Programme
9:00
Registration and refreshments
9:40
Opening remarks from the Chair
Tess Gill
Commissioner for Work and Skills
Sustainable Development Commission
9:50
Assessing the journey for long term sustainability in public services
- Clarifying environmental sustainability in the new government agenda and budget
- Examining alternative potential funding partners: Energy companies, distribution networks, waste and disposal companies
- Challenging public preconceptions: Promoting the idea that investment in sustainability now can save money in the long term
- Influencing decision makers to secure funding and ensure sustainability is kept high on their agenda
Lorraine Holme
Programme Manager- Sustainable Development
Department of Health
Andy Johnston
Head of Centre for Local Sustainability
Local Government Information Unit
10:15
Achieving innovative methods to positively influence behavioural change in your community and workplace to achieve sustainability
- Facilitating an efficient and reliable process for engaging and working with the local community
- Implementing a common approach for measuring carbon emissions and recording data to simplify and unify the process
- Exploring how far public bodies have progressed at this stage on sustainability and the carbon reduction commitment: What is next for the CRC?
- Examining strategies that have been put into practice and assessing whether they have worked
Neil Cross
Sustainable Development & Energy Manager
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Dean Spears
Deputy Head of Corporate Sustainability
London Borough of Camden
10:45
Question and answer session
11:00
Morning refreshments
Spotlight on the Carbon Reduction Commitment
11:20
Best practice on delivering the Carbon Reduction Commitment
- Achieving greater understanding of the government and EU regulations and formulating successful strategies to meet government targets
- Implementing a common approach for measuring carbon emissions and recording data to simplify and unify the process
- Exploring how far public bodies have progressed at this stage on sustainability and the carbon reduction commitment: What is next for the CRC?
- Examining strategies that have been put into practice and assessing whether they have worked
11:45
Practice session on carbon trading: Gaining clarity on buying and selling carbon credits to minimise costly government penalties
12:00
Question and answer session
12:15
Lunch
BREAKOUT STREAMED SESSIONS:
13:15
A1: Establishing a successful approach to adapting climate change risks
- Localising climate change: Taking action and raising awareness in your local community
- Working with various public sector bodies to identify and manage climate change risks in your community
- Implementing safeguarding measures and putting in place an adaption plan to combat climate change risks in your area
Baroness Barbara Young
Board Member
Adaptation Sub-Committee
13:15
B1: Effectively achieving the NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy through sustainable procurement
- Developing a top down five year Sustainability Strategy aligned to PCT Business Strategy with Board approval
- Using the Annual business planning process to ensure delivery of annual Sustainability Delivery Action Plan with key objectives assigned to Executive Directors
- Supporting local procurement initiatives and working with the country and regional public sector organisations to leverage the public sector pound to demand sustainable and environmentally friendly goods and services
- Working alongside EU and NHS procurement regulations when sourcing sustainable products
Stephen Heard
Director of Regional QIPP
NHS Cambridgeshire
13:40
Question and answer session
13:55
A2: Taking a partnership approach to the NI 186
- Defining your role in leading and influencing the reduction of Co2 emissions in your local area
- Assessing the most strategic and successful ways of delivering and fulfilling this challenging government objective
- Reviewing alternative methods of measuring data to ensure information is up-to-date and accurate to support your role in tackling the reduction of carbon emissions in your local community
Helen Krzanowski
Sustainability Team Leader
Southampton City Council
13:55
B2: Corporate responsibility for effective waste management
- Environment Agency Corporate Strategy and it's approach for waste and resource management
- Importance of waste infrastructure, procurement and internal environmental management
- A waste stream approach for E-Waste
Adrian Harding
Senior Advisor
Environment Agency
14:20
Question and answer session
14:30
Afternoon refreshments
15:00
A3: Delivering the sustainability agenda with the third sector
- Understanding the benefits of working with the third sector
- Facilitating a solid and productive working relationship with the third sector to accomplish value for money services
- Improving communication between local and authorities and the third sector to foster understanding and better working relationships
15:00
B3: How to save energy by making buildings more sustainable: what SHINE research tells us
- Evaluating the impact of capital investment on sustainable buildings: Has increased spending on structure contributed towards energy efficiencies and guaranteed higher return on investments?
- Best practice examples of trusts carrying out refurbishments to achieve carbon savings
Jason Palmer
Project Manager
Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA)
15:20
Question and answer session
15:35
Working in partnership across the public sector to achieve sustainability
- Identifying overcoming barriers to partnership working with other public sector bodies in your local area
- Ensuring common goals and priorities in the sustainability are understood across various institutions
- Assessing the impact of LSP collaboration on the reduction of CO emissions
- Addressing whether local authorities and trusts can work together in disposing waste from similar streams instead of doing things separately
- Achieving greater bargaining power & economies of scale through collaborative procurement of sustainable products and services e.g. eco friendly vehicles
Lucy Padfield
Energy Services Manager
London Borough of Islington
Dr David Pencheon
Director
NHS Sustainable Development Unit
16:05
Drawing together lessons for the day: How can you work together to deliver environmental sustainability in the public sector? What are the important lessons which you have drawn from today? What will you do differently when you return to your institute?
16:20
