Learn about two essential IEMA developments to help professional’s mainstream climate action. Our new guidance on ISO14001, helps professionals working with any management system to identify the key system opportunities for energy reduction and climate action. In addition, the essential role of auditing and the challenges faced are explored within our latest thought leadership report. The authors of these two essential guides present on their key findings and insights.

1. Driving Climate Actions
through Environmental
Management Systems
Anna-Lisa Mills
CEnv, MIEMA, MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCE
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anna-lisamills
Twitter: @Anna_LisaMills

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Structure of presentation
- Background to new IEMA Guidance
- Why take action on Climate Change
- How to use an EMS to take action
- Look at some key themes from ISO 14001:2015
- Context of the organisation
- Leadership
- Risk and opportunity
- Life cycle perspective
- Aspects and impacts
- Objectives and action plans

3. Introduction - relevant experience
• 11 years at an Environmental
Consultancy
• 3 years as Group
Sustainability Manager for
Innovation Group
• 2 years freelance consultant
and trainer.

4. Introdution - Anna-Lisa Mills
CEnv, MIEMA, MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCE, DipRSA
• Business owner – True North Sustainability and SmartCarbon Ltd.
• Consultant- Sustainability/Environmental Management/Carbon
• Trainer - Including IEMA, NEBOSH, IRCA, BSI and NQA courses
• Associate Lecturer at the University of Northumbria (BSc & MSc)
• Director of Not-for-Profit organisation - Climate Action North East
• Member of IEMA Climate Change and Energy steering group
• Climate Reality Leader
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anna-lisamills
Twitter: @Anna_LisaMills

5. Why develop
the guidance?

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Evolution of the guidance
• Response to member questionnaire
requesting guidance
• Nick Blyth lead the process, Anna-Lisa Mills acted as lead
author with input and support from the CC&E Steering
Group
• Open call out on Social Media (LinkedIn and Twitter) and
within IEMA Closed Group on LinkedIn for contributions
• Members provided content and case studies
(e.g. Marek Bidwell and David Dowson)
• Response to ever changing climate crisis

7. The Keeling curve

8. Climate Change

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Why should the business community act?
• Legislation (e.g. MGHG Reporting, SECR, ESOS Phase 2 etc)
• International influence (Paris Agreement)
• Cost saving opportunities. Price fluctuations
• Stakeholder requirements (e.g. customers, investors, shareholders)
• Risk and resilience
• Opportunities (e.g. growth, innovation, better returns)
• Reputation
• Attract and retain the best staff
• Moral – contributions to and impacts from changing climate (events)

10. Using ISO 14001 to drive action
on climate change

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• The purpose of the revised standard is to “Provide organizations with a
framework to protect the environment and respond to changing
environmental conditions in balance with socio-economic needs.”
• The revised standard makes clearer reference to the two-way relationship
between organisations and the environment, e.g. the organisation shall
consider environmental conditions being affected by or capable of
affecting the organisation (ISO 14001:2015 clause 4.1).
ISO 14001:2015

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Example Structure – Mitigation and Adaptation

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Example reproduced with permission from DHL

14. INCREASED OPERATIONAL COSTS
RISKS
MANDATORY GHG REPORTING (2013)
ESOS PHASE 2 (DECEMBER 2019)
STREAMLINED ENERGY AND CARBON REPORTING (APRIL 2019)

15. IMPACT
ON
COMMUTE
REDUCED CAPACITY
SLOWER RESPONSE TIME AFTER
EXTREME EVENTS
RISK OF FLOODING ON
SUPPLY CHAIN & PREMISES
TROPICAL CYCLONE IMPACT
ON COMMUTE AND SUPPLY
CHAIN
SEA LEVEL RISE IMPACT ON
SUPPLY CHAIN
HEAT -
RISK OF FOREST FIRES
AND DROUGHTS

16. Failure to meet publically
disclosed reduction
targets could result
in reduced demand for
goods/services
Customer are putting increasing
emphasis on sustainability performance
and requesting more information about
suppliers – could result in reduced
Demand.
Company culture and staff behaviour.
REPUTATION
CHANGING BEHAVIOUR
STAKEHOLDERS EXPECTIONS TO
MINIMISE GHG EMISSIONS

17. • ENHANCED REPUTATION AND MEET STAKEHOLDER EXPECTATIONS
• BUILD RELATIONS WITH CLIENTS COMMITTED TO SUSTAINABILITY
• OFFER NEW PRODUCTS OR SERVICES
• IDENTIFY COST SAVINGS
• INCREASE STAFF RETENTION

18. Walmart – Project
Gigaton
Collaboration across the supply chain

19. Example Life cycle
(note perspective only required)
HP Sustainability report 2012

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Example F-Gas Register
provided by IEMA member David Dowson (linked in guidance)

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Handover –
Auditing for Climate
Change Action