Environmental Legislation &Market Update•••

Dr. Wendy Buckley
Client Director
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Who is it?

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Thursday Night - Brexit

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Environment Bill
• Office for Environmental Protection– Will be based in Bristol with 120 staff– Will not have same power to hold Gov toaccount• Deadline for setting legally binding targets 31October 2022
•The government will then have 15 years to meetthe goals.

•This means no legal action could be taken against
ministers until 2037

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The UK’s contribution to stopping
global warming
Outlines that the UK should legislate as soon as possible to reach net
zero Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2050

This would (if legislated) go beyond the current legislated target
under the Climate Change Act 2008 of an 80% reduction in GHG’s by
2050 (on 1990 levels). It should be noted that this varies as below:• England – Net zero by 2050
• Scotland – Net zero by 2045
• Wales – 95% reduction by 2050

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Reducing UK Emissions - 2019 Progress
Report•UK has achieved a 42% reduction since 1990
– mostly due to electricity and reduced
manufacturing•Emissions from transport has gone up since2013– Now highest emitting sector– 2018 was first year to show reduction (2%)•Homes are another significant area ofunachieved reductions– Unclear as to how Gov will achieve 2035 target for
all houses to be EPC band C

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Reducing UK Emissions - 2019 ProgressReport
Projected progress.
The Government's own projections
demonstrate that its policies and plans are
insufficient to meet the fourth or fifth carbon
budgets (covering 2023-2027 and 2028-2032).

This policy gap has widened in the last year as
an increase in the projection of future
emissions outweighed the impact of newpolicies.
Current policies need to be taken forward
and future policies needs to be more
ambitious.
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How are Businesses Setting their Targets?

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EU Withdrawal Act 2018 StatutoryInstruments
The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 gives Ministers widepowers to make Regulations to deal with the deficiencies in retained
EU law which will result from the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
• There are over 130 confirmed (EU Exit) Statutory Instruments thatwill come into force on ‘exit day’
• Designed to provide a degree of assurance and certainty toorganisations that legislation will continue – particularly important
as a lot of these are linked to funding/fees• These EU Exit SI’s are for legislation that is derived from EU
Directives (i.e. doesn’t include domestic Statutory Instruments)
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EU Withdrawal Act 2018 StatutoryInstruments
Themes:✓ Vehicles✓ Electricity Production✓ Shipping✓ Planning Controls✓ Energy Efficiency✓ Air Quality✓ Renewables✓ Wildlife Protection
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UK Air Quality Update• Tyneside councils will miss the government’s deadline to finalise plans for cutting illegal
levels of air pollution for a third time.
• European Environment Agency’s Air Quality in Europe 2019 report shows little progress has
been made across Europe• The government has confirmed that it plans to introduce legally binding targets for air
pollution – as part of the long-awaited Environment Bill targets

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Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme(ESOS) – Upcoming Deadline!
✓ Applies to ‘large undertaking’ (>250 employees OR £44.8 million annualturnover and balance sheet of £38.6 million)✓ The deadline for the second compliance period (Phase 2) is 5th December 2019.
✓ To be compliant:❑ Appoint a registered ESOS Lead Assessor❑ Calculate Total Energy Consumption (TEC)❑ Conduct Energy Audits and a Transport Assessment may be required!
❑ Regulator (EA) notification must be submitted by 5th December❑ Haven’t already started complying - contact Environment Agency
urgently!
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Streamlined Energy and Carbon
Reporting (SECR)
Companies (Directors' Report) and Limited Liability Partnerships (Energy andCarbon Report) Regulations SI 2018/1155✓ Applies to all UK registered quoted companies AND applies to ‘large’ UK
unquoted companies which are defined as meeting at least two of the following
criteria (>250 employees, £36 million turnover and balance sheet of £18 million)✓ Finished ESOS? – recommend you go straight to SECR
✓ Applies for reporting years starting on or after 1st April 2019
✓ What do you need to do?
❑ Disclose an ‘Energy and Carbon Report’❑ Scope 1 and Scope 2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions❑ Annual energy consumption (kWh)❑ Energy efficiency measures taken in the last year
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Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting(SECR) – new guidance available
Environmental reporting guidelines: including Streamlined Energy and Carbon
Reporting requirements
Updated: 31 March 2019
Available from BEIS (Gov.UK)
Updates include:✓ Group reporting legislation;✓ Public sector reporting requirements;✓ Mandatory GHG reporting requirement;✓ Confirmation that for those organisations choosing not to dual report (still ourpreferred approach), we encourage use of location-based reporting method.

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ISO 14090:2019 - Published
Adaptation to Climate Change. Principles, requirements
and guidelines✓Sets out how organisations can prioritise anddevelop effective, efficient, specific and deliverable
adaptations which will increase resilience anddemonstrate robust and credible risk management✓It is relevant to all sizes and types of organizations
whose activities, products and services might be atrisk from, or in some cases able to take advantageof, climate change.

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Biffa fined £350,000 for attempting toexport unsorted waste to China• Follow an Environment Agency investigation Biffa were fined forattempting to export unsorted waste to China– Containers were intercepted at Felixstowe and contained food packaging,items of clothing, wood, tin cans, plastic bottles and electric cables– The waste documents described the waste as ‘waste paper’• Biffa are also facing further charges of illegally exporting 42
containers of waste to India and Indonesia*The Court fined Biffa £350,000, ordered them to pay costs of £240,000, and a further £9,912 under the Proceedsof Crime Act 2002 (POCA).

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Biowood Recycling Ltd fined £314,000
for an illegal waste site
• The illegal storage of 5,300 tonnes of mixed waste has resulted in acustodial sentence for the person who set the site up• Biowood Recycling Ltd. were ordered to pay more than £314k to
the landowner in compensation and fined £12,690, for knowingly
supplying waste to site without an environmental permit• The site owner registered for a waste exemption but was in breachof the exemption’s limits (specifically failing to comply with their
Statutory Duty of Care under the Environmental Protection Act)
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Enforcement Undertakings (EUs)• Environment Agency issued £3.7m in enforcement undertakings (8) as at June 2019
• Northumbrian Water – 5 separate charges totally >£1million• United Utilities - £500,000– Water leak polluted river and killed fish

• Yorkshire Water - £200,000– Sewage pollution

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Useful links• https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/reducing-uk-emissions-2019-progress-report-toparliament/• European Environment Agency’s Air Quality in Europe 2019
• https://www.carbonfootprint.com/esos_energy_savings_opportunity_scheme.html• https://www.carbonfootprint.com/secr.html• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50076582• https://www.climateemergency.uk/blog/list-of-councils/

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Setting and Achieving
Ambitious
Net Zero Carbon Targets
John BuckleyManaging Director
Carbon Footprint Ltd

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We know we need to act faster…
• Our businesses need to be
responsible and play a bigger rolein the solution to climate change• We have only a very short amountof time remaining if we are goingto stop climate change

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The Solution to climate change needs to be a globalsolution…
1. Decarbonise the Electricity Grids Worldwide
2. Decarbonise transportation (Cars, Vans, Buses,Lorries, Trains, Planes, Ships etc.)
3. Stop deforestation (the cause of 10% of globalemissions)
4. Reduce emissions from food supply(agriculture, soils, meat production)
5. Sequester / capture CO2 (e.g. plant billions oftrees)
6. Become much more efficient with Energy

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Decarbonisation is starting to happen
UK Electricity Generation
kgCO2e / kWh
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0.102007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

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You need to set targets to decarbonise your business• Set your own reduction targets
e.g.
– Reduce emissions by 60% by 2030
– Reduce CO2 emissions per £million
Turnover by 50% by 2025••••

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Science Based Targets
CDP
ISO 14001 and ISO 50001
Net Zero / Carbon Neutral Target

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Government

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Councils declaring a Climate Change Emergency“… on 18 July, councillors unanimously called for aclimate emergency to be declared, recognising theurgent need to take action to tackle this important
issue through the council’s own work, that of ourpartners and in our communities.
….
Make Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
operations carbon neutral by December 2025 byensuring that 100% of its heating and electrical needs
are met from renewable sources and cease thepurchase and/or lease of any vehicle that is not low
carbon;Pledge to work toward making Basingstoke and Deanenet zero carbon by 2030, ahead of the current 2050
target, ensuring that reducing carbon emissions isembedded in all relevant council decision making…”
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Europe aiming to become the first Carbon Neutral
Continent…

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Net Zero Carbon needs to be the standard forbusinesses too…
The great thing is this is a relatively easy target
to set and achieve
But please, please, please…
don’t wait for 2025 or 2050
We need to Act Now!

Be bold and ambitious
Set a target to be Net Zero Carbon within 12 months

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You can do this…
Step 1 : Calculate your emissions(from over the last 12 months)
Step 2 : Offset the emissions you have already made(i.e. those calculated in Step 1)
Step 3 : Start reducing your emissions – so you don’t need tooffset so much next year
– Switching to a Green Energy Supplier– Finding ways to cut energy consumption in your business– Cut transport emissions– Set targets to reduce your Gross Emissions

Step 4 : Repeat
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What is carbon offsetting…
Help to finance projects around the worldthat provide the solution…
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Decarbonise the Electricity Grids World Wide
Decarbonise transportation (Cars, Vans, Buses, Lorries,Trains, Planes, Ships etc.)
Stop deforestation (cause of 10% of global emissions –weare loosing the lungs of the planet)
Reduce emissions from food supply (agriculture, soils, meatproduction)
Sequester / capture CO2 (e.g. plant billions of trees)
Become more efficient with Energy

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A world of projects that need support….
100’s of projects to choose from. For example:• renewable energy projects (China, India, Indonesia)• reducing deforestation (Brazil & Kenya)• clean drinking water (Uganda)• improved household cookstoves (Kenya, India etc.)

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International Standards• Projects are verified and audited independently• Look out for the main internationally recognised carbon offsetting standards

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www.carbonfootprint.com© Carbon Footprint Ltd 2019Is your business Funding Climate Change orFunding Climate Change Solutions?
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Setting a carbon reduction budget based on your emissions“An Internal Carbon Tax” or “Climate Change Investment Fund”
e.g. £20 per tonne of CO2 (represents 1 - 9% of the energy cost)
Define a budget for internal and external spending e.g.
– 75% on internal energy reduction initiatives– 25% on external carbon offsetting initiatives• Select Internal Carbon Reduction initiatives based on return on
investment

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Climate Change needs a Rapid Global Solution
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You can be part of the solution
Reducing your energy use and carbon emission is a good thing to do
However, reducing by a few % a year is not fast enoughMore and more businesses are becoming Carbon Neutral / Net Zero Carbon
Councils, Countries and Continents are setting Net Zero Carbon Targets

Your business can do this too
And you need to do it Now!
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Thank you

John Buckley
Carbon Footprint Ltd
john.buckley@carbonfootprint.com
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Do the Right Thing

Portals Climate Change
Goals
October 2019portalspaper.com

PUBLICWe’re very pleased to present to youtoday a case study on our Climate
Change Goals. We’ll be discussing• Our energy needs as a papermaker

AgendaPUBLIC• Our goals and the role of KPIs inachieving them

Overton• Banknote paper• Cotton based operation• Three highly flexible
paper machines• 14,000 tonne capacity

Our locations

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Our accreditations

Using best practices and industry
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PUBLICIn context

Committee on
Climate Change,
2019 Progress
Report• The biggest reduction inemissions is in power generation– important context for an energy
intensive energy user such as apaper mill because…

PUBLICIn context

The 2050
Roadmap
The single biggest proposed
action is to decarbonise powergeneration by moving gas fired
heating to electrical power.

Source: Northern Utilities

However,
Installations such as Overtonneed heat and the current
economic case supports the useof gas fired Combined Heat andPowerPUBLIC

Source: Gov.uk
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In context

European UnionBest Available
Techniques• The use of CHP remains best practice, andindustry is held to account for:• Its efficiency via the Climate Change
Agreement and through the use of otherenergy efficiency related obligations (ESOS,SECR)• Its emissions via the EU Emissions Trading
System’s cap and trade method and throughlegislative requirements of the Large andMedium Combustion Plant Directives
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Source: European Union
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1. Safeguard the optimum level of energy
consumption by sustaining the gas
fired CHP,
2. Have a programme to drive short andlong term improvements in Energy
Efficiency (Energy ManagementSystem),Our goals

Portals Climate Change Goals

3. Give purchasing preference to energy
efficient equipment (pumps, motors,agitators etc),
4. Have a programme of replacement ofinefficient equipment,

5. Sustain our Climate Change
Adaptation plans.

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