PCF World Summit From Environmental Footprinting to Implementation Renewable Energy in the Value Chain 17-18 April 2012 Berlin
Programme Overview Chair
Day 1, Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Jacob Bilabel, THEMA1
08:00
Check-in and welcome coffee
09:00
Opening and introduction Rasmus Priess, PCF World Forum / THEMA1
09:45
Keynote ▶▶The role of renewable energy in achieving the WBCSD Vision 2050 Thierry Berthoud, WBCSD
10:20
Carbon and environmental footprinting: Development, implementation and supporting programmes (1) ▶▶Update on the French Environmental Labelling Scheme Martin Bortzmeyer, French Ministry of Sustainable Development ▶▶Update on EU Guidelines on Environmental Footprints Rana Pant, Joint Research Centre / EU Commission
11:00
Coffee
11:30
Carbon and environmental footprinting cont’d (2) ▶▶Completion of the Japanese CFP Pilot Project and beyond Asami Miyake, JEMAI ▶▶Guidelines on sustainable public procurement by U.S. government Nancy Gillis, General Services Administration ▶▶Product Carbon Footprint Pilot Project Quebec Sophie Fallaha, CIRAIG
12:40
Introduction to dedicated tracks
13:00
Conversation Lunch
14:30
Dedicated parallel tracks 1. PCR Round Table Session facilitated by Rasmus Priess, PCF World Forum / THEMA1 ▶▶Global survey of product g uidance Karen Fisher, Environmental Resources Management ▶▶An initiative to establish a global PCR registry Sven-Olof Ryding, SEMCo & Annemarie Kerkhof, Pré Consultants ▶▶Development of the Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System Euan Murray, The Sustainability Consortium ▶▶PCRs underpinning the French Environmental Labelling Scheme Martin Bortzmeyer, French Ministry of Sustainable Development ▶▶The public LCA database for PCR application in France Michael Ooms, Intertek ▶▶The ENVIFOOD Protocol for food and drink products Jean-Christophe Bligny, Danone 2. Leveraging carbon and environmental footprinting efforts: Driving the effective implementation, use and disclosure of carbon and environmental footprints Session facilitated by Kevin Ramm, SAP ▶▶Success factors for efficient and meaningful carbon footprint calculations Michael Spielmann, PE International 3. Individual conversation rounds
17:00
Reporting back from parallel tracks and conversation rounds
18:00
Closing Day 1
20:00
Low Carbon Network Dinner
Issue From Environmental Footprinting to Implementation Renewable Energy in the Value Chain 2012
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Renewable Energy in the Value Chain
02 – 03
Towards 100 % Renewable Energy
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Groove to Save the World
06 – 07
Using the Gift of Beauty
08 – 09
About the PCF World Forum
10 – 14
Worldwide Initiatives
15 – 47
Programme Details
48 – 63
Participants
64 – 71
Network Dinner
72 – 73
Product Exhibition
74
Social Media
75
Summit Documentation
76
About THEMA1
77
2 | Foreword
From Environmental Footprinting to Implementation: Renewable Energy in the Value Chain Climate change received wider attention from businesses after it topped the public agenda in 2006. Companies began to explore their own role in causing but also in mitigating climate change, beyond their influence on political decision making as “corporate citizens”. Energy and transport efficiency had of course been addressed before, for cost reasons but also as a mea sure to reduce climate and environmental impacts. What was lacking, was a recognised possibility to put these efforts into perspective: How important are certain emission reduction measures in relation to the overall impact of providing a certain good, service or product portfolio to the market?
This perspective was provided by taking a life-cycle approach to understanding the GHG emissions associated with goods, services and now also full value chains (Product and Value Chain Carbon Foot printing) and agreeing on common rules for their quantification and communication, manifested in the GHG Product and Scope 3 Protocol and the upcoming ISO 14067 standard. These standards now provide a valuable basis for companies explaining their GHG reduction efforts to stakeholders – and for knowledge building in society. Going beyond these general carbon footprinting standards, particularly with respect to the ambition to compare the climate impact of
Sharing their viewpoints on accounting for green power in carbon footprinting at the 6th PCF World Summit: Line Riise Jensen, ECOHZ; Cynthia Cummis, GHG Protocol / WRI; Urban Buschmann, Frosta; Maureen Nowak, defra; Laura Palmeiro, Danone
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products across companies and for understanding trade-offs with other environmental and social challenges, methodologies need are now refined further. The former is being done in the form of product rules for different product categories (commonly referred to as Product Category Rules or PCRs) and the latter in the form of environmental footprinting methodologies, such as those being pursued by France and the European Commission. These developments have been followed closely and discussed at previous PCF World Summits and will be so in the future. While understanding and demonstrating the origin of GHG emissions and other environmental impacts is important (especially for collective decision making), this of course does not do the job alone. It is equally important to thoroughly pursue those inter ventions that promise the greatest return and absolute reductions in GHG emissions and other environmental impacts. And while the best approach and life-cycle stage may vary widely from company to company and product to product (as demonstrated in carbon footprint studies), the general direction is pretty clear. Human-made GHG emissions (and in fact a number of other environmental challenges) are caused foremost by burning fossil fuels and by land-
use change (in particular deforestation). To limit the climate and environmental impact of the global production and consumption of goods and services, one could therefore turn the question around: Instead of asking to what extent GHG emissions are caused by a certain product or company, one could ask instead how the use of fossil fuels and deforestation is limited (and replaced!) along the full life cycle of the product or company, giving additional guidance on where to look for emission reduction opportunities, which may otherwise remain hidden in a carbon footprint – behind emission factors used for electricity consumption or land-use change and allocated to certain life-cycle stages. Major companies embrace this perspective by pursuing ambitious renewable energy and natural resource targets. For the PCF World Forum, two questions are of particular significance: how are renewable energy and natural resources treated in carbon and environmental footprint assessments and in communication (and eventually standards)? And how are initiatives and companies treating and pursuing increased use of renewable energy and natural resources in products and value chains? Rasmus Priess PCF World Forum / THEMA1
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The role of business towards 100 % renewable energy Industrial manufacturing and general business and office activities are responsible for around half of all power consumption in more industrialised nations, but have an even higher share in emerging economies. Many manufactured products are traded beyond the regional boundaries. Hence, the share and absolute amount of freight transport, particularly on the road and in shipping, is growing steadily with an ever more globalised world. Many traded products consume energy in one way or the other. Some are more efficient than others. In any case, the energy footprint of companies reaches much beyond their direct manufacturing footprint. Although our global Clean Energy Vision for 100% Renewables by 2050 is comprehensive on all sectors of energy, we focus primarily on power consumption (and production). Business power demand is crucial. But we need to differentiate clearly, Those corporates that are energy-intensive, the large energy consumers such as steel and chemical sector, are usually the most opposed to enhanced renewable electricity purchase because they assume lowest costs by long-term-contracts (LTC) and PPA for conventional energy sources such as coal, gas and nuclear where utilities often provide much more favourable offers per kWh consumed than for captive customers. Yet, companies with a clear business-toconsumer and brand value outreach may also consume large amounts of electricity in total, such as globally active retail or food companies, but are much more sensitive
to reputational issues and often can easily afford larger purchase of ‘costly’ renewable power. Also because their energy consumption per unit turnover is much lower than that of the classical energy-intensive industries. WWF is strongly in favour of legally-binding targets for renewables as the primary delivery mechanism, but in the absence of those and in the presence of weak objectives, voluntary and additional actions by the market leaders will pull the sector and push policy to start legislating more ambitious targets in order to also cover the laggards.” Stephan Singer WWF International
Melt! Festival
Groove to Save the World? Looking at the bigger picture is essential in times of crisis – social and climate change have their place at festivals and on the music industry’s agenda, believes THEMA1’s managing director Jacob Bilabel, founder of the Green Music Initiative. Europe is burning. The financial crisis seems to be devastating our societies at a pace no one would have thought of some years ago. All over the world people are gathering in the Occupy movement to stop this system from destroying our countries and our solidarity. It’s not easy talking about climate change these days. Nonetheless, I am sure the changing climate is a symptom of what lies at the very heart of the problem: The illusion that industrial growth is infinite, that resources are limitless. And that we can carry on forever with ‘business as usual’. I started my career as a manager for one the biggest majors in the music industry. At the time, people could already foresee what digitisation would mean for the business. But most of us decided to believe in the fairytale I have mentioned: nothing would be big enough to shake our world, we would not
need to change our way of doing things. We can now see what effect this denial has had on today’s music industry. I regularly meet people who don’t believe in climate change at all. It’s the same kind of mentality I witnessed in the music business ten years ago. The more nihilists I meet, the less I care about changing their minds. Instead I ask them the following questions: Do you have the courage to think about social change? How will we live in the future? What will it look like? How can we accelerate our societies moving towards more sustainable lifestyles? Right now, I don’t see a lack of science-based evidence and innovation. But over the years, the behavioural gap has increasingly turned into a behavioural valley. How do we cross the bridge between what we know we should do and what we do for real? The challenge of social change is a complex one. It demands a thorough understanding of what’s going on around us as well as cooperation between science, politics, consumers, business and civil society alike. It is therefore essential to create a common language around the challenges we face, the options we have and the life we want to live as individuals and as
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a society. In this regard, we should develop a new Low Carbon Culture. To make this happen, we need a large-scale social experiment. An experiment with the power to produce role models, dreams and questions that can pave the way into a lowcarbon future. The music and entertainment industry has a global reach and can unleash imagination and passion like few other industries. A festival is by definition a social experiment. Fans attend festivals to experiment with new forms of sound, visuals, stimulants and love. At best, festivals are a celebration of life itself. Why not add sustainable innovation to that list? And this is happening right now: At this year’s GO (Green Operations) Group meeting, big festivals from all over Europe gathered for the first time to exchange ideas and inspire change towards greener production practices. And an impressive list of members came together: Scandinavians like Oya (Norway), Roskilde (Denmark), Ilosaari (Finland) and Way Out West (Sweden) met with the crazy guys from Boom (Portugal), Wacken and Tollwood (Germany) to develop smarter, greener ways together. Glastonbury (UK) shared best practises with PinkPop, Nature One, Rock am Ring (Germany) and St. Gallen (Switzerland). Hurricane, Rhein kultur and Melt! (Germany) provided insights into their greening efforts. Smarter alterna-
tives in energy production, mobility and waste reduction will be showcased at festivals all over Europe during the 2012 festival season. The organisers will guide their visitors towards climate-friendly alternatives and lead with positive examples and practical solutions. By being responsible and taking action, relevant actors in the music industry can become role models and pave the way for vital climate protection measures. This way of thinking would create a demand-andsupply chain of innovative and sustainable strategies that make sense – both from a climate and from a business point of view. The Green Music Initiative’s effort to green the industry is a truly pan-European approach – our aim is to build on existing and create new synergies. We have a clear understanding that business as usual will no longer be possible. There’s no time to lose, but so much to win for everybody. And maybe we can help to form a new common vision for the global change that’s necessary. Please be part of this amazing journey: let’s groove to save the world. Jacob Bilabel Green Music Initiative / THEMA1 www.greenmusicinitiative.de
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Using the Gift of Beauty Climate change is a unique opportunity to rethink everything, also their design. Each energy system goes with a corresponding electricity grid – Lucile Barras, project manager at THEMA1, envisions the power grid for a renewables’ future. On the way to a climate-friendly world, the radical transformation that is needed provides us with a unique opportunity to rethink and improve our habits and systems. In the area of infrastructure, where changes are made to last decades, we are shaping the world of 2050 by building its foundations today. Thus, we need to ask ourselves now: what infrastructure do we want to leave to our children and grandchildren? The shift away from fossil fuels, for instance, requires an adaptation of the electricity grid. To avoid it becoming the bottleneck for the growth of renewable energies, many kilometres of new overhead lines will need
to be installed in the near future. Europe’s electricity grid was built over 50 years ago. In times of general enthusiasm about industrial development, they signified progress and comfort. Engineers spread steel lattice pylons all over the landscape, for they are robust, functional and cheap. Nowadays however, power lines have a strong negative image in public opinion they are associated with heavy pollution resulting from energy giants’ pursuit of profit regardless of environmental and health consequences. New power line projects arouse public opposition leading to long delays in planning procedures. Current attempts to win public acceptance try to provide more transparency, understanding and dialogue. However, they do not address another crucial aspect of grid lines: their visual effect. The 50m-high steel towers and their cables have a strong visual impact on landscapes.
Superstring designed by Yong Ho Shin © shindesignworks
The technical, hard look of lattice pylons is reminiscent of heavy industry. Their austere look thus suffices to evoke feelings of dismay in observers. If new grid lines built to transport electricity from renewable sources cannot be avoided and are not put underground for various reasons, their design should be brought into line with current aesthetic norms and reflect the transformation of the electricity system in a climate-, environment- and society-friendly system. When it comes to the acceptance among the public of infrastructure projects, the power of aesthetics has already been proved many times by bridges: carefully designed, they become landmarks and tourist attractions. Power grids might also have the same potential. First attempts to explore the future pylons’ design options were undertaken by architects and designers in various pylon design
competitions, producing around 500 new concepts. Some of them are enchanting and invite us to take a visionary outlook towards future landscapes with grids maintaining or even enhancing their scenic beauty. Lucile Barras Renewables-Grid-Initiative / THEMA1 www.renewables-grid.eu
“Plexus” pylon by Amanda Levete Architects & Arup, © DECC
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About the PCF World Forum Consumption of goods and services indirectly contributes to a large share of worldwide GHG emissions. Solutions are needed to help companies manage and communicate the impact of their products on the climate and general environment. They are also needed to provide consumers with information on a product’s climate impact to help them make climate-conscious consumption decisions. The Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) World Forum is a neutral platform to share practical experiences and knowledge towards climateconscious consumption and production. The international platform provides orientation in current standardisation processes and creates opportunities for discussing inter national corporate best practices and emerging tools to support low carbon and climate-conscious consumption models. The PCF World Forum was created out of the ambition to talk with each other and
not just about each other given the ever increasing number of initiatives around the world and often little real understanding of respective approaches and activities. Over the past years representatives from a range of organisations and initiatives have come together at the PCF World S ummits, PCF World Forum Update Workshops and dedicated Dialogue Fora Low Carbon Society to give insights into their own work, discuss and interpret current developments and explore possible common pathways. The PCF World Summits have stimulated several working groups such as the current Task Force on international harmonisation of Product Category Rules and concrete co operations among participants. PCF World Forum is a project by Berlin based think-do-tank THEMA1. www.pcf-world-forum.org
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Past Activities of the PCF World Forum PCF World Summits
Dialogue Fora
• 1st PCF World Summit, International Approaches to Product Carbon Footprin ting and Carbon Labelling, Berlin, 2 / 2009. • 2nd PCF World Summit, On the Road to Harmonisation? Business Responses to Diverging Approaches, Berlin, 9 / 2009. • 3rd PCF World Summit, Sector Approaches to Product Carbon Footprin ting, Berlin, 3 / 2010. • 4th PCF World Summit, Product Carbon Footprinting: From Standardisation to Communication, Berlin, 10 / 2010. • 5th PCF World Summit, Implementing the International PCF Standards: Building Credibility in Carbon Footprint Information, Zurich, 4 / 2011. • 6th PCF World Summit, Environmental Footprinting in Europe and Beyond: How will it shape the Corporate Agenda?, Berlin, 10 / 2011. • 7th PCF World Summit, From Environmental Footprinting to Implementation: Renewable Energy in the Value Chain, Berlin, 4 / 2012.
• 1st Dialogue Forum Low Carbon Society, Zukunftsmarkt Klimaschutz: Trends, C hancen und Herausforderungen, Berlin, 5 / 2007. • 2nd Dialogue Forum Low Carbon Society, Von Großbritannien lernen?, Berlin, 10 / 2007. • 3rd Dialogue Forum Low Carbon Society, Product Carbon Footprinting and CO2 Labelling in Europe, Brussels, 5 / 2008. • Dialogue Forum Low Carbon Food Chain, Berlin, 5 / 2011. • Update Workshop, International Standar disation, Legislation and Consistency in Product Carbon Footprinting, Berlin, 7 / 2009. • Update Workshop, French Environmental Labelling Scheme: What to Expect from Grenelle 2, Berlin, 6 / 2010. • First Round Table Product Category Rules, Berlin, 10 / 2010. • Second Round Table Product Category Rules, Zurich, 4 / 2011. • Third Round Table Product Category Rules, Berlin, 10 / 2011. • Fourth Round Table Product Category Rules, Berlin, 4 / 2012.
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Participating Organisations The previous PCF World Summits attracted interest and commitment from more than 400 stakeholders from over 30 countries and stimulated wide-ranging discussions. For the last three years, the PCF World Forum has brought together international stakeholders including senior executives from: 3M 4C Association AENOR ADEME Adidas ADM Hamburg AENOR AIST AkzoNobel Technology & Engineering Alanus University alesco green packaging Alfred Ritter Alnatura ANEC Environment Working Group ANH Immobilien Asahi Photoproducts Europe Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology Bangor University Barilla BASF Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft Bayreuth University Behaviour Change Beiersdorf Berndt & Partner Bio Intelligence Service Blauer Engel Blue Horse Associates BP Europe BREAD & butter British Council British Embassy BSI Bureau de Promotion des Produits du Bois du Québec, Canada Bureau de Normalisation du Québec, Canada BVL Magazine C.A.R.M.E.N. Canon Switzerland
capital Carbon Disclosure Project Carbon Fix Carbon Footprint of Products Project, Japan Carbon Trust carboNzero Casino Centre for Low Carbon Futures Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production / Finnish Environment Institute Chainfood Chair of Economic Geography, Berlin China National Institute of Standardization CIRAIG ClimatePartner Climatop CP Kelco Coca-Cola COLEACP Consumers International Coop cope COWI Ctifl DEKRA CUEIM Danone defra UK delfortgroup Deloitte denkstatt Der Spiegel Deutsche Lebensmittelrundschau Deutsche Milchwirtschaft / Trade Journal Deutsche Telekom Development Research Network DG Environment DHL Innovation Center
Digitaleurope DIN / NAGUS DNV Doyle DQS DSM DuPont Dutch Product Board for Horticulture E.ON Earthster EcoFinance Ecofys UK ecoinvent Ecology and Environment do Brasil Embassy of Malawi, Germany Environ Germany Environmental Economist EPD ERM Ernst & Young EUREF European Commission European Commission‘s Joint Research Centre Evonik Evonik Degussa Federal Environment Agency, Austria Federal Environment Agency, Germany Federal Ministry for Environment, Austria Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germany Federal Press Office, Germany Federal Public Service Environment, DG Environment Federation of German Consumer Organisations Fedis Findus Finnish Meteorological
Institute First Climate Group Flo-Cert Forest Carbon Group Forest Stewardship Council Fraunhofer IML Freie Universität Berlin Fresenius Medical Care FRoSTA Fujitsu Technology Solutions FutureCamp Climate Futurepast GDA GEO Getec Climate Projects GHG Protocol Gies Kerzen GITEC Consult Glocalist Medien GoodGuide Government of Quebec Grantham Research Institute / LSE Greenext Greenpeace Greenpeace Magazine Groupe Casino grüneköpfe GS1 Germany GTZ Guangdong Energy Conservation Center, China Guardian UK GUTcert GZETI H&M Hartmann Heineken Heinrich Bauer Produktions Henkel Hewlett-Packard Hilti Holcim
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Hoof Hop-Cube Hugo Boss HSE Huntsmann Hydro IBM Ideenscout IHK Berlin Ihobe IIIEE ILIB Industrie Forum Design Initiative for Sustainable Use of Paper Innovys Inst. for Adv. Study in the Humanities Instituto Terra International Trade Centre Intertek Iseal Alliance ISO JEMAI Johnson & Johnson Justus Liebig University Gießen Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Kasetsart University, Thailand KEITI Kellogg Europe King Mongkut‘s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Kings College London Kist Europe KlimAktiv KMPG Korea Eco-Products Institute Korea Specialty Chemical Industry Association KRAV ek för Kvantita Oy Lagos State Environ mental Protection Agency Landcare Research Landmark Europe Lebensmittelzeitung Leuphana University Lockheed Martin LoNam Magazine LUBW Karlsruhe LVT Lebensmittel verfahrenstechnik Maersk Container Industry
MAN McDonald‘s Europe memo Merck Miele Migros Ministry for Sustainable Developement, France Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, New Zealand Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industrie, Japan Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export of Québec, Canada Mitsubishi Mizuho Information & Research Institute MTT Finland myclimate Nature & More NatureWorks Nike Noble Carbon Credits Novozymes NZ Netzeitung ofi Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology Organic & Wellness News / Magazine ORSAY Ostfalia - University of applied sciences Ostfold Research Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center Japan OVID PA-Europe Panasonic Europe PE International PepsiCo Pforzheim University Philips Lighting PlasticsEurope Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PRé Consultants PriceWaterhouseCoopers PUC Rio Rainforest Alliance RDC-Environment Recarbon Deutschland Red Onion Repsol Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
Roland Berger SAINT GOBAIN PACKAGING SAP Sara Lee Savage & Hall SCA Hygiene Products SCHOTT Solar Scottish Development International Secretariat ISO 14067 SEEAP Nepal SER Sustainable Equity Return SERI SGS Sustainability Services SGS Institut Fresenius Shell Global Solutions SIK, the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology Soil & More Sonterra Sony Germany South Pole Carbon Asset Management South West College, UK Steinbeis Centre of Management and Technology Stiftung Warentest Straubing Centre of Science Sustain Sustainable Business Institute Sustainable Consumption Institute Svenskt Sigill Swedish Environmental Management Council Swedish Environmental Protecting Agency Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology Swedish Standards Institute Taiwan Environmental Management Association tape.tv Tchibo TechniData Tengelmann Energie Tesco Tetra Pak Thai Carbon Footprint and Labelling Initiative
The Climate Conservancy The Guardian & The Observer The Himalayan Global Fund The Sustainability Consortium Transitions Tricorona Germany TUNAP Group TÜV Nord TÜV Rheinland TÜV Süd UNEP / SETAC Life Cycle Initiative United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Industrial Development Organisation Università Bologna Università ca‘ Foscari University of Bonn University of Bremen University of Göttingen University of Hohenheim University of Manchester University of Padua University of Pforzheim University of Technology Munich University of Tokyo University of Witten / Herdecke UPM-Kymmene UPS Germany Utopia Vertis Environmental Finance VITO NV W.L. Gore & Associates Wacker Chemie WBCSD / WRI WeGreen WestLB Wipak Walsrode World Resources Institute WWF ZEIT DIGITAL ZEIT Magazine ZEIT Online Zero Emissions Technologies
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Third PCR Round Table, 10 / 2011
Product Category Rules (PCR) Task Force Companies across all sectors increasingly assess and communicate the environmental and climate impact of their goods and services. To achieve comparability in results, uniform and specific metrics are needed. International standards for product carbon footprinting (PCF) such as the GHG Protocol Product Standard or ISO 14067 „Carbon footprint of products“ are currently developed and will provide basic rules for the assessment and communication of PCF results. However, various assumptions still need to be made in each assessment of a carbon footprint or full LCA. Due to the lack of specificity, PCFs for identical products may therefore still lead to incomparable results. The major standards hence refer to the use of Product Category Rules (PCRs), which provide a set of specific rules for the assessment of a product in a certain product category or sector. PCRs are traditionally developed by industry groups and / or national EPD programs. Many business associations are currently devel-
oping PCRs or are planning to do so. As a consequence, often many different rules exist for a certain product category inter nationally. The increasing uptake of product carbon footprinting and the application of the new standards further contributes to this situation. As a result, a company that wishes to assess the carbon footprint of a certain product may be confronted with a range of different possible PCRs. Also many pro duct categories share the same underlying processes such as transport or agriculture. The PCR Round Table hosted by the PCF World Forum works towards global alignment of product category and sector rules. The Task Force includes members from the World Resources Institute, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, JEMAI, GEDnet, Environdec, the French Environmental Ministry, defra, the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment, Earthster and is facilitated by Mark Goedkoop from PRé and Rasmus Priess from the PCF World Forum.
6) Renewable Energy Use in Value Chains Initiatives providing standards and incentives for renewable energy use in products or value chains: • Bloomberg Corp. Renewable Energy Index • GHG Protocol Power Accounting Guidelines • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership • WindMade
Joint Initiatives
5) Product Category Rules Related and Sector Initiatives Initiatives developing overarching frameworks or guidance for product category and sector specifications, particularly with the aim to ensure comparable results of carbon and environmental footprint calculations. Also: Initiatives with a particular sector focus: • Carbon Film Quote • Carbon Footprint of Products Labelling Project from the Quebec Government • European Food SCP Round Table • PCR Guidance (ACLCA) • Rainforest Alliance / SAN Climate Module • The International EPD®system • The Sustainability Consortium SMRS • The 4C Climate Module for Green Coffee Production
Individual Initiatives
2) Country / Governmental initiatives Initiatives by Governments / local authorities or with a strong geographical focus: • EU Environmental Footprinting Project • Environmental Product Declaration, France • The Blue Angel, Germany • PCF Project Germany / Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption, Germany • Per il Clima, Italy • Carbon Footprint of Products Initiatives, Japan • Carbon Footprint Label, Korea • Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management Project, Nigeria • Climate Certification of the Food Chain, Sweden • Carbon Footprint Labels, Taiwan • Thai Carbon Footprint and Labelling Initiative, Thailand • PAS 2050
4) Individual Initiatives Initiatives launched by or focussing on individual companies: • Environmental Index, France • Zurück zum Ursprung, Austria
PCRs and Sector Guidance
1) International Standards Overarching and internationally recognised standards for carbon and environmental footprinting: • GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) and Product Life Cycle Standards • ISO 14067 – Carbon Footprint of Products
3) Joint Initiatives Initiatives spanning multiple sectors: • Carbon Reduction Label, UK • Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain, UK • Climatop, Switzerland • Hop-Cube Ecological Barometer, France
Renewable Energy Use
The PCF World Forum is a joint platform set up to foster and facilitate dialogue with and between international initiatives on how to assess, reduce and communicate the impact of goods and services on the climate. A large number of such initiatives have formed over the years and more are emerging. The following pages provide an introduction to some of these initiatives, many of which are participating at the 7th PCF World Summit. The initiatives have been grouped into categories for easier access though more than one category may be applicable.
International Standards
Worldwide Initiatives Addressing the Climate Impact of Products and Value Chains
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GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) and Product Life Cycle Standards The Greenhouse Gas Protocol provides the foundation for sustainable climate strategies GHG Protocol standards are the most widely used suite of international accounting tools for businesses and other organisations to measure, manage, and report GHG emissions. In 2010, more than 85 % of the 2,487 respondents to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) survey used the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard to measure and report their emissions. With the addition of the new Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard and Product Life Cycle Standard, companies can now measure, manage and report their full corporate value chain emissions and the emissions from the products they buy, manufacture and sell. Towards global standards The new standards complete the GHG Protocol suite of corporate accounting and reporting standards created for business. The tools establish a much-needed comprehensive, global, standardized framework for companies working to manage their value chain and product emissions and to mitigate their climate impacts. The Corporate Value Chain and Product Life Cycle standards have been created through a broad, inclusive, multi-stakeholder process. Over a three year period: • 2,300 participants were involved from 55 countries • 207 members formed technical working groups to draft the standards, and • 60 companies from various industries road tested the standards in 2010.
The Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard The Corporate Value Chain Standard is the first tool companies can use to assess their entire value chain impact and identify the most effective ways to reduce emissions. Often, the majority of total corporate emissions come from scope 3 sources, which means many companies have been missing out on significant opportunities for improvement. For example, road tester Kraft Foods found that value chain emissions comprise more than 90 % of the company’s total emissions. Users of the new standard can now account for emissions from 15 categories of scope 3 activities, both upstream and downstream of their operations. The scope 3 framework also supports strategies to partner with suppliers and customers to address climate impacts throughout the value chain. The Product Life Cycle Standard The Product Standard can be used to understand the full life cycle emissions of a product and focus efforts on the greatest GHG reduction opportunities. This is the first step towards more sustainable products. Using the new standard, companies can measure the greenhouse gases associated with the full life cycle of products including raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, storage, use and disposal. The results can create compe titive advantage by enabling better product design, increasing efficiencies, reducing costs, and removing risks. The standard will also help companies respond to customer demand for environmental information. www.ghgprotocol.org
www.iso.org (Text extract from ISO Focus Magazine article by Klaus Radunsky, edition Mai 2011)
Joint Initiatives
Country / Governmental
International Standards
WG 2 decided to align the requirements for addressing direct and indirect land-use changes with the specifications of the revised PAS 2050. These requirements are informed by research in Europe and the American state of California, which elaborate details related to sustainability criteria for biofuels. Other sector-specific category rules are under development for the electronic industry by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and for building construction under ISO 21930:2007, Sustainability in building construction – Environmental declaration of buil ding products. These organisations cooperate through liaison with ISO / TC 207 / SC 7/ WG 2. ISO 14067 is planned to become available as a Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) by August 2012, with publication expected for November 2012.
Individual Initiatives
The standard also offers a range of communication options, including carbon footprint declarations, claims, labels, reporting and performance tracking. The requirements on verification and the need for specific product category rules are partly dependent upon whether the communication is B2B or B2C. To improve user-friendliness and consistency, working group WG 2, GHG management in the value or supply chain, of ISO technical committee ISO / TC 207, Environment management, subcommittee SC 7, Greenhouse gas management and related activities, decided to merge Part 1, Quantification, and Part 2, Communication. The working group allowed for a second round of balloting to ensure that the standard would earn broad support in all countries.
Thanks to an initiative from the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS), ISO member for the country, and the Swedish International Development Authority (Sida), the ISO process has gained significant engagement from developing countries, in particular from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA countries) and the East African Community (EAC countries). Those contributions are helping to develop an International Standard that will be useful around the world. This strong interest from developing countries is also reflected in the growing engagement of India and China.
PCRs and Sector Guidance
Development of ISO 14067 continues apace. Quantification requirements are maturing, and have already informed internal guidance documents for the American retailer Wal-Mart and other companies. The standard will provide much more specific guidance than the underlying ISO 14044:2006, Environmental manage ment – Life cycle assessment – Requirements and guidelines. However, the standard avoids excessively prescriptive language in order to effectively support carbon footprint measurement for all products and services. ISO 14067 calls for specific product category rules, including not only the specifications of ISO 14025:2006, Environmental labels and declarations – Type III environmental declarations – Principles and procedures, but also other sector-specific standards or internationally agreed guidance documents related to materials and product categories.
Renewable Energy Use
ISO 14067 – Carbon Footprint of Products – Requirements and Guidelines for Quantification and Communication
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EU Environmental Fooprinting Project In its conclusions on the Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan, the Council invited the Commission “to take into account Member States’ experience, to start working as soon as possible on common voluntary methodologies facilitating the future establishment of carbon audits for organisations and the calculation of the carbon footprint of products and organi sations”. In a detailed assessment of existing product and organisational footprinting methodologies and initiatives the European Commission came to the conclusion that it is important to take into consideration all environmental impacts of products and organisations in a balanced way. After further demands for harmonised methodologies through the “Single Market Act”, the European Council Conclusions on “Sustainable materials management and sustainable production and consumption” and the Resource Efficiency Roadmap, DG Environment is now working together with the European Commission’s Joint Research
Centre (JRC IES) and other European Commission services towards the development of • a harmonised methodology for the calculation of the environmental footprint of products • and a technical guide for the calculation of the environmental footprint of organisations. The methodologies will be developed buil ding on the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) handbook as well as other existing methodological standards and guidance documents (For environmental footprint of products: ISO 14040-44, PAS 2050, BP X30, WRI / WBCSD GHG P rotocol, Sustainability Consortium, ISO 14025, Ecological Footprint, etc. For environmental footprint of organisations: Global Reporting Initiative, WRI GHG Protocol, CDP Water Footprint, ISO 140064, DEFRA guidance on GHG reporting, ADEME Bilan Carbone, etc.) http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/ product_footprint.htm http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/ corporate_footprint.htm
Deadlines Analysis of existing methodologies Draft methodological guide Training on methodology Invited stakeholder meeting Pilot tests concluded Public stakeholder consultation on the policy options Final methodological guide
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Deadlines Analysis of existing methodologies Draft methodological guide
March 2011 September 2011
13-15 July 2011
Training on the methodology
13-15 July 2011 and 19-20 October 2011
28-30 November 2011
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28-30 November 2011
20 December 2011 January 2012 - April 2012 Fall 2012
Timeline Methodology Environmental Footprint of Products
Pilot tests concluded Stakeholder consultation on policy options Final methodological guide
28 February 2012 January 2012 - April 2012 Fall 2012
Timeline Technical Guide Environmental Footprint of Organisations
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French Minister of Sustainable Development, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, at press conference on E nvironmental Product Declaration
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http://affichage-environnemental.afnor.org www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr
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This experimentation will allow testing several issues (calculation methodologies, data, communication, consumer reaction, costs, impact on SMEs etc.). An evaluation
In the meantime, since 2008, the ADEMEAFNOR stakeholder platform has been developing a general environmental footprinting methodology (BPX 30-323) and product category rules (PCRs) – twelve PCRs to date. ADEME is also constructing a public generic product life cycle database, as well as calculators. These tools aim to facilitate a general implementation.
Individual Initiatives
will be made and a report sent to the parliament, on the basis of which, as provided by the Grenelle II law, sector implemention measures may be taken.
PCRs and Sector Guidance
France is currently conducting a national experimentation on consumer product environmental information that has started on 1 July 2011 to last one year. The trial covers the quantification of environmental impacts and the communication of environ mental footprints to the consumer. 230 companies applied 168 of them have been selected. All sectors are represented, with about one third from the food and beverage area. Several foreign companies – from Chile, Colombia, Sweden etc. – are part of the selection as well as French branches of multinationals.
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Environmental Product Declaration, France
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The German Blue Angel and Climate Protection Since 1978 the German Blue Angel has set the standard for eco-friendly goods and services. Today, about 11.500 products within over 90 categories carry the Blue Angel eco-label. It is a state-initiated label whose criteria are adopted by an indepen dent jury including representatives of civil organisations and the industry. In line with the international standard for eco-labelling, ISO 14024, the Blue Angel as a so called Type I Eco-label is designed to promote goods and services that have – based on the entire life cycle – reduced environmental and health impacts compared to the market average. Combined with other environmental policy instruments, eco-label initiatives can play their part to restructure the economy towards sustainable development. In 2008 the German Federal Environment Ministry together with the Eco-labelling Board introduced a new cluster approach in which climate change is one category. To strengthen the portfolio of the Blue Angel in this regard, the Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency launched a large project within the national climate initiative. The objective of this project is to extend the product range of the Blue Angel up to 100 product categories with climate relevance by 2012. The importance and positive effect of such developments is shown by the fact that private households alone account directly for
more than one fourth of all GHG emissions in Germany. And this calculation does not even include the emissions caused by the production of goods and services. It is expected that if only the eco-labelled top runner products were used, households would be able to achieve electric power savings up to 30-40 percent. Instead of developing a new singleissue label based on PCF, the responsible stakeholders in Germany decided in 2009 to integrate PCF into the Blue Angel as a well-established labelling programme. They are currently investigating options to put this further into practice, e.g. how to systema tically include criteria on carbon footprinting into the criteria setting of the Blue Angel and successful ways to communicate it to the consumers. www.blauer-engel.de/en/index.php
Consumption perspective important for holistic climate change mitigation The collective work has highlighted the importance of consumption for climate change mitigation and led to the establishment of the Platform for Climate Compatible
www.pcf-project.de www.plattform-kvk.de
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The Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany provides a basis for businesses and other stakeholders in society to jointly address and advance climate compatible consumption. The Platform and its members see themselves as drivers and partners in the implementation of GHG reduction measures in global value chains both on the side of the respective companies and also in the use of goods and services by consumers. Apart from stimulating dialogue around and the collective promotion of climate compatible consumption, the Platform offers members a context in which to measure, interpret and communicate the climate compatibility of their own products against recognised standards and in close dialogue with relevant stakeholders.
Joint Initiatives
The Platform evolved from the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Project Germany – www.pcf-project.de. In the project, which was implemented from 2007 to early 2009, the concept of product carbon footprinting was explored in practical case studies with a range of companies across sectors. Through this work, important foundations for the assessment of PCFs were established and recommendations for their application and the international standardisation of underlying methodologies given. Findings and recommendations from the pilot phase are documented in the report “Product Carbon Footprinting – The Right Way to Promote Low Carbon Products and Consumption Habits?”, available online.
Cross-sector and cross-stakeholder partnership to promote climate compatible consumption
Individual Initiatives
From the PCF Project to the Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany
Consumption. In a first step the interrelation of consumption and climate mitigation was explored and put into a perspective of business approaches already under way. The findings are documented in the report „Beyond Reduced Consumption: Perspectives for Climate Compatible Consumption“.
PCRs and Sector Guidance
The cross-sector and cross-stakeholder Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany promotes joint approaches for GHG emission reductions along value chains and in consumption.
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PCF Project Germany / Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption, Germany
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Per il Clima, Italy Legambiente, the most widespread environ mental organisation in Italy, supports companies in bridging the gap between consumers and producers: the project, named Per il Clima, is the first label in Italy that communi cates the amount of GHGs emitted by a product or a service during its life cycle. Per il Clima’s selection criteria consider the environmental impact of the products bought by consumers, thus moving beyond a mere consideration of quality and convenience. As a voluntary label, Per il Clima is an expression of a corporation’s intention to assume responsibility towards the environment and the consumers. The assessment of product CO2eq-emissions is conducted by Ambiente Italia, an environmental research institute, on the basis of PAS 2050. The
Carbon Footprint Label, Korea Following a nine-month pilot programme, the Korea Environmental Industry and Techno logy Institute (KEITI) introduced a carbon label in February 2009. So far, more than 400 goods and services have been labelled. www.edp.or.kr/carbon/english/list/list.asp
Potenziale contributo all’effetto serra derivante dai gas climalteranti emessi durante le fasi del ciclo di vita del prodotto valutate
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evaluation can be based on either the entire life cycle of the product or on one or various phases (ex. the extraction of raw materials, production, use, disposal). www.viviconstile.org
In this three-year pilot project, many outcomes and insights were gained as shown in the following examples: • 73 PCRs have been established and more than 460 products verified. • Approximately 100 companies have released CFP labelled products. • Basic guidelines and supplementary rules have been published. • A CFP database with over 1,200 GHG data has been established. • The “system certification scheme” has been proved to be working as a new veri fication method. • Different types of marks have been explored, including the “reduction-ratio mark”. • Seminars, expositions and educational events have been held to disseminate CFP nationwide. The new Japanese CFP scheme: “CFP Communication Programme” The pilot project has been completed and JEMAI (Japan Environmental Management
International Standards Country / Governmental
www.jemai.or.jp/english/lca/project.cfm
Tokyo Eco-Products Exhibition 2011
Individual Initiatives
The CFP Pilot Project (FY2009-FY2011)
PCRs and Sector Guidance
Following “the Action Plan for Achieving a Low-Carbon Society”, approved by the Cabinet in July 2008, METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) started the CFP Project in Japan based on ISO 14040, ISO 14044 and ISO 14025. After one year of trial study, the CFP Pilot Project was officially launched in 2009.
Association for Industry) has taken over the Japanese CFP scheme since April 2012. The newly born “CFP Communication Programme” will be carried out on the basis of outcomes gained in these three years. It intends to raise CFP’s visibility, improve cost-performance and involve more stakeholders by shifting its communication style from “simply showing the figure” to “communicating results based on life cycle thinking”. Efforts will be made to integrate CFP into the “Eco-leaf Programme (Japanese Type III labelling programme)” in the near future in order to achieve more comprehensive environmental information disclosure.
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Background
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Carbon Footprint of Products Initiatives, Japan
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Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management Project, Nigeria The initiative of the Lagos State Environ mental Protection Agency (LASEPA) in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Environment, Climate Change Unit, was introduced to the Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter in 2010, it controls participation of over five thousand companies from both manufacturing and commercial sectors, it covers mandatory GHG emission report to the carbon registry of the Lagos state government and includes government ministries, departments and agencies. The initiative adopts a common measuring tool for carbon footprint among organisations and deployed an environmental cost management system for products and projects carbon footprints. The Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management system is a green value chain network infrastructure providing: • Databases of GHG emissions inventory to include the GHG associated with the transport system of Lagos State under the category of different means of transpor tation in Lagos State. This is being configured by taking GHG of different routes across Lagos Metropolis, the different means of energy sources in Lagos State, the GHG emission inventory of water supply through the Lagos State Water Cooperation, the Land Use Change GHG emission information and other GHG emission inventory associated with public utility.
• Environmental management system that constitutes resources for different orga nisations to use for the effective environmental management (GHG emission measuring and control) of their products. In essence, this provides a platform for sourcing of secondary GHG emissions data for input into the computation of PCFs. The system provides reliable scope 3 inventory data for PCF. The platform is configured across a statewide supply chain system and affords companies within Lagos State the possibility of effective logistics management facility. Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management project introduced three carbon labels for consumers green consumption. www.lagoscarbonmanagement.org
Examples of criteria: • Fodder: Lower use of soy and locally produced, climate calculated fodder for efficient production. • Nitrogen: Efficient use of nitrogen to reduce emissions of nitrous oxide. • Animal welfare: Healthy animals results in lower emissions per produced kg meat. • Energy: Saving energy is good for the wallet and for the climate. Third party certification to ensure that farmers and food industry comply with climate mitigation measures The certification is carried out through regular third party inspections by an accredited certification body to ensure compliance with the criteria. The criteria are based on scien-
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The climate certification system has a multicriteria approach. The following environmental targets are considered in the system: • Biological diversity • Nutrient management • Closed loop systems From certification to labelling Swedish Seal / Svenskt Sigill offers producers who have voluntarily certified their production a label that communicates to consumers that improvements have been made. So far (Oct 2011), 61 products are available in Swedish shops with the label, and more are expected. www.klimatmarkningen.se/in-english
Individual Initiatives
Increase producers’ competitiveness by helping them communicate improvements to consumers
Climate is only one component of sustainability
PCRs and Sector Guidance
A Swedish study shows three out of four consumers want to be able to choose food with lower climate impact, and every second consumer is willing to pay more for such a product. The Swedish approach is to present a label for food which guarantees that substantial reductions in climate impact have been made. No carbon footprint is presented the criteria are based on a scan of potential improvements in the food chain.
tific background documents. LCAs are used when they exist otherwise, sound scientific studies as well as practical considerations form a strong foundation for the criteria.
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Help consumers choose climate friendly food products in each food category
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Climate Certification of the Food Chain – A Swedish Initiative for Lower Climate Impact of the Food Chain
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Carbon Footprint Labels, Taiwan The Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP) System in Taiwan There are two carbon label initiatives in Taiwan. The label developed by the Taiwanese Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) is a cross-sector label. The Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association (TEEMA) launched its own label for the electronic sector. Both labels have already been awarded to a couple of products. Introduction of the CFP System in Taiwan The carbon footprint labelling system will be promoted and carried out in two stages. In the first stage, businesses are encouraged to conduct and assess the carbon footprint of their products. This will allow them to understand the percentage of GHGs emitted throughout the various stages of their product’s life cycle. Furthermore, it will help them to review and plan solutions for their GHG reduction. Consumers, on the other hand, will be more likely to understand and purchase products with carbon emission revelations. This will, in turn, encourage businesses to increase their efforts in GHG management and reduction. Once the assessment and labelling systems for the CFP will be standardised with unifying rules, and once most products of the same
category will be labelled accordingly, the project will enter a second stage, aiming at reducing the carbon emissions through concrete action. Guideline for accounting the carbon footprint of products and services Since ISO 14067 is not yet completed, a guideline to assess the carbon footprint of products and services has been created to serve as a reference for carbon footprinting. Based on a LCA method under CNS 14040 and CNS 14044, and referring to the content of PAS 2050:2008 and ISO 14067 CD1, this guideline provides detailed rules as well as a unifying accounting method to calculate the GHGs throughout the life cycles of products and services from all sectors. http://cfp.epa.gov.tw
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Initiative
http://thaicarbonlabel.tgo.or.th
Thailand GHG Management Organisation (Public Organisation: TGO), in collaboration with the National Metal and Materials Technology Centre (MTEC) and several Organisations in Thailand, has promoted the development of the CFP and the Carbon Footprint of Organisations (CFO). These aim to provide an alternative for consumers, manufacturers and organisations to reduce GHG emissions, as well as to promote and enhance the competitiveness of the Thai industrial sector in the global market. One of the aims is to prepare manufacturers for the upcoming ISO 14067 and ISO 14069 standards as well as other environmental standards.
The CFP labelling scheme has been very well received by the industry with enthu siastic participation. By February 2012, 458 products from 100 companies have received the CFP label.
Country / Governmental
The CFP labelling scheme was launched in 2009. The first 23 products from 16 pilot companies were awarded with the CFP label on 25 December 2009. The CFO pilot project was launched in 2010. The 12 pilot organi sations were awarded with CFO certificates on 22 July 2011.
Joint Initiatives
As a consequence of global warming, effective GHG emission reduction methods have been promoted and practiced globally. This has involved different actors, namely the industrial and agricultural sector as the producers, the service sector as the providers and the general public as the consumers. The consumer sector can contribute to the emission reduction effort through its selection of products and services with lower GHG emissions. Therefore, it is necessary for the consumers to be informed about carbon footprints to support their purchasing decisions.
Individual Initiatives
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PCRs and Sector Guidance
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Thai Carbon Footprint and Labelling Initiative, Thailand
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PAS 2050 Product Footprinting: Mapping the Way Forward PAS 2050 – how it all started Originally published in 2008 by BSI, PAS 2050 is the world’s first carbon footprint standard developed to assist organisations in assessing and managing the climate change impact of the products they offer. Used internationally on a wide array of products, PAS 2050 sets a methodological benchmark for other national and international footprint initiatives to strive towards and be informed by. The 2011 revision of PAS 2050 has rendered the methodology more accessible to a wider range of businesses by addressing advances in theoretical knowledge and the practical experience of the PAS 2050’s far-reaching user community. Continuous co-operation with organizations such as ISO, WRI / WBCSD, and the European Commission brings the PAS 2050 methodology and its use towards closer alignment with other international footprint methods to promote harmonization of standards. Supporting GHG management effort at the sector / product category level Taking account of evidence that PCF could be enhanced through additional categoryspecific rules, PAS 2050:2011 introduces a framework to permit the coordinated development and use of such supplementary requirements. Examples of category-specific initiatives include: PAS 2050-1 (horticultural products) – this first derivative of PAS 2050 (published March 2012) offers invaluable assistance and clarity
to organizations within the horticulture sector for the assessment of the climate change impact of their products. PAS 2050-2 (aquatic food products) – this specification (in development) will establish supplementary requirements for the appli cation of PAS 2050 to the assessment of emissions from all aquatic food products. PAS 2070 (consumption-based emissions in cities). The PAS (in development) will focus its core content on a measurement method ology for Scope 3 emissions. A variety of approaches will be needed to develop a useful estimate of city-scale GHG emissions across different sectors / activities. The PAS will be enabled for use by other cities globally. The bigger picture… The PAS 2050 family of standards addresses the single impact category of global warming. It is important to consider GHG emissions within the context of other environmental and social impacts and devise effective tools to manage these impacts. At BSI, we realise that today’s huge task is to start addressing the impact of the global supply chain in its totality. BSI’s portfolio of standards therefore includes tools from different sub-disciplines, ranging from embedding sustainable development into business practices, encouraging resource efficiency, promoting environmentally friendly technologies, to supporting socially respons ible business practices and ethical trading. www.bsigroup.com/sustainability www.bsigroup.com/PAS2050
www.facebook.com/PCFworldforum www.youtube.com/user/PCFworldforum www.pcf-world-forum.org
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PCF World Summit 26-27 September 2012
PCRs and Sector Guidance
Individual Initiatives
PCF World Summit 17-18 April 2012
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Carbon Reduction Label, UK About the Carbon Trust The Carbon Reduction Label was created by the Carbon Trust, a not-for-profit company whose mission is to accelerate the move to a low-carbon economy. Our work involves tasks as diverse as helping companies large and small to cut their carbon footprints, encouraging the development of new low-carbon technologies such as offshore wind and wave power and investing in the solutions of the future to develop the low-carbon economy. This will lead to more green jobs and a more sustainable future for everybody. A guide to the label The Carbon Reduction Label is an easily recognisable on-pack label that can be used to check whether the producing company is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of the product on sale. Brands that want to ‘wear’ the Label are required to calculate the exact footprint of the product in question to the PAS 2050 standard. This standard was developed in 2007 by the Carbon Trust in partnership with the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and BSI British Standards. It is now being used around the world by hundreds of companies to calculate their PCFs.
When calculating a carbon footprint, every stage in the product‘s life cycle must be taken into account including the raw materials and packaging needed to produce it, through to manufacture, transportation, sale to the end user, use and disposal. Once the carbon footprint of the product has been measured and certified, the brand then has to commit to reducing the product’s emissions. Every two years, the product must be reassessed and a reduction has to have been achieved and independently certified – or the Label is removed. www.carbontrustcertification.com www.carbon-label.com
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Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) drives emissions reductions by providing a global system for companies to measure, disclose, manage and share climate change information. CDP Supply Chain enables businesses to implement successful supplier engagement strategies, reduce supply chain emissions and manage risk in a changing climate. This collaborative approach fosters innovative thinking.
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CDP Contacts Paul Dickinson Chief Executive Officer paul.dickinson@cdproject.net +44 (0) 207 415 7112
Amanda Haworth-Wiklund Director – Nordic Region amanda.haworth@cdproject.net +46 (0) 8 314 206
Sue Howells Head of Global Operations sue.howells@cdproject.net +44 (0) 7920 091 790
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Take Sueyoshi Chairman – Japan take.sueyoshi@cdproject.net + 81 (0) 3 5210 1328
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Daniel Turner Project Manager daniel.turner@cdproject.net +44 (0) 207 970 5675
Michiyo Morisawa Director – Japan michiyo.morisawa@cdproject.net + 81 (0) 3 5210 1328
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Tom Carnac Programme Manager Public Sector tom.carnac@cdproject.net +44 (0) 207 415 7109 Kate Levick Head of Government Partnerships kate.levick@cdproject.net +44 (0) 207 415 7162 Carbon Disclosure Project 40 Bowling Green Lane
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The business case is strong and growing: suppliers that do not measure, quantify, and manage their GHGback emissions will soon see their business move to competitors that can provide better information and clearer evidence of change. Supply chain engagement can help mitigate these risks and drive greater emissions reductions, as well as identifying new revenue opportunities and CDP Supply Chain is a simple annual processbrand that results positioning. in consistent improved Cost reductions information from suppliers on climaterelated strategy and action. This feeprimarily come from energy based service produces positive results efficiency from suppliers, eliminates duplicate requests, reduces questionnaire fatigue measures, collaborative efforts in packaging, and provides a standard platform for comparison. The results are aggregated logistics, and other functions. into actionable reports that facilitate
CDP Supply Chain makes a win-win scena rio a reality: both the purchasing organisation and their suppliers benefit because relationships with suppliers are strengthened and suppliers improve their capacity to operate in a low carbon economy. Executed correctly, supply chain engagement will not simply generate benefits for the environment, but for the balance sheet as well.
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Climate change has become a mainstream business issue and large corporations are now extending their gains in internal carbon management to the next opportunity: their supply chain. An organisation’s supply chain can represent as much as 86 % of its total emissions and, in the past year alone, 30 % of Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Supply Chain member companies reported supply chain disruptions due to weather-related incidents.
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Climatop, Switzerland Labelling Intelligent, Climate Friendly Products Objectives Climatop works as a tool for realising a Low Carbon Society. The label aims to support climate friendly purchase behaviour as well as a long-term development and distribution of climate compatible products and services world-wide. A competitive approach Climatop represents a best-in-class-label, thereby calculating and comparing innovative products and certifying those which emit, compared with a representative peer group or an industry average, less GHGs. This leads to an incentive for producers to change their products in such a way as to save energy and material, at the same time maintaining their functionality. Climatop calls these products „intelligent, climate friendly products“, since the company made an effort to improve the products in order to realise a lower environmental impact. The award of the label is based on a full cradle-to-grave LCA taking into account not only CO2 emissions but also relevant environmental burdens. The LCA calculations are verified by an independent, external inspection body, which corresponds to the requirement of the ISO 14040 standard. Moreover, Climatop includes social criteria. The label is only valid for two years. In the context of a new assessment the producer has to, thereafter, show that its label is still justified. In the new assessment, the most
current standards of the LCA methods and database values are used. If a competitor has a better result, i.e. a more climate friendly product, the former holder of the award has to return the label. Current status and future goals So far, Climatop has certified 60 products since 2008. The range of the products varies from investment to consumer goods. One of the key goals for the future remains the cooperation with partners that enable a quick and geographic broadening of the label whenever it is reasonable. Recently, Climatop went international by labelling its first German product. Next important steps are going to be taken world-wide. All labelled products are described in detail on fact sheets publicly available at www.climatop.ch
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Moreover, the digital form offers the possi bility to gather statistical data. Indeed, once the tool is implemented, statistical data can be collected on how the consumer interacts with the information in order to continuously improve the service. For instance, it has been measured that the tool is being consulted 3 million times a month. The ecological barometer is often coupled with another digital tool called HopSimu. It is a simulator that empowers the consumer to adapt the environmental data he is reading to his own behaviour.
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Behind the ecological barometer lies a tool able to automatically gather all environmental data available on a product and its brand. A significant part of the gathered product data consists of LCA data, which are displayed through three LCA indicators. The indicators vary depending on product categories except for the carbon footprint indicator. For example on a washing machine, the two other indicators are water footprint and nonrenewable resources consumption, whilst on a piece of clothing, the eutrophication indicator is chosen over the resources indicator. The scoring sums up the indicators so that
the comparison between several product footprints is effortless. The digital display form is the most comprehensive as it enables easy and quick comparison, interaction via social network tools, as well as several levels of information and multimedia. It embraces all aggregated environmental data such as product labels, manufacturers’ CSR policies, and pedagogical content. The approach is fully transparent as the whole methodology is explained as well.
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The purpose of the ecological barometer is to enable consumers to easily access and understand environmental information on products. It achieves this by providing them synthetic, transparent and documented information in order to support eco-conscious purchases. The products are carrying the barometer on their packaging, digitally through mobile and / or directly on the product page of e-merchant websites. 35 000 products have already disclosed their environmental footprints through this tool.
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Environmental Index by Casino Group, Bio Intelligence Service and Partners Consortium, France Projects stakeholders and products concerned The project stems from an active colla boration of members of the retail trade, food manufacturers and an environmental labelling consultant company. A technical partnership was also set up with an environ mental organisation, which monitored every stage of the project’s development. In addition, a group of consumer associations was consulted on a regular basis throughout the project. In all, over 140 private label and national brand food products are involved in the Environmental Index over 2011. Description The Environmental Index defined by the Casino, BIO Intelligence Service and partners consortium represents the environmental impact of 100gr (or ml) of product compared to the environmental impact of the total daily consumption of food of a French person, accounting for 3 impact indicators (greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption and eutrophication) aggregated using the PRIOR® method. Why aggregate environmental impacts? Environmental information based on several environmental criteria can affect c ustomers or even cancel out the potential benefits of an environmental labelling initiative of products in terms of customer behaviour by leaving them to referee between the different environmental impact categories: is it better for me to opt for climate warming? Water
consumption? Eutrophication? In order to facilitate interpretation of the results and help customers in their decision-making, LCA result weighting-aggregation methods can be used: the results obtained for each environmental impact category are “converted” into scores which are then aggregated into a single score thereby facilitating the compa rison of several points. Aggregation thus provides customers with simple, easy-to-understand information, which can be used as a decision-making tool to prioritise and grade the environmental stakes both by eco-design manufacturers and policy-makers. The consortium wished to provide customers with unique environmental information on the product packaging enabling them to use it instantly as a shopping criteria. www.indice-environnemental.fr
GHGs caused by food production Food production is a major player in global emissions of GHGs: 35-37 % are caused by the food industry worldwide (15 % agri culture, 15 % land use change (LUC), 5-7 % production of foodstuff including processing, industry, and transport). To know the true environmental impact of food production, we have to take into account all processes in the production cycle: from the entire agricultural production, processing, packaging and storage to retailing the product. Only then will we know what effects our food has on the climate. The carbon footprint of Zurück zum Ursprung includes all these factors.
• All primary products are of domestic origin • In consideration of the destruction of savannas and tropical land through soy cultivation (LUC), farmers working for Zurück zum Ursprung don´t use imported soy as animal feed • Animals are only given domestic organic feed • Humus accumulation through organic agriculture • No use of vinasse and other easily soluble organic fertilisers How far can we travel with such a small footprint? 400 orbits around the earth! This is how much Zurück zum Ursprung saves each year. Calculations are based on the brand’s annual sales. www.zurueckzumursprung.at
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Know your food’s carbon footprint and save the environment! Zurück zum Ursprung (Back to the Source) is a brand reporting the amount of GHGs emitted during the entire production of its organic food through a carbon footprint (CO2 -Fußabdruck). The footprint on each product informs the consumer about the reduction in CO2 emissions compared to that of conventional food. The brand is recipient of the 2009 Austrian Climate Protection Award.
the carbon footprint is the effective combination of organic and sustainable farming and the principles of local food. Here are some results of Zurück zum Ursprung agriculture: • Wheat bread: up to 53.6 % lower CO2 -eq-emissions • Dairy products: up to 20.6 % lower CO2 -eq-emissions • Eggs: up to 51.3 % lower CO2 -eq-emissions
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The thorough scientific balance of all Zurück zum Ursprung products shows that they have much lower CO2 -eq emissions than comparable, conventional products. What reduces
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Carbon Film Quote The Carbon Film Quote tool is the world’s first TV commercial budget estimator with an integrated carbon calculator. The project was initiated by the German advertising agency BBDO in 2011. The tool lets production companies, agencies and clients identify and evaluate low-emission, environmentallyfriendly production options when looking at initial cost estimates. The carbon calculator tool itself was modelled by the Berlin based Think-do tank THEMA1 building on require ments of the GHG Protocol Product Standard and ISO 14067. At the moment of the project no product category rule (PCR) or guidelines for advertising film production were available to support the methodological creation of a CO2 balance. Hence, the process model was designed in close collaboration with commercial producers and further stakeholders.
up a joint process to foster and facilitate dialogue between international initiatives and stakeholders on how to assess, reduce and communicate the impact of commercial movie making on the climate.
The Carbon Film Quote extends the budgetonly calculation programme by adding an ecological factor to the financial factors, and thereby facilitates an estimation of the climate impact (expressed in CO2e) of a TV ad. Costs and anticipated CO2 emissions are thus directly linked.
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The Carbon Film Quote has been applied in several productions and already led to significant emission reductions at different points of the production life cycle of a commercial advertisement. In 2012, the Carbon Film Quote pilot project and its partners set
Initiators: BBDO Proximity, THEMA1, CMC. EU Pilot partners: Neue Sentimental Film , Markenfilm, NHB, Das Werk, Cobblestone, Twin Film, Vogelsänger Film, Schönheitsfarm, Studio Funk, Chamaeleon, Adstream International stakeholders: BBC UK (Albert), France Television / Ademe (Ecoprod), Producers Guild of America (Green Production Guide), Berlinale
Using the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Standard as a methodology framework, the pilot project will compare different PCRs to assess result reproducibility and to evaluate the range of result variation, if any. The pilot project aims to put forward recommendations regarding PCRs alignment. Quebec wishes to share the results of the pilot project with fellow members of the PCF World Forum and the scientific community. The pilot project will also benefit from the GHG emissions testing expertise of the Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ),
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In addition to setting out a coherent and harmonised method to calculate the carbon footprints of products and services, the pilot project aims to contribute to the collaborative work undertaken by the PCR Task Force.
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The pilot project currently involves ten businesses that will quantify the carbon footprints of one or several of their products. The participating organisations were selected in an effort to cover a wide range of products, companies and parameters that could impact calculation methods. The products submitted to the pilot are: aluminum ingots, cloud computing services, wood products, pulp and paper industry products, second generation biofuel, packaging products, agri-food products.
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In order to address these challenges, the government of Quebec launched a pilot project on labelling of carbon footprint of products. In order to base this initiative on solid foundations aligned with international best practices, the Quebec Government joined forces with the Interuniversity Research Center for the LCA of products.
which will assess the level of assurance possible to obtain on PCF results and recommend verification mechanisms to support the deployment of the measure.
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The recent developments in PCF showed positive results regarding harmonisation of methodologies. A challenge now remains to provide enough specificity to enable comparison through the development of PCRs. However, several programs provide their own PCRs. The question, which can be raised is whether PCRs coming from different initiatives enable consistent comparisons.
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European Food SCP Round Table The European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Round Table is an initiative that is co-chaired by the European Commission and food supply chain partners and supported by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and European Environment Agency. There are 24 member organisations representing the European food supply chain. Participation in the European Food SCP Round Table is also open to consumer representative organisations and environmental / nature conservation NGOs. The European Food SCP Round Table’s structure, with participation of all food supply chain members at European level on an equal footing, enables it to take a harmonised, life-cycle approach and facilitates an open and results-driven dialogue among all players along the food chain. The European Food SCP Round Table’s vision is to promote a science-based, coherent approach to sustainable consumption and production in the food sector across Europe, while taking into account environ mental interactions at all stages of the food chain. A key principle is that environmental information communicated along the food chain, including to consumers, shall be scientifically reliable and consistent, under standable and not misleading, so as to support informed choice. The aim of the European Food SCP Round Table is to establish the food chain as a major contributor towards sustainable consumption and production in Europe. The
European Food SCP Round Table‘s activities will not only help to strengthen the long-term competitiveness of Europe‘s food chain, but also support EU policy objectives, notably those outlined in the European Commission’s Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and Sustainable Industrial Policy. The European Food SCP Round Table is also taking into account the global SCP agenda, including the initiatives facilitated by UNEP and other organisations to advance resource efficiency, sustainable value chains and social responsibility. In pursuing this vision and recognising the need to establish a scientifically reliable, practical and harmonised environmental assessment methodology for food and drink products across Europe, Working Group 1 of the European Food SCP Round Table is currently developing the „The Protocol for the ENVIronmental assessment of FOOd and Drink products“ (ENVIFOOD Protocol). This will include, as appropriate, product cate gory specifications – to form the basis for voluntary communication of environmental information along the food chain, including consumers. The Protocol will be tested in 2012 through pilot studies and consultation starting mid 2012 and may be modified accordingly before its planned launch in the end of 2012. www.food-scp.eu
SEMCo is currently involved in developing the first global PCR database within the cooperation of GEDnet (the Global Environmental Declarations Network) where these initiatives to harmonise PCR work could be very useful.
SEMCo has developed a concept for sustainability product declarations based on the three pillars of sustainability including environmental LCA, social LCA and life cycle Costing (LCC), together with a scheme for third party verification.
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specific user needs and market applications by introducing the concept of “single-issue environmental product declarations”, such as those focusing only on climate impact. A climate declaration includes GHG infor mation and reports from all life cycle stages. It gives information of a product´s total carbon footprint. As indicated below, this information can easily be summarised in a “label format” and be communicated to private consumers.
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The Swedish Environmental Management Council, SEMCo, established a type-III environmental declaration programme according to ISO 14025 in 2006 called the International EPD®system. It includes expertise and organisations in many parts of the world and is open to all interested companies and organisations. Since the launch of the International EPD®system over 100 orga nisations have developed and published more than 250 EPD´s covering hundreds of products.
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PCR Guidance (ACLCA) Guidance for Product Category Rule Development The increasing demand for LCA-based product declarations, such as product carbon footprint and EPDs, has generated a corresponding need for rules for making comparable declarations of products within the same category. These rules are referred to as product category rules (PCRs), product rules, supplementary requirements or pro duct footprint category rules in different standards. Thus far, the development of PCRs has taken place independently by various programs using one of the abovementioned standards. As a result, there is no strong consensus on how to develop sound and consistent PCRs, nor is there a pro ductive cross-recognition of PCRs between various programs. Through discussions over the past year in multi-stakeholder organizations such as the PCF World Forum’s PCR Roundtable and Taskforce, it has become clear that more guidance on PCRs could benefit all parties involved and help improve the legitimacy of the product declarations. The American Center for LCA PCR committee has initiated a collaborative working group co-chaired by Wes Ingwersen (U.S. EPA) and Vee Subramanian (Arizona State University) to create a globally applicable and consensusbased guidance for PCRs that aligns all product declaration standards and programs. This working group consists of 32 participants from around the world, representing standard developers, program operators, industry associations, NGOs, government organizations and LCA experts.
The guidance document DOES NOT INTEND TO do the following: • Pre-empt the development of ISO 14025 or other LCA-based product claim standards • Act as a standard by itself The guidance document DOES INTEND TO do the following: • Supplement existing LCA-based product claim standards • Create a robust PCR template that can be used by all program operators • Develop a list of common elements for PCRs • Make best practice recommendations for PCR development • Support the alignment of existing LCAbased product claim standards • Evolve continuously based on the need determined by stakeholders www.lcacenter.org
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The Climate Module was developed by the SAN Efico, Efico Foundation and Anacafé supported its development in Guatemala as pilot country whereby a diverse range of public and private sector partners piloted the Module in various countries and crops around Africa, Asia and Latin America. sanstandards.org/sitio/subsections/display/51
Objectives of the project include: • Offering a new model for how food and beverage companies can partner with their suppliers to mitigate climate change, by offering companies the opportunity to source both carbon credits and coffee from the same farms. • Demonstrating a replicable framework for how voluntary agricultural certification can help smallholder farmers access carbon markets. • Enabling smallholder farmers to generate additional revenue streams through being rewarded for the climate services their sustainably managed lands provide. The rigor of carbon accounting and measurement the project requires implies that – with sufficient resources and training – LCA or other carbon footprinting methodologies could be applied in other certified farms. www.rainforest-alliance.org/climate/projects/ carbon-coffee
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Objectives of the module include: • Raise awareness about climate change amongst tropical farmers • Encourage farmers to increase farms’ resiliency, proactively planning for a changing climate • Leveraging market support to drive demand for adoption of these practices.
In Oaxaca, Mexico, the Rainforest Alliance and Pronatura Sur, in collaboration with Agroindustrias Unidas de México S.A. de C.V. (a subsidiary of ECOM Trading Corporation) and Unidad Ecológica para el Sector Café Oaxa queño (UNECAFE), a local nonprofit, have been working with over 400 smallholder coffee farmers to develop a reforestation project that seeks validation to the Verified Carbon Stan dard and Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards, leading industry standards.
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The Rainforest Alliance and the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), developed criteria for best management practices to foster agri cultural mitigation and adaptation. These criteria are part of a voluntary, add-on “climate module” intended to be accessible, practical, and understandable (with guidance) to farmers. The SAN Climate Module seeks to expand the definition of sustainable agriculture by defining the standards for what should constitute climate friendly or climate smart agriculture. Conformance with its 15 adaptation and mitigation criteria will allow farmers to make cre dible statements about their efforts to reduce net GHG emissions, increase carbon storage and build adaptive capacity on their farms.
Developing carbon credit generating projects in certified farms
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The Sustainability Consortium Developing a Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System (SMRS) for Product LCAs TSC The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) is a global, academically led, multi-stakeholder organisation conducting research and developing data, standards, systems and tools that will improve decision-making and drive sustainability in consumer goods. SMRSTM The Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System (SMRS) under development will deliver actionable sustainability information through Category Sustainability Profiles (Level 1), and deliver a large-scale system supporting standardisation and harmonisation of product LCAs over time (Level 2). A wide range of retailers and suppliers are beginning to put TSC’s work to use, informing how they design products, source materials and buy merchandise. The outcome of the Level 1 SMRS are Category Sustainability Profiles. Those apply to the product category level (e.g. laundry detergents, frozen beef, shoes) and are not for product level comparison. Category
Sustainability Profiles promote sharing of information and enable an informed merchant and retail buyer conversation. The outcome of the Level 2 SMRS are Product Sustainability Declarations. Those apply to the product level (e.g. JC’s Frozen Beef Patties) and allow for direct comparison of products against the product category baseline (including uncertainty). Product Sustainability Declarations are based on a baseline LCA model and PCRs and deliver transparent, science based results. Consumer Science TSC’s Consumer Science working group is actively researching effective communication of sustainability information for consumers, work that will influence how retailers and brands engage consumers around these issues. The Sustainability Consortium’s work will have important global business implications by fostering, and enabling, communication and reporting of sustainability characte ristics across the supply chain. www.sustainabilityconsortium.org
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The Climate Code defines principles related to climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as indicators for objective measurement. It includes four components: • Enabling environment • Natural resource management • Soil and crop management • Energy, GHG and carbon stocks The 4C Climate Module focuses on adap tation and links adaptation measures to mitigation effects where possible. For this purpose the project, together with further partners, tested a GHG calculator (Cool Farm Tool), monitoring on-farm emissions and identifying emission hot spots.
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For a scaled up impact, it is therefore planned to fine-tune and adapt the 4C Climate Module and the GHG calculator to other production systems and local contexts, align the Climate Code with other standards, and ultimately integrate the 4C Climate Module into the 4C Baseline Standard.
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According to a membership survey carried out by the 4C Association among 120 producers groups and 82 trade and industry representatives, 80% of the respondents of both groups expect carbon footprint measurement to become a business requirement within the next ten years and expressed strong interest in applying the 4C Climate Module.
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Its Climate Module for Green Coffee Production adds a climate dimension to the 4C Code of Conduct. The 4C Climate Module helps coffee producers to adapt their production to the changing climate. By using synergies between adaptation and mitigation means, it provides guidance for GHG sequestration and mitigation. It includes a verifiable Climate Code, trainings for produ cers and verifiers, verification instruments and a climate database with relevant climate information.
Next steps
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The 4C Association is a leading global multi-stakeholder sustainable coffee platform uniting coffee stakeholders in working towards a sustainable coffee production and processing. The 4C Association offers a verifiable Code of Conduct for sustainable coffee production with a social, environ mental and economic dimension.
Renewable Energy Use
The 4C Climate Module for Green Coffee Production
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Bloomberg Corporate Renewable Energy Index The Corporate Renewable Energy Index (CREX) creates transparency with regard to the amount of renewable energy used by the world’s largest listed corporations. The CREX makes available information about the type and amount of energy used by corporations, providing insight that can be used to inform consumers about climatefriendly purchasing decisions. The results of the CREX are based on surveys conducted by Bloomberg New Energy Finance of the world’s 1,000 largest corporations by market capitalisation. Among almost 1,000 companies surveyed, more than 102 responded with 2010 figures, resulting in 176 companies included for combined 2009 and 2010. The CREX covers total energy consumption as well as renewable energy as a share of total energy consumption, listing absolute figures and relative percentages of corporate renewable energy consumption for electricity. The index also includes how corporations procure renewable energy, such as through Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), green pricing, carbon offsets, and direct investments. The renewable energy techno logy breakdown covers geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, waste energy and a national blend of different technologies.
Corporations can evaluate their performance on renewable energy procurement compared with their competitors. They can also see how industry leaders in sustainability use renewable energy to make their operations and value chains climate friendly. www.bnef.com
Organisations have sought clarity about whether the contractual energy purchasing mechanisms can carry specific emissions claims that can be represented quantitative ly in a GHG inventory. Using contractual mechanisms in scope 2 calculations raises several issues, including: • Are there quality assurance measures in place to verify a clear chain of custody and no double selling? • Does the mechanism contain information about generation emissions, also called „attributes“? • Is implicit double counting addressed that occurs when the zero or low-emissions attributes contained in contractual instruments are not „removed“ of grid average figures?
International Standards
The Guidelines are currently in Technical Working Group discussions, and a draft will be available for public comment in April 2012 with final publication of the Guidelines in fall 2012. www.ghgprotocol.org/feature/ghg-protocolpower-accounting-guidelines
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To harmonise GHG accounting practices worldwide, the GHG Protocol has begun a process to develop Power Accounting Guidelines that will provide an internatio nal framework establishing principles and practices for the use of contractual energy purchasing mechanisms in corporate inventories, specifying policy-neutral criteria and procedures necessary for clear and consistent accounting.
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GHG accounting issues for purchased energy products
An internationally-applicable framework
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For most companies, emissions associated with electricity consumption (scope 2) re present a significant portion of the total GHG inventory, which can be reduced first through efficiency improvements or installing on-site renewable energy generation. In addition, many energy markets around the world provide contractual means for companies to demonstrate demand for low-emissions energy and initiate new energy projects. These can include selecting suppliers with renewable energy products / labels, entering into direct contracts with generators or purchasing tracking certificates.
Should contractual instruments be required to meet further eligibility criteria in order to be used in scope 2, such as: the newness of the energy project with which it is associated its receipt of other public funding sources such as feed-in tariffs or tax credits or the extent to which the contractual mechanism itself brought about the project (e.g., additionality)?
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership: An Environmental Choice for your Organisation EPA’s Green Power Partnership (GPP) is a voluntary program helping to increase the use of green power among leading U.S. organisations. Organisations are encouraged to purchase green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use. The Green Power Partnership works with over 1,300 leading organisations, including Fortune 500® companies, local, state, and federal government agencies, manufacturers and retailers, trade associations, as well as a growing number of colleges and univer sities. Partners are purchasing over 21 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh) of green power annually, equivalent to the annual carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity use of nearly 1.8 million average American homes. Reducing the risk of climate change Addressing climate risk is increasingly recognised as an important strategic issue for businesses and other organisations. Green power purchasing can reduce an organisation’s climate risk and identify it as an environmental leader to important stakeholder groups, such as customers, financial analysts, shareholders, investors, government officials and employees. Why green power? Conventional electricity use can be one of the most significant environmental impacts associated with an organisation’s operations.
The GPP defines green power as electricity generated from environmentally preferable renewable resources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, low-impact biomass, and lowimpact hydro resources. A green power purchase is one of the easiest ways for an organisation to reduce its carbon footprint. Participation in the Green Power Partnership signifies that an organi sation’s purchase meets nationally accepted standards in terms of size, content, and resource base. Eligibility All U.S.-based organisations are welcome to join the Green Power Partnership, with the exception of electricity suppliers or provi ders of green power products. To qualify for the GPP, potential partner organisations must meet or exceed a minimum percen tage of green power that corresponds to the organisation’s purchased electricity use for U.S.-based operations. www.epa.gov/greenpower
International Standards
WindMade
The WindMade Label for Companies & Organizations
trans parent information quantifying the At the same time, the WindMade label gives consumption of electricity generated from consumers the opportunity to choose companies energy and products thatrenewable are in linesources. with their wind and other own values. By making informed decisions, they will reward companies that have a clear commitment towards sustainability and renewable energy.
For maximum transparency, the exact
Joint Initiatives
Companies in t percentage of the windparticipating energy share will be have fulfill thecanrequireme stated on to the label. Companies choose to certify global, regional or even facility level for the WindMade Standard operations, a distinction that will be and Organizations. clearly communicated on the label itself. Once they are certified, participating Motorola Mobility, Deutsche the Bank, BD, companies are authorized to use the label for Method, the LEGO Group and Bloomberg were corporate among thecommunications, first companies such to sign to their as up print, use the Company Label. online, Tv and radio advertising, reports, press releases, stationary, signage on buildings and www.windmade.org retail facilities etc.
WindMade was first introduced in 2011 by its founding partners (UN Global Compact, WWF, Vestas Wind Systems, the Global Wind Energy Council and the LEGO Group). Bloomberg is the official data provider, and PwC the official WindMade verification partner.
There are two versions of the WindMade label:
The WindMade Company Label100% communicates the percentage of wind electricity WIND POWERas a share of the overall electricity consumption of a company’s operations. To qualify, companies must pledge to source a minimum www.windmade.org Cert No 12345 [Company] is [entirely/partly] powered by [wind/renewable energy].
Label type 1: Wind energy only (25-100%)
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www.windmade.org Cert No 12345 [Company] is [entirely/partly] powered by electricity from renewable energy sources.
Label type 2: Mix of renewable energy sources, with wind power at least 25%
Individual Initiatives
The WindMade label gives companies the ability to communicate their commitment The WindMade Label forbrands Companies & to renewable energy. Many have Organizations allow users to communicate already madewill strong statements on this, but until now, of theyrenewable did not have the abilitythey the amount electricity of credible, independent certification of their procure and consume around the world. The claims. WindMade now provides this tool. goal of this label is to provide credible and
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of 25% of their electricity consumption from wind power. According to the technical standard, this can be achieved through a company-owned wind power generation facility, a long-term power purchase agreement for wind power, or the purchase of high quality Renewable Energy Certificates approved by WindMade.
PCRs and Sector Guidance
The purpose of WindMade is to drive corporate investments in wind power by boosting demand for products made with wind energy. In addition, WindMade aims to enhance public acceptance of wind power by raising awareness and educating consumers on the environmental and economic benefits.
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Chair of the 7th PCF World Summit Jacob Bilabel THEMA1, Germany
About Jacob Bilabel A graduate in linguistics, Jacob Bilabel is co-founder and managing director of THEMA1, where he is responsible for communication strategy and oversees THEMA1’s international stakeholder projects. Previously Jacob has held positions as Head of Marketing at MySpace Germany and Vice President New Business & Corporate Communications at Universal Music Germany. In the 2005 elections, he was a personal consultant to Joschka Fischer, Germany’s Foreign Minister at the time. He is a mentor of the Akademie der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin, a founding member of the Re-Design Deutschland Initiative, and a board member of Berlin’s Chamber of Commerce for Creative Industries. Jacob Bilabel is also serving as a part of the German Technical mirror committee for the new ISO 20121 standard for Sustainability in Event Management, teaches at the Academy of Baden- Württemberg and at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences and is a contributor to various books and journals on the subject of social media communication.
Day 1, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:00
Check-in and welcome coffee
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Opening and introduction ▶▶ From environmental footprinting to implementation: Renewable energy in the value chain Rasmus Priess PCF World Forum / THEMA1, Germany
Rasmus Priess will introduce the PCF World Forum and provide an overview of the summit agenda and presentations and place them in the larger context of inter national developments in carbon and environmental footprinting.
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About Rasmus Priess A graduate in industrial engineering, Rasmus Priess serves as expert and facilitator at THEMA1 on climate change, carbon footprinting and supply chain management. He manages the Product Carbon Footprint Project / Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany and has founded the PCF World Forum. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the WRI / WBCSD GHG Protocol Product and Supply Chain Initiative and the German mirror committee for ISO 14067 “Carbon Footprint of Products”. Previously Rasmus worked as an independent consultant and facilitator on energy, climate change, and business development, particularly in emerging economy contexts. 09:45 Keynote ▶▶ Role of renewable energy in achieving the Vision 2050 convened by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Thierry Berthoud World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland
The WBCSD Vision 2050 envisages a world of 9 billion people “living well, within natural resource limits”. To meet an increased energy demand, while reducing GHG emissions to half of 2005 levels, means substantial changes in the global energy system. This challenge imposes the share of renewable energy to increase signifi cantly. In parallel, the elements of choice of their behaviour and consumption should be made available for end-users and consumers to induce, upstream the value chain, the sequence of investment decisions and business practices which will lead to a low carbon economy in 2050. The conditions to make this happen will be discussed. About Thierry Berthoud Thierry Berthoud is currently managing director energy & climate at the WBCSD, in Geneva. As an engineer, holding a PhD in materials sciences, he spent the first part of his career with the French nuclear public industry and the second part with global companies, 17 years in the aluminium industry (Pechiney, Alcan) and 3 years with Alstom Power. He held positions in various capacities (R&D, government relations, strategy, business development) always with a large international exposure and in connection with energy issues.
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Carbon and environmental footprinting: Developments, implementation and supporting programmes (1) ▶▶ The French Environmental Labelling Scheme: Preliminary outcomes of the experimentation phase and future outlook Martin Bortzmeyer Ministry of Sustainable Development, France
Sustainable household consumption can be an important engine for a greener economic growth. In France, the “Grenelle” environmental laws include the right for consumers to have information on the environmental performance of (mass market) products at the point of sale. It is expected that providing consumers with this environmental information could lead the whole chain, agricultural producers to retailers, to market more sustainable goods. In our presentation, we will first present some other European and international, public and private initiatives, then the methodological challenges and finally the latest developments of the French system, which is unique in the world because of three main characteristics: i) it relies on a legislative pillar, ii) it aims at providing a life-cycle based and multi criteria environmental information (including but going beyond the product carbon footprint, with, for example, a water footprint representing water pollution and consumption or other environmental challenges) and iii) because it could be generalised in France in the future. There will be a need to harmonise the different European initiatives, so France clearly and strongly supports European methodological developments. About Martin Bortzmeyer The unit “integration of environment in agricultural policies” is concerned with global and local environmental impacts of agriculture. Applying assessment methods either at the agricultural practices level or at the agricultural policies level, the unit mobilizes different agro-environmental indicators in order to propose evolutions of the agricultural policies and instruments. ▶▶ Update on European guidelines on how to measure the environmental footprint of products and organisations Rana Pant Joint Research Centre / European Commission, Italy
This is an update on the development of European guidelines for measuring the environmental footprint of products (covering goods and services) and organisations that is carried out in close co-operation between DG Environment and the Joint
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Research Centre of the European Commission. The objective is to support decisionmaking processes in business and policy with a comprehensive multi-criteria set of indicators based on the robust and quality assured measurement of environmental performance. This is to overcome some identified shortcomings of other existing methods that for example focus on a single indicator. About Rana Pant Rana Pant is an environmental engineer by training and holds a PhD in engineering from the Darmstadt University of Technology. Before joining the European Commis sion in June 2008 he worked for over 8 years with a multinational consumer goods company on topics related to integrated waste management and on LCA. From 2005 until April 2008 he chaired the LCA Steering Committee of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC, Europe), the leading scientific organisation in the LCA area. Since Rana Pant joined the European Commission in the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), he has taken over responsibilities related to solid waste and Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), the European Platform on LCA (EPLCA), the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook and the Environmental Footprint for products and organisations. 11:00
Coffee Break
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Carbon and environmental footprinting: Developments, implementation and supporting programmes (2) ▶▶ Completion of the Japanese CFP Pilot Project and beyond Asami Miyake Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry (JEMAI)
The 3-year Japanese CFP (Carbon Footprint of Products) Pilot Project (FY2009-2011) has been completed and JEMAI has taken over the Japanese CFP scheme since April 2012. The newly born “CFP Communication Program” will be carried out on the basis of outcomes gained in these three years. It intends to raise CFP’s visibility, improve costperformance and involve larger stakeholders by shifting its communication from “simply showing the figure” to “communicating results based on life-cycle thinking.” Efforts will be also taken to integrate CFP into the “Eco-leaf Program (Type III labelling program)” in the near future to achieve more comprehensive environmental information disclosure. About Asami Miyake Asami Miyake has worked for JEMAI (Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry) since October 2008. She is in charge of the Japanese mirror committee’s secretariat of ISO / TC207 (environmental management) and has been
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involved in the ISO drafting work including ISO 14067. She is also a member of JEMAI’s CFP promotion team. She holds a MA in international development – social policy and social development. ▶▶ Sustainable public procurement: Guidelines on use of environmental product standards and labels in the U.S. government procurement process Nancy Gillis General Services Administration, USA
The proliferation of eco-labels (more than 400 worldwide) and lack of a policy on use of 3rd party environmental standards and labels in public procurements has hindered the progress towards sustainable public procurement in the USA. The “Section 13 Inter-agency Working Group” has developed a set of guidelines for selecting environmental standards and eco-labels as well as recommendations on how to implement these guidelines into the U.S. public procurement process. This session provides an overview of the recommended guidelines and potential implementation methods. About Nancy Gillis Nancy Gillis directs the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Chain Emissions Program Management Office (PMO), which is tasked to create and promote a more sustainable federal supply chain. She chairs the Section 13 Interagency Working Group, addressing the technical and policy recommendations outlined in the EO 13514 Vendor and Contractor Emissions report, manages the Sustainable Supply Chain Community of Practice, a collaborative effort between industry / academia / non-profits seeking to reduce environmental impacts throughout the supply chain, and manages the Sustainability in Procurement Fellowship, a government-wide programme focused on leveraging procurement to increase federal government sustainability. Nancy Gillis has spent the majority of her career in the area of sustainability and has worked internationally on biodiversity, supply chain, economic development and technology innovation projects. ▶▶ Product Carbon Footprint Pilot Project Quebec: The first step towards comparable carbon footprint certification Sophie Fallaha CIRAIG, Canada
Despite the latest developments regarding methodological harmonisation, a main challenge for labelling is to provide enough specificity to enable a consistent comparability of carbon footprints through the development of product rules. In order to
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address these challenges, the government of Quebec launched a pilot project as a first step in the implementation of a $24M carbon footprint labelling initiative. Aiming to create an initiative with solid foundations based on international best practices, the Quebec government joined forces with CIRAIG. The pilot project will compare different protocols to assess result reproducibility. This will contribute to the advancement of environmental labelling. About Sophie Fallaha Senior analyst at CIRAIG (Interuniversity Research Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services), Sophie Fallaha holds a Bachelor degree in chemical engineering from the École Polytechnique of Montreal. She completed her graduate studies at CIRAIG (École Polytechnique of Montreal), where her research focused on LCA and greenhouse accounting. Consultant at Bio Intelligence Services (Paris) and then at Sanexen Environmental Services (Montreal), she is back at CIRAIG since 2011. Her latest work focuses on carbon footprint, verification, certification and labelling of products as she is the project manager of the Carbon Footprint Pilot Project from the Quebec government at CIRAIG. 12:40
Introduction to dedicated tracks
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Conversation lunch
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Dedicated parallel tracks 1. PCR Round Table: The international agenda for product category and sector rules development for the comparable quantification of environmental impacts of products ▶▶ The session is facilitated by Rasmus Priess PCF World Forum / THEMA1, Germany
• How is Product Category and Sector Rule development progressing and how is it coordinated? • What are the implications for footprinting efforts in companies? • What proposals are on the table to promote international alignment of PCRs and Sector Guidance?
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▶▶ Input presentation: Global survey of product guidance (PCRs, sector guidance etc.) Karen Fisher Environmental Resources Management, UK
This session will present findings of WRAP’s Product Research Forum survey of existing guidance for grocery and home improvement (HI) products. A review was conducted on programmes producing quantification-related product guidance, including: Type III EPD schemes, PCF schemes, water and multi-criteria footprin ting schemes, Type I eco-labelling schemes, and various sector initiatives. Areas of proliferation, duplication and key gaps in guidance were identified and will be discussed. The Forum’s focus is on grocery and HI products, with priority product groups determined based on sales and impact potential. However, a library of product guidance documents for all HI / grocery products has been developed. About Karen Fisher Karen Fisher has managed the development of thousands of PCFs (including >1000 for Tesco) over the last 9 years, was on the steering group for the revision of the PAS 2050 and drafted the newly revised Guide to PAS 2050. Her recent focus has been on the development of product rules and sector guidance. She is, for example, managing Defra’s trials of the new Horticulture supplementary requirements, is supporting WRAP’s Product Research Forum Product Guidance Working Group and is managing the development of sector guidance for pharmaceutical and medical device products for the NHS and industry. ▶▶ Input presentation: An initiative to establish a global product category rule registry Sven-Olof Ryding SEMCo, Sweden
Annemarie Kerkhof PRé Consultants, Netherlands
From a market perspective, there are strong arguments to establish an international system for making informed comparisons using environmental declarations or carbon footprint of products. In this context, PCRs are essential for securing the credibility of such comparisons. In order to avoid double work and market distortion, a global PCR registry will facilitate the availability of well-established PCRs from different programme operators around the world. PRé Consultants and SEMCo are currently cooperating in developing the PCR Registry within the framework of GEDnet (the Global Environmental Declarations Network) to facilitate harmonisation of PCR work and meet market expectations on easily available PCR information.
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About Sven-Olof Ryding Sven-Olof Ryding is associate professor in Limnology at Uppsala University. Previously, he held a position as research head of the water department at the Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL) and was a professor for inter disciplinary research on water in nature and society at the University of Linköping. About Annemarie Kerkhof Annemarie Kerkhof is an expert in carbon and environmental footprinting. As LCA consultant, she supported and evaluated the pilot test of the product and organi sation environmental footprint methods of the EU. Now, she works with SEMCo on the development of the first fully integrated international PCR Library. ▶▶ Input presentation: Development of the Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System (SMRSTM) and its relationship to international PCR development Euan Murray The Sustainability Consortium, USA
The presentation will provide an update on recent developments within the Sustainability Consortium, including hotspot identification, detailed footprint measurement, PCR development and PCR harmonisation. About Euan Murray As director of strategic initiatives, Euan Murray is responsible for the Consortium’s work in both retail and in sustainability measurement. He also supports the development of the Consortium’s strategy so that it continues its rapid growth. Euan Murray has historically advised businesses on the risks and opportunities posed by climate change. As director of footprinting at the Carbon Trust, he led the work on PCF covering both standards development and carbon footprinting projects around the world. ▶▶ Input presentation: Product Category Rules underpinning the French Environmental Labelling Scheme Martin Bortzmeyer Ministry of Sustainable Development, France
Martin Bortzmeyer will update on current PCR developments in the ADEME AFNOR platform and provide deeper insights into the “Food, beverage and petfood” sectorial methodological document.
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About Martin Bortzmeyer Please see above. ▶▶ Input presentation: The public LCA database established for application of the Product Category Rules in the French Environmental Labelling Scheme Michael Ooms Intertek, Belgium
Michael Ooms will focus on presenting the development process of the French LCA database, which is led by ADEME, with the support of Intertek and Alyotech. The goal of this public LCA database is to support eco-labelling for all consumer goods, by providing common generic LCA data. The LCA data available in the French database will be consisting mainly of the data needed for the application of the sectorial guidelines per product category, developed in the framework of the ADEME / AFNOR platform. The selection is done with stakeholders through technical committees and through interactions with data providers like Ecoinvent, GABI and industrial federations. About Michael Ooms With a degree in bioengineering, Michael Ooms serves as managing director of Intertek RDC and has more than 10 years of experience in LCAs for the packaging, food processing, textile and energy industries. As an expert for ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency), he is a member of the ISO TC207 / SC7 committee, which has entitled him to participate actively in the working group of ISO 14067 and ISO 14069 standards on carbon footprint calculations for products and companies. Michael Ooms also participated in the revision of the PAS2050, and coordinated a project with BASF, PlasticsEurope, DEKRA and ADEME. He focused on testing environmental footprint calculation methodology for products and com panies, which was developed by the JRC-ISPRA for the European Commission. ▶▶ Input presentation: The ENVIFOOD Protocol for food and drink products: Purpose, testing and PCR development Jean-Christophe Bligny Danone, France
Jean-Christophe Bligny will provide an overview of the Food SCP Roundtable, its goals and workplan and specifically introduce the upcoming ENVIFOOD Protocol, ongoing stakeholder consultation and relation to food sector Product Category Rule development.
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About Jean-Christophe Bligny Jean-Christophe Bligny is environment director of Danone Waters Worldwide Business Unit since 2007. He is in charge of water resources management, environment and sustainable development. He has a transversal role in Danone Group for the coordination of carbon, water and biodiversity footprints, ensuring a leading role in sustainable development projects within national and international organisations. He is co-chairman of the working group 1 on environmental assessment metho dology in European Food SCP-RT. He is an active member of trade associations (UNESDA, EFBW, ANIA, etc.) and the business initiative (BIER). Jean-Christophe Bligny is also involved in the French Environmental Information initiative and parti cipates in several working groups. Jean-Christophe Bligny is a doctor in hydro geology, graduated from University of Paris VI, France. 2. Leveraging carbon and environmental footprinting efforts: Driving the effective implementation, use and disclosure of carbon and environmental footprints Large-scale businesses adoption of product footprinting is contingent on a solid value proposition. We should strive for new business insights and value from our product footprinting or LCA activities. One way to better leverage our product footprinting investments is to expand the business context by combining product footprint results with other commercial data, allowing us to address bigger business questions, such as “Does my product portfolio have a good balance between revenue, margin and sustainability impact?”, “How is the impact of my products shared across my customers?” and “Am I using my spending power responsibly?”. Actionable insight from such new business intelligence elevates the value of product footprinting as core enabler for effective business sustainability programmes. ▶▶ The session is facilitated by Kevin Ramm SAP, UK
About Kevin Ramm Kevin Ramm is currently responsible for product footprinting and LCA solution strategy at SAP and manages the SAP partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project. Previously, he led the Product Footprint Solutions team at the Carbon Trust. He also led the Reporting Requirements TWG for GHG Product Protocol development. Before joining SAP, Kevin Ramm gained experience as a product footprin ting / LCA practitioner and sustainability manager at PepsiCo UK&I.
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▶▶ Input presentation: Success factors for efficient and meaningful carbon footprint calculations Michael Spielmann PE International, Germany
In a short input presentation Michael Spielmann will provide a reflection on how to strike a balance between costs and benefits of carbon footprint calculations and the success factors that critically influence efficient implementation and meaningful outcomes. About Michael Spielmann As a senior manager, Michael Spielmann is responsible for developing and selling GHG / CO2 and environmental business solutions & strategies (OEM and SME). He has 15 years of experience in conducting and managing LCA and carbon footprint projects, in corporate regulatory strategy development and in coaching clients in various sectors (e.g. automotive, services and consumer products). Mr. Spielmann participated in the development of several carbon footprint standards, e.g. PAS 2050, GHG Protocol and ISO 14067. He was a founding member of the LCA data base ecoinvent and holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ). 3. Individual conversation rounds At the venue, participants are invited to organise additional sessions and dis cussions on issues of interest. These will be announced in the introduction to the parallel tracks. Please inform the organiser beforehand and latest in the morning of Day 1. 17:00
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Closing Day 1
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Day 2, Wednesday 18 April 2012 08:00
Check-in and welcome coffee
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Introduction and wrap-up Day 1
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Carbon and environmental footprinting: Developments, implementation and supporting programmes (3) + Updates from participants Due to the extent of carbon and environmental footprinting developments, we have decided to include another section on broader carbon footprint developments in the morning of Day 2 and will give participants an opportunity to provide further short updates from their respective initiatives and perspectives. ▶▶ GHG Protocol Product and Value Chain Standards: International Capacity Building and Implementation Andrea Brown Smatlan World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Switzerland
Andrea Brown from the GHG Protocol Team will update on the GHG Standards with particular focus on their implementation with regard to efforts made around the world for capacity building, supporting tools and accessibility. About Andrea Brown Smatlan Andrea Brown Smatlan joined the Energy and Climate team in June 2008, where, on behalf of the WBCSD, she led the development of the two new international GHG standards. She is also engaged in the WBCSD Sustainable Value Chain Initiative, and developed the WBCSD video diary “Two Tonne CO2e Life Challenge”. Prior to joining the WBCSD, she worked on international, and climate and energy policy issues for the Alberta government, and the Canadian Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. 10:30 Coffee
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11:00 Keynote ▶▶ The role of business towards 100 % renewable energy Stephan Singer WWF International, Belgium
Energy consumption per unit of turnover in consumer good, retail and food sectors is typically much lower than that of the classic energy-intensive industries. Yet, companies with a clear business-to-consumer and brand value outreach may also consume large amounts of electricity in total. At the same time they are also much more sensitive to reputational issues and often can easily afford larger purchase of ‘costly’ renewable power. WWF is strongly in favour of legally-binding targets for renewables as the primary delivery mechanism but in the absence of those and in the presence of weak objectives, voluntary and additional actions by the market leaders will pull the sector and push policy to start legislating more ambitious targets in order to also cover the laggards. About Stephan Singer Stephan Singer has been leading the European Climate and Energy Policy Unit since 1999. Previously he worked for WWF Germany and for the GTZ / German ministry of economic co-operation in Hyderabad, India in co-operation with the World Bank on rural poverty alleviation. He is now a Honorary Member of the WindMade Board, the Board of the Renewable Energy & the Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and the Board of the Renewables-Grid-Initiative (RGI). 11:40
(Renewable) energy in carbon and environmental footprinting ▶▶ Does the purchase of green power reduce a carbon footprint? Treatment of supplier specific emission factors in carbon and environmental footprinting Rasmus Priess PCF World Forum / THEMA1, Germany
Rasmus Priess will recap provisions in current and upcoming standards with regard to the treatment of electricity and particularly supplier specific emission factors (e.g. “green power”) in carbon footprinting. He will then introduce major issues for the possible future recognition of supplier specific emission factors. About Rasmus Priess Please see above
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▶▶ Provisions for „Green Power“ in the upcoming GHG Protocol Power Accounting Guidelines Mary Sotos World Resources Institute, USA
The GHG Protocol has begun a process to develop power accounting guidelines that will provide an international framework establishing principles and practices for the use of contractual energy purchasing mechanisms in scope 2 corporate inventories. Some of these mechanisms include supplier-specific renewable energy products / labels, direct contracts with generators, or purchasing tracking certificates. The guidelines will specify policy-neutral criteria and procedures necessary for clear and consistent accounting, addressing the unique policy variations in different countries or regions. About Mary Sotos Mary Sotos is a project leader with the GHG Protocol programme at World Resources Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank. She leads the development of the forthcoming international GHG accounting guidance for renewable energy purchases. At WRI, she co-authored the U.S. Public Sector Protocol providing GHG accounting guidance for U.S. government agencies, and supports the team’s calculation tools and resources. Mary Sotos graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in Environmental Studies, and subsequently spent a year in Brussels, Belgium through a Fulbright Fellowship analysing regional energy demand projections and the anticipated impact of energy efficiency policies in the building sector. 12:30
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Renewable energy targets: The corporate reality / Business case studies ▶▶ Relevance of energy in carbon and environmental footprinting: Insights from “Ritter Gruppe” carbon balance Michael Spielmann PE International, Germany
Michael Spielmann will illustrate the relevance of energy in carbon and environ mental footprinting and present insights from the “Ritter Gruppe” Carbon Balance. The Ritter Gruppe (Ritter Sport is known to chocolate friends around the world) is very active in energy efficiency and renewable energy use and development.
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▶▶ Low carbon rail transport: 100 % renewable energy at Deutsche Bahn Sarah Maier Deutsche Bahn, Germany
In her presentation Sarah Maier will introduce the strategy of Deutsche Bahn (the German Railway Company) to increase the share of renewable energies in the traction current grid to 100 percent in 2050, particularly in the context of Deutsche Bahn’s ambition to offer low carbon and increasingly CO2 free passenger and freight transport options that are based on 100 percent renewable energies. About Sarah Maier Sarah Maier is working at DB-Umweltzentrum, the environmental department of Deutsche Bahn. She is taking part in the strategic development of the products of Deutsche Bahn that are based on 100 percent renewable energies. Prior to this, she worked for Initiative 2°, a climate protection initiative of German companies and at the Environmental Research Centre of Freie Universität Berlin. ▶▶ Reducing life-cycle GHG emissions of renewable energy: Insights from solar technology company SolarWorld Felicia Müller-Pelzer, SolarWorld Renewable energy is not like renewable energy. In her presentation, Felicia MüllerPelzer will explain why even for a manufacturer of renewable energy technology it is of vital importance to take a close look and the quantity and quality of energy used along the life-cycle of solar systems. 15:15 Coffee 15:45
Advancing renewable energy use in products and value chains: Who is driving the market? ▶▶ The WindMade Label: Fostering renewable energy use in products and companies worldwide Henrik Kuffner WindMade, Belgium
WindMade is the world’s first consumer label for companies and products using wind power and renewable energy. WindMade provides a bridge between consumers demanding transparency and companies committed to sustainability. The presen tation will show and explain how a renewable energy label can influence consumers, and how it brings benefit to all involved companies.
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About Henrik Kuffner Henrik Kuffner was appointed as the first CEO of the newly created WindMade organisation in June 2011. He is leading the initiative’s efforts to create a global consumer label for companies and products using wind power, and he heads the WindMade team in Brussels and Washington. From 2002 to 2011, he served as director general of the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO). During his career, Henrik Kuffner has had assignments within the consumer goods industry in Germany, England and Colombia, and as director for international relations at a private university in New-Delhi, India. He also executed various promotion and policy projects in developing countries and emerging markets within Asia, Africa and South America, contracted by GTZ on behalf of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, and UNIDO. Guido Axmann THEMA1, Germany
▶▶ Outlook: Renewable Supply Chain Project With private market uptake of renewable energy and sustainably harvested natural resources growing, questions around operationalisation and implementation are amounting: What does 100 % renewable energy and natural resources in products and value chains actually mean? What is good renewable energy? How do I promote uptake of renewable energy / natural resources in my own value chain in face of different energy markets? The upcoming Renewable Supply Chain Project is a cross-sector partnership that is addressing these and other questions on the road to fully renewable value chains. About Guido Axmann Guido Axmann is co-founder and managing director of THEMA1, a Berlin-based think-do-tank specialised in accelerating the transition to a low carbon society. Current projects: PCF World Forum, Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany, Renewable Supply Chain Project, Green Music Initiative, Grid Master Class and Renewables-Grid-Initiative. 16:30
Pitfalls and opportunities in renewable energy use in companies, products and value chains Facilitated discussion on privat market uptake of renewable energy. What are drivers? What are barriers? Where are opportunities?
17:30
Wrap-Up Day 2 and outlook 8th PCF World Summit
18:00 Closing
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Participants Samsideen Alabi-Newton Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Nigeria He is responsible for general operations management for the Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management Project. He analyses, designs and implements environmental footprint solutions for several participating companies. Furthermore, his work involves monitoring and controlling compliance level of carbon footprint reporting.
Daniel Berking myclimate, Germany
He is project manager and local expert for myclimate Germany. He his respon sible for the carbon management services consisting of three categories: LCA / carbon footprinting, GHG data management and communication. Prof. Dr. Christoph Binder Reutlingen University, Germany
Ricardo Álvarez DNV, Spain
He is technical manager of sustainability services for DNV. As lead verifier he is experienced in verifying carbon footprint projects, PCFs and corporate carbon footprints since 2009. Dorle Bahr Beiersdorf, Germany
As head of the environmental sustainability and safety range she is responsible for the corporate resource efficiency and carbon reduction programme, steering the corporate LCA and eco-efficiency initiatives, securing compliance with EHS regulations and conducting EHS performance reporting.
He is professor for management accoun ting & control at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University. His research areas comprise cost management topics, key performance indicators, accounting history as well as green controlling. A particular focus is given to carbon accounting, PCF calculation methods as well as regulatory aspects. Christina Bocher DEKRA Consulting, Germany
As expert in consumer products, the che mical industry, the value chain and LCA practitioner she supports global corporations to enhance product sustainability and gives strategic advise on eco-labelling, footprint methodologies. She is a REACH expert and CDP partner for independent life-cycle reviewer for firms including BASF.
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Pernilla Cederstrand SCA Hygiene Products, Sweden Lisa Conrads Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
She is a master’s student in integrated resource management. Brian Cooley CP Kelco, USA
He is leader of the sustainability programme of CP Kelco and responsible for reductions in the company’s environmental footprint. He also identifies innovation opportunities relating to sustainability. Elisabeth Dubbers Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
She has worked for three years in the energy and environment team at the British Embassy Berlin by analysing and reporting on German energy policy and coordinating German-British relations and organised stakeholder events. Since March this year she has left the embassy to finalise her master studies on environmental management. Meg Gignac Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
She is a master’s student in integrated resource management.
Mari Luz Gómez Ihobe, Spain
As project manager in climate change range at Ihobe she designs, develops and oversees climate change projects in the public administration and in private areas. Dr. Graham E. Griffin Carbon Disclosure Project, UK
He graduates as PhD in chemistry from the University of Wales, Swansea. He worked in the international industry for 38 years (30 for Mobil Oil, 8 for BP), mostly in the supply and trading activities. On retiring in 2008, he has been involved with CDP on projects involving PCF and carbon mitigation. Bruce Haase WWF International, Belgium
He leads the climate business engagement unit at WWF. This includes the climate savers programme and work on uptake of renewable power by corporations. He has worked at WWF for 2 1/2 years, and prior to this worked in various roles in international business.
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Jette Ingrid Hansen Nordic Sugar, Denmark
She develops overall policies and strategies within the environmental and climate area. She is a lead auditor performing and evaluating audits as well as giving internal audit training. She is a key person for the external sustainability report of the Nordzucker group. Leif A. Hegna ECOHZ Clean Power, Norway
He is a commercial director at ECOHZ Clean Power, a provider of renewable energy, documented with guarantees of origin, to the European market. Dr. Kathrin Hesse IML Fraunhofer, Germany
Willem Hettinga Sara Lee, Netherlands He is responsible for corporate environmental affairs of the international coffee & tea business of Sara Lee by executing carbon footprints / LCAs of all Sara Lee products. His activities include developing programmes for energy, water and waste in global operations with the focus on possibilities for renewable energy and green energy procurement. Dr. Thomas Himstedt Fresenius Medical Care, Germany
He is responsible for FMC’s environmental management system and work safety management system in the EMEA region. This encompasses the entire FMC value chain with a specific focus on the product life-cycle approach (e.g. LCA, carbon footprint). Emilia Holdaway Ecofys, UK
Her key qualifications are LCA and carbon footprinting, material and energy efficiency as well as waste disposal logistics, plastics and metal recycling. Since 2008 she is lecturer in waste disposal logistics at the University of Dortmund and the EUROFH Hamburg. She is on the committee for the DIN standard NA 172-00-03-01 carbon footprinting.
She is a senior consultant at Ecofys specialised in PCF, renewable energy, corporate carbon management, emissions trading and carbon markets. She has 15 years experience in the environmental and sustainable energy fields of a wide range of sectors including finance, food, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, transport, construction, general manufacturing and chemical processing.
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Christian Kasper MAN Truck & Bus, Germany
As project manager in the product strategy department of MAN he is engaged in special projects concerning project strategy, TCO and PCF calculations. Jürgen Knirsch Greenpeace, Germany
Trained as a biologist, his area of expertise covers agriculture, environment, trade and development issues. He is responsible for developing Greenpeace’s position on consumption and lifestyle. Oyeshola Kofoworola ADM Hamburg, Germany Andreas Kröhling Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Marco Lange University of Göttingen, Germany
He is project manager of the certification scheme Stop Climate Change (SCC). Furthermore, he is research assistant at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen at the faculty of agricultural sciences, department of crop sciences, carbon footprint, carbon label, standard setting, CDM and short rotation forestry. Philippe Le Gall First Climate, Germany
He is a committed sustainability profes sional with 10 years of international experience. He is currently business development manager at First Climate, a leading company in the carbon markets. Before joining First Climate, He was a senior consultant of ERM. Thomas Lenz Get-neutral, Germany
His work focuses on climate change, ener gy efficiency and waste management. He is currently working on internal guidance for PCF calculations and on the development of methods for scope 3 emission calculations and supports the development of the GHG Protocol ICT sector supplement. Dr. Christian Krüger BASF, Germany
He works at the sustainability centre of BASF and is engaged in PCF and sustainability evaluation.
Katarina Lorentzon Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK), Sweden
As a project manager in the field of sustainable food production, quantifies environmental impact from food production and runs a food and climate network of Swe dish organisations (industry, food service sector, national authorities, NGOs) within the food chain.
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Fabiana MacCord R. Silva Ecology Brasil, Brazil
She plans socio-environmental impact studies and manages projects for licen sing constructions for the power sector, improving the environmental performance of infrastructure in Brazil. She is also accountable for tracking new international approaches and initiatives on renewable energy and sustainable development.
Dr. Arno Mathis Hilti, Liechtenstein
As a HSE process and project manager, his prime responsibilities are the companywide implementation of REACH, the reduction of CO2 emissions and the reduction of critical chemicals. Frank Michel GS1 Germany, Germany
Elena Marín Garcia Repsol, Spain Babatunde S. Mustapha Lagos State EPA, Nigeria As environmental footprint manager she is responsible for the environmental footprint unit of Repsol. She is implementing corporate carbon footprints and PCFs and is also setting the environmental footprint strategy of the company.
He is director of ecology and conservation at the Lagos State EPA. Francesca Pierobon University of Padua, Italy
Daniele Massetti Hugo Boss, Italy
He frames LCA of product and environ mental reporting at corporate level accor ding to the most internationally recognised standard. Also the carbon footprint reduction project for the supply chain is in his operation range.
She was technical partner of EU Life and of the project for the development of a local carbon market (Carbomark). She is currently writing her PhD at the University of Padua, with a research focus on carbon footprinting.
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Helena Ponstein Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Being specialised in company and product carbon footprinting in the wine industry as a consultant, she is currently seeking a Master’s in integrated natural resource management to enlarge her knowledge of related topics. As a professional, she also contributed to the development of the sustainability label FairChoice. Yovita Rahardjo DSM, Netherlands
She is life-cycle consultant for corporate operations and responsible care. She is responsible for LCA consultancy (footprint calculation, hot-spot identification, etc.) for both DSM production processes and application of DSM products in customer’s products and processes. Laurent Sainctavit ECODES, Spain
She currently participates in the Climate Change and Energy of the Foundation Ecology and Development (ECODES). Their programme CeroCO2 offers tools to calculate reduce and offset GHG emissions in renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects in developing countries.
Stephan Schaller GS1 Germany, Germany
He is senior project manager sustainability and therefore responsible for the GS1 advisory board sustainability aiming for a common understanding of sustainability hot spots on a product category level. Bettina Schmidt C.A.R.M.E.N, Germany C.A.R.M.E.N. is the Central Agricultural Resources Marketing and Development Network based in Straubing, Bavaria. Sandra Schwimbersky BP Europe, Germany
She is technical expert on biofuels with recent focus particularly on implemen tation of sustainability requirements of the renewable energy directive as well as GHG requirements for fossil fuels in the fuels quality directive in seven European countries (BeNeLux, Austria, Germany, Poland and Switzerland). Chien-Jen Shih Taiwan Environmental Management Association (TEMA), Taiwan TEMA, where he is secretary general, focuses on government’s projects related with environmental education, supply chain security, environmental technology, and GHG emission management. TEMA executes Taiwan’s EPA carbon label veri fication work and guideline of PCF calcu lations since 2010.
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Ajaib Singh Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK Eveli Soode Technical University Munich, Germany
She is a PhD student and responsible for PCF research. Her work focuses on the differences between production systems and the impact from the application of different PCF standards. The results of the cradle-to-gate PCF will be incorporated into the cradle-to-grave PCF calculation.
Erik Svanes Ostfold Research, Norway
He works as a research scientist in Ostfold Research, a non-profit Norwegian research institute. His work is largely in the area of LCA of food and packaging. He has been involved in developing PCRs and calcula ting EPDs. He is Norwegian representative for the ISO 14001 revision and ISO 14067 development. Fredrik Tegstedt AkzoNobel, Sweden
Jostein Søreide Hydro, Norway He is manager product stewardship at Hydro, a global supplier of aluminium. He is strongly experienced in GHG reporting, LCA studies and sustainability assessments. Wolfgang Strober Straubing Centre of Science, Germany
He is PhD student of marketing and management for renewable energies. The aim of his recent inquiry is to develop a dynamic PCF model, based upon primary data, including the use phase due to B2C approach and the consumers’ attitude regarding carbon labelling and certification schemes.
As sustainability specialist he is assisting and guiding the company’s functions in strategic (eco) sustainability projects and assessments, mainly contributing with lifecycle thinking and LCA expertise. He deals with LCAs, capability build up and trainings, carbon- and eco-footprint reporting. José Luis Tejera AENOR, Spain
He is professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and development and climate change unit director of AENOR (Spanish Association for Standardisation and Certifi cation). Previously he was director of the environment division. AENOR is accredited as DOE by UNFCCC to validate, verify and certificate CDM and JI projects.
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Kim Van Doorsselaere Huntsman, USA
As product EHS expert at Huntsman, she combines issue management activities with regulatory affairs compliance. She monitors trends, assesses threats and opportunities that may affect the products Huntsman manufactures within the company and further up or down the supply chain, with PCF and sustainability being high on the agenda. Mónica Vidal Sánchez ECODES, Spain
She is project assistant at the CeroCO2 initiative in which she is defining, analy sing, and implementing actions related with mitigation and adaptation strategies against climate change, mainly doing the calculation of carbon footprint of buildings, events, products or specific services and develo ping GHG emission reduction plans. Erwin T.H. Vink NatureWorks, Netherlands
As environmental affairs manager for NatureWorks his activities include LCA, environment, sustainability and standar disation. Responsibilities are the cradleto-grave life-cycle aspects of the current and future Ingeo® biopolymers. NatureWorks LLC is active in among others European Bioplastics, EuropaBIO, NEN, CEN and ISO.
Amanda Winchell Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
She is currently working towards her MSc in integrated natural resource management at Humboldt University of Berlin, focusing on sustainable water and land use management. Her past work experience includes project support for the production of climate change adaptation measures for rural coastal communities, wetland mitigation, and transboundary watershed management. Heinz Zeller Hugo Boss, Switzerland
He is working on product impact using LCA methods and optimising logistic solutions to reduce the carbon footprint and also the company’s impact measured according GRI. With ETH-EMPA and SUPSI-IDSIA his company developed a tool for mass LCA for fashion items (short life-cycle and high complexity).
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Network Dinner Networking in a relaxed atmosphere As a tradition at the PCF World Summits, the Network Dinner takes place on the evening of the first conference day. It gives the participants a special opportunity to network in a relaxed atmosphere while experiencing exquisite cuisine.
Impressions from past Network Dinners
Welcome to Katz Orange Located in a magnificent old villa in the middle of Berlin’s hip art district, the Katz Orange is the ideal place to get together and have a good time. Its cosy interior, the attention to detail and the friendly service will certainly not miss the change to impress and charm. In the meanwhile, the team of young cooks from some of the most famous German gourmet schools will prepare an exquisite menu based on biological and regional delicacies. www.katzorange.com
PCF Product Exhibition The International PCF (Product Carbon Footprint) Product Exhibition was launched at the 3rd PCF World Summit in Berlin, March 2010. It is a continuously growing collection of products from different regions of the world, allowing the visitors to follow up on international developments in PCF and environmental declarations. So far the exhibition and its catalogue included more than 100 products from seven different initiatives: CFP Project Japan / Carbon Trust, United Kingdom / Casino, France / Climatop, Switzerland / KEITI, Korea / PCF Project, Germany and TGO, Thailand. Measuring the PCF of products isn’t the only way to address the ecological footprint of products. Moving beyond, we will this time present an additional range of products made with renewable energy and / or natural (biogenic) resources.
Still, this collection is only an extract of the worldwide activities in product sustainability labelling. Therefore we kindly invite initiatives, producers and retailers to keep us updated on developments and to contribute further and new products with declared carbon / environmental footprints or based on renewable resources for display to the international PCF community.
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PCF World Forum is Engaging in Social Media To facilitate communication within the carbon and environmental footprinting community between the Summits, PCF World Forum has started a social media pilot phase. By disclosing the videos on YouTube and offering a page on facebook, PCF World Forum aims for an even wider distribution of the various viewpoints demonstrated by speakers in the past and the newest development in the community, allowing for more in-depth discussions on issues that are relevant to the objectives of PCF World Forum.
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From now on, news, pictures, videos etc. will be posted on the PCF World Forum facebook page. The community is invited to ‘like’ the page to stay updated and share their own news with other worldwide stakeholders through this channel, allowing easy interaction with each other.
All videos of presentations made at past Summits are being uploaded on the PCF World Forum YouTube channel, making them easily available to everybody anytime for free. You can watch a growing collection of expert insights made in the last three years, including details on the development of international standards, governmental approaches, business cases by corporate companies, results of scientific studies and responses from environmental and consumer organisations.
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About THEMA1 THEMA1 is an independent Berlin based think-do-tank specialised in accelerating the transition to a low carbon society. Founded in 2006 by Guido Axmann and Jacob Bilabel, THEMA1 initiates and operates projects in the fields of sustainable consumption, renewable energy grids, a green music and entertainment industry, and mass mobilisation of the public towards a low carbon future. Each of THEMA1’s activities is defined by the strong belief of its founders that ‘Talk without action means nothing‘. THEMA1’s innovative blend of activities reflects the growing importance of cross- sector partnerships and synergetic approaches. THEMA1 strives for win-win cooperation with business, NGOs and public stakeholders by fostering supply and demand for innovations that are sustainable – both from the business and climate points of view. With its purpose of pioneering new forms of cooperation and promoting better communication among business, civil society and public policy leaders in Europe, THEMA1 operates in three complementary spheres of activity: • Development and initiation of sustainable business models with the aim of accelerating the transition to a low carbon society • Management of cross-sector partnerships with business, government and civil society organisations • Design, organisation and facilitation of international multi-stakeholder dialogues and complex change processes www.thema1.de
Projects: PCF World Forum www.pcf-world-forum.org PCF Project Germany / Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany www.pcf-projekt.de Carbon Film Quote www.carbonfilmquote.com Climate Partner 2020 www.climatepartner2020.de Green Club Index www.greenclubindex.de Green Music Initiative www.greenmusicinitiative.de Renewables-Grid-Initiative www.renewables-grid.eu
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• Carbon vs. environmental footprint of natural resources in products • Case studies on renewable energy and resource use: Experience, evidence and insights • Use of biobased materials in products: Initiatives, developments, best practices • Land-use and land-use change: Relevance and treatment in carbon and environmental footprinting • On-pack communication to the consumer • Updates on carbon and environmental footprinting initiatives • International Product Category Rule development
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Programme Overview
Day 2, Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Chair
Jacob Bilabel, THEMA1
08:00
Check-in and welcome coffee
09:00
Introduction and wrap-up Day 1
09:30
Carbon and environmental footprinting: cont’d (3) + Updates from participants ▶▶Updates on the GHG P rotocol Product and Value Chain Standards Andrea Brown Smatlan, GHG Protocol Initiative / WBCSD
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Keynote ▶▶The role of business towards 100 % renewable energy Stephan Singer, WWF International
11:40
12:30
(Renewable) energy in carbon and environmental footprinting ▶▶Does the purchase of green power reduce a carbon footprint? Rasmus Priess, PCF World Forum, THEMA1 ▶▶The GHG Protocol Power Accounting Guidelines Mary Sotos, GHG Protocol Initiative / WRI
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Renewable energy targets: The corporate reality / Business case studies ▶▶Relevance of energy in carbon balance: Insights from “Ritter Gruppe” Michael Spielmann, PE International / Ritter Gruppe ▶▶Low carbon rail transport: 100 % renewable energy at DB Sarah Maier, Deutsche Bahn ▶▶Reducing life-cycle GHG emissions of renewable energy: Insights from solar technology company SolarWorld Felicia Müller-Pelzer, SolarWorld
15:15
Coffee
15:45
Advancing renewable energy use in products and value chains: Who is driving the market? ▶▶The WindMade Label Henrik Kuffner, WindMade ▶▶Outlook: Renewable Supply Chain Project Guido Axmann, THEMA1
16:30
Pitfalls and opportunities in r enewable energy use in companies, products and value chains
17:30
Wrap-Up Day 2 and outlook 8th PCF World Summit
18:00
Closing Day 2
Conversation Lunch
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