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DAY ONE
DEMONSTRATING HOW CARBON FOOTPRINT MEASUREMENT & REDUCTION INITIATIVES TRANSLATE TO CREATE MEASURABLE BUSINESS VALUE
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| 8:30 am |
Chair’s Opening Remarks – Understanding The Cost Benefits Of Measuring Your Carbon Footprint |
The chair will kick start the conference with a pan-audience business card swapping session, inviting delegates to share practical experiences on how being carbon efficient reduces your cost basis and delivers financial value
Zoe Riddell, Vice President - USA, Carbon Disclosure Project
| QUANTIFYING THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS VALUE OF MEASURING YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT ACROSS OPERATIONS AND THE VALUE CHAIN |
KEYNOTE PANEL SESSION – DEMONSTRATING THE FINANCIAL BUSINESS DRIVERS
| 8:40 am |
Demonstrating How Carbon Footprint Measurement & Reduction Translates To Create Bottom Line Financial Value |
Facilitated by Kevin Walsh, Managing Director, Renewable Energy, GE Energy Financial Services
- What is your carbon and energy footprint – why is it important to your business?
- Understanding the key business drivers as well as the traditional environmental and social arguments supporting quantification and reduction across the business
- Benchmarking company experiences on the financial benefits including:
- The broad perspective - How measurement data enables your company to cut operational costs and gain supply chain efficiencies
- Operational cost reductions – How much difference can you really make?
- Discover the amount you can save on global transportation and logistics costs
- Assessing what consumers rate as important
- Examining how consumer demand on carbon reduction actually translates to increased sales
Dave Newman, Head of Global Sustainability, Nike
Thomas Mooney, Senior Vice President for Sustainability, Fiji Water
Kevin Rabinovitch, Director of Sustainability, Mars
Ellen W. Feeney, Vice-President Of Responsible Livelihood, Whitewave Foods
Tim Smith, Senior Director Sustainable Development, Shaklee Corporation
| 9:15 am |
Questions & Discussion |
PRESENTING AN ACTION ORIENTED CASE STUDY
| 9:30 am |
Creating A Real Business Case For Reducing Consumer Product Carbon Footprints – Uncovering The Key Business Benefits |
- How taking action will benefit your business?
- Deciphering the tangible business benefits
- Recognizing that improved carbon performance is essential to future bottom line performance
- Understanding how reducing a product's carbon footprints impacts business growth & operational cost reductions
- How it impacts the bottom line - identifying the strategic issues within operations and the supply chain
Dave Stangis, Director of Corporate Sustainability, Intel
| 10:00 am |
Questions & Discussion |
UK CASE STUDY
| 10:10 am |
Demonstrating How Carbon Footprint Measurement & Reduction Increases Sales & Brand Value |
- Carbon labeling and the consumer: Boot’s experience
- Will the consumers pay more for low carbon products?
- Clarifying the business benefits and brand advantages of reporting carbon footprints to the consumer
- Understanding how consumers perceive the carbon footprints of various products and how they prioritize each aspect of sustainability
- Green decision making and pricing – what are consumers saying – How much will they pay for green products?
- Obtaining a true understanding of consumer perceptions towards climate change through targeted initiatives
“With increasing energy prices, have consumers finally reached the tipping point? Is now the time for brands to proactively invest in making carbon footprint reduction real for consumers?”
Richard Ellis, Head of Sustainability, Boots PLC
| 10:40 am |
Questions & Discussion |
| 10:50 am |
Morning Refreshments Served In The Networking & Exhibition Showcase Area |
| WORKING TOWARDS A SUCCESSFUL REGULATORY AND STANDARDS INFRASTRUCTURE |
POLICY DISCUSSION
| 11:20 am |
Assessing Future Federal & State Regulation On Carbon Management – What’s On The Horizon? |
- Making sense of the regulatory landscape across states – where are trends heading, what are realistic results on greenhouse gas reduction over the next 5 to 10 years?
- What are the bills that are currently being passed through Congress and what would they mean for the price of carbon?
- Where do different state representatives stand on carbon regulation?
- Making the best out of the current regulatory uncertainty
| 11:50 am |
Questions & Discussion |
| COMPARING DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES FOR QUANTIFYING CARBON FOOTPRINTS |
CASE STUDY: WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS? HOW DO YOU GET STARTED?
| 12:00 pm |
Practical Methodologies For Measuring & Reducing The Carbon Footprint Of Your Consumer Product |
- Making trade offs in the various components of your products, processes or packaging designs in order to reduce your carbon footprint
- Examining the real impacts of packaging – is less really more?
- Developing guidelines for establishing the carbon content of a product to reduce the complexity of the lifecycle analysis and overcome subjectivity
Kevin Rabinovitch, Director of Sustainability, Mars
| 12:30 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
| 12:40 pm |
Networking Buffet Lunch Served in the Exhibition Showcase Area |
Lunch Hosted by
CASE STUDY: DEFINING COMMON STANDARDS AND TERMINOLOGIES
| 1:40 pm |
Defining The Scope Of Carbon Footprint Measurement Within Operations And The Supply Chain – Where Do You Start, How Far Should You Go? |
- Defining scope 1, 2 and 3 – what this means in different industry sectors
- Sharing internal metrics for measuring
- Identify your boundaries within your supply chain
- Comparing ROI on different methodologies
- Developing a framework for analyzing, measuring & standardizing the product lifecycle across the entire value chain
- Challenges to carbon footprinting consumer products
- Building the bigger picture of product sustainability
- Results so far
Daniel Daggett, Manager Environmental Sustainability, Johnson Diversey
| 2:10 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
| 2:20 pm |
The Energy Efficient Supply Chain |
Martha Turner, Booze Allen Hamilton
| 2:40 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
| 2:45 pm |
Afternoon Refreshments Served In The Exhibition Area |
Refreshments Hosted by
| FINDING THE STRATEGIC LEVERAGE POINTS WITHIN DIFFERENT CARBON MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES TO IDENTIFY COMMON METRICS AND STANDARDS |
BEST PRACTICE CASE STUDY: ASSESSING YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN PRIORITIES
| 3:15 pm |
Establishing Baselines For Extracting Carbon Out Of ProductSupply Chains |
- What can you do in your supply chain to maximize impact?
- Delivering a common checklist and approach
- Deciding where to position your carbon measurement programme
- Collaborating and educating supply chain partners
- Marketing up stream rather than down stream
- The importance of technology transfer
Brian Glazebrook, Manager Supply Chain Social Responsibility, Cisco
| 3:45 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
| 3:55 pm |
"It Starts and Ends With Data" - How To Get Good Carbon Footprints In China |
- Understand how to work with your Chinese suppliers to get reliable data
- Improve internal and external data acquisition
- Communicate the importance of reducing your supply chain carbon footprint
- Realize the benefits of reducing your supply chain carbon footprint
Peter Klein, EMEA VP, Supply Chain Consulting
| 4:25 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
INVENTORY PROCESS CASE STUDY
| 4:35 pm |
Developing Inventory Processes For Handling Operational And Supply Chain Data |
- Best practice lessons on developing the inventory process for your own company and supply chains
- Assessing the optimum technologies for developing inventory processes
- Asking your vendors about their environmental practices, statements and carbon data
Ann Thrupp, Sustainability and Organic Development, Fetzer Vineyards
Amanda Cattermole, Technical Director, Global Innovation Group, Levi Strauss & Co.
Che Mott, Vice President, Supply Chain Development, Aravo Solutions
Andrew Armstrong, Vice President, WSP Environmental Strategies
Marco Monroy, President/CEO, MGM International
Andreas Vogel, Vice President, SAP Research
| 5:30 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
| 5:45 pm |
Chair’s Closing Remarks & Close Of Day 1 |
| 5:50 pm |
Cocktail Reception In The Exhibition Showcase Zone |
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| 8:45 am |
Chair’s Opening Remarks |
KEYNOTE PANEL SESSION
| 9:00 am |
Building Business Relationships With Trading Partners, Retailers, Manufacturers And Carriers To Find The Specific Leverage Point To Deliver Hard Reduction Targets |
- Evaluating the different carbon reduction options and targeting the areas with the lowest carbon intensity to ensure the greatest carbon reductions
- Identifying why the size, history and nature of the business relationships in those key areas is also important
- Establishing clear baseline figures and what the trade-offs will be for cost vs. quality for each measurement to identify the priority areas of the business for reducing emissions
- Setting goals and targets with suppliers and working for future best practices
- You know the theory but how do you proactively engage with your supply chain? Carrot, stick or both?
- What practical lessons are there from previous programs?
Jim Stanway, Senior Director - Global Supplier Initiatives, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Paul Comey, Vice-President of Environmental Affairs, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Richard Ellis, Head of Sustainability, Boots PLC
Jim Hartzfeld, Interface Inc.
Lyn Brown, ABC, BA, MBA, Vice President Corporate Relations & Social Responsibility, Catalyst Paper Corporation
| 9:40 am |
Questions & Discussion |
RAW MATERIALS CASE STUDY
| 9:50 am |
Quantifying The Carbon Footprint Of Raw Materials for Food Products |
- Evaluating and reducing the carbon footprint of the raw materials used to make food products
- Understanding the impact of variation in emissions with farming systems and other key factors
- Examining the relationship between organic farming practices and GHG emissions
- Developing a pragmatic approach to identifying and assessing target areas having the greatest potential
Tom Rosenberg, PA Consulting Group
Ruan Jones, PA Consulting Group
| 10:20 am |
Questions & Discussion |
| 10:30 am |
Morning Refreshments Served In The Exhibition Showcase Arena |
MEASURING MANUFACTURING EFFICIENCIES
| 11:00 am |
Ensuring Consumer Products Are Manufactured As Efficiently As Possible – Identifying Common Metrics And Standardization Opportunities in the Global Supply Chain |
- Obtaining data from suppliers located in developing countries
- Getting access to energy efficient technologies for international subcontractors
- Evaluating the different types of inventories available
- Identifying the right one for specific projects and industries
- Financial results so far and projected estimates including costs and ROI
Dave Newman, Head of Global Sustainability, Nike
| 11:30 am |
Questions and Discussion |
INVENTORY CASE STUDY: SCOPE 2
| 11:40 am |
Inventorying Indirect Emissions from Purchased Energy |
- Methodical analysis of the Inventory process
- Evaluating the different types of inventories available
- Identifying the right one for specific projects and industries
Lori Duvall, Director Eco Responsibility, Sun Microsystems
| 12:10 pm |
Questions and Discussion |
INVENTORY CASE STUDY: SCOPE 3
| 12:20 pm |
Inventorying Your Indirect Emissions from Outsourced Manufacturing – Obtaining Data From Partners To Identify Where the Emissions Are Coming From |
- Defining scope 3 – Addressing the different options and methodologies
- Quantifying scope 3 emissions at the consumer level
- Identifying the right partners and efficiently collaborating with them
Elissa Loughman, Environmental Analyst, Patagonia
| 12:50 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1:00 pm |
Networking Buffet Lunch Served in the Exhibition Showcase Area |
Lunch Hosted by
DISTRIBUTION AND LOGISTICS
| 2:00 pm |
Achieving Optimal Efficiency In Logistics And Distribution To Reduce Your Direct Emissions |
- Increasing the efficiency of your distribution routes and systems and realizing the cost and carbon benefits
- Cost-effectively implementing bio-fuelled vehicles into your transport fleet
- How load sharing can realistically be organized to maximize vehicle space and efficiency
- The benefits of local sourcing and supply on transport efficiency
- Minimizing airfreight's impact on the carbon footprint
Alex McIntosh, Director Corporate Citizenship, Nestle Waters North America
Craig Sears-Black, Sales & Marketing Director, ISOTRAK
| 2:30 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
MEASURING SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
| 2:40 pm |
Efficiently Inventorying Your Indirect Emissions from Surface Logistics & Distribution (Trucking & Rail) |
- Evaluating the different types of inventories available
- Identifying the right one for specific projects and industries
- Methodical analysis of the inventory process
Sarah Froman, Policy Advisor, EPA Smartway Transport Partnership
Fabian DeGarbo, Green Missions Specialist, Whole Foods
Cheri Chastain, Sustainability Coordinator, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Peter Moore, VP Capgemini, NA Logistics Consulting Leader
| 3:10 pm |
Questions and Discussion |
| 3:20 pm |
Afternoon Refreshments |
MEASURING SEA CARGO EMISSIONS
| 3:50 pm |
Quantifying Sea Cargo Transportation Emissions To Understand and Reduce Your International Carbon Footprint |
- Dealing with international partners in order to quantify your manufacturing footprint
- What are the large logistics players putting forward?
Lee Kindberg, Ph.D., Director, Environment, Maersk Inc.
| 4:20 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
MEASURING AND REDUCING AIR FREIGHT EMISSIONS
| 4:30 pm |
Carbon Footprinting, Methods and Application |
- The benefits of carbon footprinting
- Comparing transportation methods: how bad is air freight and are there any advantages to using it?
Simon Aumonier, Partner, ERM
| 5:00 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
CLOSING KEYNOTE PANEL SESSION
| 5:10 pm |
Comparing The Payback Of Carbon Reduction Vs Carbon Offsetting Initiatives |
- Evaluating the business benefits and acceptance of prestigious and cost effective off-sets versus realistic and direct emission reduction
- Comparing the payback of carbon reduction versus carbon offsetting initiatives
- Analyzing investment data to indicate the most beneficial way of spending your money
- Considering the “intangible” PR benefits of offsetting and measuring the impact on the brand
- Evaluating whether to invest in offsetting or more practical initiatives including motion-sensor lighting and video conferencing
Christina Page, Director of Climate and Energy, Yahoo!
Steve McDougal, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, 3Degrees
Lisa Nelowet Grice, CIH, Principal, ENVIRON
Bjorn D. Fischer, Managing Director, 3C The Carbon Credit Company LLC
Anne Hambleton, Senior Manager, Business Development, NativeEnergy
Dr. Mark C. Trexler, Director, Eco Securities Global Consulting Services
Steve Gutmann, Senior Commercialization Manager, EcoSecurities
| 5:40 pm |
Questions & Discussion |
| 5:50 pm |
Chair’s Closing Remarks & Close Of Conference |
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Jim Stanway, Senior Director – Global Supplier Initiatives, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Ann Thrupp, Sustainability and Organic Development, Fetzer Vineyards
Brian Glazebrook, Manager Supply Chain Corporate Responsibility, Cisco
Sarah Froman, Policy Advisor, EPA Smartway Transport Partnership
Stan Cooper, Transport and Logistics Manager, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Daniel Daggett, Manager Enviornmental Sustainability, JohnsonDiversey
Dave Newman, Head of Global Sustainability, Nike
Dave Stangis, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Intel
Ellen W. Feeney, VP Responsible Livelihood, WhiteWave Food Company
Jim Hartzfeld, Interface Inc.
Fabian DeGarbo, Director of Sustainable Packaging, Whole Foods Markets
Elissa Loughman , Environmental Analyst, Patagonia
Kevin Rabinovitch, Director of Sustainability, Mars
Lee Kindberg, Director Environment, Maersk Inc.
Paul Comey, Vice-President Environmental Affairs, Green Mountain Coffee
Richard Ellis, Head of Sustainability, Boots PLC
Thomas Mooney, Senior Vice President Sustainability, Fiji Water
Tim Smith, Senior Director Sustainable Development, Shaklee Corporation
Lyn Brown, VP Corporate Relations and CSR, Catalyst Paper Corporation
Lori Duvall, Director of Ecoresponsibility, Sun Microsystems
Alex Mcintosh, Director Corporate Citizenship, Nestle Waters North America
Christina Page, Director of Climate and Energy, Yahoo!
Anne Hambleton, Senior Manager, Business Development, NativeEnergy
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Just a few of the companies that have benefited from attending one of American Business Conferences’ Global Sustainability Summits in 2007:
Amtrak
Aveda
Ben and Jerry’s
Bureau Veritas
Cadbury Schweppes
Cisco
Citigroup
DHL
Diageo
EPA
GE Energy
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Home Retail Group
Intel Corporation
Interface Inc.
Invista
JP Morgan Chase
Kimberly-Clark
Kodak
Kraft Foods
McDonald’s
Microsoft
Nestle Purina
Nike
Pepsico
Procter & Gamble
Starbucks Coffee Company
Stonyfield
Tesco
Tetra Pak
The Climate Group
The Hearst Corporation
The Office Depot
Unilever
UPS
Wal-Mart Corporation
WhiteWave Food Company
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