Carbon Management for the Printing Industry

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Carbon Management for the Printing Industry

• Parikhit (Ricky) Sinha, Ph.D.
• OBrien Gere

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Greenhouse Gas Market Drivers

• Energy costs
• Regulatory risks
• Investor disclosure of climate risks
• Sustainability / corporate citizenship
• Product differentiation
• Supply chain pressures

• States with GHG Emission Targets

• CA 2000 levels by 2010 1990 levels by 2020 80
  below 1990 levels by 2050
• RGGI 10 below 2009 levels by 2019 power plants
• NJ 1990 levels by 2020 80 below 2006 levels by
  2050

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Carbon Management

• Carbon footprint
• GHG accounting protocols, inventories, baseline,
  tracking, verification, investor disclosure,
  sustainability reporting
• Carbon mitigation
• Reduction targets, energy auditing, supply side /
  demand side management, offset projects, carbon
  value analysis, carbon sequestration
• Carbon policy and markets
• Registries, regulatory policy, voluntary markets,
  emission trading

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Carbon Footprint

• ISO 14064
• USEPA Climate Leaders
• California Climate Action Registry
• Climate Registry
• Carbon Disclosure Project

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Carbon Mitigation
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Carbon Policy and Markets
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Carbon Policy and Markets
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Carbon Neutrality - Electricity and Paper

• Zero net emissions of greenhouse gases
• Reduce energy usage (Energy efficiency,Energy
  conservation)
• Use 100 renewable energy
• Offset GHG emissions with GHG sink (e.g., plant
  trees)

• Electricity emission factor varies by region
• USEPA eGRID database
• Northwest 0.9 lb CO2/kWh
• Midwest 1.6 lb CO2/kWh
• Eastern PA, NJ 1.1 lb CO2/kWh

• Switching from 0 to 100 recycled paper
• 1 ton of copy paper
• Reduce 1.05 tons of CO2 emissions
• Considers pulp and paper mill emissions and
  landfill emissions for non-recycled paper

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Renewable Electricity Credits

• Source USEPA Green Power Partnership
• PECO Wind 0.0254 per kWh
• 6,000 - 600,000 per year
• Awards, recognition, new business

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Renewable Power Generation
Ownership
Solar Services

• Solar Services Contract
• Project Developer assumes all capital costs and
  operates and maintains PV array
• Host agrees to long-term fixed price contract
• Example - Whole Foods
• 80 kW PV array in Ridgewood NJ
• SunEdison Developer

• Hillsborough, NJ
• 50 kW PV Array
• Generates 67,660 kWh/yr
• Cost 450,000
• 30 federal tax credit
• 7 sales tax exemption
• Avoided electricity cost (8,119 per year)
• Renewable energy production credit (1,353/yr)
• Carbon credit (196/yr)
• Simple payback 29 years

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Carbon Management Summary

• Product differentiation, recognition, new
  business
• Establish and manage carbon footprint
• Carbon management of indirect emissions from
  electricity usage and paper consumption
• Recycled paper
• Renewable electricity credits
• Renewable power generation
• Ownership
• Solar Services Contract