Climate change: a corporate response

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Climate changea corporate response

• 31 March 2009
• IEMA, Bury St Edmunds
• Andrew Kluth

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Who Ive worked for

• Hong Kong Government
• Solid and chemical waste management
• Territorial development
• Nuclear safety negotiations
• Jarvis plc
• First environment strategy
• DJSI Global Index
• Royal Mail Group
• Carbon management
• First sustainability strategy
• Corporate Edge/ Likemind
• Virgin Media, EDF Energy, Johnson Matthey,
  Alliance Boots
• Halcrow Group
• Integrated sustainability strategy

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The Blue Marble
Apollo 17, 7/12/1972
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A resource-constrained world?
USA EuropeanUnion China Malawi
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What we use the resources for
Source www.ecologicalfootprint.org
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Where we use the energy
source Energy Information Administration
http//www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/consump.html,
table 2.1a
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What we use our energy for
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The people problem

• Global ecosystems face collapse
• Planet enters ecological debt
• Climate set for sudden shifts
• Billions face climate change risk
• Carbon emissions show sharp rise
• Arctic summers ice free by 2013
• The rise and rise of the Keeling Curve

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Whose problem is it? Ownership

• A child born in a wealthy country is likely to
  consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime
  than 50 children born in developing nations.
  (Archbishop George Carey)
• Small changes, big impacts
• 80 emissionsreduction not enough?

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Consequences of current world trajectory
Source US National Intelligence Council,
November 2008 Global Trends 2025 A Transformed
World
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Stakeholders
UK
Regions
Current
Prospective
Individual
Geographical
Corporate
Interest
Employees
Communities
Professional bodies
Consultant
Suppliers
Partners
Regulators
Competitors
Clients
Key relationship
Aware and active
Other relationship
Emerging
Aware
Aware and PR
Global
National
Local
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Definition

• Stakeholder engagement
• Issues
• Objectives
• Performance
• Communication
• Governance
• People
• Leadership
• Clients and markets

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Clarity

• Do the job well
• Tell people about it
• Engagement
• internal
• external
• Predictability
• Reporting
• Performance
• Human stories

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What can I/you do?

• Home
• less water
• less energy
• less heat
• less waste
• Travel
• more efficiently less fuel
• less often
• less far
• Lifestyles
• buy less buy better
• use longer use again
• campaign for sustainability

• Planning
• greater efficiency
• better urban planning
• Energy
• more renewables
• microgeneration
• large scale wind solar
• what about nuclear?
• Natural resources
• better protection
• reforestation
• Agriculture
• less destructive practices

ideas adapted from wwfs oneplanetfuture and
Pearce, F. The Last Generation (2006), Eden
Project Books
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Climate change a systems issue

• Ten Guiding Principles
• Zero Carbon
• Zero Waste
• Sustainable Transport
• Local and Sustainable Materials
• Local and Sustainable Food
• Sustainable Water
• Natural Habitats and Wildlife
• Culture and Heritage
• Equity and fair Trade
• Health and Happiness
• source http//www.wwf.org.uk/oneplanet/about_0000
  003949.asp

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The opportunity to lead

• Sustainability does payMost executives (57)
  say that the benefits of pursuing sustainable
  practices outweigh the costsinvolves a shift
  away from defensive behaviour towards more active
  exploration of the opportunities sustainability
  can present
• Execution is problematicOn a range of
  environmental and social outcomes less than 10
  of respondents rated their efforts as outstanding
  on each, barring public relations

Source Economist Intelligence Unit (2008) Doing
good Business and the sustainability challenge,
p.5
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Are we wasting our time?

• Some thoughts from Gandhi
• Whatever you do will beinsignificant, but it is
  veryimportant that you do it
• You must be the changeyou want to see in the
  world

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Thank you