Greening the Last Mile
Sustainability solutions that work for humanitarian fleets
1
A tool for executing excellence
Environmental
management
Fleet
Excellence
• Consistent with other hallmarks of excellence:
safety, cost effectiveness,
• Environmental management offers principles
to guide decisions & help achieve excellence
2
Environmental mgmt = change mgmt
•
•
•
•
Why are you doing it?
Get support from the top
Start with good data
Use it to inform strategy and
choose the right tools/solutions
• Make the business case
• Engage, engage, integrate, integrate
• Measure and report results
3
Why Environment Matters
Good environmental management helps to:
• Manage environmental risk
• Protect beneficiary populations and our staff
• Identify and reduce resource waste
• Reduce operating costs, improve accountability
• Enhance our reputation: with donors and staff
• Serve as an example in developing
countries for eco technology/practices
4
ENVIRONMENT
We support WFP
to cut costs, manage risks
and improve accountability
by identifying, measuring
and reducing our
environmental impacts.
Infrastructure and Facilities Management
Build, maintain, sustain
Support from the Top
“The UN should lead by example… in using energy more
efficiently and eliminating wasteful practices”
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
“Measuring and managing the environmental impacts of our
work, including during emergencies, is an important act of
stewardship. It helps us safeguard the livelihoods of people we
serve.”
- WFP Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin
“Aside from the cost savings and doing our part to be more
responsible energy consumers, I hope we set an example. Isn't
the United Nations supposed to do that?”
- WFP Country director, Richard Ragan
6
6
Start with good data
7
• “We can’t manage what we don’t measure”
• Start with what already you have
• Know when “near enough” IS enough
• Know how to ask for what you need
• Expect errors and learn to spot them
• “There is no such thing as a stupid question”
At WFP:
• HQ footprint 2007; global since 2008, spanning
1000+ premises, 3000+ vehicles, 20,000+ trips
• Tools; templates for contractors; help desk;
WFP 2012 Footprint Summary
78,898 tonnes CO2e
22,400 flights: USD 15m
(plus DSA)
10.3 m litres fuel:
USD 13.4m
8
6.2m litres generator
fuel: USD 8m
24.7 m kWh
electricity: USD 3m
Use data to drive decision making
Global results:
- LVs fuel = 2x truck fuel
- Diesel = 55% of GHGs
- Generators provide 50% of
WFP’s electricity
- Top 10 COs = 67% of total
- Country specific breakdowns
prepared
9
Environmental tools
10
Use data to drive decision making
WFP Emission Reduction Strategy
• Built on existing fleet strategies: GVLP, Logistics [
reduce average age, smaller/elec vehicles in cities,
improved maintenance, driver training.
• Differentiated targets: 10% heavy vehicles, 17% light
vehicles, 12 % buildings, 0% net gain on flights
• Potential savings:
– >8,600 tonnes of CO2e [10% of 2008 baseline] by end 2013
– US$ 3.3 million in operating costs per year
– 2012 total 8.3% below baseline
11
Driver training
12
Building the business case
• Start with a robust baseline [BAU]
• Develop a ‘project case’, using the
most realistic scenario you can:
actual costs, mileages, loads;
• Include whole-of-life costing: not
just upfront costs – fuel,
maintenance, replacement
components;
• Check the payback period exceeds
the life of the asset
13
Engage, engage, integrate, integrate
• Country-specific plans: Sudan, Ethiopia,
Sierra Leone;
• WFP Nepal reduced energy use by 1/3
through energy management – plus
20kWp of solar PV to save 1/3 more;
• Oil takeback by supplier in Chad; by
government in Sierra Leone;
• Batteries and scrap metal recycling by DPKO
• WFP Ethiopia involved Programme in staff in green
committee, to encourage join scheduling of field trips;
• FMS, fleet training for administrators as well as drivers
14
Measure & report results
• Total LVs decreased: 3500 to 2800
• Average age at disposal 8.5 years
• Increase use of sedans, electric
vehicles in capital cities
• Trained more than 1000 WFP
drivers in 30+ countries, plus 385
interagency
• Steady decrease in vehicle fuel use
[beneficiary numbers steady]
15
Measure & report results 2
• Yearly UN wide reporting from 2009;
• KPI added to WFP’s annual report from 2010 “% change in
GHG emissions” – globally and by country operation;
• Monitoring and evaluation plan for every project we fund;
• On track for 10%. New target =18% below 2008, by 2017
16
Practical tips for greening fleet ops
• Make environment part of your fleet management
strategy, not something “on top of everything else”;
• You may have a lot of what you need already;
• Base decisions on good data
• Keep it simple;
• Results come from 50% technology, 50% behaviour
• If it doesn’t save you money, it might not be the right
solution for your business;
• Speak the right language to each audience: snr
managers, finance, drivers, mechanics, donors;
17
For more information:
• http://www.greeningtheblue.org/news/wfp-driver-training-more-miles-less
http://www.greeningtheblue.org/news/managing-waste-chad
• http://www.greeningtheblue.org/news/wfp-ethiopia-greening-committee
• http://www.wfp.org/aid-professionals/blog/wfp-nepal-goes-solar
• http://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/wfp-commitment-worldenvironment-day
18
World Food Programme
Via C.G. Viola, 68/70 - 00148 Rome, Italy
19