Norfolk and Suffolk Clean Growth Taskforce

Wednesday 9th March 2022

Agenda Item 4

Defining the ambition and its delivery

Summary

This paper seeks to update the Taskforce on its evidence and impact workstrand based on a

Taskforce sub-group meeting held on 7 February. It also looks to agree a deliverable, local

ambition as well as the structure for a local ‘COP-26’ style event designed to galvanise broader

support as well as agree the next steps in terms of Action Plan delivery.

Recommendation

The Taskforce is asked to:

 Note the update from the evidence and impact sub-group

 Agree the clean growth ambition for Norfolk and Suffolk: “Accelerating Norfolk

and Suffolk's clean growth ambitions through collaboration and

impactful intervention, enabling us to be net zero by 2030.”

 Agree to delegate the structure/agenda for a local ‘COP-26’ style stakeholder event

to the Collaboration and Leadership sub-group

 Provide any updates in support of this paper and the Action Plan agreed at the last

meeting

 Delegate actions for delivery to each sub-group to report back to at the next meeting

Background

The Clean Growth Taskforce has committed to developing the following with respect to

evidence and impact in their action plan (included at Appendix A):

 Develop a strategic, emissions-led approach to clean growth evidence and impact,

balancing it with an encouraging succinct key message and clear call to action that

everyone can commit to wherever they are on their clean growth ‘journey’

 Work with large businesses/point source emitters to establish best practise and peer-

to-peer learning and disseminate throughout the region

 Develop a deliverable, local evidence-based ambition

At its last meeting the Taskforce also noted the following with respect to evidence/impact:

 Importance of Carbon Budgets and data trends to determine focus/impact

 Take a lead where others are not – refer to Local Authorities and sector

roadmaps/targets

Strategic Evidence – update from evidence and impact sub-group

At the inaugural meeting of the Clean Growth Taskforce, Professor Andrew Lovett outlined

the changes in emissions since 2005. He noted that per capita emissions have declined by

a third since 2005 (to 6.3t in Norfolk and 5.5t in Suffolk) but that the Climate Change

Commission (2019) estimate a value of 1.7t per capita is needed by 2050 to meet the Paris

Agreement target of a 1.5°C temperature increase by 2100.

This indicates that while progress has been made, more is to be achieved before 2050.

He also noted that the domestic, (industrial) and transport sectors are the largest

contributors, with the latter becoming proportionally more important between 2005 and 2019.

This indicates that progress has been made in both the industrial and domestic sectors but

that less progress has been made in the transport sector. Indeed, emissions from transport

have only come down by 4% over the period compared with 40% in the domestic sector and

26% in the industrial sector.

This analysis supports the Taskforce’s three main focuses of effort with respect to impact.

 Decarbonising Transport – deliver the Alternative Fuel Strategy and Action Plan and

determine next steps

 Transition Business Support – oversee the delivery of the Road to Net Zero Business

Support Programme and any wider clean growth programme embedment

 Workforce for the Future – work with the Skills Advisory Panel to shape the

Decarbonisation Academy proposal (retrofitting the domestic sector – particularly

affordable housing, in the first instance) and the wider clean growth skills agenda

Composition of CO2 emissions by Sector – Norfolk and Suffolk (2019)

Local Authority territorial CO2 emissions estimates 2005-2019 (kt CO2) – BEIS

Industry

24%

Commercial

Land Use inc.

forestry

Public Sector

Domestic

24%

Transport

33%

Industry Commercial Land Use inc. forestry Public Sector Domestic Transport

Point source emitters

The point source emitters for Norfolk and Suffolk are included in Appendix B. This shows

that 90% of all of the emissions from ‘point sources’ in Norfolk and Suffolk are from the top 9:

Site

Operator

Local Authority

Great Yarmouth Power Station RWE Generation UK plc Great Yarmouth

Wissington British Sugar Plc KL&WN

Bury St Edmunds British Sugar Plc West Suffolk

Kings Lynn Power Station Centrica K L Limited KLWN

Saddlebow Paper Mill Palm Paper Limited KLWN

Ipswich Suez Recycling And Recovery Mid Suffolk

Bacton Terminal 3 PERENCO UK LIMITED North Norfolk

Cantley British Sugar Plc Broadland

Bacton Interconnector (UK) Limited North Norfolk

While the specifics of the data are not directly comparable to the wider sectoral emissions

above, in that they are counted at source rather than at consumption, they do nonetheless

equate to a significant proportion of the industrial emissions shown above.

Conversations are being scheduled with each of the relevant local authorities to understand

what discussions have already taken place.

Taskforce members will be asked to help further pursue these relationships to understand

best practise and offer any support as appropriate.

Strategic Impact – taking a lead where others are not

Below is a list of areas already being taken forward by the public sector with respect to

Taskforce focus areas as well as other local authority priorities:

Decarbonising Transport:

 Norfolk Climate Change Partnership (NCCP): Sustainable Hydrogen in Fleet Transport

 Norfolk County Council: Electric Vehicle Strategy

 Suffolk Climate Change Environment and Energy Board (SCCEEB): increase

sustainable transport readiness, reduce car demand (active and public transport),

transition to zero emission fleet (infrastructure, take up and freight)

Workforce for the Future:

 SCCEEB: skills for clean power

Transition Business Support:

 SCCEEB: behaviour change, energy efficiency, heat decarbonisation, industrial

processes

Others:

 SCCEEB domestic: behaviour change, energy efficiency, heat decarbonation

 SCCEEB collaborative action: community action, stakeholder/supplier collaboration,

financing, monitoring and communication

 SCCEEB cleaner power: capacity planning, support for smart/flexible grid, public sector

renewables leadership

 NCCP: Community Energy Kickstarter

All Taskforce members are asked to provide details of sector specific pathways/

commitments and consider how we are currently leading in the areas defined in the

Government’s 10-point plan and where any gaps might be that they would like to pursue.

This will help shape further clean growth embedment within the LEP.

Collaboration and Leadership – a clean growth ambition for Norfolk and Suffolk

The Clean Growth Taskforce has committed to “developing an encouraging succinct key

message and clear call to action that everyone can commit to wherever they are on their

clean growth journey”

It has been agreed that this ‘ambition’ be deliverable and based on local evidence. While

refinement needs to continue as part of the wider work of the Taskforce the following

statement is put forward for consideration/agreement in order to help shape broader support

in this space:

Accelerating Norfolk and Suffolk's clean growth ambitions through

collaboration and impactful intervention, enabling us to be net zero by 2030.

This key message will be taken forward to a local ‘COP-26’ style stakeholder event –

provisionally scheduled for June 2022. This will follow a similar structure to those run

previously around the development of our strategic ambitions. Stakeholders will include

representatives from each of our twelve key sectors as well and local authority leaders and

those from the education sector. This paper seeks agreement that the structure of the event

be delegated to the Collaboration and Leadership sub-group for agreement at the May 2022

Taskforce.

Next Steps

The following elements are to be considered by the relevant sub-groups of the Taskforce as

part of the action planning next steps:

Collaboration and Leadership

 How can we further influence Government?

 How do we work more closely with Transport East?

 How can we influence behaviour change?

 How can we work with our supply chains?

 What other key players should we engage with i.e. Environment Agency?

Evidence and impact

 Future forecasts, including population growth

 Broader understanding of what other places are doing well

 Consideration of our USP options in this space i.e. peat sequestration/land use

opportunities, energy generation/transport decarbonisation etc.

 Understand data at a more granular level where appropriate

Decarbonising Transport

 Determine next steps focus with respect to the Alternative Fuel Strategy

 Consider how a wider ‘place’ brief might be included in the work of the Taskforce

Transition Business Support

 Consider the Road to Net Zero Business Support Programme delivery/learning and

consider how we might take forward into future business support delivery

 Investigate the breadth of green initiatives/incentives available in the business

support space

 Work with other business intermediaries to better coordinate clean growth messaging

Workforce for the future

 Develop the Decarbonisation Academy proposal

 Consider how we continue to improve the links between the private and education

sector to further maximise impact, ensuring clean growth is communicated

 Further develop labour market information to embed clean growth and ensure

learners understand the opportunities

Each sub-group is asked to consider prioritisation of activities in order to report back at the

next Taskforce Meeting.

Recommendation

The Taskforce is asked to:

 Note the update from the evidence and impact sub-group

 Agree the clean growth ambition for Norfolk and Suffolk: “Accelerating Norfolk

and Suffolk's clean growth ambitions through collaboration and

impactful intervention, enabling us to be net zero by 2030.”

 Agree to delegate the structure/agenda for a local ‘COP-26’ style stakeholder event

to the Collaboration and Leadership sub-group

 Provide any updates in support of this paper and the Action Plan agreed at the last

meeting

 Delegate actions for delivery to each sub-group to report back to at the next meeting

APPENDIX A – Clean Growth Taskforce Action Plan (March 2022 update)

APPENDIX B – Point Source Emitters (2019)

APPENDIX A

Clean Growth Taskforce Action Plan – March 2022 update

Introduction

The Economic Strategy for Norfolk and Suffolk highlights the urgent need to transition to a

decarbonised future and grow a clean economy that protects and restores natural capital and

provides a more resilient, inclusive future for all.

It also draws attention to Norfolk and Suffolk as an established and growing low carbon economy at

the forefront of tackling the challenges and opportunities of climate change. The area is a major

research and innovation centre and has business strengths in adaptation which present significant

cross-sector opportunities for the UK’s transition to net zero. Specifically, Norfolk and Suffolk:

 Is the UK’s leading producer of clean energy. It is at the forefront of the Southern North Sea

transition and has further potential for bioenergy, hydrogen and energy storage industries, and a

strong low carbon goods and services offer.

 Has expertise in satellite applications and Artificial Intelligence (AI) which will benefit offshore

wind, nuclear, precision farming, construction, manufacturing, health and social care, and the

visitor economy.

 Is ripe to further test cross-sector innovation in industries such as farming and food production,

transportation and construction where exponential transformation needed.

The Strategy notes that there are economic and societal advantages for businesses, communities

and places who emerge as leaders, from new markets to new, higher paid jobs and improved public

health and commits to remaining at the forefront of tackling the challenges and opportunities of

climate change.

It defines Clean Growth as “Growing an environmentally positive and resilient economy by

exploiting the region’s strengths, driving the adoption of clean technology, efficient use of

natural resources and reducing waste, accelerating sustainable infrastructure, equipping

and empowering business and people to take advantage of the opportunities in moving to a

zero-carbon economy.”

 Leadership and collaboration – be Ambassadors for the Clean Growth region

 Evidence and impact – oversee the development of Clean Growth evidence and impact

 Decarbonising Transport – influence the development of the Alternative Fuel Strategy and

Action Plan and its subsequent delivery

 Transition Business Support – work with the Business Growth Programme Partnership

Board to oversee the delivery of the Road to Net Zero Business Support Programme and

any wider clean growth programme embedment

 Workforce for the Future – work with the Skills Advisory Panel to shape the

Decarbonisation Academy proposal and the wider clean growth skills agenda

The Clean Growth agenda binds industry together in a way that has not happened previously: a

holistic and whole life approach that includes the supply chain is critical. The CBI identifies this as

the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ – but how do we add value and avoid duplication?

The Taskforce provides leadership and collaboration and promotes Norfolk and Suffolk as the UK’s

Clean Growth Region helping to raise the profile of the major contribution the area plays in the UK’s

transition to a post carbon economy, representing the area nationally, regionally and locally.

The following outlines discussions to date in the form of key actions and assigns members of the

Taskforce to each with the view of forming smaller working groups to take a real lead in each of

these areas.

Leadership and Collaboration

Be Ambassadors for the Clean Growth region

Leads: Genevieve Christie, Lorraine Gore, Pete Joyner, Jill Korwin

Key actions for 2022:

1. Develop a succinct key message and clear call to action reflecting on businesses

understanding of the term ‘clean growth’. Reflect on other terms (i.e. net zero and climate

positive) and our key energy generation role as part of this process and establish how we

include all the relevant elements: demand reduction, behaviour change, lifecycle emissions,

‘just transition’ and wider sustainability goals/circular economy.

2. Deliver a Local Leaders event to support the development of an evidence-based ambition.

The event would help to share activity, develop innovative ideas and hold each other to

account on delivering the region’s clean growth aspirations. The event would be followed up

at a later date to reflect on our collective achievements and to re-focus effort as necessary.

3. Determine how to better link with Local Authority ambition at a regional and local level in

order determine where the Taskforce can add value and deepen impact.

Evidence and Impact

Oversee the development of Clean Growth evidence and impact

Leads: Lorraine Gore, Jill Korwin, Andrew Lovett, Johnathan Reynolds (supported by Dave

Robson and David Walton)

Key actions for 2022:

1. Develop a strategic, emissions-led approach to clean growth evidence and impact, balancing

it with an encouraging succinct key message and clear call to action that everyone can

commit to wherever they are on their clean growth ‘journey’

2. Work with large businesses/point source emitters to establish best practise and peer-to-peer

learning and disseminate throughout the region.

3. Develop a deliverable, local evidence-based ambition

Decarbonising Transport

Influence the development of the Alternative Fuel Strategy and Action Plan and its subsequent

delivery

Leads: Will Bridgman, Ali Clabburn, Johnathan Reynolds

Key actions for 2022:

1. Deliver the Alternative Fuel Strategy for East Anglia and consider what role local partners

can play moving forward – working with them to determine focus and next steps.

2. Consider how a wider ‘place’ brief might be included alongside transport – this will include

potential for ALL infrastructure as well as the importance of unique local features i.e Port of

Felixstowe and links to the wider economy.

Transition Business Support

Work with the Business Growth Programme Partnership Board to oversee the delivery of the Road

to Net Zero Business Support Programme and any wider clean growth programme embedment

Leads: Simon Burckitt, Nigel Davies (tbc), Johan Neethling, Candy Richards

Key actions for 2022:

1. Deliver the Road to Net Zero Business Support Programme and consider the evaluation

outputs in order to shape thinking for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and other future

funding moving forward.

2. Understand the breadth of green initiatives/incentives in order to provide business advice,

support and signposting noting the need for a tailored approach

3. Work with other business intermediaries to better coordinate clean growth messaging.

4. REMOVED: Expand Clean Growth for Business as part of the successful UK Community

Renewal Fund bid – transport, energy, procurement, scope 3 emissions, greener

products/services and food mileage currently being explored as options to be included

Workforce for the Future

Work with the Skills Advisory Panel to shape the Decarbonisation Academy proposal and the wider

clean growth skills agenda

Leads: Dayle Bayliss, Lisa Roberts, Nikos Savvas

Key actions for 2022:

1. Develop the Decarbonisation Academy proposal working with key stakeholders

2. Consider how we continue to improve the links between the private and education sector to

maximise impact, ensuring clean growth is disseminated wherever possible, learning from

initiatives such as the Enterprise Adviser Network

3. Further develop labour market information to embed clean growth and ensure people

understand the opportunities

APPENDIX B

Point Source Emitters (2019)

1. Cumulative figure is the percentage of all point source emitters

2. RAG rating is based on trends 2016-2019 following the following parameters:

a. Red - increase of more than 10%

b. Amber - 10% increase to 10% decline

c. Green - decline of more than 10%

Site

Operator

Sector

cumulative %

Trend

Great Yarmouth Power Station RWE Generation UK plc Major power producers 36.8%

Wissington British Sugar Plc Food, drink & tobacco industry 50.6%

Bury St Edmunds British Sugar Plc Food, drink & tobacco industry 62.2%

Kings Lynn Power Station Centrica K L Limited Major power producers 68.5%

Saddlebow Paper Mill Palm Paper Limited Paper, printing & publishing industries 74.3%

Ipswich Suez Recycling And Recovery Waste collection, treatment & disposal 79.6%

Bacton Terminal 3 PERENCO UK LIMITED Oil & gas exploration and production 83.8%

Cantley British Sugar Plc Food, drink & tobacco industry 87.8%

Bacton Interconnector (UK) Limited Processing & distribution of natural gas 90.4%

Bury St Edmunds Maltings Pauls Malt Limited Food, drink & tobacco industry 91.7%

Cedar Maltings Muntons plc Food, drink & tobacco industry 92.7%

Great Ryburgh Maltings Crisp Malting Group Limited Food, drink & tobacco industry 93.5%

Norwich District Heating and CHP University of East Anglia Public administration 94.1%

Bacton Terminal 2 SHELL U.K. LIMITED Oil & gas exploration and production 94.8%

Station Road Banham Poultry Ltd Food, drink & tobacco industry 95.3%

Norwich Briar Chemicals Limited Chemical industry 95.8%

Halesworth Bernard Matthews Foods Food, drink & tobacco industry 96.2%

Lowestoft Birds Eye Limited Food, drink & tobacco industry 96.6%

King's Lynn PIL MEMBRANES LTD Chemical industry 97.1%

Watton Cranswick Country Foods Food, drink & tobacco industry 97.4%

Haverhill International Flavours and Fragrances Chemical industry 97.8%

tbc

Ipswich WHITE ROSE ENVIRONMENTAL Waste collection, treatment & disposal 98.1%

NNUH Serco Limited Public administration 98.4%

Bury St Edmunds Mizkan Euro Ltd Food, drink & tobacco industry 98.6%

RAF Marham MoD Public administration 98.8%

Ipswich Asphalt Tarmac Trading Limited Other mineral industries 98.9%

Wattisham Airfield Ministry of Defence Public administration 99.1%

RAF Honington Ministry of Defence Public administration 99.3%

Westgate Brewery Greene King Brewing and Retailing Ltd Food, drink & tobacco industry 99.4%

Eye 1Stop Halal Limited Food, drink & tobacco industry 99.6%

Adastral Park BT Plc Commercial 99.7%

Sizewell B EDF Energy Major power producers 99.8%

Thetford Fibrothetford Ltd Major power producers 99.9%

Kings Lynn Compressor Station National Grid Gas Plc Processing & distribution of natural gas 99.9%

Diss Compressor Station National Grid Gas Plc Processing & distribution of natural gas 99.9%

Eye Fibropower Ltd Major power producers 100.0%

Thetford Epr Thetford Limited Major power producers 100.0%

Bulmer Sudbury Bulmer Brick & Tile Co Ltd Other mineral industries 100.0%

Eye EPR Eye Limited Major power producers 100.0%