WHAT IS GEMI?

WHAT IS GEMI?
2014
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AGENDA
GEMI – Vision & Mission
Leadership
Member Companies
Governance
Value to Members
GEMI Meetings
GEMI Institute
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LEADERSHIP
2014 Board of Directors
Chair: Lori Williams, FedEx
Vice Chair: Steve Shedroff, Procter & Gamble
Finance Chair: Kelly Harvey, BSNF Railway
Membership Chair: Bill Gill, Smithfield Foods
Benchmarking/Next Initiatives Chair: Dan Daggett, Sealed Air Corporation
Solution Tools Chair: Roland Mostovy, Ashland, Inc.
Communications and Marketing Chair: Bob Toy, Union Pacific
Senior Advisory Council (SAC) Chair: Sabrina Watkins, Conoco Phillips
Chair Emeritus: Neville Dias, Carnival Corporation & plc
GEMI Management
Executive Director: Steven Hellem
Program Manager: Kellen Mahoney
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GEMI VALUES
Vision
 GEMI is a global leader in developing insights and creating
environmental sustainability solutions for business
Mission
 Business helping business achieve environmental
sustainability excellence
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MEMBER COMPANIES
GEMI LWT™ Project Participants:
GEMI Supply Chain Sustainability
(SCS) Project Participants:
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MEMBERSHIP BY SECTOR
Utilities (4%)
Services (19%)
Basic Materials
(27%)
Industrial Goods
(4%)
Conglomerates
(4%)
Healthcare (15%)
Consumer Goods
(27%)
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GOVERNANCE
Member-driven, non-advocacy organization with global
and domestic recognition and exposure
Board of Directors
 Member company representatives
 Develops strategy and tactics for success
Senior Advisory Council
 Vice Presidents (or most senior EHS/sustainability representative)
 Sets vision and provides counsel to GEMI Board of Directors
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GOVERNANCE
Work Groups
 Supply Chain Sustainability
 Water Sustainability
Networks
 Climate Change and Renewable Energy
 Communications and Marketing
 Sustainable Building Performance and Energy Management/Efficiency
 Sustainable Development
Committees
 Benchmarking
 Board of Directors
 Senior Advisory Council
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GEMI ANTITRUST GUIDELINES
It is the policy of GEMI to comply fully with the antitrust laws. The Sherman Act and other applicable
antitrust laws are intended to promote vigorous and fair competition and to combat various restraints
of trade.
Each person who participates in GEMI activities has a responsibility to his/her employers and to GEMI
to avoid any improper conduct from an antitrust standpoint. The following guidelines will assist in
meeting this responsibility:
1. GEMI meetings and discussions generally cover environmental, health and safety activities of
member companies. Should related discussions ever have any potential for competitive impact, all
due care shall be taken to avoid such discussion between competitors.
2. In view of antitrust considerations and to avoid any possible restraints on competition, the following
legally sensitive subjects must be avoided during any discussion between competitors:
(a)Future marketing plans of individual competitors should not be discussed between competitors;
(b)Any complaints or business plans relating to specific customers, specific suppliers, specific geographic
markets or specific products, should not be discussed between competitors;
(c) Purchasing plans or bidding plans of companies in competition should not be discussed (except privately
between two parties with a vertical commercial relationship such as supplier and customer); and
(d)Current and future price information and pricing plans, bidding plans, refund or rebate plans, discount
plans, credit plans, specific product costs, profit margin information and terms of sale should not be
discussed between competitors. All of the above are elements of competition.
3. Any question regarding the legality of a discussion topic or business practice should be brought to
the attention of GEMI legal counsel or a company’s individual legal counsel for advice.
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VALUE TO MEMBERS
 Creates environmental sustainability solution tools
 Conducts three membership meetings each year focusing on current and
emerging sustainability issues
 Conducts webinars for members with member case examples and guest
speakers
 Conducts benchmark surveys and member-requested “Quick Surveys”
 Provides unique niche as environmental sustainability solution providers
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THE GEMI SOLUTION TOOLS MATRIX™
www.gemi.org/toolmatrix
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GEMI MEETINGS (HELD 3/YEAR)
Network Day
 Each Network is given the opportunity to meet and/or present
 Discuss current areas of interest on each network topic, expert guest
speaker(s) and member presentations
 Roundtable discussion of emerging issues that members are currently
addressing / foresee as future areas to address
Forum Day
 Hosted / coordinated by 1-2 Networks
 Expert guest presentations, GEMI member company experiences and
approaches to identifying issues, and interactive workshop.
 One of the +30 GEMI solution tools is used as the foundation for the
interactive workshop
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SAMPLE WEBINAR TOPICS
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EPA GHG Reporting Rule
Keeping Score on Sustainability: The Carbon Disclosure Project - PWC
Corporate Fleets – EDF
Green Returns Program – EDF
GEMI-EDF Climate Corps Program & GEMI Member Experiences
GreenSCOR
ITC Trade Intelligence Tool “Standards Map”
Rate the Raters – SustainAbility
NMI/LoHAS Activities Update
EPA Office of Water “EPA's Importance of Water to the U.S. Economy”
CEO Water Mandate and Water Action Hub
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SAMPLE SURVEY TOPICS
Benchmark Surveys
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Supply Chain Sustainability
Sustainability Performance Ratings
Stakeholder Engagement
External Surveys / Ratings
Environmental Sustainability Footprint Parameters
Environmental & Social Justice
“Quick” Surveys
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Safety Incentive Compensation for Senior Managers
Sustainability Goals
Value & Trends in Measuring Scope 3 Impacts
Guidelines on Calculating ROI on Sustainability Projects
Environmental Self Assessments
Facilities Management
Spill Prevention & Management
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GEMI WEBSITE
www.gemi.org
Public and
Member Only
access
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GEMI MEMBERS ONLY WEBSITE
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WATER SUSTAINABILITY WORK GROUP
Chair:
 Karl Fennessey, ConocoPhillips
GEMI Local Water Tool™ launched March 2012 -- Helps companies evaluate
specific sites for water impacts and risks in order to devise site-specific
sustainable water management strategies
Phase 2 & 3 of the Work Group for 2014 to:
 Continue to enhance the current data source list to take it to a more local level and
to keep it up to date.
 Create an ongoing GEMI LWT™ Forum for all GEMI LWT™ developers to address
global water sustainability issues and respond to those challenges and
opportunities. There would be 3 GEMI LWT™ Forums held each year as well as
ongoing conference calls/webinars, and the agendas would be developed by
Forum participants.
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GEMI & WATER SUSTAINABILITY
2002:
2007:
2012:
www.gemi.org/water
www.gemi.org/waterplanner
www.gemi.org/localwatertool
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GEMI LOCAL WATER TOOL (LWT)™ PROJECT
The GEMI LWT ™ encourages businesses to
conduct a systematic assessment of their
relationship to water, identify specific
opportunities and risks associated with this
relationship and report key indicators to
stakeholders.
 One-year project of GEMI members & LWT Project
Participant companies – launched in March 2012
GEMI LWT™ Project Participants:
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GEMI LOCAL WATER TOOL (LWT)™
1. Global Risk
Assessment of Portfolios
2. Local Risk
3. Detailed Water
Assessment of Specific Modeling of Specific Site
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Designed to answer questions at different levels:
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How many sites are in
extremely water scarce areas?
Which sites are in greatest risk
areas?
How many employees live in
countries that lack access to
water supply or sanitation?
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What are the water risks at
this site:
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Physical supply
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Regulatory
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Social
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Competition
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Climate variability
Which risks are greatest?
What is our management
plan?
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What is optimum water
balance between process
streams?
Which month is the
greatest stress?
What % of river water flow
is used?
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SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY TOOL
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Provide an actionable tool linking market-oriented sustainability indicators, claims and best
practices (recycled content, recyclability, renewable content, substance free, etc.); scientifically
based economic input-output (EIO) and life-cycle assessment LCA methodologies; and, supply
chain operational metrics guiding effective sustainable procurement and sourcing.
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Take advantage of a top-down ‘hotspot’ approach and bottom-up ‘attributional LCA’ approach to
prioritize environmental aspects within a firm’s supply chain while assessing the most relevant
improvement opportunities of initially 3-5 commonly purchased product categories.
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The project will be supported by and conducted in partnership with:
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Anticipated to be available in fall 2014
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GEMI’s library currently includes 2 supply chain tools:
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SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY TOOL (CONT’D)
Significant Tool Development Process Elements
Identify
Opportunity
Indicators
Prioritize
Processes
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Environmental InputOutput Analyses of
Organizational
Spend/Activity
Prioritization of
“hotspot” spending
categories
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Analysis of product
supply chain bestpractice indicators of
performance
Guidance Toward
“Hotspot”
Reduction
Model “Hotspot”
Processes
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Targeted
parameterized life
cycle assessment
modeling of hotspot /
indicator scenarios
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“Hotspot” reduction
comparisons of
opportunities
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Bang-for-buck “whatif” simulator
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INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS
 2degreesnetwork.com: community, portal, platform,
webinars, etc.
 Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): webinars & GEMIEDF Guide for Successful Corporate-NGO
Partnerships, etc.
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Carbon War Room’s “Creating Climate Wealth”
Conference Board’s Sustainability Conference
Environmental Industry Summit XI
Ethical Sourcing Forum
Financial Times' Investing in a Sustainable Future
Greenbiz’s VERGE and Forums
NAEM
Net Impact
Social Innovation Summit
Sustainable Brands
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GEMI SOLUTION EXCELLENCE AWARD
The GEMI Solution Excellence Award is distributed annually to recognized
organizations(e.g. companies, non-governmental organizations, universities, etc.)
that demonstrate excellent environmental, social, and economic results through the
innovative use of one or more GEMI tools. Submissions are evaluated by the GEMI
award selection committee based on the following criteria:
1. Innovative use / application of a GEMI tool
2. Sustainability impact resulting from GEMI tool use in the following categories:
a. Environmental
b. Economic
c. Social
3. Organizational benefits (improved work process or productivity) gained from
GEMI tool use.
2013 Award Recipients:
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Occidental Petroleum for use and implementation of the GEMI Local Water
Tool™ for oil and gas water management assessment
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Smithfield Foods for use and implementation of the GEMI Local Water Tool™
for water risk assessment.
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QUESTIONS, CONTACT GEMI…
Executive Director: Steven Hellem
Program Manager: Kellen Mahoney
Phone: 202-296-7449
Email: [email protected]
Web site: www.gemi.org
Twitter: @GEMInews
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