Runnymede's Runway to Net Zero

**如何在全国重要的难脱碳资产/行业面前为社区脱碳？*地点：**Runnymede是萨里郡的一个小行政区，面积只有30平方英里，大约79%的面积在大都会绿化带内。尽管这个听起来像田园诗般的位置，Runnymede仍受到其控制之外的多个邻近碳生产商的阻碍：\*M25和M3都为该行政区带来了大量交通。\*Runnymede距离英国最大、最繁忙的机场--希思罗机场--5英里。希思罗机场的交通便利使Runnymede成为一个非常理想的商业地点。然而，这也造成了对一个难以脱碳的行业和对全国具有重要意义的资产的严重经济依赖。作为希思罗机场战略规划小组(HSPG)的核心成员，Runnymede是“机场社区”的一部分，该社区包括11个面临类似依赖的地方当局。**脱碳需求：**Runnymede区议会(RBC)有2030年净零目标，最近更新了其气候变化战略。然而，强大的外部影响确保了在该行政区的脱碳方面仍然存在相当大的挑战。该项目满足了加拿大皇家银行的关键需求和HSPG的其他当局：\*在“整个系统”的地理位置上工作。**Runnymede是一个更大的系统的“部分参与者”，最好在“机场社区”层面上观看。当地战略(例如，当地能源计划-LAEP)目前处于地理竖井中，联系不够紧密。\*增加对外部产生的碳的影响。**例如，解决直通交通脱碳的挑战，同时减少在有大量出行通勤的行政区内旅行的需要。\*经济/抵消市场。**尽管希思罗机场和当地企业在Net Zero进行了大量投资，但经济效益(例如国际抵消)主要流出该地区。**我们的项目：**我们的项目对Runnymede采取了“整个系统”的观点，将行政区概念化为更广泛的HSPG机场社区的一部分，以解决如何通过以下方式影响目前不受控制的参与者：\*协调/治理：**改善协调、情景规划、机场社区背景下的优先排序和投资。\*行为变化和影响：**发展机制，以改善与碳排放发源地外部地区的影响力和协调。\*提供当地利益：**与希思罗机场和大型国际企业合作，使脱碳资金(嵌入/抵消)能够在当地循环使用，以最大限度地实现变化。**创新：**我们的项目通过考虑“功能碳区”概念中的影响力杠杆进行创新，并开发新的合作方法和协同效应，以解锁希思罗机场社区内的关键障碍和最大限度地实现互惠互利。我们的创新包括联合治理、互操作性(例如，LAEP)、促进行为改变、制定政策和促进抵消金融。

**How do you decarbonise a community in the presence of a nationally significant hard-to-decarbonise asset/industry?****PLACE:**Runnymede is a small Borough in Surrey, measuring only 30 square miles with approximately 79% of its area within the Metropolitan Green Belt. Despite this idyllic sounding location, Runnymede is hampered by multiple proximate carbon producers outside its control:\*Both the M25 and M3 bring significant traffic through the borough.\*Runnymede is five miles from the UK's largest and busiest airport-- Heathrow.Accessibility to Heathrow makes Runnymede a highly desirable business location. However, this also creates significant economic dependence on a hard-to-decarbonise industry and nationally significant asset. As a core member of the Heathrow Strategy Planning Group (HSPG), Runnymede is part of an "Airport Community" that covers 11 Local Authorities all facing a similar dependence.**DECARBONISATION NEEDS:**Runnymede Borough Council (RBC) has a 2030 Net Zero target and has recently refreshed its climate change strategy. However, powerful outside influences ensure considerable challenges remain in decarbonising the borough.This project addresses RBC's critical needs and other HSPG authorities to:\***Work at a "Whole System" geography.** Runnymede is a "part player" in a much larger system, best viewed at the "Airport Community" level. Local strategies (e.g. Local Area Energy Plans - LAEPs) are currently in geographical silos insufficiently joined-up.\***Increase Influence over Externally Produced Carbon.** e.g., addressing the challenge of decarbonising through-traffic, alongside reducing the need to travel within a borough with significant out-commuting.\***Economics/Offset-Markets.** While there is significant investment by Heathrow and local businesses in Net Zero, economic benefits (e.g. international offsets) are largely flowing out of the region.**OUR PROJECT:**Our project takes a "whole system" view of Runnymede, conceptualising the Borough as part of a wider HSPG Airport Community to tackle how to influence currently uncontrolled actors through:\***Coordination/Governance:** Improving coordination, scenario-planning, prioritisation and investment within the Airport Community context.\***Behaviour Change and Influence:** Developing mechanisms to improve influence and coordination with external regions where carbon emissions originate.\***Delivering Local Benefits:** Working with Heathrow and large international businesses to enable decarbonisation funding (insets/offsets) to be recycled locally to maximise change.**INNOVATION:**Our project innovates by considering levers of influence within the concept of "functional carbon areas" and developing new co-operative approaches and synergies to unlock key barriers and maximise mutual benefits within the Heathrow Community. Our innovations cover joint governance, interoperability (e.g. of LAEPs), facilitating behaviour change, developing policy, and promoting offset-finance.