ICARB :: 6th International Conference on Carbon Accounting
Carbon Accounting for Cities & Communities
Workshop 1B: Building & Business Level Carbon Accounting :: Lessons from Business
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three [3] things
• thing 1: harmonisation :: common infrastructure
• standards | process | platform
• thing 2: assessment :: measurement & management
• baseline | performance | evaluation
• thing 3: emergent patterns :: what’s next
• benchmarking | full lifecycle analysis | industrial ecology

harmonisation :: common infrastructure
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• standards
• protocols :: methodologies :: data exchange
• process
• [origination] :: validation :: verification
• platform
• centralised database :: configurable resource libraries :: visualisation

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harmonisation :: standards

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harmonisation :: process
[origination]
validation
verification

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harmonisation :: platform

assessment :: measurement and management
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• baseline
• point of departure: inventory of resource use & associated emissions in the baseline year
• performance
• impact: economic, environmental and social (against targets)
• evaluation
• holistic outcome: economic, environmental, social impacts in context

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assessment :: baseline

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assessment :: performance

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assessment :: evaluation
Parker
C.M.
et
al
(2009)
A
review
of
interven8ons
to
encourage
SMEs
to
make
environmental
improvements.
Environment
and
Planning
27:
279-­‐301

emergent patterns :: what’s next
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• benchmarking
• comparative intra and inter-sectoral performance
• lifecycle analysis
• product and process
• industrial ecology
• industrial ecosystems :: industrial symbiosis :: resource efficiency networks

emergent patterns :: benchmarking
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Fuel costs
Emissions

emergent patterns :: lifecycle analysis :: PAS2050
Strawberry Jam Production
Consumption
Disposal
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Agrichemicals
Young Trees
Agrichemicals
Young Trees
Agrichemicals
Seeds
Agrichemicals
Stolons
Raw Materials
glass
Raw Materials
plastics
Water
Energy
Water
Energy
Water
Energy
Water
Energy
Energy Energy
Apple
Cultivation
Lemon
Cultivation
Beet
Cultivation
Strawberry
Cultivation
Jar
Production
Plastic Pull
Production
Pectin
Production
Lemon Juice
Production
Sugar
Production
Strawberry
Processing
Waste
Treatment
product
process

emergent patterns :: industrial ecosystems & industrial symbiosis
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what’s transferable?
• market infrastructure ≅ community infrastructure
• process :: platform .... standards
• transparency
• material [environmental] events :: integrated reporting :: rating :: investment
• holistic outcome assessment
• balancing contextual environmental, economic and social priorities
• benchmarking
• performance index :: best practice :: nudge behaviour change*
• efficiency networks
• industrial low-carbon zones ⇔ low carbon zones
• eco-industrial parks ⇔ eco-towns
* Thaler R.H. and Sunstein C.R. (2008) Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth & Happiness. Yale University Press

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assessment :: evaluation
Parker
C.M.
et
al
(2009)
A
review
of
interven8ons
to
encourage
SMEs
to
make
environmental
improvements.
Environment
and
Planning
27:
279-­‐301

emergent patterns :: circular economy
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