Climate Change – The Local Context Thurstan Crockett Head of Sustainability

1. Climate Change – The Local Context Thurstan Crockett Head of Sustainability thurstan.crockett@brighton-hove.gov.uk

3. Existing targets & commitments Known data re city performance Previous consultation responses Perceived strengths Adaptation & Resilience Headlines

4. Community Strategy – 3.5% cut per year to 2008/9 and 2020 (based on Kyoto) Council: 20% from 2005/6 by 2011/2 & initially 5% from its own renewables by April 2012 Nottingham Declaration – contribute to UK targets, prepare a plan declare significant CO2 reduction target encourage all sections of the community to do so assess impacts with key service providers and ID adaptation needs provide opportunities for renewables monitor progress. Targets, commitments

5. AEA Energy & Environment – formerly Netcen, for Defra & Audit Commission: Quality of Life Indicators / Area Profiles 2003 & 2004 Stockholm Environment Institute / WWF (2006) Now: Per capita reduction in CO2 emissions in council area (2005 baseline) – ONS Plus Adapting to climate change – LA process Flood Risk: 80% of actions - Environment Agency Daily domestic water use (PCC) – Ofwat/EA Cycle trips, traffic levels, bus journeys - LA Data - sources

6. Percentage for the UK Domestic 29% Industrial & Commercial 46% Road Transport 23% Land Use Changes 2% Total Kt carbon 661 456 254 2 1373 Percentage 48% 33% 18% <1% Brighton & Hove South East Average UK Average Per capita CO2 (tonnes) 5.5 8.8 n/a Domestic per capita CO2 (tonnes) 2.6 2.8 2.8 City performance 2003 (Netcen)

7. 2004 Netcen data - similar Domestic Comm. Transp. Land Use Total Kt carbon : 604 448 246 2 1300 % 46% 34% 19% <1% UK% 29% 47% 24% <1% Domestic Per capita emissions: 2.4 tonnes

8. Food Transport Housing Consumables Services Public Services Other Total 1 tonne per capita 3.26 t/ca 4.31 t/ca 2.06 t/ca 1.48 t/ca 0.93 t/ca 0.68 t/ca 13.74 t/ca WWF/SEI data

10. Water consumption

11. No reliable baseline (est. 1mw) Problems in data collection: planning, installers, networks Merton Rule has put some in the pipeline Data gap locally Renewables/CHP

12. a) Overall energy efficiency improvement identified 29.8% b) Number of years to implement the measures identified 15 years c) Total cost of implementation of all measures £133,653,000 d) CO2 reduction per annum as a result of all the measures identified 230,242 tonnes Fuel Poverty - HECA stats 05/06

13. Detailed response from the city’s business community. Good start but…. Too internal, lacked buy in, and vision e.g. “renewable energy city” No priorities, few targets or timescales Hard to measure Not enough focus on enabling Waste & Water (strategies/plans separate) Previous CCAP consultation

14. Pockets of strong commitment and action (e.g. Universities, L&G, Sussex Police, EDF, Council, Community Base) Groundswell of community concern and campaigning Increasingly strong planning policies Great people in the city to work on this Perceived strengths

15. Inadequate treatment in CCAP Strong feature of new planning process Coastal defence / Emergency Planning / Business Continuity/ Facilities managers Integrated or separate? Adaptation/resilience

16. Organised on behalf of the Sussex Resilience Forum by Brighton and Hove City Council “A month’s rain falls in Sussex in one day” • Kim Ryley, Chief Executive of Hull City Council • ·Steve Ackland, Assistant Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Police • Sarah Davies, Meteorologist • AND HEATHER AGAIN! “How would we cope should it happen here?” Tuesday 20th November 2007 at The Corn Exchange, Church Street, Brighton BN1 1EE