Transcript United States Business Council for Sustainable Development

America’s
Energy Coast Initiative
WBCSD Energy & Climate Focus Area
September 30, 2009
Working Group Meeting
New Orleans, LA
Paris, July 2, 2008
WBCSD
The US BCSD is affiliated with the World BCSD, a CEO-led coalition of some 200
companies with a shared commitment to Sustainable Development via the three
pillars of economic growth, ecological balance and social progress.
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WBCSD Global Network
The US BCSD is one of 58 country business councils working on implementing
sustainable development at the local, operational level.
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Who are we and what do we do?
The United States Business Council for Sustainable
Development creates cross-industry, public-private
relationships that solve environmental and social
challenges while improving the bottom line.
Current Platforms:
Water
Ecosystem Services
Energy & Climate Change
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Need for Innovation Engines
By-Product Synergy is the matching of
under-valued waste, transportation, energy
and other streams from one facility with
potential users at another facility to create
new revenues or savings, environmental and
societal benefits.
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Typical Production Process
Company A
Product A
Raw
Material
Waste
Disposal
Company B
Raw
Material
Product B
By-Product Synergy
Company A
Network
Product A
Communication
Raw
Material
By-Product
Processing?
Company B
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Raw
Material
Product B
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Disposal
US BCSD Regional BPS Projects
Active/Complete
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New Jersey
Kansas City
Chicago
Seattle
Gulf Coast
Mobile
Houston
In Development
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Ohio
Boston
SE Michigan
New Orleans
Wisconsin
Central Texas
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Participants in One or More North
American BPS Projects
Abbott Laboratories
Acme Refining
Akzo Nobel
Alabama Power - Barry
Steam Plant
Alabama Power Southern
Company
ArcelorMittal
Arkema
BASF
Baxter Healthcare
Burlington County
Resource Recovery
Complex
Canyon Creek Cabinet
Company
Cascade Designs
Christy Webber
Landscaping
City of Chicago
Department of Aviation
City of Chicago
Department of General
Services
City of Chicago
Department of Streets
and Sanitation
City of Chicago
Department of the
Environment
City of Chicago
Department of
Transportation
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City of Chicago
Department of Water
Management
City of Kansas City,
Missouri
Cloverhill Bakery
Computers for Schools
Cook Composites and
Polymers
Cook Composites and
Polymers (CCP)
Curb Appeal
Dow Chemical Company
E.I. DuPont de Nemours
and Company
East Balt Commissary
Endres Services
Engineered Glass
Products
Envirosafe Consulting
Evonik Degussa
Exxon Mobil
Ferro Corporation
General Iron
Genie Industries Gerdau
Ameristeel
Goose Island Brewery
Grays Harbor Paper
Hallmark Cards Inc.
Hargrove Engineers +
Constructors
Harley Davidson
Hercules
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Huntsman Advanced
Materials
Jackson County, Missouri
Johnson County, Kansas
Kansas City Power and
Light
Kimball International
Kraft Foods
LaFarge
Leader International
Little Blue Valley Sewage
Dist.
M1 Energy
Mannington Mills Merck
Midwest Generation
Missouri Organic
Recycling
Mitsubishi Polysilicon
Motiva Enterprises
Naylor Pipe
NJ American Water
Nucor Steel
O’Hare Modernization
Program
Oil Recovery
OTC-Burlington County
Port of Seattle
PSC
Public Service Enterprise
Group (PSEG)
S & C Electric
Sara Lee
Schultze and Birch Biscuit
Company
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Seattle Public Utilities
Shell Puget Sound
Refinery
Sherwin Williams
Shield Alloy
Smurfit Stone
Snohomish County Public
Works
Southern Ionics
Systech Corporation
The Dow Chemical
Company
TriVitro
United States Gypsum
Company (USG)
University of South
Alabama - College of
Engineering
URS
US Pipe
Veolia ES Technical
Solutions
Waste Management and
Research Center (WMRC)
Winzinger Corporation
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Climate Change Benefits from BPS
• Since 2007, Chicago Waste to Profit BPS has
cut more than 50,000 tons/yr CO2 equivalent
emissions reductions
• Kansas City BPS cut 19,183 tons CO2 and 140
tons NOx per year
• Houston BPS project full focus on greenhouse
gas reduction opportunities beyond the fenceline
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BPS Projects Provide Benefits Other
Than Climate Change
• Dow Chemical Annual Cost Reduction
Estimate of $15MM
• Chicago Project Realized Over $5.5 million
per year in economic impact to local
companies
• 33,650 tons per year diverted from Landfill
in Kansas City Project
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NISP England Outputs, Apr05 - Mar09
Metric
Landfill diversion (tonnes)
CO2 reduction (tonnes)
Water conservation (tonnes)
Natural Resource savings
(tonnes)
Hazardous Waste reduction
(tonnes)
Sales generated (£)
Cost reduction (£)
Jobs
Private Investment
Output
NISP England
5,222,384
Per £
invested
5,238,059
9,469,738
7,954,711
1.61
1.61
2.91
2.44
357,626
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151,097,919
£ 46.44
131,082,258
£ 40.29
2,216
£ 116,017,487
For More Information
Visit the following websites for more
information:
www.usbcsd.org
www.greaterhoustonbps.org
www.wbcsd.org
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