low carbon a lead-in to the green deal roger stone obe 01 mar 12
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LOW CARBON A Lead-in to the Green Deal
Roger Stone OBE01 Mar 12
Aim of Today
To give:
• An overview of the UK Low Carbon Strategy
• Key LC Players
• The factors that are driving the Construction Industry’s LC Strategy
• The Construction and Built Environment response to Low Carbon (Green Deal)
‘To De-Mystify’
UK GovernmentClimate Change Act 2008
Two key aims of the Act:
• Improve carbon management and help towards a low carbon economy in the UK
• Demonstrate strong UK leadership internationally- committed to taking our share of responsibility for reducing global emissions
UK GovernmentClimate Change Act 2008
Key Provisions:
• Legally binding targets: Green house gas emissions reduced by 80% by 2050, CO2 emissions reduced by 26%
• Carbon budgeting system: 5 year caps on emissions
• Committee on Climate Change: Monitor annual progress
• Include Aviation and Shipping emissions
• Have regard for the impact of domestic action on climate change
• Further measures: Introduce powers and legislation on biofuels, household waste, Green Deal
• Risk Assessment: Every 5 years
UK GovernmentClimate Change Act 2008
Key Provisions:
• Legally binding targets: Green house gas emissions reduced by 80% by 2050, CO2 emissions reduced by 26%
• Carbon budgeting system: 5 year caps on emissions
• Committee on Climate Change: Monitor annual progress
• Include Aviation and Shipping emissions
• Have regard for the impact of domestic action on climate change
• Further measures: Introduce powers and legislation on biofuels, household waste, Green Deal
• Risk Assessment: Every 5 years
Government’s Low Carbon Plan• Britain powered by cleaner energy
• More efficient energy use in homes and businesses
• Secure energy supplies and stable energy prices
• Jobs and growth benefits from a move to a low carbon economy
• Government departments working together on the same agenda
• Overarching plan for: Energy generation, Transport and the Built Environment
• Principles: – Whole government approach to climate change
– Setting legal and market frameworks
– Inclusive- all society to cut emissions
– Prevent unnecessary costs and share burden
– Acting sustainably (with balance between benefits, impacts, costs, targets)
– UK to demonstrate our commitment to other countries
Government’s Low Carbon Plan
• 3 key areas are responsible for over 80% of UK’s greenhouse gas emissions:
– Generating electricity
– Heating homes and businesses
– Powering cars and vehicles
Government’s Low Carbon Plan- Outline actions to tackle 3 priority areas
CBE related: Saving energy in Homes and Communities
• More efficient homes (Green Deal)
• Making the move to low carbon heat
• Building new homes to high environmental standards (Zero carbon)
• Changing customer behaviour
• Reducing emissions for businesses and industry
• Cutting emissions from waste (transition to a zero waste economy)
Built Environment accounts for ? % of all UK Carbon emissions!
Built Environment accounts for % of all UK Carbon emissions!
47%
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GOVT
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DCLG
DECC
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DCLG
DECC
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DCLG
DECC
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DCLG
DECC
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DCLG
DECC
BIS
NEW SUSTAINABLE
BUILDS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DECC
BIS
GREEN REFURBRETROFIT
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DECC
BIS
GREEN COUNCIL
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DECC
BIS
GREEN REFURB RETROFIT
GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
Green Construction Board
BIS Chair – Mark Prisk MP
DECC
DEFRA
Cabinet Office
BIS
(DCLG)
Industry
(Meet 3 times a year)
Low Carbon Construction Action Plan
• Demonstrating the benefits and opportunities of low carbon construction through leadership and cooperation across the private and public sectors
• Creating greater clarity in a complex landscape, enabling the industry to better understand the opportunities that will be available to them in the future.
• Ensuring that we have the right framework of incentives and interventions to enable the market to flourish and the right levels of skills, research and innovation to enable and support growth
• The delivery of the Low Carbon Construction Action Plan will be overseen by the Green Construction Board
UK LC Construction Action Plan –Key Themes
• Implement changes to public sector procurement
• New level of cooperation between Government and Industry
• Leadership and Cooperation
• Public Sector good practice
• Overcoming complexity
• Affordability and funding
• Incentivisation
• Capacity and Skills
• Research, Innovation and Information
• International opportunities
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DECC
BIS
GREEN REFURB RETROFIT
GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DECC
BIS
GREEN REFURB RETROFIT
GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
GREEN DEAL
GREEN DEAL• A Collaborative Approach to the Green Deal and the Low Carbon Agenda
• Range of measures, such as insulation, heating or lighting, to be installed in people’s homes and businesses at no upfront cost
• Green Deal is based on the principle that some energy efficiency related changes to properties pay for themselves
• 14 million of the UK's 27 million homes expected to benefit. It also predicts that it will create 100,000 jobs by 2015
• Energy saving measures recommended for properties will need to be both appropriate to the construction of the property and correctly installed
•A competent property assessment and installation workforce is therefore essential
•A common Code of Practice (CoP)
Green Deal – key principles
– Market driven approach with parameters set by Government
– Entitlement to accredited advice – with recommendations on energy efficiency improvements
– Agreement to package of measures that pays for itself over time – ‘Golden Rule’
– Accredited products and installation
– Support for poorer households and certain installations through links with ECO
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ROGER’sRESIDENCE
Remote Advice
Independent and impartial advice via telephone and internet
Signposting service to other parts of the Green Deal e.g. assessment, installation etc.
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Assessment Finance InstallationRepayments and Follow
Up
Remote Advice
Assessment
All households entitled to an energy efficiency assessment as part of Green Deal
Only an authorised assessor can produce
Standardised, impartial assessment including:
o Fabric assessment
o Other advice, including behavioural
Recommendations must be robust enough to inform quotes for approved measures/ products under the Green Deal
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Assessment Finance InstallationRepayments and Follow
Up
Remote Advice
Installation
Green Deal will require standards and accreditation for products and installers
Installer will need to:
– meet certain standards to practice under the Green Deal
– carry the Green Deal quality mark/ logo
– sign off work once complete and inform GD Provider that repayments can begin
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Assessment Finance InstallationRepayments and Follow
Up
Remote Advice
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DECC
BIS
GREEN REFURB RETROFIT
GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
GREEN DEAL
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DECC
BIS
GREEN REFURB RETROFIT
GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
GREEN DEAL
GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
DEFRA
EU
GOVT
DECC
BIS
GREEN REFURB RETROFIT
GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
GREEN DEAL
GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
ASSET
SUMMITCSKILLS
www.cskills.org/cutcarbon
Skills and Green Deal
Phil Stott
The Green Deal Skills Alliance (GDSA)
3 Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) working together to ensure the correct skills are in
place for the Green Deal:•Asset Skills – Green Deal Assessment/Advice.
•ConstructionSkills – Green Deal Installers, covering insulation and building fabric.
•SummitSkills – Green Deal Installers, covering environmental technologies and building
engineering services.
Starting Point: Consumer Support
• To achieve maximum impact, the emerging Green Deal brand must enjoy real consumer
confidence – which in turn will trigger the market mechanisms on which Green Deal
Depends. • Consumer confidence will only be gained
through quality service – from Green Deal Advisors and Green Deal Installers.
Quality Service depends on Skills
• Green Deal Advisors will need to be trained, qualified and certificated, and adhere to the
Green Deal code of Conduct.• Installers and workers in environmental
technologies will have the same requirements, albeit within a separate
Quality Assurance, and regulatory regime based on the PAS (Publicly Available
Specification).
Defining the Skills and Competencies required
• National Occupational Standards (NOS) developed by individual Sector Skills Councils, define occupation specific Green Deal skills requirements.
• Some existing NOS were already fit for purpose, others subject to review/amendment.
• All, when approved, are being used as the basis of nationally recognised qualifications on which, certification arrangements will be based.
Asset Skills – Energy Assessment and
Advice• NOS for Domestic Energy Assessors (DEAs)
have been revised to reflect the needs of the new Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) from April 1st 2012 – and used as the basis for a compulsory mini qualification.
• Brand new NOS for Green Deal Advisors, Domestic and Non-Domestic, also completed in readiness for new qualifications for this brand new job role.
CITB-ConstructionSkillsCITB-ConstructionSkills is the Industrial Training Board and Sector Skills Council for construction and it is:•Providing a voice for industry on skills/training requirements relating to Green Deal.•Supporting construction trades in Green Deal, e.g. insulation installers, building professionals and general builders.•Developing bespoke apprenticeships and training solutions for specialist sectors such as solid wall insulation.
SummitSkills
• Sector Skills Council for building services engineering.
• Employer led influence on policy and standards, e.g. Microgeneration Certification
Scheme.• Environmental technologies in Green Deal,
e.g. Heat Pumps, Solar Thermal and Biomass.
• Established National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies in 2011.
GDSA – starting with a Common Competency Framework
• Providing knowledge and understanding of Green Deal as a whole.
• Everyone appreciating the “big picture” rather than thinking in individual occupation specific silos.
• Workers understanding one another’s roles and where they fit into the Green Deal customer/ client “journey”.
• Result: greater coherence in delivering Green Deal and enhanced success rates.
Joining up Green Deal Skills
• Common Units of knowledge for use as the basis for additional training and
enhancements to job specific qualifications or
• Stand alone mini-qualifications in their own right.
Common units – examples• Understand the principles and operation of the Green
Deal (or equivalent programme).• Understand the principles of customer service.
• Understand how to monitor work progress.• Understand maintenance of energy efficiency measures.• Understand the effects of energy efficiency measures on
conservation and heritage buildings.• Understand insulation and building treatment roles.
• Understand air quality/ventilation requirements.• Understand building services engineering roles.
Beyond the common units • Research: first report from employers by
February/March – encompassing demand for Green Deal skills and qualifications, delivery issues and
emerging business models. • Train the Trainer packs for Installers and Green Deal
Advisors – installer manual available now on Cutting the Carbon website; advisor manual available March
2012.• Piloting aspects of the Common Competency
Framework to inform future work – pilots complete and feedback was excellent!
• Disseminating information and consulting widely (e.g. 19 half-day events around the UK).
Phase two (April 2012 to March 2014)
• Funding secured from the UKCES “Employer Investment Fund”.
• Focus – piloting new/emerging qualifications and then moving onto implementation
issues, plus work with DECC and the devolved administrations to monitor the
roll-out of Green Deal training and qualifications.
Phase two continuedIndividual project details still being finalised but include:
• Research
• Training trainers
• Quality of learning
• New competencies to fill gaps
• More events (but to differing models) – partners welcome contact Phil Stott.
• Listening and engagement
Summary• Individual SSC work vital on an
occupation specific basis.
• GDSA input gives an added dimension.
• Important to ensure that training and qualifications integrate with the emerging (UKCAS supervised) regulatory regimes.
• All the answers NOT yet known; your feedback and questions today will help provide some of these!
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• Backed by the EU Commission taking place in 21 member countries, with more to join shortly.
• Focused on the built environment.
• Project to develop a Skills Roadmap to ensure the UK has an appropriately skilled workforce to meet the EU 2020 targets:
• Reduce energy consumption by 20%
• Reduce green house gas emissions by 20%
• Meet 20% of energy needs through renewable resources
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• 4 Sector Skills Councils working together to represent their footprints:
• Asset Skills – Manages project and recruits Platform of stakeholders to inform and endorse research.
• ConstructionSkills – Conducts Research and develops Roadmap.
• SummitSkills – Manages endorsement process of Roadmap.
• Energy & Utility Skills – Evaluates project.
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• Project will be developed and endorsed by the built environment energy efficiency sector, for the sector.
• Tool to achieve this sector engagement will be the National Qualifications Platform, consisting of:
• 50 core stakeholders
• National and devolved nation steering committees
• Wider Platform – key for endorsement
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• Establish National Qualifications Platform.
• Conduct status quo analysis to take “snap shot” of sector skills and training at the moment.
• Use analysis and Platform to develop the Roadmap which illustrates barriers to training and skills gaps.
• Secure sector endorsement of the Roadmap.
• Use endorsement and evaluation of project to develop training infrastructure as part of Pillar 2 (to be confirmed).
Developing the Roadmap
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The success of the project will be defined by input/endorsement from the sector. This buy-in will be secured through clear
communications:
•Regular newsletter to Platform
•Twitter feed
•Website with online consultation, news, updates – due to launch March 2012.
•Clear branding
•Interaction with EU partners.
Communications
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• Establish the National Qualifications Platform: March 2012.
• Publish Analysis of the Status Quo: June 2012.
• Publish 2020 Skills Roadmap: December 2012.
• Endorsement: throughout but completed by February 2013.
• Pillar 2: 2014 and beyond.
Key Dates
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How can I register interest and join the Platform?
Please contact Lucy Radford:
[email protected] or via 01392 423 399
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