Transcript Jennie Hawkins

Understanding the Carbon Industry
Through a Nuffield Journey
Jennie Hawkins 2009
Finley Irrigation Farmer
What is your Carbon position?
What is your Carbon profile?
Do a carbon Audit
Where ? Australian Farm Institute Website FARM GAS
calculator www. farminstitue.com.au
Emissions fall into 3 Scopes:
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3.
Scope 1 – direct emissions produced from sources within
boundary of organizations activities
Scope 2 – indirect emissions generated as a consequence
of organizations activities but produced directly from
another source
Scope 3 – occur as a result of organizations activities from
sources not owned or controlled by organization
1. Establish your boundaries
 Manage at enterprise level
2. Identify & define your organizations emitting
activities
 This is greatest opportunity for adaption to mitigate emissions
3. Capture data & record to understand the carbon
accounting process
 Online calculators
4. Manage your GHG Inventory
 Record keeping and reporting formats
The first steps
AVOID & REDUCE
What’s the difference?
Avoid
Reduce
 describes activities
 describes measures that
through which emissions
can be completely
stopped.
 E.g.. Not having a light
on in a vacant room.
decrease the emissions
intensity of essential
activities.
 E.g.. Making lighting
more efficient.
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Often don’t require capital outlay
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Ensuring appliances and equipment are not idling or on stand-by
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Adjusting thermostats (space heating/cooling, hot water)
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Shutting down production lines when not in use
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Ensuring energy is not being consumed when rooms or buildings are vacant —key things
to consider are lighting, heating and cooling settings
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Purchasing materials that are sourced locally to avoid emissions associated with
transportation
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Meeting via telephone or videoconferencing instead of travelling to meet in person
There are 2 accepted
categories
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Modify – changing
essential activities
 Recover -recover
energy from existing
processes
Trading & Brokerage
Offset providers
Legal & Auditing
Carbon Asset
Management &
Strategies
Research &
Development
Carbon
Market
Corporate & Project
Financing
Carbon Abatement
Markets & projects
 Natalie Isaacs, CEO of Climate Coolers, the creators of the 1
Million Women campaign says: “We already know that
women make about 70% of the purchasing decisions that affect
household emissions of greenhouse gas pollution. These new
poll findings put all businesses and governments on notice that
women are stronger in their environmental concern than men,
and will be demanding more from everyone.
 “The aim of 1 Million Women is to mobilise at least 1 in 8
women of Australia to take personal action on climate change.
The more women we get engaged, the more pressure they’ll put
on business leaders and politicians to act as well.”
 More men (14%) say they were influenced by their spouses or partners to
take part in a major climate-related activity (Earth Hour) than women (5%)
 More women (9%) say they were influenced to take part in the major
climate-related activity by their children or their friends’ children than men
(6%)
 Most women (59%) feel more positive (either a lot or somewhat) about their
workplace as a result of it participating in the major climate-related activity,
compared with men (47%)
 Women (17%) lag men (21%) on awareness of international initiatives in
the United Nations to address the global climate challenge, and of those
aware women (26%) were less likely than men (34%) to know the next UN
climate conference will be held in Copenhagen
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Nuffield Scholarship
Travel
Networks
Findings – thus far
Personal Impacts
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Opportunity
Gender imbalance
Demographics
Networks
Given me a “ticket”
Agricultural recognition
Academic opportunities
Mixed with urban corporate sector
 This is the first time for me that people in my community and
my industries have really valued my opinion on a policy issue.
I have been known to give it occasionally on other issues!!
This time I found I’m the “non-traditional face”.
 Seen the world
 Skills and IT acquired
 Networks have become global & national
 Personal confidence
 Women can do it
 Support
Chinese
Green Tea
Plantation
Nuffield
2009
 Business
 Organizational Implications
 Confidence
 Self esteem
 First time I have been asked & valued opinion
 Family & friends need to see how can apply yourself
at any stage
 Huge knowledge base where I have come to
 Agriculture should not be included in CPRS
 Industrialized inputs will be covered if a National CPRS is
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legislated
Accounting rules need work
Reporting & compliance issues
Carbon Tax Revenue needs to be retained to redistribute within
the sector
Regional Development in rural Australia i.e. jobs, R & D
projects, education, carbon asset developments
Women need to be leaders as career options explode –new
“green” jobs
Action Plan for Leadership and Engagement of Rural
Women in Climate Change Policy:
 Facts – knowledge is power (without them it’s hard to move
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to stage two.)
Rules – we need them to understand how to play the game
Opportunities – harness our potential to lead change
Threats - need to know the pitfalls to get the best out of the
opportunities
Shout the message – communication how do we influence
the decision makers
Celebrate the Outcomes – during the party we will plan
the next strategy
 How do we have the conversations ?
 Converting knowledge & opinion into policy development
 Engagement in consultation process
 Best place to spend the money
 Educating all the demographics
 Understanding the “Climate Change Language”
1. That you don’t need an invitation as woman to lead this issue of
carbon management demand it.
2. Do a Carbon Audit – in your business ,organisation or personal
life
3. It’s your legacy to the future to give the time to it now.
4. Log in to www.1millionwomen.com.au
5. Everyone is in it there are no “traditional faces”
this time
DR Melissa
Fitzgerald IRRI
Role of R&D
In Carbon
10,500 yrs
Of energy
Saved by
Reducing
Cooking time
Of rice by 2
minutes.