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SEPA's Role in Climate Change and Mitigation

Explore SEPA's strategic plan to integrate climate change into their activities, including monitoring, regulation, advice, and communication. Learn how SEPA aims to reduce emissions and influence others to consider the consequences of climate change.

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SEPA's Role in Climate Change and Mitigation

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  1. Climate Change and SEPA’s roleRebecca Walker

  2. SEPA’s Position SEPA recognises that climate change is the greatest threat to the future of the planet’s ecosystems, with significant socio-economic consequences for humankind.

  3. Drivers for change Internal drivers • Need for a sustained and corporate response • Key role in helping Scotland limit and adapt • SEPA itself to adapt and reduce emissions • Make SEPA fit for purpose External drivers • Scotland’s climate is already changing and will continue to change • Climate Change Scotland Act 2009 • UK Climate Change Act 2008 • EU Legislation

  4. Climate Change programme To further integrate climate change into SEPA’s day to day activities by delivering the strategic objectives set out in SEPA’s climate change plan

  5. Work areas Advice to Operators Monitoring and analysis Regulation Informing and Influencing Greening SEPA Communicating Information

  6. Monitoring and Analysis • Review scientific monitoring and assessment activities to ensure that they remain fit for purpose in the light of current and predicted climate change, and help inform Scotland’s associated risks and impacts • Integrate climate change in Science review programme • Historic datasets to produce factsheets • Understanding future climate projections

  7. Regulation • Review all of our regulatory activities to ensure that the impacts of, and on, climate change are fully considered when determining environmental permits and taking regulatory decisions • Understand the impact of regulatory regimes • Integration in Q and S investment programme • EU Emissions Trading Scheme • Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme • Carbon Capture and Storage regulatory framework • Renewables Task Group

  8. Advice to operators • We will give prominence to climate change issues in our advice to businesses and others • Staff training • Clear, consistent information disseminated through existing channels e.g. NetRegs • Signposting and partnership working

  9. Greening SEPA • We will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from SEPA’s activities • Reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25% from 2006-2007 baseline by March 2012 • Reduce carbon dioxide from all business transport modes by 10% from 2006-2007 baseline by March 2011 • Maintained flight reduction target of 50%

  10. Informing and Influencing • We will seek to influence decisions of others so that the environmental, economic and social consequences risks and opportunities of climate change are fully considered. • Understanding of carbon accounting methodologies and when to use these tools • Produced guidance for SEA practitioners on climate change • Published a statement on SEPA’s role in climate change, energy and planning • River Basin Management Plans and climate change • Support implementation of the Climate Change Scotland Act • Developing an energy position paper for SEPA • Consultations and policy work

  11. Communicating information We will develop SEPA’s role as a prominent public voice on climate change issues. • Joint agency statement • Co-ordinated climate change communication (internally and externally) through the climate change communications plan • Staff awareness presentations (40 for 2009/2010) across SEPA

  12. Working towards embedding climate change across the organisation Reviews, guidance, awareness, training Processes, procedures, awareness, training Culture Change and Core Business

  13. Activities planned for 2010/2011 • SEA and Planning • Develop an approach to embed into policy decision making • Climate change and regulation • Energy work • Climate change communication plan • Carbon impact assessment work • Procurement • Review of SEPA’s greening Strategic Implementation Plan • Transport actions • Public Bodies Duties Implementation in SEPA • Carbon accounting Regulations • UK Climate Change Risk Assessment • Land Use Strategy

  14. Public Bodies Duties A public body must, in exercising its functions, act: • in the way best calculated to contribute to delivery of the Act's emissions reduction targets; • in the way best calculated to deliver any statutory adaptation programme; and • in a way that it considers most sustainable. The duty is due to enter into force on January 1, 2011.

  15. SEPA’s approach….. • Continue to implement the climate change plan • Work towards the vision of integrating climate change • Appraisals/procedures in place to comply with the duties • Demonstrate compliance through reporting • Work in partnership with others Considering climate change (both mitigation and adaptation) in all SEPA’s functions

  16. Thank You

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