Measuring Environmental & Social Value Introduction Agenda - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Measuring Environmental & Social Value Introduction Agenda - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Measuring Environmental & Social Value Introduction Agenda Introductions What is value? Why measuring broader value is important Measuring Environmental Value Coffee Break Measuring Social Value Questions
Introduction
- Agenda
– Introductions – What is value? – Why measuring broader value is important – Measuring Environmental Value – Coffee Break – Measuring Social Value – Questions – Midday Close
Outcomes
- By the end of this session you should:
– Understand why it is important to measure environmental and social value – Be aware of some approaches to measuring environmental and social value – Be better prepared to make the case for future funding – Be clearer about your own organisation's broader value
‘The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes’ – Marcel Proust, French novelist (1871 - 1922)
Introduction
- Secos
- Intentionality
- Greater Reading Environmental Network
- Delegates
– Name – Organisation – Expectations from the session
What is value? What is value?
What is value?
- Noun
– The desirability of a thing, often in respect of some property such as usefulness or exchangeability; worth, merit or importance – Monetary or material worth, as in commerce
- r trade
– http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/value – Accessed 23 June 2011
What is value?
- Financial Value
- Environmental Value
- Social Value
- The Triple Bottom Line/Corporate Social
Responsibility
Background Background
What is sustainable?
Ecological footprint per person in global hectares Human Development Index
World average biocapacity per person 2007 World average biocapacity per person 1961
Human Development Index correlated with ecological footprint
Meets minimum criteria for sustainability 1.8 3.8
UK
Cuba Bangladesh
Triple Bottom Line
ANITA RODDICK, Founder and CEO of the Body Shop, said: "The Triple Bottom Line is becoming an imperative. Environmental and social responsibility should beat at the heart of every business leader."
Why is measuring value important?
What is environmental value?
Worth that a community or society places on environmental goods or services
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/environmental-value.html Accessed 23 June 2011
Measuring environmental value
Input Process Output Outcome Impact
What value do you measure?
Balance sheet
Balance sheet
Positive
- Renewable energy
- Renewable heat
- Increase biodiversity
- Reduce, reuse, recycle
- Visual improvement
- Increase in amenity
- Negative
- Vehicle fuel used
- Energy used
- Volume of pollution
emitted
- Volume of packaging
material
- Consumables
Tools to measure environmental value
- Triple bottom line accounting
Tools to measure environmental value
- Triple bottom line accounting
- Life cycle analysis or cradle to grave (cradle)
analysis
- Forest products
- Cars
Tools to measure environmental value
- Triple bottom line accounting
- Life cycle analysis or cradle to grave (cradle)
analysis
- Forest products; cars
- Ecological footprint
- Carbon footprint
- Water footprint
Tools to measure environmental value
- Triple bottom line accounting
- Life cycle analysis or cradle to grave (cradle)
analysis
- Forest products; cars
- Ecological footprint
- Carbon footprint
- Water footprint
- Cost-benefit analysis
Tools to measure environmental value
- Triple bottom line accounting
- Life cycle analysis or cradle to grave (cradle)
analysis
- Forest products; cars
- Ecological footprint
- Carbon footprint
- Water footprint
- Cost-benefit analysis
- National Ecosystem Assessment
National Ecosystem Assessment
National Ecosystem Assessment
- First analysis of the UK's natural environment in
terms of benefits it provides to society and continuing economic prosperity
- Analyses the value of the UK's natural
environment by taking account of the economic, health & social benefits we get from nature
- First of its kind at a fully national scale
- UK green spaces valued at £30 bn per year
National Ecosystem Assessment
The danger? We understand the cost of everything but the value of nothing!
Integrating environmental value into decisions
- Make a quantitative monetary
assessment
- Make a quantitative non-monetary
assessment
- Make a qualitative comparison
- Describe them
- Recognise them
- Omit them