An Overview Of Our Solution
The “Minas Clima” program aims to mobilize, train and implement corporate strategies of low carbon, as a way of fostering improvements in the GHG management preparing the industries for new perspectives from the climate change agenda. The target audience are carbon intensive industries belonging to the supply chains of large companies. The program has 5 phases: Awareness , Capacity Building, Implementation, Risk Management and Business Opportunities and Disclosure & Engagement. Trough improvement of the GHG Reports in the industries, the best practices in GHG management will be presented with a guide containing Risk Management and Business Opportunities in this subject. Working with the the supply chains of large companies is a good way to engage minors companies who are not familiar with the subject.
- Population Impacted: Uncountable
- Continent: South America
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Context Analysis
The “Minas Clima” Program is a proposal led by the Environment Department of FIEMG, dedicated especially to climate change and industry. The initiative aims to disseminate and guide the local business, to be inserted in a competitive way in the new low-carbon economy. The project initially contemplates carrying out actions of business mobilization aimed at establishing the connection between climate change and business opportunities. In addition to this knowledge transfer process, advisory actions will be developed focused on the measurement of GHG emissions from the participating company, as well as on the construction and execution of a strategy for risk and opportunity management in this agenda.In essence, Minas Clima aims to generate a solid basis for identifying the main opportunities and threats generated by climate change, as well as preparing the participating company for insertion and consolidation of the climate variable in the competitive competitive management process.
Describe the technical solution you wanted the target audience to adopt
Perform GHG reports is the first technical step. Trough GHG report, our team will study the best practices in GHG management to suggest technological implementation aiming the minimization of GHG emissions. Our target audience are companies that belongs to the supply chains of large companies because we believe that large companies have great power of persuasion and are interested in mitigate the scope 3 of their emissions.
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Describe your behavioral intervention
We want to create a behavior of GHG management in the industries. Our companies are not prepared to adopt low carbon activities, because they don’t measure what they are emitting. Our objective is to aware and train the companies to internalize this concept in their everyday life.
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Describe your implementation
The program has 5 phases:
Awareness: Is divided into two stages, the first being the presentation of the project to decision-makers of possible anchor companies. Meetings will be held with each company. The second step will be the mobilization of the possible supplier companies according to the indication of the participating anchors.
Capacity Building: will have different directions according to the size of the companies:
• Anchors will be trained on the supply chain emissions management strategy as well as on the use of the software to gain access to the emissions from their respective suppliers;
• Supplier companies will be trained on issues such as climate change, legal frameworks, adaptation and mitigation, risks and opportunities, quantification of GHG emissions and use of GHG emissions management software.
Implementation:
- Monthly monitoring of emissions from suppliers through the use of specific GHG software;
- Monitoring of the launches by means of tutoring: 3 (three) bimonthly meetings for each group of 50 companies;
- Quantification of GHG emissions (inventory protocol, identification of emission sources, calculation) resulting in the 1st GHG inventory;
- Report of the 2nd GHG Inventory.
- Database that will provide information for the stage of business opportunities
Risk Management and Business Opportunities:
At this stage, the organization's engagement process will be developed for the construction of a model of approach within the company for the issues related to the management of GHG emissions. The action will be based on the previous stage.
Disclosure & Engagement:
This step will consist of a strategy to disseminate the actions developed and the results achieved. To this end, several communication channels such as corporate reporting, external dissemination mechanisms may be used. This step aims to increase the awareness of its clients on the subject.
External connections
Consulting Companies, Government, Industries, Sponsors, Financing source. We hope to reach with those partners: Knowledge, Innovation, Reduction of GHG Emissions, Energy Efficiency, Financing, Market Access, Marketing, Legal Pro-activity.
Who adopted the desired behaviors and to what degree?
Industries that will produce products with a lower carbon footprint.
How did you impact natural resource use and greenhouse gas emissions?
The mayor objective of the program is to induce the low carbon production, with less use of energy, and natural resources. It’s only possible with the GHG inventories.
What were some of the resulting co-benefits?
Sustainable development: the co-benefits are:
- Increase the awareness of the industries on the subject;
- Reduce GHG emissions, preparing to meet current and future standards and regulations related to atmospheric emissions;
- Generate business opportunities aimed at a low carbon economy;
- Increase access to climate finance;
- Increase competitiveness in a market that is increasingly concerned with climate change.
- Increase the production of low carbon emission products.
Sustainability
The program needs financial support of the large industries to enable the participation of the minor industries. But with grants and other subsidies we have a greater reach of participants.
Return on investment
The program costs US$4.500 per industry per year. It’s scheduled to happen in 3 years. As a final result of the project, it is expected that the management of risks and opportunities arising from the climate change agenda will be disseminated among small and medium-sized industries. Through the transfer of expertise to the team of each company and the establishment of a management program due to the approach of tutorials, it is also aimed at the continuity of actions, as well as the internalization of environmental issues in the routine of the participating companies, providing an improvement production process, consequently bringing environmental gains to Minas Gerais.
How could we successfully replicate this solution elsewhere?
If the program is successful in Minas Gerais we want to replicate in other states in Brazil. The funding required is US$13.500 per industry. A key partner in this case is the National Confederation of the Industries (CNI) and the federal government.