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PwC supports a supply chain solutions leader through its climate change journey
PwC worked with a supply chain solutions leader in the Asia Pacific region to help the company achieve its goal of developing a leading-edge business response to climate change issues and opportunities. Following the completion of a greenhouse gas inventory review, PwC was engaged to conduct research intended to serve as a foundation for designing a carbon accounting framework.
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The client’s challenge
In order to begin defining a carbon accounting framework, the company was seeking to improve its understanding of the complexities of carbon accounting approaches including greenhouse gas and energy reporting considerations, regulatory requirements, NGERA obligations, emissions trading schemes, and carbon offsets.
Our approach
PricewaterhouseCoopers professionals:
- Conducted research of regulatory obligations and other commitments relevant to the client
- Facilitated a workshop for the client’s accounting team to share regulatory information and discuss methodologies, reporting obligations, carbon offsets and emissions trading
- Presented a report that captured workshop outputs and provided recommendations for a carbon accounting framework consistent with the state of regulation
Benefits to the client
PwC enabled the supply chain solutions group to take proactive control over carbon.
Life-cycle analysis as the foundation for environmental and sanitary product declarations
PwC worked with a trade association for building materials manufacturers to ensure that its membership was competitive for EU’s high quality tenders which gave preference to organisations with strong environmental and social performance. The ultimate deliverables, completed Environmental and Sanitary Product Declarations (ESPD), were based on a comprehensive life-cycle analysis and industry benchmark.
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The client’s challenge
To qualify for high quality tenders the Association needed to identify, capture, and communicate the environmental benefits of its member products in Environmental and Sanitary Product Declarations (ESPD) mandated by EU regulations.
Our approach
PricewaterhouseCoopers professionals:
- Assisted the client in defining three key product families for High Environmental Quality tenders
- Formulated ESPDs by collecting data from SNMI members and their primary suppliers
- Performed a confidential benchmark of the environmental impacts of each member company
- Formulated and implemented a stakeholder communications strategy including targeted outreach to clients, architects, etc. that highlighted the environmental benefits of the three products families
Benefits to the client
The Association benefited in a number of respects. Aside from gaining the competitive advantage of qualifying for High Environmental Quality tenders, association members were able to leverage the life-cycle analysis and other data to drive positive marketplace perception and to implement any necessary operational enhancements.
Making more from manure: a manure treatment concept that converts biogas to electricity
The clients, two alternative energy industry associations, retained PwC for a two-part financial and technical study relating to manure treatment. In the first portion of the engagement, we focused on a profitability analysis of existing manure treatment plants, i.e., natural gas cogeneration and biogas plants. We then identified the revenue and profit potential of a new manure plant concept that would generate electricity from biogas. The factors we considered included fluctuating manure availability and environmental mitigation costs.
Just as every industry has particular drivers of financial success, so, too, does every industry’s sustainability agenda have its own emphases. Thus, it requires the marriage of deep industry functional and specialist skills with industry-specific sustainability experience to truly make the sustainability agenda real.
Automotive
Even as financial concerns weigh on the future of the automotive industry’s players, the industry is evolving towards a more sustainable future.
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The financial services industry has had the grave misfortune to be at the vortex of the world economic crisis – yet sustainability remains a first-order item on the industry’s agenda.
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The European Union’s REACH directive has created a number of immediate sustainability challenges for chemical companies worldwide.
Learn more Energy & utilities
As long as fossil fuels remain the largest source of carbon emissions, energy and utilities companies will be at the eye of the storm in the global effort to curb climate change.
Learn more Engineering & construction
Companies are going to great lengths to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, which account for 40% of global energy consumption.
Learn more Forest, paper & packaging
Most companies in the sector have cleaned up their acts, but forestry, paper and packaging firms can still take powerful steps to become an integral part of the global effort to reduce climate change.
Learn more Government & public sector
The sustainability agenda remains a priority for local, national and supra-national governments and agencies as they respond to the financial crisis.
Learn more Hospitality & leisure
Sustainability in hospitality and leisure means so much more than re-using towels and visiting eco-resorts.
Learn more Industrial manufacturing
Manufacturers are not only addressing the sustainability risks inherent in their operations and those of their suppliers, but also seeking opportunities to pioneer new markets for sustainable products and services.
Learn more Mining & metals
The extraction of natural resources from the earth is inherently unsustainable – which makes the sustainability agenda that much more complicated for the mining and metals sector.
Learn more Pharma & life sciences
Because health care extends, or improves the quality of, human lives around the world, the pharma and life sciences sector has a vital role to play in sustainability.
Learn more Retail & consumer
Leading retailers and makers of consumer goods are remaking themselves to serve consumers who are “going green.”
Learn more Transportation & logistics
How we travel in planes, trains and automobiles will need to adapt to become more sustainable in the future.
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