Building & Business Level Carbon Accounting : Lessons from Business | Mike Bonaventura

ICARB :: 6th International Conference on Carbon AccountingCarbon Accounting for Cities & Communities

Workshop 1B: Building & Business Level Carbon Accounting :: Lessons from Business

Mike Bonaventura [email protected] | +44(0)1387 702091

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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

• standards

• protocols :: methodologies :: data exchange

• process

• [origination] :: validation :: verification

• platform

• centralised database :: configurable resource libraries :: visualisation


harmonisation :: standards


harmonisation :: process

validation

verification

[origination]


harmonisation :: platform


assessment :: measurement and management

• 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


assessment :: baseline


assessment :: performance


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

• benchmarking

• comparative intra and inter-sectoral performance

• lifecycle analysis

• product and process

• industrial ecology

• industrial ecosystems :: industrial symbiosis :: resource efficiency networks


emergent patterns :: benchmarking

Emissions

Fuel costs


emergent patterns :: lifecycle analysis :: PAS2050

Strawberry Jam Production

Consumption

Disposal

AgrichemicalsYoung Trees

AgrichemicalsYoung Trees

AgrichemicalsSeeds

AgrichemicalsStolons

Raw Materialsglass

Raw Materialsplastics

WaterEnergy

WaterEnergy

WaterEnergy

WaterEnergy Energy Energy

AppleCultivation

LemonCultivation

BeetCultivation

StrawberryCultivation

JarProduction

Plastic PullProduction

PectinProduction

Lemon JuiceProduction

SugarProduction

StrawberryProcessing

Waste Treatment

productprocess


emergent patterns :: industrial ecosystems & industrial symbiosis


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


Mike Bonaventura [email protected] | +44(0)1387 702091




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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