WBCSD Energy & Climate Focus Area

Working Group MeetingParis, July 2, 2008

America’s Energy Coast InitiativeSeptember 30, 2009

New Orleans, LA

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WBCSD

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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:WaterEcosystem ServicesEnergy & 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.

Raw Material

Raw Material

Product A

Product A

WasteWaste

DisposalDisposal

Raw Material

Raw Material

Product B

Product B

Company A

Company B

Raw Material

Raw Material

Product A

Product A

By-Product

By-Product

DisposalDisposal

Raw Material

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Product B

Product B

Company A

Company B

By-Product Synergy

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Network

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US BCSD Regional BPS Projects

Active/Complete– New Jersey– Kansas City– Chicago– Seattle– Gulf Coast– Mobile– Houston

In Development– 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

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

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

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

NISP England Outputs, Apr05 - Mar09

Metric Output

NISP England

Per £ invested

Landfill diversion (tonnes) 5,222,384 1.61

CO2 reduction (tonnes) 5,238,059 1.61

Water conservation (tonnes) 9,469,738 2.91

Natural Resource savings (tonnes)

7,954,711 2.44

Hazardous Waste reduction (tonnes)

357,626 0.11

Sales generated (£) 151,097,919 £ 46.44

Cost reduction (£) 131,082,258 £ 40.29

Jobs 2,216

Private Investment £ 116,017,487

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For More Information

Visit the following websites for more information:

www.usbcsd.org

www.greaterhoustonbps.org

www.wbcsd.org