The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) - - Wageningen UR

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“Manual” Process. Process with Pilot Reporting Platform. TSC. Step 1. Each retailer gets completed KPIs & Questions from TSC. Retailers. Manufacturers. Step 2 ...
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) Koen Boone - Director Europe TSC

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• Introduction TSC • Sustainable Measurement and Reporting System • Members and organisation

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The Sustainability Consortium improves decision making for product sustainability throughout the entire product life cycle across all sectors.

Vision To advance science to drive a new generation of innovative products and supply networks that address environmental, social, and economic imperatives

Enabling the consumer goods industry to do things that matter about things that matter.

Mission To design and implement credible, transparent and scalable science-based measurement and reporting systems accessible for all producers, retailers, and users of consumer products Source: The Sustainability Consortium

TSC Introduction

Sustainability on product level using life cycle thinking Co-operation between Universities, NGO’s and business Wageningen UR European coördinator Independent organisation Financing by company members (Support Universities, Defra, Dutch Min. of Economic) Started in July 2009 All consumer (retailers) products WWF and Care in Board Environmental and Social issues

TSC is uniquely bringing together stakeholders and creates unparalleled opportunity for collaboration. Credibility Leading universities and NGOs using science-based approach to identify areas of adverse impact in the supply chain Efficiency Minimizing multiple similar efforts and reducing supplier burden of variable information requests

Academic Institutions

The Sustainability Consortium

Harmonization Creating clear agreed upon terms and definitions by all stakeholders Identifying common life cycle stages, metrics, and reporting categories Corporations

Non-profit organizations

Source: TSC

TSC is developing tangible tools to enable sustainable innovation across the value chain. Current products

Future products

Understand product category hotspots1 and drivers

Share

Differentiate

Declare

information on best practices

products against baseline

Communicate to consumers

Level 1 – Category Level

Level 2 – Product level





Product-specific



Quantitative tool to benchmark against baseline



Broad product categories Qualitative assessment of hotspots1

1 Areas of adverse environmental and social impact across product supply chain

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TSC category-level 1 products have 3 major components…

Category Dossier

Collection of evidence on product category and its supply chain, environmental and social hotspots, and improvement opportunities

Category Sustainability Profile (CSP)

Synthesis of product sustainability knowledge and improvement opportunities

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Metrics / questions to measure and track product category sustainability

Source: TSC

Pilot Reporting Platform A simple software tool can cut significant time and effort for everyone involved “Manual” Process Step 1. Each retailer gets completed KPIs & Questions from TSC

TSC

Step 2. Each retailer emails questions to each manufacturer

Retailers

Manufacturers

Retailers

Manufacturers

Retailers

Manufacturers

Step 4. Each retailer completes manual collation of results

Step 3. Each manufacturer emails question response back to each retailer

Process with Pilot Reporting Platform Retailers Single Request

TSC

Single Upload

Pilot Platform

Single Response

Manufacturers

Product categories Batch 1 (Finished) • Computers, Monitors, Televisions, Mobile Devices, Printers • Beef, Milk • Laundry Detergent, Surface Cleaners, Showering Products • Toilet Tissue, Copy Paper • Plastic Toys • Grains, Packaged Cereals, Bread, Beer • Cotton • Farmed Salmon • Wine

Batch 2 (Aug ‘12 – Nov ‘12) • Beans, Nuts, & Oils • CDs and DVDs, Printer Ink • Dairy • Paper- Facial tissue, greeting cards, paper towels • Personal Care - Baby diapers, baby wipes, feminine/nursing hygiene • Produce • Small appliances • Sugars & Syrups • Tea & Coffee • Plush toys

Batch 3 (Dec ‘12 – Mar ‘13) • Aerosol air fresheners • Hand & body lotion • Lumber • Bananas • Chocolate/Chocolate Substitutes Confectionary • Farmed shellfish • Wild caught fish • Eggs/Eggs Substitutes • Chicken

L1 SMRS Roadmap

Impact / Category Coverage

600

500 1Qtr

400

300

200

>2 Qtrs

100

Categories with KPIs in use by Retailers and Suppliers

Categories in various stages of development

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Q3 | Q4|Q1 | Q2| Q3 |Q4 |Q1 | Q2| Q3 |Q4 | Q1 | Q2|Q3 | Q4 2011

2013

2012

Time

2014

What we do different from others

Global All sustainability issues All consumer products Academic base Strong link to business (1,5 Trillion US$) Main stream (no small segment) Concentrate on issues that matter Strong link to improvement opportunities Impact!

TSC’s working group structure allows coverage of major sectors. Sector Working Groups TSC creates SCALE as it represents 90 of the largest organizations working together on sector-specific issues

Consortium Working Groups Comprised of corporate members, non-profit organizations, government agencies & academics

Co-Operating With Other Initiatives

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• EU Environmental Footprint • EU Food Sustainable Consumption and Production Roundtable • UNEP/SETAC • Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) • Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) • REWE pro planet (Wuppertal) • IDH (Initiative Sustainable Trade) • Grenelle • WRAP • Consumer Goods Forum • WBCSD • Product or sustainability theme specific initiatives

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• Scientific American publishes top 10 World Changing Idea “Innovations that will radically alter our lives” • December 2012 list: The Sustainability Consortium • TSC wordt door Scientific American gezien als een overtreffend meet- en informatiesysteem, mede door zijn overkoepelende en veelomvattende aanpak.