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An Introduction to the Green Audit

George Beechener and James Fulford

Eunomia Research and Consulting

20th May 2020

Agenda

1. What is the Green Audit?

2. What are the benefits of the Green

Audit?

3. What falls within scope of the Green

Audit?

4. Where are we now?

5. What might the outcomes be?

1. What is the Green Audit?

The Green Audit is seeking to deliver 4 key

outcomes:

1. Baseline

Carbon

Footprint for

the Redbridge

Estate and

Operations

2. Spreadsheet

for calculating

emissions in

future years

3. High-level

assessment of

emission

reduction

opportunities

with

approximate

costs

4. Initial

assessment of

opportunities

for local

carbon

offsetting

2. What are the benefits of the Green

Audit?

✓Understanding of the emission hot-spots

in the Council

✓Evidence base to communicate to

residents and stakeholders

✓Ability to monitor emissions in future

years

✓Direction setting for emission reduction

strategy

3. What falls within scope of the Green

Audit?

SCOPE 1

SCOPE 2

SCOPE 3

Social

housing

On-site fuel (corporate

and Vision estate)

Fleet vehicles

Space cooling

Electricity

Business

travel

Waste Water

Commuting

Road

maintenance

Street

lighting

Cleaning

Investments

Some may fall out

Office

Supplies

IT equipment

Bulk mail

3. What falls within scope of the Green

Audit?

Direct Control

Indirect Control

Influence

4. Where are we now? The baseline

footprint

1. For each element

of the footprint

boundary….

2. …Source ‘activity’

data….

Possible formats:

- Physical purchase

records

- Procurement spend

- Informed estimations

3. …Identify Carbon

Factors and multiply with

activity data.

Possible formats:

- Government GHG

factors for company

reporting

- 3rd party specialist

factors

- Supplier information

- Financial spend factors

e.g. If a vehicle consumes 500 litres of petrol a year, the

footprint calculation is:

500litres x 2.59411KgCO2e per litre = 1.3 tonnes CO2e

5. What might the outcomes be?

• Example actions identified for other public bodies (council estate/operations):

• Retrofit housing stock, e.g. draft stripping, insulation, energy management systems

• Green electricity – green tariff or installing generation capacity

• Low carbon heating, e.g. electrifying heating

• Electrification of fleet

• Incentivise active travel for employees

• Reviewing waste management processes

• Enhancing procurement practices to include sustainability indicators and requirements

Examples

Nottingham City Council:

Electric Vehicle Roll Out

• Goal of converting 22% of

fleet to Ultra Low Emission

Vehicles by 2022

• Have achieved 50 ULEVs,

including electric street

sweepers, cars and vans

South Cambridgeshire District Council: Building Upgrade Measures

• £1.9 million pledged to greening offices

• Measures include solar carport, ground-source heat pump, office LED lighting, renewing building energy management system

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Overview of Call For Ideas• Proposals across various themes• Encouraging resident participation

Feedback on Set Redbridge’s Carbon Footprint• How did you find the tool?• Any proposals or themes missing?• Sufficient points to spend?• Promotion

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