Pauline Rutter Understanding Sustainability Oct 2013

Pauline Rutter

Understanding Sustainability

What inspires?

Pauline Rutter Understanding Sustainability Oct 2013

SKY GREENShttp://skygreens.appsfly.com

www.earthfromtheair.com

Ruth ClementsFood Animal Initiative

www.europeanfarmersnetwork.org

The previous year of lameness incidence was18.5% in the same period .

Food Animal Initiative (FAI)

Supporting:

Environment (securing the planet in the face of the challenge of climate change),

Economics (food must be affordable) and

Ethics (food must be produced safely and with the welfare of the animal in mind)

What are the challenges?

Population Growth?

1800: 1 billion

1960: 3 billion

2000: 6 billion

2050: 9 billion

We now consume in six weeks the same amount of oil that was consumed inone year in 1950. Half of it is used for transport.

Today, 20 % of the worlds populationdo not have

access to safe drinking water.

With only about 200,000 cubic kilometres offreshwater available to ecosystems and humans of

the total 1.4 billion km3 water we must beresponsible to not pollute earth’s

Resource Use?

World emissions of CO² (the main greenhouse gas) havemultiplied by 4 since 1950

Anthropogenic climate changeThe 1990 – 2000 decade was the

hottest since 1861

Tesco United Kingdom 2011/2012 Tonnes CO2e 2,480,000

CO² Emissions ?

WRAP: Estimates of waste in the food and drink supply chain (2012:8)

Waste?

“Any substance or object which the holder discards or

intends to, or is required to discard."

UN definition

Science and debate?“Sir David

Attenborough is wrong to be

concerned about a rise in the global population.” says Professor Robert

Winston (member of the House of

Lords and pioneering researcher in the field of

fertility)

Earth from the AirA photographic portrait of our planet

towards a sustainable futureby Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The National Tour Exhibition

The exhibition presented by Wecommunic8www.earthfromtheair.com

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Good business has a positive and dynamic role to play.

What concerns me?

Zero waste: Waste as a resource: http://www.sita.co.uk/about-us/our-vision

Project code: WRAP01 312 PAD102-308 Research date: October - December 2012

‘The Circular Economy offers a profound transformational opportunity, which

represents the interests of both the global community as well as the next generation. Transitioning towards a regenerative model

will stimulate economic activity in the areas of product innovation, remanufacturing and

refurbishment, and in turn generate employment.’

Cisco Chris Dedicoat, President, EMEA

Zero waste: Waste as a resource: http://www.sita.co.uk/about-us/our-vision

Building Public Trust Awards 2012:Sustainability reporting Sustainability reporting in the FTSE 100 & 250 and public sector (awarded jointly by PwC and the National Audit Office: 2012)

Winner: Unilever. However, “The standard of sustainability reporting has largely remained the same year on year.” Malcolm Preston, Global Head of Sustainability, PwC

Building Public Trust Awards 2012

WRAP: Estimates of waste in the food and drink supply chain (2012:4)

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And then there’s the emerging

question of how companies

can create

natural capital (e.g. replant forests,

purify water, restore habitats.

Sense making for sustainability

Cognitive – thinking

Linguistic - talking about

Conative - doing/taking action

Ref:

Moving from this:

To this

Key mechanisms by which retailers may drive (push) or facilitate consumers to pull the environmental improvement of product supply chains, with reference to relevant types of certification and labelling (Styles et al. 2012).

Via this

Supplier Engagement:1) Engage with relevant business support organisations (Chamber of Commerce, Business Link, local/regional food groups- Sustain, WRAP, Carbon Trust NFU, English Food and Farming Partnerships)

2) Initiate supplier mapping and capability assessments

3) Organise meet the buyer events

4) Advertise and promote opportunities widely

5) Initiate early dialogue with the supplier community: to find out what is available, to inform the market of future requirements, and to stimulate sustainable procurement but without distorting competition or giving any advantage to particular suppliers

6) Use of food assurance schemes: to help inform technical specifications and thereby assure/ raise production standards

Action:

Via this

Tesco total global carbon footprint 2011/2012 (Tesco Corporate Responsibility Review 2012:18

By companies?

A Better Retailing Climate: Progress Report 2012 (British Retail Consortium)

Understanding

Benefits, risks and scope for change

Is there scope to

engage with the discussion about

corporatecreation of

natural capital for

value creation?

Simple benefit (risk) / opportunity matrix - National Sustainable Public Procurement Training Programme (Defra:2011)

Thank YouPauline Rutter

M: 0781 7566536E: pauline.rutter@gmail.com

References:• Yann Arthus-Bertrand Exhibition www.earthfromtheair.com

• Sky Greens http://skygreens.appsfly.com

• Food Animal Initiative (FAI) www.europeanfarmersnetwork.org

• IKEA ?

• WRAP01 312 PAD102-308 Research date: October - December 2012

• WRAP: Estimates of waste in the food and drink supply chain (2012:4)

• Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR5 Working Group 1 Climate Change 2013 The Physical Basis

• SITA, Zero waste: Waste as a resource: http://www.sita.co.uk/about-us/our-vision

• SITA, Emissions savings of recycling. Source ‘ Managing Carbon at SITA’ 2011:5• http://www.igd.com/supplychainwast

• Styles D., Schoenberger H., and Galvez-Martos J. (2012) Environmental improvement of product supply chains: Proposed best practice techniques, quantitative indicators and benchmarks of excellence for retailers. Journal of Environmental Management 110 (2012) 135:150