The Ecological Sequestration Trust (TEST) platform is an open-source, free IP city-region platform for collaborative, low-carbon, planning and investment, which integrates human-ecological-economic systems.
In order for Dorset to 'grow through business enterprise, whilst safeguarding the environment’, a select group of leaders will debate whether The Ecological Sequestration Trust (TEST) integrated platform is a good solution for the county. TEST is an open-source, free IP city-region platform for collaborative, low-carbon, planning and investment. It integrates human-ecological-economic systems; a system which calculates the current resource flows from human and ecological activity (e.g. in soils, air, water, industrial plants and infrastructure) and enables economically beneficial urban-rural resource management to be funded and implemented through ‘good’ projects, together with insurance against extreme risks with an integrated focus on energy, water and food security.
The Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Bournemouth University and Mouchel have agreed to support a short study to investigate whether The Ecological Sequestration Trust integrated planning and investment platform (TEST), is a good option for Dorset to help ‘deliver growth through business enterprise, whilst safeguarding the environment’. Our objective is to support good governance for sustainable development and explain the very latest methods of using data and systems integration in decision making.
What is the TEST platform? TEST is an open-source regional platform for collaborative, low-carbon, planning and investment. It integrates human-ecological-economic systems; a system which calculates the current resource flows from human and ecological activity (e.g. in soils, air, water, industrial plants and infrastructure) and enables economically beneficial urban-rural resource management to be funded and implemented through ‘good’ projects, together with insurance against extreme risks with an integrated focus on energy, water and food security.
Why would Dorset benefit from it? Dorset prides itself on its business, social and natural environment. All of these must be nurtured in order to grow. Business leaders and governments acknowledge that growth and development needs a new operating model that is less dependent on primary energy and material inputs. However, unless resource use and supply chains are holistically understood, this can be a challenge. Easy access to robust data, which can be converted into useful information that builds knowledge and understanding, is crucial for good decision making and development in all sectors...
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Pathway to a Resilent Dorset - Workshop Presentation - Peter Head
1. Pathway to a Resilient
Future for Dorset
Peter Head
@peterheadCBE
#dorset
2. Supporting the creation of an EU and
Global hub for trade and business
Providing a planning tool to prioritise investment
for resilient economic growth
that embraces rural and urban communities
Attracting inward investment to create a
more competitive lower cost economy with
more jobs and better services
Leadership for a Resilient Future for Dorset
3. __ Growing global instability
Contents
Section 1
Section 2 __ Global Action for
resilience
Section 3 __Observatory to Collaboratory
__ Funding and opportunitiesSection 4
Section 5 __ The way forward
12. In 2013 China changed the legal
constitution for development
towards the “Ecological
Civilisation”
• To take a scientific approach
to development
• To make Ecological Progress
China now has an environmental
court and a circular economy law
Global Action - China
13. The Circular Economy
THE ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
‘The evolution of our economy from an increasingly resource-
constrained ‘take-make-dispose’ model towards one that is
circular and re- generative by intention poses a huge opportunity
for business innovation. This report highlights the significant
economic opportunities, both immediate and long-term, that are
available across the EU-a recurring 3-4% GDP cost saving.
The report offers the catalyst for a sector wide re-design
revolution’.
14. Moving from Ownership to Services
‘Innovative business models, especially changing
from ownership to performance-based payment
models, are instrumental in translating products designed
for reuse into attractive value propositions
‘Enablers to improve cross-cycle and cross-sector
performance include higher transparency, alignment of
incentives, and the establishment of industry standards for
better cross-chain and cross-sector collaboration; access
to financing and risk management tools; regulation
and infrastructure development; and—last but not least—
education, both to increase general awareness and to
create the skill base to drive circular innovation’.
15. Competitive Dorset
How economy will improve
from substantial net savings on material and energy costs,
improved mitigation of volatility and supply risks (eg renewables),
higher multipliers due to sectoral shifts and reduced externalities
How companies will win
by creating new profit pools and competitive advantage, building
resilience against some of today’s most strategic challenges, and
the opportunity for growth
How consumers and users will win
by gaining more choice, experiencing fewer hassles from
premature obsolescence, and enjoying improved service quality
16. Castlepoint Electricity – ‘Watts Up!’
- 2005 annual electricity bill = £138,000 – 2,045 KWHRS
- 2013 annual electricity bill = £115,000 – 1,211 KWHRS
- No increase to tenants.
17. ENERGY WATER
FOOD RAW MATERIALS
By 2030 world needs 30% more water, 40% more energy & 50% more food
Resource Efficiency
19. Materials and Waste –Systems Approach
Hillier, Graham. “Construction Products for a Sustainable Society”
Sustainability - Steel and the Environment Conference. 2 November 2004
21. 1. A Regional Approach Is Fundamental
2. Gather regional data, develop regional knowledge, embed integrated
regional planning, build regional capacity and shared confidence to act
3. Uniting economic, societal and environmental perspectives and shape
interventions with a common/credible economic analyses
Approach to Sustainable Regions
Greenhouse
gases
Greenhouse
gases
Greenhouse
gases
Solid waste
Degraded waters
Manufactured goods
INTERLAND
Manufactured goods
Fuels and
Raw materials
Water
Food
Land and sea
27. In the last twenty years, the world has
• Deployed a global, high-bandwidth network
• Created a population of over 1 billion Internet
users
• And another population of some 6 billion mobile
telephones
• Embedded some billions of sensors in our
environment and infrastructure
• Invented globally-integrated business processes
40. Economic Region
Social, Env,
Economic
TargetsPower
Water Treatment
Industry
Mining
Building
cluster
Railway
BIM
IIMProcessor
Boundaries
Agriculture,
grassland
Forest
Data Processor
Boundaries
Energy
Water
Mass
goods
&minerals
Agents
41. BIPV on roof
Thin film photovoltaics are factory
applied to the roof sheeting,
offering a robust and aesthetically
pleasing solution.
TSC on walls
Transpired solar collector
on south facing walls
draws warm air into the
building to provide space
heating either directly or
to be stored for later use.
Storage
Warm air from the TSC is stored in a tank
supplying the heating system. Electricity
generated by the photovoltaics is stored in
batteries.
Water purification
Rainfall on the roof passes
over a photoactive TiO2
coated metal roof sheeting,
which removes organic
matter. This is collected,
passed through a filter and
stored for use in the house.
Release
Energy generated by the
building envelope is released
throughout the house via
heating, lighting, electrical
equipment and water use.
B u i l d i n g s a s P o w e r S t a t i o n s
SPECIFIC http://www.specific.eu.com
45. Ecology Health
Air Water Soil
Quality
Human Health
well-being nutrition,
life-span, healthcare
costs
Labour- skill, job
availability, salary,
productivity
Training & Education-
skill and knowledge
through learning and
education
Human agents
and their well-being
Economy
Asset
Value
Goods
High quality
Inclusive
resilient
growth
“Green, circular,
Knowledge
economy”
46. - 2 bee hives put at back
of centre.
- Bees forage in
Townsend housing
estate next door.
- Local residents of
Edentide Homes are
now able to come into
the centre and buy jars
of honey produced
from there own
gardens.
- 45 jars were produced
in 2013.
Castlepoint Bees
50. Integrated urban systems design/planning and
procurement for sustainability and resilience
Now Where we could be with systems
thinking and performance based
procurement
• Sequential and silo-ed approach – conventional
economic assessment dominates how we design (cities,
policies, technology interventions etc)
• Short term political and finance cycles dominate
economic plane
• Environment plane silo-ed (i.e. water-food-energy, urban
and rural viewed separately)
• Social benefit at the end of the line – abstract
relationship to earlier planes .
• INTEGRATED DESIGN
• INTEGRATED PLANNING
• ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT PLANNING DESIGN
DESIGN
PLANNING
DEVELOPMENT
52. Output
Successful
improvement in
energy-water-food
security and quality of
life
“Project
portfolio”
Evidence-
based ‘trusted’
independent
model
Regional Investment Fund - ‘Green Growth’ ‘Climate Adaptation’ ‘Social Impact Bonds’
1-2% GDP per annum
Sources of capital-MNB’s Pension Funds Sovereign Wealth Funds
Return Investment
Assurance
“Attracting inward
investment into Dorset”
1% GDP= £160m/yr
54. Supporting the creation of an EU and
Global hub in Dorset
CHINA
NDRC
MOHURD
APEC
Eco Demo Regions
International Centre
Chongqing University
UK-EU
Demo region
Dorset LEP
IFS
DFID
Cities Alliance
Country programme
5 Centres
African Centre for
Cities
African Urban Research
Initiative
Mainland Europe
ICLEI GIZ Climate KIC-IFS
Global
UNEP
UN Habitat
UNDP
UNSDSN
UCCRN
Mongolia
Demo region
UN ADB FCO
Brazil
Rio de
Janeiro
Academy of Science
56. TEST “Accelerator Scale-Up Fund”
Build open source platform
& set it up in demo regions
using loan
Demonstration region savings enable
pay back of set-up loan costs over 7 years plus interest &
attract funds for more regions
Platform
development
funders to get use
of and value from
platform
• DFID
• Climate KIC
• ESA
• China
Government
®ions
• MNB’s
$ $
Independent
Fund Manager
57. Dorset LEP can be the first EU demonstration region to show
transformational change to a resilient inclusive high quality growth model
in which communities can participate. Local businesses can develop new
business models and gain access to global markets. Inward investment can
be attracted.
Understanding extinction and demonstrating resilience
Animated Earths appearing
In 1998 WWF started publishing a biennial Planet Report. The 2006 Report showed that we are now living in severe ecological overshoot. We are now consuming 25% more resources than the planet can replace and are drawing down the stock of natural capital that supports our lives.
The key metric is the ‘ecological footprint’ of the population of each country. This is the area of earth surface required to support the population’s lifestyle with water, energy, food and resources and waste absorption.
In 1900 we had an average of 8ha of land to support everyone’s life on the planet, but today with population growth and loss of productive land from pollution we only have 2ha. In Britain we are living as if this hasn’t happened and we are using 6ha on average each-3 planets worth of resources.
Unseen reality ….
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So what are the big issues and opportunities for resource efficiency in food, water, energy and raw materials?
There is a new phrase being used now ; the circular economy.
The trouble with the easy to say phrase is that as an economy it does not exist!
The economy exists, business development, new opportunities exist but nothing goes round in a loop.
However, as shown here the concept is very apt because it indicates that there is generally a solution to all routes for recovery before one has to pay for wastage.
What a diagram cannot show is that we are not just talking about turning glass bottles into new glass bottles. Whilst this is important there are other added value routes fro glass. It can be used as filtration material at a value many times higher than its bottle worth. Other uses of higher value also exist as they do for most materials.
We are not then just interested in recycling but in a wider approach to conserving resource use, adding value by developing new markets in both materials and energy fields, reducing carbon, and generally being of more sustainable use to society.
The concept of not having waste is critical. This is the cultural paradigm we seek.
In ‘East of Eden’ Steinbeck’s character xxx the father of the two brothers says to them. ‘waste is something I do not like, I cannot afford it’
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Let’s start our look at what the Biomimicry principles can deliver in terms of practical change to reach a footprint of 1.44ha per person by 2050, starting with
‘using materials sparingly’, ‘using waste as a resource’ and ‘not drawing down non-renewable’. This is a global issue so lets take in low and high income countries together. We need to reduce non-renewable resource consumption. The way to do this is to reuse as much of existing things in their current form and if this is not possible then either remanufacture them back into a new product or recycle them back into useable feedstock.
Studies in the UK have shown that to get to one planet living, all products will need to come from 80 to 100% sustainable sourcing and this will need regulated quality labels to show the impact of the product lifecycle. Manufacturers will need to be clustered using industrial symbiosis principles which means sharing resources and having integrated supply chain management. It has been estimated in the UK that this can lead to a 75% overall reduction in the ecological footprint of products.
The Trust has also chosen Chongming Island in Shanghai which is a demonstrator region for China State Government’s ecological development plans, Kigali in Rwanda which aims to implement Rwanda’s low carbon action plan and the Swansea Region of South Wales which aims to regenerate the local economy through green sustainable growth.