America’s Energy Coast Initiative WBCSD Energy & Climate Focus Area September 30, 2009 Working Group Meeting New Orleans, LA Paris, July 2, 2008

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WBCSD Energy & Climate Focus Area September 30, 2009

Paris, July 2, 2008

WBCSD

The US BCSD is affiliated with the World BCSD, a CEO-led coalition of some 200 companies with a shared commitment to Sustainable Development via the three pillars of economic growth, ecological balance and social progress.

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WBCSD Global Network

The US BCSD is one of 58 country business councils working on implementing sustainable development at the local, operational level. 3

Who are we and what do we do?

The United States Business Council for Sustainable Development creates cross-industry, public-private relationships that solve environmental and social challenges while improving the bottom line. Current Platforms:  Water  Ecosystem Services  Energy & Climate Change 4

Need for Innovation Engines

By-Product Synergy

is the matching of under-valued waste, transportation, energy and other streams from one facility with potential users at another facility to create new revenues or savings, environmental and societal benefits.

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Typical Production Process

Company A Product A Raw Material Waste Disposal Company B Raw Material Product B

By-Product Synergy

Network

Company A Product A Raw Material By-Product Processing?

Company B Product B Material

US BCSD Regional BPS Projects

Active/Complete – New Jersey – Kansas City – – Chicago Seattle – – Gulf Coast Mobile – Houston In Development – Ohio – – Boston SE Michigan – – New Orleans Wisconsin – Central Texas 8

                  Abbott Laboratories Acme Refining Akzo Nobel Alabama Power - Barry Steam Plant Alabama Power Southern Company ArcelorMittal Arkema BASF Baxter Healthcare Burlington County Resource Recovery Complex Canyon Creek Cabinet Company Cascade Designs Christy Webber Landscaping City of Chicago Department of Aviation City of Chicago Department of General Services City of Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation City of Chicago Department of the Environment City of Chicago Department of Transportation

Participants in One or More North

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American BPS Projects

 City of Chicago Huntsman Advanced  Seattle Public Utilities Department of Water Management City of Kansas City, Missouri Cloverhill Bakery Computers for Schools Cook Composites and Polymers Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) Curb Appeal Dow Chemical Company E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company East Balt Commissary Endres Services Engineered Glass Products Envirosafe Consulting Evonik Degussa Exxon Mobil Ferro Corporation General Iron Genie Industries Gerdau Ameristeel Goose Island Brewery Grays Harbor Paper Hallmark Cards Inc. Hargrove Engineers + Constructors Harley Davidson Hercules                           Kansas City Power and Light Little Blue Valley Sewage Dist. M1 Energy Mannington Mills Merck Midwest Generation Missouri Organic Recycling Mitsubishi Polysilicon Motiva Enterprises Naylor Pipe NJ American Water Nucor Steel O’Hare Modernization Program Oil Recovery OTC-Burlington County Port of Seattle PSC Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) S & C Electric Sara Lee Schultze and Birch Biscuit Company                Shell Puget Sound Refinery Sherwin Williams Shield Alloy Smurfit Stone Snohomish County Public Works Southern Ionics Systech Corporation The Dow Chemical Company TriVitro United States Gypsum Company (USG) University of South Alabama - College of Engineering URS US Pipe Veolia ES Technical Solutions Waste Management and Research Center (WMRC) Winzinger Corporation 9

Climate Change Benefits from BPS

• Since 2007, Chicago Waste to Profit BPS has cut more than 50,000 tons/yr CO emissions reductions 2 equivalent • Kansas City BPS cut 19,183 tons CO 2 and 140 tons NOx per year • Houston BPS project full focus on greenhouse gas reduction opportunities beyond the fenceline 10

BPS Projects Provide Benefits Other Than Climate Change

• Dow Chemical Annual Cost Reduction Estimate of $15MM • Chicago Project Realized Over $5.5 million per year in economic impact to local companies • 33,650 tons per year diverted from Landfill in Kansas City Project 11

Metric NISP England Outputs, Apr05 - Mar09

Landfill diversion (tonnes) CO2 reduction (tonnes) Water conservation (tonnes) Natural Resource savings (tonnes) Hazardous Waste reduction (tonnes) Sales generated (£) Cost reduction (£)

Output NISP England

5,222,384 5,238,059 9,469,738 7,954,711 357,626 151,097,919 131,082,258

Per £ invested

1.61

1.61

2.91

2.44

0.11

£ 46.44

£ 40.29

Jobs Private Investment 2,216 £ 116,017,487

For More Information

Visit the following websites for more information:

www.usbcsd.org

www.greaterhoustonbps.org

www.wbcsd.org

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