Ruth Mayne of Low West Carbon Oxford to Speak at Derbyshire Conference
Mon, 28 January 2013
We are very pleased and excited to announce that the Co-Founder and Chair of an award-winning community-led initiative and the author of the 2020 Energy Strategy for Nottingham City are to deliver keynote speeches at the Derbyshire Community Climate Action Conference on 9th March.
Book a free place on the conference by contacting Nick Pigula: 01629 538304 / nicholas.pigula@derbyshire.gov.uk
Ruth Mayne helped found Low Carbon West Oxford (LCWO) in 2007 after flooding in the area led residents to become concerned about climate change. The group runs projects covering energy, transport, food, waste reduction and wildlife. In 2010 LCWO was a runner up in The Big Green Challenge and a winner in the Low Carbon Communities Challenge. In total they won £903,000 and much of this was spend on renewable and clean energy projects. LCWO's sister organisation West Oxford Community Renewables invests money in community renewable energy projects.
Ruth is currently working on a research project called EVALOC (Evaluating Low Carbon Communities). The project seeks to assess, explain and communicate the changes in energy use due to community activities within six selected case study projects under the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) Low Carbon Communities Challenge (LCCC) initiative, a government-supported initiative to transform the way communities use and produce energy, and build new ways of supporting more sustainable living.
Jerome Baddley is a senior manager at The Nottingham Energy Partnership (NEP), leading NEP’s sustainability services team.In 2007 Jerome calculated the sustainable energy potential for Nottingham and in 2009 was commissioned to write the now adopted 2020 Energy Strategy for the City. Jerome also constructed a detailed model for the tracking of the city strategy delivery and wrote Nottingham’s Sustainable Energy Action Plan for the EU Covenant of Mayors.
In 2010 Jerome wrote the Regional Carbon Management Plan for the NHS in the East Midlands. Over the last three years he has managed programmes to support dozens of NHS organisation across the UK to measure, reduce and report their carbon emissions and natural resource use, through low carbon procurement, energy use and waste reduction.
Over five years Jerome’s team has footprinted over 4.2million tonnes of CO2e and directly saved 4,318 tonnes of emission and around £2.5m per annum in large organisations. Over the last three years, Jerome and his team have supported the City and County Primary Care Trusts to cut their carbon emissions by 25% each,saving hundreds of thousands of pounds on their energy bills.
The conference will also include workshops from a range of local community groups about their inspiring work and organisations that can support community action on climate change. The topics of these workshops will be announced in the coming weeks.
All local climate-change focused groups are invited to have a stand at the conference’s ‘marketplace’ to showcase their work.
Anyone living in Derbyshire who is, or would like to, take action on climate change can book a free place on the conference by contacting Nick Pigula: 01629 538304 / nicholas.pigula@derbyshire.gov.uk
The conference takes place at the Derbyshire Eco Centre, nr Middleton-by-Wirksworth on 9th March 2013.