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Where is the tree with the low hanging fruit?
Sustainable Business Australia
Arek SinanianAustralia-Pacific Technical Executive, Climate Change
Here it is! The Australian MACC (ClimateWorks Aust)
Revenue positive (cost negative)
&
Represent more than 25% of the identified 249 Mt CO2e
Energy efficiency in industry, commercial buildings & transport
Road transport MACC study (Qld)
Energy efficiency in industry
• Life cycle assessment• Product design, technology and materials• Material & inventory management • Supply chain• Process optimisation• Management systems• Operating procedures • Staff training• Energy and water efficiency• Waste minimisation
Energy in a life cycle - what’s in a packet of chips?
• Potatoes (68 g)– Water to grow them– Fertilisers, soil conditioners, insecticides– Fuel to harvest– Fuel to transport– Packaging for transport– Water for Washing (250L/T)– Energy for cutting and conveyors
• Sunflower Oil For Frying (32 g)– Water to grow them– Fertilisers, soil conditioners, insecticides– Fuel to harvest– Fuel to process– Fuel to transport– Packaging
What’s in a packet of chips (Cont.)?
• Energy for washing, frying, cutting, packaging• Salt (1 g)
– Fuel for extraction– Water for washing– Fuel for drying– Fuel for Transport
• Packaging material (8 g)– Fuel for manufacturing plastic film (from crude oil)– Energy for processing aluminium from bauxite– Fuel for drawing of aluminium into wire– Energy for producing printing ink
• Fuel and energy for manufacturing cardboard packaging and labelling
• Fuel for transportation of final product
The driving (global) forces
• Peak oil
• Energy security
• Climate change as it affects business
• Renewable energy ($185b in 2010 – 26% increase on 2009)*
– Solar thermal– Hydro– Solar PV– Wind– Wave– Geothermal
• Potential trade barriers
• Intellectual property
• Emissions trading and offsets
* $US11.5b was spent in China’s clean energy technology in the 2nd quarter of 2010 – 72% increase on previous quarter. Daewoo aims to source 1/3 of its revenue ($US7.5b) from wind energy by 2020 . . . . .
The inevitable future
Global Economic Growth
Global Greenhouse Emissions
Extended Industrial Revolution
Today1800 2050
Clean Industrial Revolution
Adapted from Dr Ben McNeil’s presentation and the book “The Clean Industrial Revolution”
Dupont’s CEO Gary Pfeiffer said some years ago:
“Dupont has reduced its environmental footprint by 60%, and increased its shareholder value by 340%
Can I prove that those two facts are correlated?
No
Do I have any doubt they’re correlated?
No”
The train has left the station . . .
Darling, did you pack
your swimmers?
