
Energy
Materials
Hard & Soft Infrastructure
Public Sector Lead
Smarter Support
KPI
Grant eligibility
Training and education
Commercial Opportunities
R&D
These solutions apply to:
ORGANISATIONS
Building
People
Transport
Products/services
Finance
Strategic Solutions
HARD AND SOFT INFRASTRUCTURE
To provide the necessary resources that will allow organisations to
become more resource efficient. These need to be easily accessible
and provided in an integrated, co-ordinated, non-exclusive manner.
• For resource efficiency to be adopted a suitable infrastructure needs to
be in place
• Recycling networks
• Business support and public sector policy or finance
Strategic Solutions
PUBLIC SECTOR LEAD
• The public sector in Wales has a procurement budget of £4bn which
accounts for 11% of Wales’s GDP
• This spending power has the ability to shape markets
• The public sector can demonstrate best practice
• Public sector services to be better value for money
• Long term targets by the public sector will lead to long term demand
Strategic Solutions
SMARTER SUPPORT
The support and measures provided to encourage better resource
efficiency within organisations in Wales, must be easily accessible,
relevant, sector specific and good value for money. In order to achieve
this, an integrated, coherent approach is needed.
• A support system that helps organisations in Wales become
increasingly resource efficient.
• Regulation and financial incentives that encourage resource efficiency
• The engagement of the private sector
• Effective, innovative and good value support programmes
Strategic Solutions
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR (KPI)
A KPI is required to measure the progress of the organisation and the
success of the organisational support providers (OSPs), in implementing
better resource efficiency.
• Make measurement of resource use easy and common-place
• Report against climate change targets;
• Raise awareness of each organisation’s resource-burden; and
• Highlight areas for greater efficiency
Strategic Solutions
GRANT ELIGIBILITY
Drivers are needed to persuade organisations to consider their resource
efficiency and adopt a policy of continual improvement. The public
sector can maximise implementation of resource efficiency measures in
the terms and conditions of their grants.
• To use grant-funding as an incentive for organisations in Wales to
measure and continuously improve their resource efficiency.
Strategic Solutions
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
• Give Welsh organisations a positive global reputation in the provision
and use of resource efficiency measures.
• Increase the skills base
• Provide the knowledge required for innovation
• Raise the awareness of the national population of the positive financial
& quality of life implications of resource efficiency.
•Drive improvements in resource efficiency through consumer pressure.
• Raise the awareness of the positive economic impacts of resource
efficiency and promote voluntary adoption of the measures to achieve
this.
Strategic Solutions
COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Organisations need to be made aware of the commercial opportunities
available in enabling organisations to become more resource efficient,
and the benefits of locating / starting-up their organisation within Wales.
• Make businesses aware and able to take advantage of the positive
opportunities that providing resource efficiency products or services can
bring.
• Make Wales the foremost provider of products or services that
enhance resource efficiency.
• Provide businesses with resource efficient products or services
sourced from within Wales
Strategic Solutions
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
R&D is needed to identify more efficient technologies, methods or
practices, as well as maximising the commercial viability of current
technologies in the field of resources management.
• Promote innovation and a vibrant economy around the technologies
and processes that relate to resource efficiency
• Foster the next generation of technologies or processes that will help
organisations in Wales, and globally, be more resource efficient.
• Provide the knowledge required for innovation in the field of resource
efficiency
Smarter Support
Barriers to Smarter Support
• Current business support infrastructure is complex
• Confusion within the private sector of who to seek advice from.
• 48% of businesses want more help to deal with environmental issues
• Businesses are most likely to contact their local authority for guidance
on environmental issues.
• The UK Government Sustainable Consumption & Production review
recommended:
“that options be explored to provide programme networking, to share
information and promote closer working between the various support
programmes…..”
Barriers to Smarter Support
Federation of Small Businesses Membership Survey 2006
14
12
% Aware of Initiatives
10
8
6
4
2
0
Carbon Envirowise
Envirowi WRAP
Trust
se
Waste
min.
clubs
Netregs
BREW
Smarter Support
‘the support and measures provided to encourage
better resource efficiency within organisations in
Wales, must be easily accessible, relevant, sector
specific and good value for money. In order to achieve
this, an integrated, coherent approach is needed’
Smarter Support
Funding
Network
Strategy
Data
Resource
Efficiency
Positive economic impacts
Organisations
Smarter Support
FUNDING
• Grants dictate targets and areas of focus
• Coordination between funders needed to achieve coordination &
eliminate duplication.
• Identifying projects where OSPs can collaborate to access funds
• Funding bodies would need consistent, reliable data on:
o the priorities of other funding bodies,
o the OSPs already being funded and their targets,
o the expertise of the OSPs and
o the needs of the client organisations
Smarter Support
STRATEGY
• Responsibility for organisational support is split between WAG depts.
• A single cross-departmental strategy could help lead to:
o Consistent provision of organisational support across depts
o Focus for expenditure as mentioned above.
Smarter Support
DATABASE
a) Information for funders / administrators and auditors
 Targeting funding and strategy
 Provide a good baseline for monitoring success
b) Information for organisations / OSPs
 Tool for organisations looking for advice
 Aid signposting of organisations
 Support the successful operation of client management
systems by the OSPs.
Smarter Support
DATABASE
c) Resource efficiency information for organisations
The cost of technologies / measures to increase resource efficiency
is a perceived barrier often cited by organisations
Consistent evidence based data including:
 Pros and cons, including payback periods, for resource
efficiency technologies
 The economic impact of resource efficiency
 Best practice guides
 Legislation / Strategy
Smarter Support
Private Sector
Coordinated
supply of services
/ technologies
Potential for
Collaboration
Network / Forum
Supply
matching
Demand
ID of Commercial
Opportunities
Public Sector /
OSPs /
Academia
Joint Initiatives
Share Best
Practice
Communication and Engagement
Smarter Support
Sector specific advice
Organisations want to know what is relevant to them with regards to resource efficiency
Retail
Hotel and Catering
Education
Commercial Offices
Warehouses
Government
Health
Sport and Leisure
Communication and Transport
Other
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
Thousand tonnes of oil equivalent
Catering
Computing
Cooling ventilation
Hot water
Heating
Lighting
Other
Smarter Support
Positive economic benefits
• How does resource efficiency affect the bottom line?
• This is the basis of BEAP
• What commercial opportunities are available?
o Environmental Goods and Services sector was predicted to
increase from $550bn a year in 2002 to $688bn in 2010.
o First mover advantage in this sector is considerable
• These MORI survey, which showed that businesses have manpower
and skills at the top of their agenda, followed by competitiveness.
Smarter Support
Regulation / incentives
• Incentives:
o Useful short-term measure to support young markets where
economies of scale have not been reached.
• Regulation:
o Correct market failures, promoting fairness and increasing
competition
o Create a level playing field and ultimately behavioural change
o Key to building EGS market – Carbon Trading
Summary
Energy
Materials
Hard & Soft Infrastructure
Public Sector Lead
Smarter Support
KPI
Grant eligibility
Training and education
Commercial Opportunities
R&D
These solutions apply to:
ORGANISATIONS
Building
People
Transport
Products/services
Finance
Summary
Funding
Network
Strategy
Data
Resource
Efficiency
Positive economic impacts
Organisations
Effective Communication is Vital
Thank you for your time