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David Somervell, Sustainability Adviser, University of Edinburgh Estates & BuildingsTel 0131 650 2073 [email protected]
Energy & Sustainability Office www.eso.ed.ac.uk Transport & Parking Office www.transport.ed.ac.uk
Quick WinsUniversities and Colleges Climate Commitment
Context for the Commitment
• Climate Change and Peak Oil
• Stern et al: We need to invest now
• What’s needed?
• Energy Efficiency / CO2 Strategy
• Waste Reduction / Resource Mgt
• Risk Management
Global Energy Consumption 1860-2000
Climate Change: happening NOW
Source: UN IPCC TAR 2001
Rising atmospheric temperature
Rising sea level
Reductions in North Hemisphere
snow cover
“Global Warming is Unequivocal”
Source: UN IPCC AR4 2007
Summer melt descending into a moulin - a vertical shaftcarrying water to ice sheet base
Source: Roger Braithwaite, University of Manchester
Surface Meltwater on
Greenland Icecap
Extreme droughts will plague sub-Saharan Africa. Children stand behind one of thousands of livestock that died from thirst in southern Ethiopia. [REUTERS March 2006]
Fuel Scarcity / Energy In-Security
Faced with Climate Change and Peak Oil – what’s needed?
6 Metering, Monitoring and Targeting utilities consumption
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Pre Campaign Post Launch Potential Savings
6 Seek help with your Carbon Management Programme
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• Higher Education Carbon Management (HECM)
• Carbon Management Lite
• Low Carbon Consultants
• Staff and students within your institution
4 Adopt a formal Carbon Reduction Policy
“The University aims to reduce CO2 emissions 40% by 2010”
- Utilities Policy 2003
www.eso.ed.ac.uk/energy
5 Controlling the Building Energy Management Systems …
6 Find the money to pay for the Carbon Management work
Bid for funds in house + keep an ear to the ground: – Defra / EST Community Energy programme– EST Local Energy Efficiency Advice Centres– Low Carbon Building Programme (LCBP)– EST Transport Energy Consultancy Support– Carbon Trust SSA / SSM / CHP / DA / HECM / CML– Salix Finance for Public Sector Organisations– Scottish Biomass Support Scheme– Sustrans Local Cycling Infrastructure Funds– Regional Development Agencies
• Campaign Website• Newsletter• The Bulletin• Posters/Stickers• Thermometers• Coasters/Drip Mats
Download our materials from www.eso.ed.ac.uk/energy
7 Raise awareness of energy cost and consumption with all users