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GHG and Materials ManagementConventional vs. Systems-Based GHG Accounting

Conventional GHG Accounting

Good for showing end-of-pipe opportunities.Consumer activities are invisible, “embedded”.

Systems-Based GHG Accounting

+ ~3-21% “Embodied Emissions of Trade”(Net) (Weber and Matthews, 2007)

Material ManagementPolicies

Better for understanding impacts of consumption

Better for directing education, and driving individual action.

Accounting for a Plastic PitcherWhere do embodied GHG from this go?

Material ManagementPolicies

Accounting for a Plastic Pitcher

GHG Benefits of MM Strategies

Life cycle

Get Raw Materials

Prepare Materials

Manufacture Product Use Product Dispose of

Product

Life cycle -- Recycling

Get Raw Materials

Prepare Materials

Manufacture Product Use Product Dispose of

Product

Life cycle -- Reuse

Get Raw Materials

Prepare Materials

Manufacture Product Use Product Dispose of

Product

Life cycle -- Reduce

Get Raw Materials

Prepare Materials

Manufacture Product Use Product Dispose of

Product

How does Reduce, Reuse, Recycle relate to this?

Highlights connection between GHG and resource consumption via Provision of Goods and Provision of Food categories.

Puts focus upstream, on “materials management” rather than “waste management.”

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Implications of Systems-Based Accounting

Increases funding. Federal money is available for reduction & recycling.Reveals the connection between products and GHG.Engages citizens.Provides additional measure/environmental impact of our work

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EPA Report Available Online

www.epa.gov/oswer/docs/ghg_land_and_materials_management.pdf

Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Materials and Land Management Practices

Tools for communicating about GHG emissionsTwo useful websites can help connect GHG to reduction and recycling:WARM can convert reduction and recycling

management methods to GHGGreenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator

can convert GHG into miles driven, trees saved, energy from homes, etc

Tools for communicating about GHG emissions -- weblinks

EPA GHG Equivalencies Calculator:www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/calculator.htmlWaste Reduction Model (WARM)www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/calculators/Warm_home.html

Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grants

$6.3 Million Available in Minnesota through the General Innovation Fund for Ineligible Entities. Focus on strategies which: - are highly leveraged- are broadly replicable and scalable

- can be self-sustaining beyond the 3-yr funding period.

Funds available from DOE and MN Dept of Commerce

DOE is now accepting applications for up to $454 million in EECBG competitive grants. The competitive grants Funding Opportunity Announcement was issued on October 19, 2009 and applications will be accepted through grants.gov until December 14 2009.

Funds available from DOE and MN Dept of Commerce

MPCA recommends contacting funding agencies directly.MN Dept of Commerce, Office of Energy Security, will issue call for applications in Nov or early Dec. There will be 45 days for application.

Eligible ProjectsMaterial Conservation Programs including source reduction, recycling, and recycled content procurement programs.

Eligible Applicants• Eligible are units of local

government and Indian tribes that are not eligible for the direct formula grants

• Counties < 250,000 and Cities < 35,000 were eligible for the direct formula grants

Application ScoringProject Impact (60%):

Leverages dollars.Results in permanent capacity. Highly replicable. Jobs created and retained in short and long term. Energy saved per federal dollar invested.

Application ScoringProject Approach and Implementation (40%)

Quality of project.Degree of measured accomplishments, savings, and emissions.

Ideas for Projects?

For More information. . . www.eecbg.energy.gov

Minnesota Department of Commerce Webpage – search “Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants”

Tim FarnanMinnesota Pollution Control Agency520 Lafayette Road NorthSt Paul MN 55155 651.757.2348 [email protected]

Madalyn CiociMinnesota Pollution Control Agency520 Lafayette Road NorthSt Paul MN 55155 [email protected]