@griausconf_linking sustainability data to value - annabelle bennett
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Linking Sustainability Data To ValueChair: Eszter Vitorino Füleky, Network Relations Manager, Global Reporting Initiative
Dr Maria Balabat, Senior Lecturer, University of New South WalesAnnabelle Bennett, Account Director, TrucostDr Lara Jefferson, Manager, Environment and Approvals, CrosslandsResources Limited co-presenting withKylie Ashenbrenner, Principal Consultant Strategic Projects at ERM
Natural Capital Assessment
Puma Environmental Profit & Loss Account
GRI Conference AustraliaAnnabelle Bennett [email protected]
March 27th 2012
Trucost helps organisations understand the true cost of business in order to use resources more efficiently, today
and tomorrow.
Trucost data
The world’s most comprehensive data on corporate environmental impacts
Greenhouse Gases
Water
Waste
Air Pollutants
Land and Water Pollutants
Natural Resource Usage
Trucost
Trucost has analysed the environmental performance of >5,000 suppliers, representing $100billion expenditure.
Trucost has conducted environmental footprint analysis of funds worth $2.7trillion.
Trucost data is used by 15 academic institutions (including Harvard, Yale & Oxford University) and is supported by an International Academic Advisory Panel.
Trucost data drives $582million AUM in environmentally optimised funds.
Trucost has been researching, standardising and validating the world’s most comprehensive data on corporate environmental impacts for +10 yrs.
Trucost clients
Natural Capital Assessment
What is an Externality?
An externality is a side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being
reflected in the cost of the goods or services
Example: Air pollution
$2.2tnEnvironmental damage caused by world’s largest 3,000 companies
>50%Proportion of company earnings that could be
at risk from environmental costs
What is an Ecosystem Service?
Ecosystem services are the benefits that people and economies obtain from
ecosystems e.g. Fresh water, timber and fisheries, climate
regulation, erosion control and recreation
Water Scarcity
Future Costs of Water in Asia
Future Costs of Water in Asia
PUMA CASE STUDY:ENVIRONMENTAL PROFIT & LOSS ACCOUNT
Puma’s Supply Chain
Manufacturing: Apparel, shoes and accessories
Tier 1
Tier 3
Tier 2
Outsourcing: Embroiderers, printers, outsole producers
Processing: Tanneries, chemical companies, oil refiners
Raw materials: Cotton farming, oil drilling
E P&L approach
• Engaged strategic suppliers
• Collected supplier specific data
• Established locations of raw material flows
Quantification of E KPIs
Engagement and data collection
Refine E KPIs
Valuation E P&L
• Calculated supply chain impacts back to raw materials
• Over €1bn expenditure analysed
• Refined calculations of supply chain impacts
• PUMA operational
E KPI data added
• GHG and water consumption valuation co-efficients derived
• GHG emissions and water use valued in economic terms
(E KPIs) x (GHG & Water Valuation) = E P&LBest available techniques used: Spend Analysis, Hybrid Environmental Input-Output Modelling, Life Cycle Assessment, Production Flow Analysis, environmental economics - valuation of alternative cost models
Water and GHG dependency
PUMA water usage (2010): 77,493,100 m3PUMA GHG usage (2010): 716.6 ktCO2e
Tier 2Tier 4 Tier 3 Tier 1 Operations
€ 145m
€ 8m
€ 83m
€ 137m
EP&L Results
EP&L results
We are still responsible
“Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.”
Jean Paul Sartre