Nzica sust pres michael field & chris lindley

Michael Field Sustainability Manager, North Shore City Council

Me
Corporate Sustainability Practitioner
Working in this field for over 10 years
Over 30 published papers and articles
Guest Lecturer at Massey Uni
Recipient of the Global “Sustainability Champions Award” in 2003

TNS Sharing the CAKE (impact on society) What we BREAK (damage to natural cycles and ecosystem) What we MAKE (non-biodegradable materials & emissions) What we TAKE (from the earths crust)

Resource use - The Funnel Metaphor Resources Time Demand Supply ?

Corporate Sustainability
Is this the same as ‘sustainability’?
It’s a holistic process for assessing the overall ‘health’ of an organisation
Includes everything

Sound business
Sustainability thinking is not about a driving need to save the planet
It’s not even new!
Frederick Herzberg’s theories of business management

The theories
Holistic assessment framework
Measures overall health, not just financial
Understanding all impacts
Therefore all risks, liabilities and opportunities

What’s included
Ecological protection
Climate change
Peak oil
Energy
Transport
Infrastructure
Reputation management
Buildings
Materials efficiency
Waste minimisation
Species protection
Impact assessment (holistic)
Sustainable development?

In real terms…
Materials minimisation
Emissions
Effluents and waste
Sustainable procurement
Energy management / efficiency
Biodiversity
Work-flow efficiency

Economic performance
Sustainability policies
Sustainability training and education
Stakeholder engagement
Sustainability reporting
Environmental / Sustainability Management System

External drivers
Stakeholder pressure
Government pressure
Legislation and compliance
Competitors are doing it….
The ‘by comparison’ metaphor

Opportunities
Cost savings through efficiency
Energy reduction
Waste to landfill
Materials (doing more with less)
In my experience – between $500k and $3.5m in 12 months
How can you know all of them without sustainable thinking?

A couple of case studies: Interface Inc North Shore City Council

Interface Inc
Australian arm ranked 190 th
Out of 190 business units!
Programmes kicked off in 2002
End of 2003 – won global Eco-Sense award (1 st out of 190)
Great ‘sustainability story’, but what else?

Interface Inc cont
Waste reduction at plant – saving of $2.5 million in 12 months
With 3 to 1 rule that’s $7.5m avoided expenditure
Why use the material if you can’t sell it?
Sustainability presentations
Increase in market share of 60%

Interface Inc cont
Cheaper manufacturing costs
Ability to compete aggressively if needed
If not, margin rather nice
Staff engagement – through the roof!
Bonus payments would have helped
Staff turnover down
Employer of choice

Not even special
While consulting
Worked with many NZ businesses, from SME’s, to global corporates
Results are the same – just scaled
Remember, none of them were running ‘fat’
They were already well managed

So, what is NSCC doing now? After all, talk is cheap!

NSCC’s commitment
North Shore City Council believes that we have a clear responsibility to act, operate and develop in the most sustainable way possible. It is our commitment to lead by example by recognising the critical importance of our impacts on social , economic , cultural and environmental concerns. It is our aim to continually strive to reduce the negative and maximise the positive impacts of our operations.

We look after
Corporate sustainability programmes
Communications & education
Energy management
Procurement
WasteWise workplace programme
Fleet management
Carbon accounting

Current projects
64 active projects at the moment, so just a few:
Energy management incl. efficiency
1 million kWh saved last year – enough to power 250 homes for a year and saved $200,000
rationalised energy spending, installing a Burner Management Unit, energy conservation campaigning
Procurement
contract renegotiations and new contracts – more than $700,000 saving
Waste minimisation
waste to landfill down 80% - minimum saving of $90,000
diverting 800 tonnes of seaweed as well as office waste

Current projects cont’d
Fleet management
investigating future vehicle and fuel use/supply options
Climate Change incl. carbon accounting
now fully ISO14064 compliant for carbon accounting
Sustainability Report
first GRI compliant report released last year (just finished latest)
Auditing & reporting
extremely important
A total of more than $1.3 million in savings last year
Most savings are ongoing and will increase over time

Corporate Sustainability @ NSCC
All-encompassing (not an add-on)
It’s all about raising efficiency and eliminating waste in all its forms
Changing the way we think
Understanding ALL of the impacts, both Positive and Negative
It’s not about saving the environment, that’s just a great by-product
Always seeking the additional opportunities

Positive press
Free marketing:
The Independent
The North Shore Times
Carbon News
Exporter Magazine
Voice Magazine
The National Business Review
The Aucklander
Scoop Independent News

An example of seeking innovative solutions (because I don’t do all this by myself)

Pt 2: Energy & Invoice Management

The problem
Some outstanding electricity invoices from 2002!
No visibility of our bills (hundreds)
Manual checking of kWh charge (as if)!
Huge time spent
over 75 hours a month and not keeping up
No visibility of accounts
No ability to identify savings
A need to report on carbon emissions

The solution
Revolution-ID - FoundationFootprint™
Fully automated software
Does, quite literally, everything for me!

It’s all about automation!
What I get, as a client (no techy stuff)
Electricity refunds - $221,166.13
Savings per annum - $16,624
Sites ID’d as not NSCC or meters removed
Gas refunds - $1,174.43
Processing time saved – 75 + hours:
Corp Sust team – 5 +
Accounts payable – 20 +
Energy approvers – 50 +

What it does (for us)
Invoices fully automated
Sent from energy company to software
Software ‘declines’ invoices with incorrect rates – notifies energy company
Email generated to all energy approvers
Log-on and approve / decline with reason
Declines notified to energy company
Accounts payable file generated

Now used for
Electricity invoices
Gas invoices
Fuel invoices
Water invoices
Mobile phone invoices
Also gives us ISO: 14064 compliant carbon accounting

Revolution ID -FoundationFootprint™
Chris Lindley – Founder & CEO
Auckland based, Kiwi owned company
Ex-Icehouse Incubator resident
Member of the GHG Protocol’s Stakeholder Advisory Group and NZBCSD
A “Zero Weight” export company
Customers – local govt, health, mining...
www.Rev-ID.com

What is FoundationFootprint™?
Carbon, energy and resource management software
Web based
Enterprise level software
Standards based (GHG Protocol, ISO 14064)
Monthly subscription fee
www.Rev-ID.com

FoundationFootprint™
Carbon footprint data at group, facility and emission source level
Automated:
Business intelligence & reports
Data gathering
Notifications and audit trails
Supplier integration
www.Rev-ID.com

Value Proposition Carbon, energy and water management = Cost savings (Refunds and reduce) Time savings Compliance Real time reporting Great information! www.Rev-ID.com

ROI Example
North Shore City Council:
3 year contract
ROI in 7 months (Electricity & Gas refunds)
Now mobile phones
Main source of information
www.Rev-ID.com

Audience
Large complex organisations
Local and regional govt
Multi nationals
Co-ops E.g. Fonterra
Large emitters
ETS participants
Exporters
Foreign owned companies
www.Rev-ID.com

Risks and Issues www.Rev-ID.com

Risks and Issues
Data collection
Distribution
Collection
Validation
Reporting
Comply with multiple GHG programs
www.Rev-ID.com

Current Methods
Microsoft Excel and email
ERP
Home grown systems
www.Rev-ID.com

The Current Way
Takes 1 person one week to collate data from across their organisation per month
Inaccurate information, formulas broken, emission factors wrong, missing or tampered with
Different people in same facility will hold different information
Time consuming to aggregate spreadsheets
Virtually impossible to recalculate if changing historic data or control approach
Chasing people for their reports and contact details
www.Rev-ID.com

The FoundationFootprint™ Way
Central, web based data store
Can still use familiar tools - Microsoft Excel and email but all spreadsheets are managed by FoundationFootprint™
Can import your data directly from your suppliers
All calculations based on raw data – can add, edit, remove historic data and change control approaches
No more week long exercises – Data aggregation, business intelligence and reports in real time
User self management – Maintain details, automated, timely reminders
www.Rev-ID.com

FoundationFootprint™ and Water
Compare water uses (including staff presence, industrial use, and supply chain) with validated water and sanitation availability information
Calculation of water consumption & efficiency
Establish relative water risks in your organisations’s portfolio to prioritise action – including more detailed assessment
Create key water GRI Indicators , inventories, risk and performance metrics and geographic mapping
Enable effective communication with internal and external stakeholders on your company’s water issues
www.Rev-ID.com

Thank you & questions? Chris Lindley [email_address] +64 (0) 21 380 845 Michael Field [email_address] + 64 (0) 27 695 1002 www.Rev-ID.com

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