Green Summit pre-workshop – building a zero carbon

Transcript:Green Summit pre-workshop – building a zero carbon:
Green Summit pre-workshop – building a zero carbon city-region Synergistic pathways for collaboration & learning (work in progress on the GM Mini-Lab) Joe Ravetz Centre for Urban Resilience & Energy University of Manchester www.urban3.net Questions: low carbon governance is firstly about CARBON MAPPING: Fossil fuel extraction & fugitive emissions Aviation CO2 & other radiative forcing Inbound marine shipping: direct & embodied CO2 Outbound marine shipping: direct & embodied CO2 Fossil fuel reserves extracted Carbon capture & storage in fossil fuel formations Carbon long term storage in buildings, urban infrastructure, durable products. CO2 sequestered in forestry, soil & land Domestic building in/direct CO2 & supply chain Agriculture CO2 & other GHG Commercial in/direct CO2 & downstream climate responsibility Waste stream GHG & embodied CO2 emissions Industrial production & distribution in/direct CO2 Urban transport / infrastructure in/direct CO2 Energy conversion & distribution system Global atmospheric / oceanic carbon storage & climate system What - where – who – how – when - how much?? Alternative system boundaries: regional / urban / local We need to put together the many interests involved – design and construction, finance and business, science and technology, communities and cultures, social innovation, and joined up governance. Progress on retrofit depends on the linkage between costs and benefits (many investments are difficult as the benefits are not easily returned (both direct savings & wider social / environmental values The cost-benefit balance is not only an abstract calculation: it’s about the relations between different ‘actors’ (stakeholders’): e.g. government, public services, businesses, property owners, builders, utilities, residents (owners or tenants), etc. schemes which looked good on paper, such as the Green Deal, failed (with some exceptions) in the real world. The synergistic approach starts with these relations. It looks for chains or loops of value-added (i.e. ‘value-chains’) which depend on these relations and collaborations, between different parts of economy and society. Then it measures things which can be measured (e.g. money or CO2): and it evaluates things which are best evaluated (e.g. social well-being). A ‘synergistic pathway’ is a set of coordinated ‘value-chains’, with a phased plan of action and collaboration. With this we can get beyond the usual barriers to progress (organization inertia, myopic business, split incentives etc). INTEGRATED VALUE-CHAINS & SYNERGISTIC PATHWAYS EXAMPLE SERVICE MODEL / VALUE-CHAIN: KIRKLEES WARM ZONE ACTOR MAPPING Webber, P., Gouldson, A. & Kerr, N. (2015). The impacts of household retrofit and domestic energy efficiency