1. Higher Education Carbon Management Programme
HECM Overview
Richard Rugg

2. Carbon Trust Activity in the HE Sector
Site Visits & Design Advice
Higher Education Energy Managers Network (300 subscribers)
Incubator Programme
Business acceleration support to Imperial College Innovations Ltd
R,D&D
£3.6m in repayable grants to the HE Sector to develop innovative low carbon technologies (1/3)
Higher Education Carbon Management programme

3. Drivers for carbon management
Legislation is strengthening:
Climate change levy
Changes to Building Regulations
EU Energy Performance in Buildings (EPD) Directive 2006+
Cost reduction:
Opportunities associated with energy efficiency
Government Policy:
Beacons of best practice, catalysts for change
Reputation:
Benefits associated with promoting sustainable development

4. Focus of programme
Primary focus Direct GHG emissions under the control of the HEI for example from:
Energy use in HE owned or operated buildings
Offices, lecture facilities, leisure facilities, accommodation, energy intensive departments
Fuel use in HE owned or operated vehicle fleets

5. The process 3 5 1 Get Started 2 Carbon Management Assessment Evaluate
Options 4
Develop
Plan 5
Implement
and Review
Where are we now?
What emissions reduction opportunities do we have?
What’s our forward strategy?
Build the team
Making the Plan work

6. Implementation Plan Carbon Management Action Plan
King’s College London
Higher Education Carbon Management Programme April 2006

7. What to expect Participants should expect:
Launch event in London - May
4 onsite workshops
4 clustered workshops
Additional consultant facilitation via phone and
Carbon Trust Account Manager support
Toolkit resource
Best practice advice

8. Key players Project Leader Departmental Champions Project Sponsor
Overall co-ordination
Baseline calculation
Vision & strategy development
Opportunities prioritisation
Implementation planning
Departmental Champions
Support Project Leader within their own department
Project Sponsor
Director level project champion
Ensures senior management commitment
Address inter-departmental barriers
Vice Chancellor, Rector
Sign-off letter
Member support
Identify a Cllr to act as political champion

9. The 20 participants

10. Launch Strathclyde Sunderland Teesside Bradford York Leeds
University of
Strathclyde
University of
Sunderland
University of
Teesside
University of
Bradford
University of
York
University of
Leeds
Leeds Metropolitan
University
University of Wales,
Bangor
University of
Birmingham
University of
Cambridge
University of
Coventry
Imperial
College
University of Wales,
Aberystwyth
University of
Warwick
London Metropolitan
University
The
Open University
Kings
College
University of
West of England
University of
Southampton
University of
Sussex

11. VC support of the HECM programme

12. Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University took part in the pilot
Initial one-off £75K energy financing fund. Accrued energy cost savings to be used to fund additional improvements in future years - self funding scheme.
Targets - 20% CO2 emissions (& energy saving) reduction by tCO2 savings per year
Implementation of projects commenced:
metering projects
heating and lighting controls
insulation
Oxford Brookes University took pat within the pilot programme on which the current Higher Ed CM programme is based.
On the recommendation of the consultants and based on identified opportunities to save 7000 t CO2 pa the uni set aside £75k for energy efficiency projects.
This will help them achieve their target of reducing CO2 emission across the university by 20% by 2010.
They have a lengthy list of prioritised opportunities to undertake of which the most highly priotised were projects relating to metering, heating and lighting controls and insulation projects.

13. Oxford Brookes University did

14. Making Business Sense of Climate Change