Post on 21-May-2015
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Using Product Baselines as the Foundation for Carbon Footprints
Phil BerrySustainable Product Works
“Traditional” carbon footprint approach – start inScope 1 and work your way out…
• Scope 1: Direct emissions from things you own.
• Scope 2: Indirect emissions from electricity you buy – power plant
• Scope 3: Other indirect emissions – materials, supply chain, transportation logistics, product use, possibly the services you supply.
Scope 1Owned Operations
TraditionalScope 1:
A set of discretenumbers potentiallyunassociated with
your business’s coreproducts or services.
Scope 2Power plant emissions
Scope 1Owned Operations
TraditionalScope 1 and 2:
Multiple sets ofdiscrete numbers
potentiallyunassociated with
your business’s coreproducts or services.
Scope 3Materials, supply chain, and product
Impacts
Scope 2Power plant emissions
Scope 1Owned Operations
TraditionalScope 3:
Now, after building asystem for Scopes 1
& 2 – you find theability to connectclimate impact toproducts, supply
chains or services.
But your systems, orclimate metrics, maynot be built for it…
Scope 3Materials, supply chain, and product
Impacts
Scope 2Power plant emissions
Scope 1Owned Operations
Product or Service
Baseline
Product or ServiceBaseline:
From the start, build asystem to connect
climate impact / GHGto product or services.
Done well, it can stillbe a compliantmethodology.
Product #1 with Scope 1 and 2
3%
49%
25%
12%
11%
Product Creation
Manufacturing
Product Logistics
Distribution
Retail
Product #1 with all product contributions
1%
45%
19%
18%
9%
4%
4%
Product Creation
Raw Materials
Raw Material Logistics
Manufacturing
Product Logistics
Distribution
Retail
Graphic Display of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a Product Life Cycle
Raw Materials
Manufacturing
Product Trans.
Distribution
Retail
Operations
Product Take-Back
Allocations