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The OECD sustainable manufacturing toolkit
Sustainability and US Competitiveness Summit
October 8, 2009
Michael BordtStructural Policy DivisionDirectorate of Science, Technology and Industry
[email protected]/sti/innovation/sustainablemanufacturing
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What is the OECD?
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (www.oecd.org)
• An intergovernmental organization with 30 member countries– “a setting where governments compare policy
experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies.”
– Does this through a diverse structure of committees with national, international and business representation
• One of the world’s largest sources of comparative statistics of economic and social data
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Perspective on sustainable manufacturing
• Sustainability: Environmental, Economic and Social dimensions– Making more efficient use of non-
renewable resources, and– Minimizing the use and production of
unwanted by-products
• By: dematerialization and substitution• While: meeting corporate and social
needs
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Why a(nother) toolkit?
• Many existing initiatives to measure corporate sustainability performance in international, regional and national governments
• Many methodologies to measure various aspects of sustainability performance– All are useful and provide unique insights– Very little comprehensive international guidance on “best
practices” for “non-experts”– Public reporting tends to be by larger companies– Reporting doesn’t focus on underlying materials,
processes and products that influence performance
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Objectives (1)
• Promote a common framework and language for measuring sustainability performance
• Take a systematic view of the production process• Incorporate life-cycle thinking by promoting
stewardship over materials, production and products• Develop core indicators that can be interpreted in a
common way• Provide guidance to assist non-experts in companies
to collect data, calculate the indicators, analyse and improve their own sustainability performance
• Facilitate internal analysis (not another obligation but a measurement resource)
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Objectives (2)
Be complementary with existing mainstream initiatives: • Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – comprehensive set of corporate
sustainability indicators• LCA: Life Cycle Assessment – assesses impacts of product systems• MFA/MFCA: Material Flow/Cost Analysis – tracks materials
efficiency/costs and resource productivity• MIPS: Materials Input Per Unit Service – measures resource
productivity of products and services• EMAS: EU’s Environmental Management and Audit Scheme –
encourages environmental performance reporting and improvement• IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – provides
guidance on calculating greenhouse gas emissions at national level– WBCSD and WRI developing GHG protocol for businesses
• PRTR: Pollutant Release and Transfer Registries – national activities to track releases of controlled pollutants
• Ecological Footprinting (EF) – shows impacts in terms of global land required to support consumption patterns
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Existing metrics approaches
Product | process | facility | corporation | sector | country | global Measurement unit
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LCA
GRI MFA
IPCCPRTRs
EMAS
EF
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OECDToolkit
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Toolkit features
• Focuses on performance of a facility (site or location), its materials and its product mix– Inventory inputs, processes, products and by-products
• Uses commonly-available (to some) data to calculate 18 inter-related core indicators
• Financial analysis is done by estimating costs and benefits of improving environmental performance
• Presented as a “how to” guide for non-experts• Not: estimating aggregate or ultimate impact
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Indicator categories
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Core indicators
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For each indicator
• Concepts; why the indicator is important• General formula for calculation
– Description of each component data item– Guidance on “typical” and “atypical” cases
• References to national and international data, further information and detailed methodology
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Current status
• Prototype is being discussed and tested– Would like to include detailed case
study
• Further refinement based on input from business and other experts– Requires field testing
• Publish in spring 2010
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Future work (beyond 2010)• What do you want the toolkit to be?
– Include broader economic performance (of facility on national and global economy)
– Include social performance (of materials, processes and products)
– Additional performance indicators: • Benefits of products• Embedded wastes, water in materials and products
– Harmonized data (factors, process, product materials databases)
– More detailed/harmonized methodologies– National or sectoral statistics based on performance
indicators
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