Sustainable Procurement

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Sustainable Procurement

• Myths Legends

www.actionsustainability.com
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Shaun McCarthy
Director
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Chair
www.cslondon.org
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What Sustainability?

• Development that meets the needs of the present
  without compromising the ability of future
  generations to meet their own needs
• Brundtland Definition

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What Sustainability?

• Living within environmental limits
• 1.8 Global hectares per capita
• 2 Tonnes CO2 per capita per year
• Living in an equal world
• Gini coefficient 0.25 to 0.35
• Ratio of most advantaged to least advantaged

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Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change

• CO2 levels highest for 650,000 years
• Climate change unequivocally happening
• Global temperature will rise between 1.8oC and
  4oC in the next century, worst case 6.4oC
• In the worst case, Trafalgar Square would be
  under water

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Stern Report
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Stern Report
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Stern Report
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Stern Report
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The challenge
Source www.nationmaster.com/index.php
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Its not just about carbon!

• Resources
• If the whole world lived like Western Europe we
  would need 3 planets resources to sustain life
• Inequality
• 25 of Londons Black Caribbean community is
  unemployed compared to 2.5 of the Indian
  community
• 25 of the UK population has a physical or mental
  disability
• 3.8M children were living in poverty in the UK in
  2005/6
• Health
• UK childhood obesity is increasing at the same
  rate as the USA, we are breeding a generation
  that will have a shorter life expectancy than
  their parents
• Average male life expectancy in Tower Hamlets is
  7 years shorter than Kensington
• Waste
• Landfill capacity is likely to be non-existent
  within 7 years

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The challenge to purchasers
Using procurement to support wider social,
economic and environmental objectives, in ways
that offer real long-term benefits.
Sir Neville Simms Chairman Sustainable
Procurement Task Force
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Good Practice

• Flexible Framework

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How good are we?

• We have a long way to go
• 83 buying professionals ill equipped to
  deliver sustainability in 2006/7
• 55 in 2007/8
• 550 benchmarks, average Level 1 against FFW
• BITC Index still recording low scores in this area

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Myths
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Myths
Which has the bigger carbon footprint?
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Myths
Which has the bigger carbon footprint?
14 Feb
From Kenya
From Holland
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Myths

• How big is theirs?

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Myths

• How big is his?

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Myths

• How big is his?
• What proportion of global emissions is the UK
  responsible for?
• 2
• 17
• Both
• None of these
• It depends

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Myths
How big is yours?
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Myths
Its all about risk. We dont want to end up here!
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How?
Training needs analysis
Tailor training material
Deliver training
Define process requirements
Develop processes tools
Implement processes tools
Workshop to define impacts
Consult on impacts
Finalise impact definition
FF evaluation
Initial training
The really important bit
Supplier communication event
Implement supplier group
Identify competitive advantage
Develop products
Implement products
Workshop to define measures
Develop measures
Implement measures review
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Legends
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Legends

• Swedish vehicle contract
• Created a market for bio-ethanol vehicles

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Legends

• Zero waste prison mattress
• Market leading initiative

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Legends

• MS Plan A
• Vision
• Leadership
• Research
• Marketing led
• Delivery?

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Legends

• Environment Agency
• Want to know everything
• And check it
• Concerned about plastic membranes in Jiffy Bags
  (among other things)

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Legends

• Manchester City FC
• Wind power
• Biomass CHP
• Local procurement
• Except the players
• and owners

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Legends

• Premier Farnell
• 3 clear priorities with plans and measures
• Responded to jiffy bag challenge
• No more tungsten bulbs
• Presentation to a major global manufacturer
  resulted in objective to double turnover through
  this distributor
• Top 10 product hit list

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Olympic Delivery Agency

• ODA procurement
• Forward commitment
• Did what they said they would
• Changing the industry
• Concrete
• Timber
• Recycled materials
• Embodied energy

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On the horizon

• Water
• The new carbon?
• Social issues
• Local
• Fair partner/employee
• Equalities/diversity
• Secondary impacts
• Embodied carbon
• Food
• Healthy
• Organic
• Sustainable

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Thank you for your attention
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shaun_at_actionsustainability.com