20th October 2020

Carbon Net Zero Emissions

Beacon Project TotalDECOM EXPO 2020

Steve Hardy, Director of Environment

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

Outline

• Context of the Nuclear

Decommissioning Authority and its

businesses

• What a Beacon Project and why is it

needed for this challenge

• Outline of the Project and project

progress

• Cross Industry Learning and Sharing

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Delivering the roadmapto net carbon zero

NDA is committed to undertaking our mission

in a sustainable way.

To enable this we are taking the following

steps:

• Understand and baseline current position

across the group

• Develop the strategy, policy and roadmap

to net carbon zero for One NDA

• Develop a phased and resourced plan to

deliver the road map

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Carbon Net Zero for NDA GroupWhy it matters and why a group key target?

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Carbon Net-Zero Beacon Project Aims

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Aim of the Project

To set science based carbon reduction

targets to support the UK Government’s

2050 and Scottish Government’s 2045

net-zero commitments and develop a

roadmap of opportunities for delivery.

Inclusivity is important. The Project

covers the whole NDA GroupSellafield, Low Level Waste Repository, Dounreay

Site Restoration Ltd, Magnox, Direct Rail Services,

International Nuclear Services, Radioactive Waste

Management, NDA Archive, NDA Properties, NDA

Corporate Centre, Energus

We have procured the services of the

Carbon Trust as subject matter experts

to help us deliver the project scope

Carbon Net-Zero Beacon Project

Governance Arrangements

Steering Group: Chaired by Alan

Cumming and Gwen Parry-Jones,

who are the sponsors of the Project,

the Steering Group comprises senior

managers from our businesses. The

role of the Group is to set direction,

manage risks and ensure resources

are available

Task Group: The Task Group is the

delivery group and comprises

representatives from each of our

businesses who act as the key

interface between the Project and

their business

Shadow Advisory Group: This is a

small group of people from our

businesses who are passionate about

tackling climate change and they offer

independent challenge and ideas to

the Project.

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Steering

Group

Shadow Advisory

Group

Task Group

What does net zero actually mean?

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an ambitious 1.5°C aligned Science Based

Target

A net-zero organisation will set and pursue:

for all emissions sources covered within

its full value chain reporting level of the

corporate standard of the greenhouse gas

protocol (GHG)

Any remaining hard-to-decarbonise

emissions can be compensated with

certified greenhouse gas removal

(GGR). Credit: Carbon Trust

Carbon Net-Zero Beacon Project Progress Update

10Progress: Overall – on schedule

Stage Progress

Stage 1: Carbon footprint for NDA Group for 2019/20

Draft report available, completion end of October.

Stage 2: Future scenarios Predicting how the carbon footprint will change as the mission progresses out to 2050. Data gathering has started. Report complete end of October.

Stage 3: Carbon reduction opportunities

Workshops with NDA Group businesses are starting in October. Opportunities for avoiding emissions, greater efficiency, use of renewables etc.

Stage 4: Target setting & Roadmap

To be complete in February 2021

NDA footprint 19-20

Scope 1 & 2

341 Ktonnes CO2e

Scope 3

1054 Ktonnes CO2e

NDA performance in this area

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Cross-Industry Workshop

September 2020 Cross-Industry Workshop on Carbon Net Zero

• To share learning which could help

individual strategy development,

and hear about challenges and best

practice from across a range of

industries

• To provide a focus on Scope 3; why

it matters and how to measure it

• To share ideas which could help

organisations develop their

employee engagement and culture

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Insights from the workshop

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• Risk of “greenwash” with people declaring Net Zero

ambitions – particularly related to offsets – maintain

focus on reduction of your emissions

• Scope 3 is the challenge but also a big opportunity –

NDA Scope 3 is approx 3 times Scope 1+2

• Need for action – not to wait for government lead etc

• Competitive advantage to be had for those companies

who are delivering on carbon reduction and

demonstrate good carbon management, maybe some

short term economic costs but strategically a business

imperative

• Focus needed on low carbon construction – use of PAS

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• Focus needed on Carbon Removal

Carbon Net-Zero Project

Initial Culture Change Programme

• We need a ‘low carbon mentality’ in all aspects of our

businesses

• We need this to be our normal way of working

• We need a ‘culture change’

• Strongly supported by our Project co-sponsors Alan

Cumming and Gwen Parry-Jones

• We have engaged the services of the Carbon Trust to

help us deliver an initial ‘culture change’ programme,

working with our Comms teams to take learning from

ED&I and Mental Health programmes

• It’s the start of a journey, not the end

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Senior leaders to understand

the language, impacts,

challenges and opportunities

associated with tackling climate

change (Jan/Feb).

Senior Leader Workshop

Culture Change

Targeted culture change

campaign, informed by focus

groups in each of our businesses,

which Carbon Trust will run with

support from NDA Group Comms.

Cross Industry Workshop: Culture Change

• People are not necessarily averse to change but are averse to being changed

• Small but deep change is needed: behavioural change is part of that but it needs to start with understanding the values and motivators of those who work in our industry

• Capitalise on existing motivators: we have a strong safety culture in the nuclear industry, can we harness this for environmental improvement?

• Performance management systems are limited for this area. Don’t focus on ‘measuring culture change’ – we will see the evidence in the outcomes

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Thanks for listening.

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