Corporate Sustainability and Greenhouse Gas Measurement

Brief Overview andGreen IT Informatics

Alan Dayeh

Net Balance Management Group

Green IT Taskforce (NSW)

About Net Balance• Leading provider of advisory and assurance

services in business responsibility

• Clients include:

– ING, IAG, VicSuper, CBA, Wesfarmers, Woolworths, Energy Australia, AGL Energy, Transurban, Brambles

• Five Business Lines

AssuranceClimate Change

Strategy and Business

Performance

Environment Management

Social Sustainability

Agenda

• Green IT - Informatics specific session

• Two topics:

1. Sustainability/Corporate Responsibility reporting

2. Greenhouse Gas emissions data management

SUSTAINABILITY / CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Elements of Sustainability

Interdependent and mutually reinforcing elements

Source: UNEP

Sustainability Jargon

There are many terms used inter-changeably which can be confusing

– Sustainable Development (SD)

– Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD)

– Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)

– Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

– Corporate Responsibility (CR)

– Corporate Citizenship

– Triple Bottom Line (TBL)

And other terms like Climate Change and Life Cycle Assessment

What is Corporate Responsibility

• The management of a company’s positive impact on society and the environment through its operations, products or services and through its interaction with key stakeholders such as employees, customers, investors and suppliers.

Business in the Community, UK

Marketplace

• Product impact

• Responsible marketing

• Supply chain management

Workplace

• Diversity and Gender Balance

• OH&S, Work/Life balance

• Training & Development

Environment

• Greenhouse Gases/Climate Change

• Resources & Biodiversity

• Ecologically Sustainable Development

Community

• Community investment

• Economic renewal

• Education

Corporate Sustainability Evolution

Phase 1 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Phase 6Phase 2

economic, environmental & social outcomes

compliance

strategic

Innovation

or market

advantages

leveraged

strategic

thinking

& continuous

Improvement

internalised

efficiency

gains &

improvements

realisedbaseline

measures

set & actions

planned

positioned for

long term viability,

while providing

economic, environmental

& social dividends

Source: EPA Qld

Case Study – Integrated Approach (Fuji Xerox)

Dealers and Master Agencies deliver 44% of our equipment sales revenue.

Survey found mixed rates of product return and recycling activity.

Identified opportunity to increase recycling of end-of-life equipment.

One challenge is the environmentaland financial cost involved in transporting dealer equipment from remote sites to recycling facilities.

Future years will incorporate other aspects of sustainability performance.

What are the information needs?

Sustainability measurement & reporting

• Global Reporting Initiative

• UN Global Compact

• AccountAbility 1000 Framework (AA1000)

• Social Accountability 8000 standard (SA8000)

• GHG Protocol (WBCSD)

• OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

• http://www.reportalert.info has a comprehensive repository of sustainability reports

Reporting Challenges

• GRI indicators are not always comparable

• GRI XBRL Taxonomy exists

• GRI indicators is the closest thing to Chart of Accounts in Sustainability

• Data is sourced from many parts of the organisation (HR, OH&S, Environmental, Financial) and in many forms (soft, hard, third parties)

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Measuring - Accepted Methodologies

• INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

www.ghgprotocol.org

• NATIONAL STANDARDS

www.greenhouse.gov.au

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Categorising Emissions - Scopes

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The GHG Protocol defines three categories or ‘scopes’ for emissions:

Typical GHG of services industry

Emission Type Data Requirements Data Sources

Electricity Kilowatts Utilities invoices

Gas MegaJoules Utilities invoices

Fuel Consumption Litres Fuel invoices

Refrigerant Gas Kilograms Maintenance invoices

Taxis Estimated from Cost Receipts

Air Travel Origin/Dest/Psgrs Travel agent

Waste to Landfill Tonnes Waste Contractor

Paper Consumption Reams (A4 equiv.) Stationery purchases

Base Building Electricity

Kilowatts Landlord/PropertyManager

Data Centres Kilowatts IT Services Provider

GREEN IT AND INFORMATICS OPPORTUNITIES

Informatics Opportunities

• Core issues – Energy and waste

• Energy

– Information on consumption down to device level (what standards can be set?)

– Outsourced services – Provision of consumption data

– Innovations – Communications technologies to enable data transmission

• Waste

– Reduce, Reuse, Recycle concept

– Achieve other objectives beyond Green (eg. enable communication and information exchange among businesses looking to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes)

NGER Legislation - Timeline

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