This paper focuses on the ways the policy performance and decision-making of governments in the as it relates to co-benefits and environmental policy by using a Systems Theory Analytical Model.
Centre for International Forestry Research: Landscapes and food systems CIFOR-ICRAF
The document summarizes a presentation by Terry Sunderland from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) about CIFOR's work on landscapes and food systems. CIFOR conducts research on how forests, trees, and agriculture interact at the landscape scale. Key points include: CIFOR uses a landscape approach to understand complex land use systems; it has projects analyzing the link between tree cover and nutrition using national health survey data; and it aims to better integrate agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management through approaches like agroforestry and landscape management.
Janet Peace
VP for Markets and Business Strategy
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
This EE Noon seminar will explore questions surrounding carbon offsets, which are credits for projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions outside a cap.
http://ase.org/eenoon
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
Green supply chain management aims to reduce the environmental impact of supply chain activities. It recognizes that supply chain processes can significantly impact the environment. Implementing green supply chain best practices, such as aligning environmental goals with business goals and evaluating the full life cycle of products, can help companies improve operations, increase innovation, and realize cost savings. Tools like GreenSCOR provide a framework to help define problems and analyze opportunities within a company's green supply chain.
Presented by Oswaldo Carrillo from CIFOR, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
The strategic energy management plan has the goals of complying with legislative mandates for energy reduction, meeting sustainability plans, and establishing structures to enable energy reduction plans. It identifies 41 components to achieve these goals, which include energy data management, energy supply management, reducing energy use in facilities, improving equipment efficiency, and integrating energy efforts across campus. The plan provides details on each component, their business case, tasks, interactions required, costs, and benefits.
In this presentation I explain how Life Cycle Assessment can support the policy development cycle, from the problem definition to policy implementation and monitoring.
The document summarizes a study conducted in Minnesota to evaluate how key elements of the National Standard Practice Manual (NSPM) could be applied to the state's energy efficiency cost-effectiveness analyses. The study reviewed Minnesota's current screening practices, applied the NSPM's Resource Value Framework to create a primary cost-effectiveness test for the state, and provided recommendations. The webinar presentation covered an overview of the NSPM, current practices in Minnesota, applying the Resource Value Framework to include more utility system impacts and consider relevant non-utility impacts like low-income programs and other fuels.
Centre for International Forestry Research: Landscapes and food systems CIFOR-ICRAF
The document summarizes a presentation by Terry Sunderland from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) about CIFOR's work on landscapes and food systems. CIFOR conducts research on how forests, trees, and agriculture interact at the landscape scale. Key points include: CIFOR uses a landscape approach to understand complex land use systems; it has projects analyzing the link between tree cover and nutrition using national health survey data; and it aims to better integrate agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management through approaches like agroforestry and landscape management.
Janet Peace
VP for Markets and Business Strategy
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
This EE Noon seminar will explore questions surrounding carbon offsets, which are credits for projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions outside a cap.
http://ase.org/eenoon
Presented by Zuelclady M.F Araujo Gutierrez from IDOM, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
Green supply chain management aims to reduce the environmental impact of supply chain activities. It recognizes that supply chain processes can significantly impact the environment. Implementing green supply chain best practices, such as aligning environmental goals with business goals and evaluating the full life cycle of products, can help companies improve operations, increase innovation, and realize cost savings. Tools like GreenSCOR provide a framework to help define problems and analyze opportunities within a company's green supply chain.
Presented by Oswaldo Carrillo from CIFOR, at Online Workshop Capacity Building on the IPCC 2013 Wetlands Supplement, FREL Diagnostic and Uncertainty Analysis, 20-22 September 2021
The strategic energy management plan has the goals of complying with legislative mandates for energy reduction, meeting sustainability plans, and establishing structures to enable energy reduction plans. It identifies 41 components to achieve these goals, which include energy data management, energy supply management, reducing energy use in facilities, improving equipment efficiency, and integrating energy efforts across campus. The plan provides details on each component, their business case, tasks, interactions required, costs, and benefits.
In this presentation I explain how Life Cycle Assessment can support the policy development cycle, from the problem definition to policy implementation and monitoring.
The document summarizes a study conducted in Minnesota to evaluate how key elements of the National Standard Practice Manual (NSPM) could be applied to the state's energy efficiency cost-effectiveness analyses. The study reviewed Minnesota's current screening practices, applied the NSPM's Resource Value Framework to create a primary cost-effectiveness test for the state, and provided recommendations. The webinar presentation covered an overview of the NSPM, current practices in Minnesota, applying the Resource Value Framework to include more utility system impacts and consider relevant non-utility impacts like low-income programs and other fuels.
The document discusses the changing media landscape and rise of viral marketing. It provides examples of successful viral campaigns for Wedding Crashers, Dove, and Earth Hour that promoted participation and sharing. These campaigns helped raise awareness of their causes and increased traffic to their websites through their spread on social media and coverage on TV shows. The document advocates that marketers should focus on creating entertaining and personalized content that audiences will want to share organically.
Boeken toe, oren Open. Een luisterboek, dat spreekt voor zich! Oost-Vlaandere...Luisterpuntbibliotheek
Boeken toe, oren open. Een luisterboek, dat spreekt voor zich. Presentatie op 15 december nav studievoormiddag Iederéén kan lezen! en de officiële lancering van Daisy in Oost-Vlaanderen.
This document provides an overview of concepts from system theory and tools for high performance ("outperformance") described by Wohland and Wiemeyer. It defines key terms like complexity, dynamics, center/periphery and discusses models like Ashby's Law and the "peach model". The document also outlines six "thinking tools" developed by Wohland and Wiemeyer to increase an organization's dynamic capabilities based on system theory principles. Contact with Wohland is suggested for more details on the thinking tools in English.
Legal Aspects Of Clean Energy ProjectsMyra Frazier
This document outlines key legal issues and documents involved in clean energy projects. It introduces the RETScreen Legal Documents Toolkit, which aims to help reduce legal barriers and costs for clean energy projects by providing sample templates and documents. Some of the major legal documents discussed include power purchase agreements, permits, environmental assessments, and financing agreements. The toolkit and other RETScreen resources can help raise awareness of legal requirements and lower transaction costs for clean energy project developers.
This paper focuses on the ways in which policymakers can improve policy-performance and decision-making for Co-Benefits by using as Systems Analytical Decision-Making Model.
The paper, which is yet tp be officially unpublished, was first delivered at the U.S. - Japan Workshop on Climate Actins and Developmental Co-Benefits, in March, 5-6, 2007, in Washington, DC held at the World Resources Institute.
The correspoding presentation is attached to the profile in the presentation section of my profile. The paper and presentation were subsequently adapted and was included in the Society of Learning, (SoL), Sustainability Consortium Newsletter Summer, 2008, that focuses on othe ways in which Best Practices can be used to improve policy performance in dynamic political situations. The newsletter version of the paper is aslo attached to this profile.
Note: This is an unpublished paper, if you wish to use it in part or in whole, please contact me at myrafrazier68@aol.com.
Voorstelling van Zorgbib-Rode Kruis Vlaanderen, gepresenteerd door Ellen Van Camp en Liesbet Van Gaever, op 15 december 2009 op de studievoormiddag 'Iederéén kan lezen' van Luisterpunt, Zorgbib en SBB Oost-Vlaanderen.
The document discusses best practices for identifying co-benefits of climate policies to improve policymaker decision making. It outlines prerequisites for establishing best practices, including measurement tools and defining characteristics. Best practices should be knowledge-based, technology-based, relevant, replicable, and sustainable. Policy approaches that promote best practices include strategic policies, integrated environment strategies programs, and definitions from organizations like the Best Practices Institute and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. Further research alignment between disciplines, development goals, policymakers and advisers, and policies and outcomes could help establish best practices as an effective policymaking tool.
1. Systems thinking views the world as interconnected systems where everything influences everything else through mutual interaction. It focuses on seeing the relationships rather than individual parts.
2. Systems are influenced by both reinforcing and balancing feedback loops. Reinforcing loops lead to growth while balancing loops seek to achieve and maintain goals or equilibrium.
3. Understanding systems requires analyzing the stocks and flows within the system and how they interact over time, as the implications of changes may not be immediately apparent due to delays in cause and effect.
Biographical information for mmf2011 int'lrevMyra Frazier
Myra Frazier has experience in energy, environmental policy, and international relations. She holds a BA from Tufts University in international relations, and a JD/MA from Duke University. Frazier was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Gabon focusing on the impact of the petroleum sector on environmental policy. She has worked for the EPA on programs with South Africa, and served as legal counsel on environmental regulation cases.
This document discusses building a sustainability plan that lasts. It covers key drivers of sustainability like regulatory requirements and public pressure. It outlines Canada's regulatory status around greenhouse gas emissions, which is inconsistent across provinces. It discusses guidance documents for sustainability planning and reporting. It explains the five milestones for climate change protection established by Partners for Climate Protection: creating an emissions inventory, setting reduction targets, developing an action plan, implementing the plan, and monitoring progress. Key performance indicators for sustainability are also reviewed. The importance of achieving stakeholder support is emphasized through communication and consensus building.
Canada intergovernmental working group on carbon pricing and competitiveness,...OECD Environment
This document summarizes the work of the Canada intergovernmental working group on carbon pricing and competitiveness. It discusses the pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change agreed to in 2016, which committed governments to reviewing the overall approach to carbon pricing by 2022. The working group is focused on identifying metrics to track competitiveness impacts, risks of carbon leakage for emissions-intensive industries, and best practices from other jurisdictions to address these issues through sector benchmarks and incentives while raising carbon prices over time. Studies show there has been little clear evidence of carbon leakage to date, as carbon costs are usually small compared to other production costs faced by firms.
Environmental auditing originated in the 1970s in the US and was initially reactive, focusing on end-of-pipe solutions after environmental damage occurred. It is now a more proactive management tool to evaluate environmental performance, compliance, and management systems. Environmental audits are conducted according to standardized procedures and incorporate reviews, inspections, and reporting to facilitate improvement. They provide benefits like ensuring compliance and anticipating risks while demonstrating environmental awareness.
This slide deck provides a working version of the Green Portfolio Framework (GPF) Handbook (based on our work with KKR as piloted at several of their companies) and includes a number of resources to help companies get started or continue tracking and improving business and environmental performance on an ongoing basis. We believe this framework is a meaningful way to improve efficiency and build value, especially in difficult economic times, and hope that you find these resources useful.
Existing international cooperation arrangements to address air pollution in N...OECD Environment
This document summarizes existing international cooperation arrangements to address air pollution in North East Asia. It outlines various cooperative approaches used, including adoption of international standards, memoranda of understanding, and participation in multilateral organizations. It then provides an overview of specific cooperative efforts among China, Japan, and Korea since the 1990s. While these efforts have strengths, the document recommends strengthening domestic regulatory frameworks, building on scientific cooperation, developing a flexible regional approach, and advancing toward stronger forms of cooperation over time.
Sustainability Green Remediation Day 2011 With Resourcescsunderrajan
This document discusses green remediation and sustainability efforts at contaminated sites. It defines green remediation and sustainable development. It outlines a Superfund Green Remediation Strategy with 8 key actions: 1) clarify the role of green remediation in remedy selection, 2) develop protocols/tools, 3) identify options for green practices, 4) address air pollutants and diesel emissions, 5) develop pilot projects, 6) establish opportunities in contracts, 7) communicate successes, and 8) establish a project evaluation roadmap. It provides examples of green remediation profiles, lessons learned, and a Nebraska pilot project evaluating wind power.
The document summarizes several key air quality management initiatives in Alberta, including:
1) The National Air Quality Management System, a collaborative federal/provincial system to protect air quality.
2) Alberta's Clean Air Strategy, the province's strategic direction for air quality management over the next 10 years.
3) The Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting System, which aims to create a more comprehensive, transparent environmental monitoring system.
4) The Joint Canada/Alberta Oil Sands Monitoring Plan, which establishes enhanced monitoring of air, water and biodiversity in the oil sands region.
5) Regional air quality management frameworks being developed to manage cumulative effects at a regional scale.
Metro has developed an Environmental Management System (EMS) to ensure environmental compliance and sustainability across its operations. The EMS is based on the ISO 14001 standard and involves identifying environmental issues, setting targets and procedures, training staff, monitoring performance, and conducting audits and management reviews. Metro has analyzed sustainability indicators like energy and water use and greenhouse gas emissions. It has achieved cost savings of $2 million per year through various EMS and sustainability efforts. Metro sees the EMS as a tool for managing climate change and is conducting studies to further reduce impacts and improve collaboration.
Environmentally Sound Technologies for the Future for the futureSteve Halls
This document discusses mechanisms for promoting environmentally sound technologies (ESTs). It outlines that ESTs can provide economic benefits but their adoption faces barriers. The presentation covers: assessing EST performance; reporting environmental data transparently; linking financial and environmental indicators; and balancing voluntary initiatives with regulations. The goal is to mainstream ESTs by clarifying their benefits and facilitating investment decisions based on full economic and environmental criteria.
Theme 4 - Climate Change Mitigation and AdaptationCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Christopher Martius, Henry Neufeldt, Glenn Hyman and Laura Snook focuses on the objectives and structure of the climate change adaptation and mitigation program of the FTA Research Program, their evolution over time, the major accomplishments and the main obstacles and challenges.
Ensuring Sustainability of Clean Development Mechanism Projects for Global Su...Aaron Burton
Burton, A. (2007) Ensuring Sustainability of Clean Development Mechanism Projects for Global
Sustainable Development. Presented at the IEMA Environmental Knowledge Exchange, Manchester.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iema.net%2Fstream.php%2Fdownload%2Fevents%2Fnorthwest%2F20071107%2FA.Burton.pdf&rct=j&q=aaron%20burton%20iema&ei=eJC9TeG_OIKLhQfUtqnPBQ&usg=AFQjCNFoh1EEmzEks-iMv3gZbtSV6NlmGw
The document summarizes the Housing Standards Review, which aims to simplify and rationalize housing standards in the UK. It notes that the review was launched in 2012 to reduce costs for housebuilders while maintaining quality, sustainability, safety and accessibility. The review examined existing standards through working groups and is proposing a simplified and nationally consistent set of optional standards focused on space, access, energy, water, and security. It outlines next steps as analyzing the consultation responses and making final decisions in the new year.
The document discusses the changing media landscape and rise of viral marketing. It provides examples of successful viral campaigns for Wedding Crashers, Dove, and Earth Hour that promoted participation and sharing. These campaigns helped raise awareness of their causes and increased traffic to their websites through their spread on social media and coverage on TV shows. The document advocates that marketers should focus on creating entertaining and personalized content that audiences will want to share organically.
Boeken toe, oren Open. Een luisterboek, dat spreekt voor zich! Oost-Vlaandere...Luisterpuntbibliotheek
Boeken toe, oren open. Een luisterboek, dat spreekt voor zich. Presentatie op 15 december nav studievoormiddag Iederéén kan lezen! en de officiële lancering van Daisy in Oost-Vlaanderen.
This document provides an overview of concepts from system theory and tools for high performance ("outperformance") described by Wohland and Wiemeyer. It defines key terms like complexity, dynamics, center/periphery and discusses models like Ashby's Law and the "peach model". The document also outlines six "thinking tools" developed by Wohland and Wiemeyer to increase an organization's dynamic capabilities based on system theory principles. Contact with Wohland is suggested for more details on the thinking tools in English.
Legal Aspects Of Clean Energy ProjectsMyra Frazier
This document outlines key legal issues and documents involved in clean energy projects. It introduces the RETScreen Legal Documents Toolkit, which aims to help reduce legal barriers and costs for clean energy projects by providing sample templates and documents. Some of the major legal documents discussed include power purchase agreements, permits, environmental assessments, and financing agreements. The toolkit and other RETScreen resources can help raise awareness of legal requirements and lower transaction costs for clean energy project developers.
This paper focuses on the ways in which policymakers can improve policy-performance and decision-making for Co-Benefits by using as Systems Analytical Decision-Making Model.
The paper, which is yet tp be officially unpublished, was first delivered at the U.S. - Japan Workshop on Climate Actins and Developmental Co-Benefits, in March, 5-6, 2007, in Washington, DC held at the World Resources Institute.
The correspoding presentation is attached to the profile in the presentation section of my profile. The paper and presentation were subsequently adapted and was included in the Society of Learning, (SoL), Sustainability Consortium Newsletter Summer, 2008, that focuses on othe ways in which Best Practices can be used to improve policy performance in dynamic political situations. The newsletter version of the paper is aslo attached to this profile.
Note: This is an unpublished paper, if you wish to use it in part or in whole, please contact me at myrafrazier68@aol.com.
Voorstelling van Zorgbib-Rode Kruis Vlaanderen, gepresenteerd door Ellen Van Camp en Liesbet Van Gaever, op 15 december 2009 op de studievoormiddag 'Iederéén kan lezen' van Luisterpunt, Zorgbib en SBB Oost-Vlaanderen.
The document discusses best practices for identifying co-benefits of climate policies to improve policymaker decision making. It outlines prerequisites for establishing best practices, including measurement tools and defining characteristics. Best practices should be knowledge-based, technology-based, relevant, replicable, and sustainable. Policy approaches that promote best practices include strategic policies, integrated environment strategies programs, and definitions from organizations like the Best Practices Institute and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. Further research alignment between disciplines, development goals, policymakers and advisers, and policies and outcomes could help establish best practices as an effective policymaking tool.
1. Systems thinking views the world as interconnected systems where everything influences everything else through mutual interaction. It focuses on seeing the relationships rather than individual parts.
2. Systems are influenced by both reinforcing and balancing feedback loops. Reinforcing loops lead to growth while balancing loops seek to achieve and maintain goals or equilibrium.
3. Understanding systems requires analyzing the stocks and flows within the system and how they interact over time, as the implications of changes may not be immediately apparent due to delays in cause and effect.
Biographical information for mmf2011 int'lrevMyra Frazier
Myra Frazier has experience in energy, environmental policy, and international relations. She holds a BA from Tufts University in international relations, and a JD/MA from Duke University. Frazier was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Gabon focusing on the impact of the petroleum sector on environmental policy. She has worked for the EPA on programs with South Africa, and served as legal counsel on environmental regulation cases.
This document discusses building a sustainability plan that lasts. It covers key drivers of sustainability like regulatory requirements and public pressure. It outlines Canada's regulatory status around greenhouse gas emissions, which is inconsistent across provinces. It discusses guidance documents for sustainability planning and reporting. It explains the five milestones for climate change protection established by Partners for Climate Protection: creating an emissions inventory, setting reduction targets, developing an action plan, implementing the plan, and monitoring progress. Key performance indicators for sustainability are also reviewed. The importance of achieving stakeholder support is emphasized through communication and consensus building.
Canada intergovernmental working group on carbon pricing and competitiveness,...OECD Environment
This document summarizes the work of the Canada intergovernmental working group on carbon pricing and competitiveness. It discusses the pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change agreed to in 2016, which committed governments to reviewing the overall approach to carbon pricing by 2022. The working group is focused on identifying metrics to track competitiveness impacts, risks of carbon leakage for emissions-intensive industries, and best practices from other jurisdictions to address these issues through sector benchmarks and incentives while raising carbon prices over time. Studies show there has been little clear evidence of carbon leakage to date, as carbon costs are usually small compared to other production costs faced by firms.
Environmental auditing originated in the 1970s in the US and was initially reactive, focusing on end-of-pipe solutions after environmental damage occurred. It is now a more proactive management tool to evaluate environmental performance, compliance, and management systems. Environmental audits are conducted according to standardized procedures and incorporate reviews, inspections, and reporting to facilitate improvement. They provide benefits like ensuring compliance and anticipating risks while demonstrating environmental awareness.
This slide deck provides a working version of the Green Portfolio Framework (GPF) Handbook (based on our work with KKR as piloted at several of their companies) and includes a number of resources to help companies get started or continue tracking and improving business and environmental performance on an ongoing basis. We believe this framework is a meaningful way to improve efficiency and build value, especially in difficult economic times, and hope that you find these resources useful.
Existing international cooperation arrangements to address air pollution in N...OECD Environment
This document summarizes existing international cooperation arrangements to address air pollution in North East Asia. It outlines various cooperative approaches used, including adoption of international standards, memoranda of understanding, and participation in multilateral organizations. It then provides an overview of specific cooperative efforts among China, Japan, and Korea since the 1990s. While these efforts have strengths, the document recommends strengthening domestic regulatory frameworks, building on scientific cooperation, developing a flexible regional approach, and advancing toward stronger forms of cooperation over time.
Sustainability Green Remediation Day 2011 With Resourcescsunderrajan
This document discusses green remediation and sustainability efforts at contaminated sites. It defines green remediation and sustainable development. It outlines a Superfund Green Remediation Strategy with 8 key actions: 1) clarify the role of green remediation in remedy selection, 2) develop protocols/tools, 3) identify options for green practices, 4) address air pollutants and diesel emissions, 5) develop pilot projects, 6) establish opportunities in contracts, 7) communicate successes, and 8) establish a project evaluation roadmap. It provides examples of green remediation profiles, lessons learned, and a Nebraska pilot project evaluating wind power.
The document summarizes several key air quality management initiatives in Alberta, including:
1) The National Air Quality Management System, a collaborative federal/provincial system to protect air quality.
2) Alberta's Clean Air Strategy, the province's strategic direction for air quality management over the next 10 years.
3) The Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting System, which aims to create a more comprehensive, transparent environmental monitoring system.
4) The Joint Canada/Alberta Oil Sands Monitoring Plan, which establishes enhanced monitoring of air, water and biodiversity in the oil sands region.
5) Regional air quality management frameworks being developed to manage cumulative effects at a regional scale.
Metro has developed an Environmental Management System (EMS) to ensure environmental compliance and sustainability across its operations. The EMS is based on the ISO 14001 standard and involves identifying environmental issues, setting targets and procedures, training staff, monitoring performance, and conducting audits and management reviews. Metro has analyzed sustainability indicators like energy and water use and greenhouse gas emissions. It has achieved cost savings of $2 million per year through various EMS and sustainability efforts. Metro sees the EMS as a tool for managing climate change and is conducting studies to further reduce impacts and improve collaboration.
Environmentally Sound Technologies for the Future for the futureSteve Halls
This document discusses mechanisms for promoting environmentally sound technologies (ESTs). It outlines that ESTs can provide economic benefits but their adoption faces barriers. The presentation covers: assessing EST performance; reporting environmental data transparently; linking financial and environmental indicators; and balancing voluntary initiatives with regulations. The goal is to mainstream ESTs by clarifying their benefits and facilitating investment decisions based on full economic and environmental criteria.
Theme 4 - Climate Change Mitigation and AdaptationCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Christopher Martius, Henry Neufeldt, Glenn Hyman and Laura Snook focuses on the objectives and structure of the climate change adaptation and mitigation program of the FTA Research Program, their evolution over time, the major accomplishments and the main obstacles and challenges.
Ensuring Sustainability of Clean Development Mechanism Projects for Global Su...Aaron Burton
Burton, A. (2007) Ensuring Sustainability of Clean Development Mechanism Projects for Global
Sustainable Development. Presented at the IEMA Environmental Knowledge Exchange, Manchester.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iema.net%2Fstream.php%2Fdownload%2Fevents%2Fnorthwest%2F20071107%2FA.Burton.pdf&rct=j&q=aaron%20burton%20iema&ei=eJC9TeG_OIKLhQfUtqnPBQ&usg=AFQjCNFoh1EEmzEks-iMv3gZbtSV6NlmGw
The document summarizes the Housing Standards Review, which aims to simplify and rationalize housing standards in the UK. It notes that the review was launched in 2012 to reduce costs for housebuilders while maintaining quality, sustainability, safety and accessibility. The review examined existing standards through working groups and is proposing a simplified and nationally consistent set of optional standards focused on space, access, energy, water, and security. It outlines next steps as analyzing the consultation responses and making final decisions in the new year.
To obtain comprehensive and practical understanding and application of the ISO 14000 as well as to understand what is required in order to effectively manage the same and the benefits of compliance
The document discusses sustainability reporting in the events sector. It introduces the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its Events Organizers Sector Supplement (EOSS) as frameworks for sustainability reporting. It encourages event organizers to get involved by providing public commentary on drafts of the EOSS to help shape the future of sustainability reporting standards in the industry. Key themes that are commonly reported include legacy, anti-doping, transportation, inclusivity, and sourcing. Benefits of adopting GRI reporting include increased transparency, comparability between organizations, and reputation enhancement.
Best Practices in Designing and Implementing Energy Efficiency Obligation Sch...Leonardo ENERGY
An energy efficiency obligation (EEO) is a regulatory mechanism that requires obligated parties to meet quantitative energy saving targets by delivering or procuring eligible energy savings produced by implementing approved end-use energy efficiency measures.
Governments have endeavoured to improve end-use energy efficiency, and in some cases to also achieve other objectives, by designing and implementing schemes that place EEOs on particular parties.
This webinar will summarise the results from detailed case studies and a unique comparative analysis of 19 different EEO schemes implemented in a range of jurisdictions around the world.
The webinar will also identify a set of best practices that can be employed in designing and implementing an EEO scheme.
Best Practices in Designing and Implementing Energy Efficiency Obligation Sch...Leonardo ENERGY
Dr. David Crossley presented on best practices in designing and implementing energy efficiency obligation schemes. He discussed that energy efficiency obligations require parties, often energy providers, to meet energy savings targets through approved efficiency measures. Around 50 such schemes now operate globally. Dr. Crossley reviewed 19 schemes and identified best practices, including setting clear policy objectives, long-term and measurable targets, and robust measurement and verification of savings. Obligated parties should be major energy providers and penalties imposed for non-compliance. Overall the presentation provided guidance on establishing effective energy efficiency obligation policies.
Economic and environmental benefits from international co-ordination on carbo...OECD Environment
The document discusses international coordination on carbon pricing and its economic and environmental benefits. It summarizes findings from 46 studies on the benefits of different forms of international cooperation on carbon pricing. International coordination can significantly reduce mitigation costs through measures like linking carbon markets, extending carbon coverage to other sectors and gases, and coordinating fossil fuel subsidy reform. However, benefits are distributed asymmetrically across countries. International cooperation also yields environmental benefits like reduced emissions and less carbon leakage between countries with different carbon prices.
- The document summarizes a conference on developing global standards for corporate sustainability and energy usage reporting.
- Currently there are no universal reporting standards, similar to GAAP for financials, making it hard to compare sustainability efforts.
- A global academic team aims to contribute by reviewing energy reporting with the Global Reporting Initiative and Carbon Disclosure Project standards and proposing solutions to standardize energy reporting for all companies.
- Their methodology will define, benchmark, and analyze corporate energy usage according to the exacting GRI and CDP standards to educate stakeholders and enhance standardized global corporate reporting.
Biographical information for mmf2011 int'lMyra Frazier
Myra M. Frazier has over 15 years of experience in the energy and environmental field with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. She holds a BA from Tufts University in International Relations, a JD/MA from Duke University, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Gabon researching the impact of the petroleum sector on environmental policy. Her areas of expertise include energy and environmental regulation, international technical cooperation with developing countries, and foreclosure prevention.
Ssc%20 summer%20newsletter%2008 best practices paperMyra Frazier
This article, published in the Society of Learning, (SoL) newsletter was adapted from a longer paper on environmental decision-making and best practices, focuses on the ways in which government can improve policy outcomes and choices in dynamic situations.
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a voluntary standard that promotes open and accountable management of natural resources. It requires disclosure of payments from oil, gas, and mining companies to governments and reconciliation of company and government figures. Over 30 countries have implemented the EITI, including many in Africa. Supporters include governments, companies, and civil society groups. The EITI aims to strengthen governance, provide a forum for dialogue, and act as a platform for broader reforms through transparency and accountability in extractive industries.
The document discusses best practices for identifying co-benefits of climate policies to improve policymaker decision making. It outlines prerequisites for establishing best practices, including measurement tools and defining characteristics. Best practices should be knowledge-based, technology-based, relevant, replicable, and sustainable. Policy approaches that promote best practices include strategic policies, integrated environment strategies programs, and definitions from organizations like the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. Further research can improve alignment between disciplines, development goals and mitigation strategies, and policy inputs and outcomes for co-benefits.
This document discusses system theory basics and tools for high performance. It introduces Ashby's Law which states that an organization's internal complexity must match the external market complexity in order to survive. It also discusses the "peach model" which illustrates how information flows within an organization in dull versus dynamic markets. In dynamic markets, the periphery gains knowledge advantages over the centralized leadership or "center". As a result, the center's traditional steering mechanisms like budgets and plans "collapse" and the periphery makes more autonomous decisions. The document outlines several system theory concepts and tools to help organizations adapt their thinking to complex, changing markets.
Contribution Of Sociotechnical Systems Theory Concepts To A Framework Of Terr...Myra Frazier
This document discusses key concepts from socio-technical systems theory and their relevance to a framework for territorial intelligence. It outlines several systems concepts including open and closed systems, bounded rationality, learning and adaptation, emerging properties, and types of decision making processes. These concepts can help define a territory as a system and aid in organizational assessment and collective decision making for territorial intelligence and sustained development.
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environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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1. Identifying Best Practices for Co-
Benefits: Improving Decision-
Making for Policymakers
US-Japan Workshop on
Climate Actions and
Developmental Co-Benefits
Myra Frazier, US EPA
March 5, 2007
2. Overview of Presentation
Rationale for the review of Best Practices
for co-benefits
Prerequisites and measurement tools for
establishing Best Practices
Overview and Definition of Best Practices-
Standards for Best Practices
Enabling Environments for Best Practices
Application of Best Practices by various
institutions
Putting it all together—Best Practices as a
policymaking tool
3. Rationale for the Review of Best
Practices for Co-Benefits
This analysis of Best Practices is not an all-
inclusive or exhaustive review of the literature as
it relates to Best Practices or co-benefits.
Instead, this paper highlights resources written
by leading institutions that are illustrative of
various viewpoints on the on the subject.
4. Prerequisites for Establishing Best
Practices for Co-Benefits
Organizational Factors
Best Practices System Model
Role of the Policymakers
Need for Policy-Relevant information
Role of the Technical Adviser
5. THE BEST PRACTICE SYSTEMS
MODEL
Best Practices System Model ™Best Practices Institute 2007
Evaluation Diagnosis
Support/Re-
Assessment
inforcement
Implement Design
6. Measurement Tools for Best
Practices
Importance of Measurement
Measurement Criteria
• Relevance
• Clearly-defined
• Current
• Meets a range of objectives
• Sustainable
Role of Indicators – Types of Indicators
7. Overview of Best Practices
Importance of Best Practices
• Need for improved policy performance
In the context of co-benefits, the most
effective policy would achieve “win-win”
results-polices that promote reductions in
GHG’s and improvements in local air quality.
Greater clarity and certainty
Opportunity to reduce risks
8. Defining Best Practices
General Definition of Best Practices
• A best practice is a technique or methodology that,
through experience and research has proven to reliably
lead to a desired result.
Challenges/Limitations of establishing Best
Practices for co-benefits
General Principles
• Replicability
• Applicability
• Sustainability
9. Standards for Best Practices for
Co-Benefits
Knowledge-Based Standard
Technology-Based Standard
Relevance of these standards for co-
benefits
10. Top-Down Approach to Strategic
Policies that Promote Best
Practices
Free Market Centrally-Planned
Economies Economies
Trade Policy (Chile) Command and Control
Legal Reform Policies (China)
Environmental Regulations
Bureaucratic Regulations
Energy Policy Reform
—
11. SD-PAMS
Definition
• Policies and measures taken by a
country in pursuit of its domestic policy
objectives.
Can serve as a metric to evaluate policy
options that advance domestic
development objectives and promote
climate benefits.
12. Integrated Environment Strategies
Program (IES)
Created in 1998
Current focus on 4 developing countries
Identifies co-benefits opportunities, provides
analytical data for decision-making, outreach and
education
Builds permanent in-country capacity
Extends co-benefits framework to other areas
besides key areas of GHG reductions, air quality
and public health impacts
Makes linkages between analysis and the policy
process
13. What Are Integrated Measures?
Integrated
• Low-sulfur coal
• Smokestack • Clean fuels
controls • Renewable energy
• Catalytic converters • Energy efficiency Global
• Inspection and programs
maintenance (I&M) • Methane gas recovery
programs
• Fuel switching
• Diesel particle traps • Forest management
• Public transport and
• Evaporative controls land use • Control of other GHGs
Local • Retirement of older
(N2O, HFCs, PFCs,
SF6)
vehicles
• Carbon capture/
• Efficiency standards for
sequestration
new vehicles/appliances
Integrated
Adapted from Jason West et al (2002)
14. IGES-Definition of Good Practices
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, (IGES)-
“Good Practices” meet the following conditions:
• Lead to an actual improvement in the environmental
area considered, or breaks new ground in non-traditional
approaches on the issue.
• Involve indicators for some visible or measurable
change, giving consideration to:
Improvement in the environmental situation or the socio-
economic situation;
Demonstrate innovation and replicable approach;
Be self-sustaining;
Involve a range of actors.
15. Putting it all together---Best
Practices as a Policymaking Tool
Opportunities for Additional Research:
• Greater alignment between the underlying disciplines
and to promote greater harmonization of methods,
metrics and evaluation tools;
• Greater alignment between local development goals and
national GHG mitigation strategies;
• Greater alignment between policymaker and technical
adviser;
• Greater alignment between policy inputs and outcomes
for co-benefits;
• Greater alignment between organizational structure and
performance and outcomes.