2020 Climate Group – 12 actions for 2012

1. Lead by example on common carbon reduction themes and collaborate with others on actions/campaigns:
   (1.1) Publish a report on what works on Transport for Businesses.
   (1.2) Establish the 2020 Website as a core public platform for partners to profile innovative practice and up to date case studies.

2. Commission and publish two research papers from the Edinburgh Centre for Climate Innovation on tackling so-called “difficult” issues. Speed limits to be the first topic.
3. Work with partners across different sectors to identify the most effective behaviour change approaches, with a view to producing a brief guide in the short term, to be published on the 2020 website http://www.2020climategroup.org.uk/ and promoted as a baseline model for any campaigns. Explore further work with cross-sector partners to implement values-based approaches to behaviour change and look to publish a report and build capacity in long term.
4. Help to develop/build capacity for community groups and similar organisations:
   (4.1) Facilitate discussions with community-led action groups to identify ways of supporting them to increase their capacity to participate in the low carbon economy.
   (4.2) Jointly explore mechanisms to enhance/support funding channels for communities to cover, for example, funding gaps in the construction of renewables generation or energy efficiency challenges.

5. Look at what can be done to promote the potential for institutional investment in the delivery of 2020 targets and consider how best to support the decision-making processes for asset managers.
6. Work with partners to support and amplify effective mechanisms to broaden and deepen Private/Public Sector collaboration and focussed engagement in the low carbon economy. Develop a “live collaboration” map which audits partnership working between the 2020 Climate Group community and records ideas/solutions/challenges. Publish this collaboration map on the 2020 website and invite further collaboration from wider networks.
7. Support the development of a number of “demonstration model” sustainable supply chains to help improve public and investor confidence in Scotland’s ability to deliver based on credible, industry-informed plans (using the experience of the work of the finance sub-group and PA Consulting on offshore renewables supply chains)
8. Pull together evidence on measuring and valuing carbon in agriculture, forestry and peat, and explore the options for a market mechanism to price carbon and reward associated ecosystem services.
9. Develop and publish a Scotland-wide strategy for developing and supporting sustainable Local Food Networks.
10. Work with the public sector to align procurement policies with the move towards a low-carbon Scotland - for example, encouraging fleet changes to favour a shift to electric vehicles.
11. Work with all partners to ensure CO₂ emissions from new buildings reach zero.
12. Consider the implications of the forthcoming ban on the disposal of food waste to landfill, and work with cross-sector partners to highlight the great potential of waste as a resource and the key role it can play in the move to a low carbon economy.