Environmental best practice for FORS companies James Swanston, Carbon Voyage
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Environmental best practice for FORS companies
James Swanston, Carbon Voyage
Web: www.carbonvoyage.com/freight Twitter: @carbonvoyage
• The basics of sustainability
• FORS and sustainability
• How to use sustainability to save money
• Environmental Audits and Policies
• Carbon/ Greenhouse Gas Accounting for you and your customers
Outline
Introduction to Sustainability
What is Climate Change?
• The increase in the Earth’s average temperature over a long period of time
• Caused by greenhouse gases from:
Source: EU European Commission on Climate Change
Natural reasons Human activities
Brief history of climate change
Source: BBC News
1927 – Carbon emissions 1 billion tonnes per year1989 – Carbon emissions 6 billion tonnes per year2006 – Carbon emissions 8 billion tonnes per year
Source: BBC News
Source: An Inconvenient Truth
Early warnings
Source: BBC News
The effect of Global Warming
• Rising global temperatures
• The Polar ice cap is melting at 9% per decade
• Over the past 3 decades, more than a million squares miles of sea ice disappeared
• If this continues, Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2040
• Glaciers in Glacier National Park will be gone by 2070
Effects: Melting Glaciers
Picture Source: NASA
• Sea expansion due to rising temperature
• Melting Glaciers
• Global sea level rises by 4-8 inches in the past century
• Sea level rising appears to be accelerating
• Sea level could rise 10-23 inches by 2100
• Small islands like Maldives, Marshall islands will be gone by 2100
• Soon 70,000 people will become homeless
Effects: Rising Sea Levels
Effects: Weather
• Powerful and dangerous Hurricanes
• Increased Volcano Activities
• More Floods
• Drought and Wildfire
• Intense Rainstorms
• Heat Waves
• Spread of Deadly Disease
Effect: Health
• Drought and Flooding • Less available water, less food, damaged shelters, less dwindling
resources• Migration, conflict and wars will become unavoidable• Countries may seek those resource in order to survive at the cost of
others
Effects: Migration, Conflict and Wars
Future of Climate ChangeWhat can we do?
Future of Climate Change
One of the main questions that people have about climate change is, can it be stopped?
FORS and sustainability
Where this fits into FORS benchmarking
Silver and gold membership – fuel use/ CO2 and emissions
What it is?
Calculations based on per million vehicle km for each type of
vehicle
Fleet size/ type x Fuel Consumption
What to do?
Manage
Reduce
FORS: The Bigger Picture
Definition of sustainable freight distribution: ‘The balanced management and control of the economic, social and environmental issues affecting freight transport that:
Complies with or exceeds environmental standards, regulations or targets aimed at reducing emissions of climate change gases, improving air quality and minimising impacts from accidents, spillages or wastes
Ensures freight is run efficiently, reduces unnecessary journeys, minimises journey distances and maximises loads with effective planning
Complies with labour, transport and human rights standards and regulations ensuring that employees and communities affected by freight can function in a healthy and safe environment
Minimises the negative impacts of freight activities on local communities’
FORS: The Bigger Picture - Congestion
Between 1980 and 2006, average journey speeds decreased by an approximately 14 % - more in rush hours
TfL estimates that up to £17 is lost for every hour a vehicle is stuck in traffic. Estimates for the total cost of congestion to London range from £2 to £4 billion
Freight, which makes up 17 per cent of all road traffic, is expected to grow by 25 per cent in 2031
Based on 2006 data, the estimated contribution from freight transport in London is 2.2m tonnes of GHG emissions, equalling 5.1 per cent of the Capital’s GHG production and energy use
FORS: The Bigger Picture - Solutions
Delivering freight sustainably through:
•Freight Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS)•Delivery and Servicing Plans (DSP)•Construction Logistics Plans (CLP)•Freight Information Portal (FIP)
FORS: The Bigger Picture – Potential Result
How to use sustainability to save money
“[M&S] said it had generated £50m in additional profits against its expectation that the plan would cost it £200m over five years.”
(The Telegraph, June 2010)
Why sustainability is importantfor your business
Drivers for Sustainability
Case study research has calculated that for every employee fully engaged in their organisation’s sustainability policies, the organisation can save £1,000 in operational costs each year
Improved sustainability practise within large corporations can increase profits by 38% when the benefits are aggregated, similar savings in expenditure can be achieved in the public and not-for profit sector
Some of the problems
Each transport user/ provider has different challenges, but are all negatively affected by inefficiencies
Some of the Problems
Needless doubling up of vehicles
Managing expenditure/ Acquitting receipts
Congestion
Stakeholder/ Reputation Management
Lack of easy access to supply chain
Carbon Emissions
Pollutants
Stove-piped transport modes
Under-utilised transport assets
Costs
Regulatory Requirements
Sustainability should be about efficiency, and thus equate to savings
Saving money and building profit requires
a coherent strategy
Macro vs Micro
Organisational vs Individual
Drivers for Sustainability
Drivers for ChangeCostCarbon RegulationCongestionEmployeesCustomersShareholders
Organisational Behaviour
Drivers for ChangeCostCarbon RegulationCongestionEmployeesCustomersShareholders
Organisational Behaviour
Drivers against ChangeCompeting resourcesInefficient procurementLack of senior buy-inLack of coherent and resourced strategyEmployee Terms and Conditions
Drivers for ChangeCostCarbon Health
Individual Behaviour
Drivers for ChangeCostCarbon Health
Individual Behaviour
Drivers against ChangeOpportunity Cost ConvenienceUnattractive or no incentivesTrustKnowledge/ information
Drivers for ChangeCostCarbon Health
Individual Behaviour: Driversfor and against change
Drivers against ChangeOpportunity Cost ConvenienceUnattractive or no incentivesTrustKnowledge/ information
Opportunities to affect changeInformationTrust - systemTrust - other sharersManagementIncentives
Generating efficiencies internally is good
Generating efficiencies through the value chain is better
Opening up collaboration opportunities is best
Collaborative Consumption