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NCASI’s Sustainable Manufacturing & Climate Program NCASI Southern Regional Meeting June 21, 2016 Kirsten Vice (VP, Sustainable Manufacturing & Canadian Operations)

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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