NCASI’s Sustainable Manufacturing & Climate Program NCASI Southern Regional Meeting June 21, 2016 Kirsten Vice (VP, Sustainable Manufacturing & Canadian Operations)
NCASI’s Sustainable Manufacturing & Climate Program
NCASI Southern Regional MeetingJune 21, 2016
Kirsten Vice (VP, Sustainable Manufacturing & Canadian Operations)
Customer Demands have Changed• Millennials* now influencing marketplace
• Non-regulatory initiatives increasingly replacing government regulations as primary driver for action
• Customers undertaking their own sustainability studies and product-oriented standards development
*Millennials are born between ~1980 - 2000
Resulting Trends in Sustainability• Goals increasingly targeting ‘material’ issues
– Addressing biggest risks & biggest opportunities– Designed to deliver tangible outcomes – Science-based, business-relevant
• Product stewardship focus on entire product value chain– Performance metrics being shaped for simplicity rather than
scientific complexity– Traditional certification no longer enough
• Reporting strategies shifting to balance stakeholder expectations with business needs– Greater transparency– Experimentation with new formats (shorter, story-telling)
Array of Sustainability Topics is Expanding
• Product sustainability & certification standards
• Sustainability reporting
• Benchmarking & reporting data management
• Life cycle assessment (and PCRs & EPDs)
• Water footprinting
• Energy/water nexus
• Carbon management
• Recycling
• Product stewardship
• Circular economy
• Natural capital
• ‘Zero waste’
• And more….
Sustainable Manufacturing & Climate Program
Biogenic Carbon & GHG Accounting
Life Cycle Assessment
Energy
Water Sustainability
Recycling
Beneficial Use
Sustainability Metrics, Marketing & Claims
Highlights of Current Program• Biogenic Carbon & GHG Accounting
– Technical contributions to EPAdevelopment of biomass carbonaccounting methodology
– Analyses to assist members during establishment of national and state-level GHG regulations (e.g., CPP)
– Analysis of uncertainty in the GHG benefits of using forest residuals for energy
– Literature review of methane releases from sources of interest to the forest products industry
Highlights of Current Program• Life Cycle Assessment
– Technical support on LCA, PCR & EPD development– Screening-level LCA of wood residues– Assessment of strengths and limitations of LCA
impact indicators– Impact of dynamic modeling of radiative forcing– Exploration of use of economic models for
consequential LCA– Assess approaches for incorporating land use and
biodiversity impacts in LCA– LCA of wood ash management options
Highlights of Current Program
• Energy– Technical support on energy sustainability issues– Analyses related to incorporation of CHP into
GHG-related policy
• Water Sustainability– Technical support and maintenance of NCASI
Water Recycle Tool and Water Consumption Tool
Highlights of Current Program
• Recycling– Technical support for MIT research project on the
impacts of recycling– Impacts of recycling on life cycle emissions of a
paper mill
• Beneficial Use– Development of strategic tool
for beneficial use– Beneficial Use ad hoc Advisory
Group
Highlights of Current Program
• Sustainability Metrics, Marketing & Claims– Technical support on environmental claims in the
market place & sustainability metric development (e.g., SASB, TSC)
– North American pulp & paper benchmarking reports
– Execution and analysis of survey on solid residuals and wastewater
Launch of New Task Group• New NCASI Sustainable Manufacturing &
Climate Task Group– Global Climate and Sustainability Program Planning
Task Group will be sunset– Existing scope to be incorporated & expanded into new
Task Group– Membership will be binational– Membership will be flexible (~2 per member company)– One face-to-face meeting per year (August 2016)– Two webcast/conference calls per year