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Climate Change Update

Joan McGarvey Senior Policy Officer TELS

Climate Change – Our Strategy

• 2008-2015
• Mitigation and adaptation
• Three levels:
• Putting our own house in order
• Service delivery
• Leader in the community

Mitigation

• Cutting emissions
• Reducing waste
• Being more energy efficient
• Being prepared to change
• Investing in better technology and renewable sources of energy

Adaptation

• Flood prevention
• Protecting vulnerable people from heat waves
• Building design and planning
• Greening the borough

Carbon Management Plan

• Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea selected in May

2008, amidst strong competition, to take part in ambitious carbon management programme.

• Partnered with the Carbon Trust
• Target of reducing CO2 by 40% by 2014
• Savings about 9.3Kt of carbon dioxide and potential savings to

the council of at least £1.4 million per year (depending on energy price fluctuations) identified

Council’s carbon emissions

Council Buildings 44.2% Contractors 13.8% Schools 22.1% Street Lighting 14.5% Transport 0.8% Water 0.2% Waste 1.8% Figure 2: RBKC CO2 Emissions 2007/08

Carbon Management Plan

Preparation started in May 2008 and was made up of four steps:

• 1. Mobilisation of the organisation
• 2. Setting of baseline data and targets
• 3. Identifying and quantifying carbon reduction options
• 4. Finalising the strategy and implementation of the plan

Carbon Management Plan

• Implementation of the plan began on 1 April 2009
• Quantified projects in the plan represent a 22 % reduction in

carbon emissions

• Of this, about 27.2% of the savings will be from M&E

improvements at Kensington Town Hall

• Staff behavioural changes can achieve 28.5% of the savings
• Decommissioning of up to 6 buildings will result in 26%

reductions

• Virtualisation of servers can achieve a 5% saving

More savings to be made

• Still 18% carbon savings to find.

Need to identify new initiatives and test the feasibility and cost effectiveness of squeezing more carbon reductions from existing plans.

• Further investigations on:

Improving glazing/cavity wall insulation of KTH Support for schools to help with carbon reductions Work with contractors

Completed projects

• Decommissioning of offices – Young Street and Allen Street

170 tonnes of CO2 saved

• Improvements to street lighting use of more energy efficient lamps

262 tonnes of CO2 saved

• Energy efficient lighting at Holland Park Theatre – reducing the energy

consumed by 66% over a 5 year period.

Projects in progress

• Implementation of the Green IT Strategy – for example

server virtualisation and Networked Attached Storage (NAS) (saving 40t CO2 pa); turning off PCs overnight, at weekends and during holiday periods – (30t CO2)

• Green Champions Network –

costed staff time, aiming to recruit 50 staff

• Behavioural Change project – developing a bid for funding for a 2/3

year programme to help staff do things differently

• Carbon Standard application – to help us with Carbon Reduction

Commitment - first assessment meeting was in June 09

• Individual carbon reduction targets for staff
• Green Development Guide – working towards turning this into

Supplementary Planning Guidance

Proposed Projects - funded

• Continuation of server virtualisation (250 tonnes)
• Boiler Replacement – Chelsea Leisure Centre (90 tonnes)
• Car User Review (70 tonnes)
• Replacing Pest Control vans with electric bikes – already being tested

(0.7 tonnes)

• Energy efficient lighting in road signs (9.2 tonnes)
• Energy efficient measures at the Stable block in Holland Park (14

tonnes)

• Implementation of SPACE programme

Proposed Projects – unfunded

• Voltage optimisation at a range of sites
• Energy efficient lighting bollards and photocell control of bollards and

signs

• Swimming pool covers – physical and liquid
• Central PC switch off
• Energy efficiency measures at other buildings