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Responsible sourcing: Views from Mars and the chalk face. Mike Berners-Lee An Associate Company of Lancaster University Very quick background Books A sustainability consultancy largely focussed largely on supply chains BT, Booths, Taylor

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Responsible sourcing:

Views from Mars and the chalk face.

Mike Berners-Lee

An Associate Company of Lancaster University

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Very quick background

A sustainability consultancy largely focussed largely on supply chains BT, Booths, Taylor Wimpey, lots of SMEs in many industries, public sector, Lancaster University, Eden Project, Science Museum, Guardian, community projects ... Books Research

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Types of impact

Direct Indirect

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If those products could talk ….

We’ve got a history We want a long lives We want to be looked after We want to be ‘net good’

We don’t want to be buried alive

We want an after life

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Most supply chains are complex and

  • paque

Our understanding can never be exact but it can be ‘good enough’

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Bringing transparency to supply chains

Meat sales up 30% during the horsemeat scandal

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UK government increasingly understands embedded impacts

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We need an up to date understanding of what ‘responsible’ looks like

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An Exponential curve

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Carbon emissions since 1850

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Carbon emissions since 1850

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No encouraging signs from the last few years

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Efficiency is part of the growth dynamic

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50% chance of <2oC – peaking in 2020

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Responsibility entails mapping the issues and priorities

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We need a carbon instinct like we have a money instinct

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Mapping the Greenhouse gas impacts

  • f supermarket products
  • The Mapa Mundi for Booths
  • Covers the whole range
  • Enables GHG emissions to be

factored into marketing and sourcing decisions

  • Full reports are

publically available.

  • Results and models are now used by

universities and think tanks for research.

  • Affordable

0.000 0.500 1.000 1.500 2.000 2.500 3.000 3.500 (2) BEER AND CIDER Potatoes Tomatoes Green salads Prepared Veg., fruit & salad Exotic veg and mushrooms Apples & Pears Bananas Citrus and melons Exotic fruit and berries (including soft,… (67) FLORISTRY (84) CABINETS COOKED MEATS Cabinets Milk Ready meals, pizza & pasta Sandwiches (52) BREAD (70) FROZEN FOODS kgCO2e Source ingredients to farm / factory gate Food processing Total consumer packaging footprint Transit packaging Transport Emissions to DC Transport emissions from all DCs to Stores Storage and processing at DC Overhead (exc. refrigeration) Refrigeration

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Typical UK Person: 15 tonnes per year

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Hong Kong return: 4.6 tonnes

Low 3.4 tonnes High 13.4 tonnes Average 4.6 tonnes Economy First class

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Drying your hands: 10g

Low 0 g 20g typical hand drier Average 10 g Let them drip Paper towels

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Laptop: 400Kg embodied

Low ~100Kg High ~1 tonne Average 400 Kg 2010 21.5 inch iMac A simple low cost laptop

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Laptop: ~50g / hour operational

12g 150g 63 Kg Old desktop Energy efficient laptop Power hungry iMac or similar

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Data Centres

2010: 130 million tonnes CO2e Prediction for 2020: 250 – 340 million tonnes CO2e

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Mapping supply chain impacts

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Process Based Life Cycle Analysis

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0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0% Direct Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4

Percentage of emissions captured with cumulative tiers of the supply chain.

Agriculture Metal ores extraction Plastic products Non-ferrous metals Motor vehicles Telecommunications

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PAS 2050 – Review of methods

“Experts highlighted particularly two weaknesses of PLCA: cost and labour intensity of carrying out a PLCA and the system boundary problem … “system cut-off” is unavoidable in PLCA …The cut-off criteria suggested by ISO can be misleading and do not provide a satisfactory basis for a transparent system boundary selection…. The (resulting) truncation error is potentially very large. …” “…This is further aggravated when restrictions are imposed on the budget as typical in simplified PLCA approaches. Such simplified approaches usually fail to reliably reproduce results from detailed PLCA . However, only simplified PLCAs work under tight budget constraints required for the PAS to be applicable to organisations of all sizes. This seriously limits the usefulness of PLCA for the PAS development.”

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Input Output Analysis

Looks at the whole economy divided into industry sectors.

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Input Output Analysis

Demand for products stimulates output across the economy….

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Input Output Analysis

…. causing both direct and indirect emissions…

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Input Output Analysis

…. the ripple effects are endless…

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Input Output Analysis

…without systematic underestimation …. the ripple effects are endless… but can be modelled as a complete system…

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A hybrid methodology is usually the most practical way to get a reasonable understanding

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Summary questions

  • What does responsible look like in 2013?
  • How can standards ensure the real priorities

are addressed – within a finite resource?

  • How can standards work for small players?
  • How can supply chains become transparent
  • How can standards be greenwash proof?
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Thank you for listening

Any questions?

Mike Berners-Lee

mike@sw-consulting.co.uk

An Associate Company of Lancaster University