kingfisher net positive webinar
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Kingfisher- Net Positive
Network Webinar
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webinar today
1. How this webinar will work
2. Introductions
3. Why should businesses strive to be restorative? (10
mins)
4. Kingfisher- Net Positive (25 mins)
5. Q+A (20 mins)
6. What’s next?
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Please send your
questions in
throughout the
webinar from the
question box. We will
try to get through as
many of your
questions as possible
throughout the hour
**don’t raise your
hand, type a question
Any problems email Kester at [email protected]
who are we?
Zoe Le Grand
Senior Sustainability Advisor
Forum for the Future
Strategic sustainability advice provider and
restorative business enthusiast.
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Nick Folland
Group Corporate Affairs Director with
responsibility for leading Net Positive
Kingfisher
Net Positive devotee and committed cyclist
some questions for you….
• How could your company have a net positive impact?
• What would be the main challenges?
• What impact would it have on your company, internally
and externally?
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why should businesses seek to be restorative?
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pay back our environmental overdraft….
to make matters worse…….
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business response…
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Nothing
Neutral Positive
leading business response…
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It’s good for the planet… but what’s in it for them?
• Mandate for radical innovation
• New relationships with customers
• Leadership
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in summary…
• Need to pay off our existing environmental overdraft and
build up natural capital
• Natural resources will only become more constrained as
the population grows
• Most businesses won’t be doing anything
• Learn from your social sustainability approach and seek
to leave the environment better then when you found it
• It’ll pay off through radical innovations, new relationships
with customers and leadership
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Net Positive
Nick Folland
Kingfisher Corporate Affairs
Director: Net Positive
Learning from the experts
CREATING THE LEADER
Responsibly sourced timber
Percentage of timber by volume sold from proven
well-managed forests or recycled sources
86% - Proportion of Group timber
50% - Proportion of Group FSC-certified timber
Reducing Energy
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• 21% - how much we’ve reduced our energy intensity in the past five years
• 60% - how much of our energy footprint comes from electricity (mainly lighting
stores)
• 1/3 - how much we’ve cut store energy consumption where LED lights introduced
• 2,513 Million KwH – amount of energy our customers saved in 2011 using our
products and services
• £10 Million - Kingfisher’s investment in our Future Homes business in 2011
“Maybe in the future,
retailers like B&Q
won’t sell anything
anymore?”
Ian Cheshire,
Group CEO Kingfisher
Re-thinking and Innovation
Product / Design / Business models
• 20% - Proportion of Group
sales from products with
eco credentials in 2011
Working with our communities
• £1.77 Million - Contributions to Community and charity projects made in 2011
• 29,000 - Hours spent by employees volunteering in their local communities in 2011
Our Net Positive journey
Dashboard
TIMBER ENERGY INNOVATION COMMUNITIES
Net Positive Impact Measure for Timber Net Positive Impact Measure for Energy Net Positive Impact Measure for
Innovation
Net Positive Impact Measure for
Communities
100% responsibly sourced timber and
paper in all our operations
38 TWh of energy saved
for customers, equivalent to the energy
used in 2.3 million UK homes a year
Advice for all customers on energy saving
and eco products
All energy-using products to meet best
practice on energy
25% reduction in absolute carbon footprint
Marketing to promote sustainable
consumption
45% reduction in property energy intensity
50% reduction in property carbon intensity
1,000 products with closed-loop
credentials
10% sales from innovative (‘best in class’)
eco products and services
50% sales from products and services with
eco credentials
All ranges improve sustainability rating
Sustainability designed into own-brand
product ranges
Develop & launch alternative
business models
Eco criteria and learning for store
construction and refurbishment
Sustainability accounting to calculate the
full value of sustainability
4,000 local community
partnerships
100% responsibly sourced timber
FSC for all tropical hardwood
Strategic sourcing
Zero products linked
to tropical deforestation
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NP THRESHOLD
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2020
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Foundations in detail
0-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-100%
Sustainability integrated into performance
management
Sustainability development programme for
managers
Customer advisors trained
on sustainability advice
Employee engagement
on sustainability
Best practice on diversity and equality
20% reduction in employee accident rate
Customer and contractor health and safety
Employee engagement surveys for all
SUPPLIERS
& PARTNERS EMPLOYEES ENVIRONMENT
Zero waste to landfill
20% reduction in transport CO2
Indirect transport CO2 reductions
Green travel
Own water footprint
All water-using products to meet best practice on
water saving
Chemical policy adhered to
Sustainability for own-brand packaging
Construction timber 100% responsibly sourced
Construction waste reduced by 75%
Construction projects to enhance biodiversity
Peat reduction
All own-brand vendors to meet our ethical and
environmental standards
Carbon and water reduction for top 100 vendors
GNFR sustainability standards
Preferred retail partner for governments and
stakeholders on sustainable living
Leadership in SRI indexes and CR rankings
Implementation of code of conduct
and group governance
Foundations
0-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-100%
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This part of the scorecard measures progress across the three
other areas where Kingfisher has made sustainability
commitments. Measurement is based on aggregated scores, which
help us rate our progress towards these targets.
NET POSITIVE IS GOOD
FOR OUR BUSINESS
RISK
MITIGATION
FINDING NEW
MARKETS
BOOSTING THE
TOP LINE
INCREASING
THE
CUSTOMER
BASE
£45-60m to be saved
securing sustainable
timber supply
€70bn new market
in-home energy
efficiency by 2020
across key regions
Sales of £2.2bn p.a.
in sales from products
with eco credentials
Transfer skills
to create next
generation DIY
It’s already helping our bottom-line
- £2.2 billion sales of products with eco credentials (20% of total sales)
- Estimate over £18.5 million of savings achieved from efficiencies in
utilities consumption (E&Y study, 2011)
- B&Q’s £2.9m investment in lighting efficiency predicted to save £0.9
million annually
- In France our Operating companies cut waste costs by €740,000 in
2011/12
- Our overall recycling rate has improved 40% since 2006
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We don’t have all the answers
Some of the Challenges we’re facing
Putting your money where your mouth is – plywood
Not being able to find the wood for the trees –
FSC and tracing responsibility
Now developing new tools to measure
progress – 1,000 products with Closed Loop
credentials by 2020.
What next?
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Any Questions?
some questions for you….
• How could your company have a net positive impact?
• What would be the main challenges?
• What impact would it have on your company, internally
and externally?
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what’s next for the Forum Network?
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Webinars
• 12 February – Sustainability & Brands, with Sally Uren
• 19 March – Future casting, with Peter Madden
Network events
• 31st January, Delhi – Innovation Nation at Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
Launching our publication celebrating India’s success stories in sustainable innovation,
and encouraging them to be scaled up across the country and worldwide.
• 13th March, London – Is your business wired for change?
Exploring the role of digital and communications technologies in enabling radical system
change, and what it means for you and your organisation .
• For more information or to register for our events please contact [email protected]
thanks!
Nick Folland | [email protected]
Zoe Le Grand | [email protected] | @zlegrand
forumforthefuture.org | registered charity no. 1040519
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