Jill Rutter, Director of Strategy and Sustainable Development, Defra

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Two years on
Jill Rutter, Director of Strategy and Sustainable
Development, Defra
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SD is all around
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Aspiration Leading by Example
Is Government Leading or Lagging?
Reality ?
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Sustainable Operations
June 2006 Streamlined, stretching and outcome-
focussed targets for the Government estate

• Key targets
• Central Governments office estate to be carbon
  neutral by 2012
• Reduce carbon emissions by 30 by 2020
• Recycle 75 per cent of the waste by 2020
• Reduce the waste generated by 25 per cent by 2020
  
• Reduce water consumption by 25 per cent by 2020

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Sustainable Procurement
Sustainable Procurement Task Force Report

• Lack of consistent leadership on sustainable
  procurement
• Too much guidance without coherence and no
  x-govt. ownership
• Standards not properly enforced
• Lack of information, training, tools
• Barriers, e. g. focus on low upfront costs vs.
  whole-life costing
• Difficult to bring in innovative solutions
  missed opportunities

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Sustainable Development Action Plans
1st round of SDAPs published
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Strengthened Sustainable Development Commission

• New Watchdog role on Operations and Action Plans
  and with in-depth reviews
• Bigger teams, including in Scotland, Wales and
  Northern Ireland
• Bigger budget

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Action across Government
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Including regional
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and local

• Joint LGA-Defra guide on SD for local councils
• More LAAs with environmental outcomes in round 2
  39 on waste, 14 on biodiversity, 37 on climate
  change / energy efficiency
• Beacon themes on sustainability and procurement,
  sustainability and planning

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With communities
Every Action Counts

• Over 280 individual community groups and
  organisations signed up to environmental action
  at the local level on energy, travel, saving our
  resources, food and caring for their local areas
• 25 national 3rd sector organisations preparing
  SDAPs
• 320 community workers trained in SD behaviours

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And with individuals

• Engagement campaign
• Clear call to action
• CO2 focussed
• Linked directly to climate change, but not
  overwhelming
• Flexible capable of being applied to a range of
  issues, by a range of organisations

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And coming up

• Climate Change Climate Change Bill, Energy White
  Paper, New Public Service Agreement 2008-11
• Sustainable Consumption and Production Programme
  Waste Strategy, Procurement
• Natural Environment New focus on ecosystem
  services, New Public Service Agreement for
  2008-11
• Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 Challenge to
  embed SD across all Government goals, targets
  delivery plans

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The challenge

• By the end of 2007
• Will your MB be clear what they need to do to
  deliver sustainable development both in
  operations and policy?
• Will people throughout your organisation be clear
  what role they have to play?
• Will they have the right skills to apply SD
  thinking?
• Will you be maximising opportunities for resource
  efficiency and will you be working with your
  supply chains to embed sustainability?
• Will your Permanent Secretary / Chief Executive
  be as convincing as Stuart Rose?

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Further information

• At the Governments website
  www.sustainable-development.gov.uk
• While you are there, register for our
  e-newsletter!
• And join our SD Research Network at
  www.sd-research.org.uk

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