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BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE BIOBASED ECONOMY? START WITH FEEDSTOCK
Biopolymers 2014PhiladelphiaMay 12, 2014
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o New opportunities & new challengeso The Walmart Effect: new models for
actiono Field to MarketoBioplastic Feedstock Alliance (BFA)oBIOoCertification considerations
o Corn reconsidered
Agenda
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New OpportunitiesNew Challenges
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o Industrial biotechnology products moving toward commercial deployment
o Consumer brand owners see them as a means to:oReducing their supply chain carbon
intensityoReinforcing their brand sustainability
attributes
Positive trends converging
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o Colors have emotional contento Animals and plants do, tooo Routine & regular NGO engagemento Claims are grounded & substantiatedo They can move the market
o P&G’s cold washing initiative
Adapting to “brand” thinking
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Leadership goals
o Mission: “to refresh the world; to inspire moments of optimism and happiness; to create value and make a difference.”
o Tagline: “Open happiness”o 2020 goal: sustainably source all of its key
agricultural ingredients & work with WWF to implement its sustainability guidelines
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Leadership goals
o Mission: “to make sustainable living commonplace. We work to create a better future every day with brands and services that help people feel good, look good and more out of life.”
o 2020 Goal: sustainably source 100% of its 10 key agricultural ingredients
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o Prepare in advance – anticipate the blind tackleo Land use changeo Food securityo Carbon debt & net emissions
o Engage stakeholders relentlesslyo Your friends may become fierce critics overnighto Get over it
o Scale matters in the beginning o Gasoline: 136 Billion gallons (USA/year)o PET: 1 Billion gallons ethanol equivalent (No.
America)
Lessons from biofuels
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The Walmart Effect: New Models For Action
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o The “Walmart Effect”: private contracting replaces global governance
o “20-30 companies can change the world.” Paul Polman, Unilever CEO
o “100 global brands can make sustainability happen.” WWF
Public limits; private routes
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o The Sustainability Consortiumo Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI)o ISEAL Allianceo Bioplastics Feedstock Alliance (BFA)o BIO Sustainable Supply Chain Task Forceo Field to Market Alliance for Sustainable
Agriculture
Voluntary initiatives to note
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o Prepare gap analysis of schemes & initiatives
o Investigate potential collective action as needed
Bioplastics Feedstock Alliance (BFA)
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Objective: consider the challenges of acquiring renewable raw materials to meet the highest standards of sustainability & cost effectiveness• Analyze major feedstocks
o Corn, cane, sorghum, dedicated energy crops, soy, sugar beets, cassava & forest products
• Compare certification schemeso Field to Market, ISCCPlus, RSB, Bonsucro, Working
Landscape, CSBP, FSC, SFI, & ISEAL
BIO’s Sustainable Supply Chain TF
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• BIO will be a catalyst for knowledge sharing & capacity building
• BIO members will actively support efforts to bring continuous improvement to production agriculture
• Members WILL prefer sustainably produced feedstock witho Performance indicators endorsed by a wide spectrum of
stakeholderso Producers operating under robust sustainability schemes or
BMPs developed for continuous improvement
• Members WILL NOT use raw materials that areo Food crops in food insecure regionso Originate in areas of high conservation value
Board adopted policy: highlights
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o Sustainability criteria for 10 commodity cropso Representing the entire supply chain with
significant NGO engagemento Avoiding risk of de-commoditizing the supply
chaino Effort to stimulate widespread innovation &
adoption of best practices w/o regulatory drivers o Theory of change:
o If growers are have access to data allowing them to compare their performance with others, they will alter their practices to be more efficient.
Field to Market
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Certification considerationsFor crops (plantation model)
o Bonsucroo Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)o Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
For direct sourcing o Sustainability criteria negotiated with your customero Criteria translated into supply agreementso Cost of compliance can be shared
Limitations (all)o Limited affect on shed level improvemento Transaction costso Legitimacy
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International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC Plus)
o Global scheme covering all biomass forms for energy, biomaterials, & feed
o Sponsored by the German gov’t ministry of consumer protectiono Complies with EU biofuels directive (RED) & German sustainability
ordinances
Roundtable for Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)o Global scheme covering all biomass forms for fuel & ,biomaterialso Complies with ISEAL’s “Good Practice Code”o Widespread support among NGOs
Process/product certification schemes
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Is this what success looks like?
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Corn Reconsidered: Sustainable Basin Project
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Corn vs. cane: cost comparison for biochemical use
Proprietary analysis by Kyle Althoff based on FAPRI model forecasts
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Luverne corn supply study, 2012
37% lower GHG emissions than US avg.
John Sheehan, PhD, Univ. of Minnesota & Keith Paustian, PhD, Colorado State University
Supply basin
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Individual farm GHG footprints
Three big factors
1. Nutrient efficiency2. No till3. Manure use
Reducing fossil emissions from fertilizer
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• Sponsored by TCCC• Prepared by Univ. of MN & Colorado State
Univ.• Review panel:
o Keith Alverson, farmer, NCGA boardo Joe Fargione, TNCo Suzy Friedman, Robert Parkhurst, EDFo Franklin Holley, Alix Grabowski, WWFo Mike Huisenga, WSP Environment & Energyo David Kolsrud, farmer/investor/coop pres.
Scenarios for low carbon corn, March 2014
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BMP findings: soil carbon sequestration
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o Nitrogen applied at optimum rate reduces GHG emissions 46% over current practices with no effect on yield
o Using no-till or strip till practices and optimum fertilizer rates accumulates or sequesters carbon in the soil at a significant rate
o With the additional practice of replacing 50% of the synthetic nitrogen with manure effectively doubles the GHG savings
Conclusions: BMP scenarios
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o Create supply basin of voluntary growers in the So. Dakota/MN/Iowa region
o Share input-output data anonymously using FieldPrint Calculator & FTM indicators plus GHG
o Engage a stakeholder group of environmental, regulatory & conservation opinion leaders
o Report annually on performance
The project in development
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o Michael P. Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt University School of Law, “The New Wal-Mart Effect: The Role Of Private Contacting In Global Governance.”
o Jody M. Endres, Univ. of Illinois Energy Biosciences Institute, “Legitimacy, Innovation & Harmonization: Precursors to Operationalizing Biofuels Sustainability Standards.”
o Helena Chum, NREL & IEA Bioenergy Tasks 38 & 40o Sheehan, et.al., ”Measuring the carbon footprint of Gevo’s
Luverne, MN corn supply,” http://iree.environment.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Gevo-final-report-1.pdf
o Sheehan, et.al., “Scenarios for low carbon corn production,” http://soilcrop.agsci.colostate.edu/?p=2159
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