Nestle Waters North America Corporate GHG Inventory

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Business Challenge:

Nestle Waters North America (NWNA) completed its corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory for calendar year 2006. As a company that is knowledgable about its operations and potential areas of carbon emissions impacts, NWNA included some indirect emissions (primarily bottle resin) in the original GHG inventory. Sensing the trend in corporate accounting towards the inclusion of additional scope 3 sources, in 2009, NWNA decided to complete GHG inventories for 2007 and 2008 with expanded boundaries and rebaseline the initial corporate footprint. ClearCarbon assisted NWNA with the completion of its 2007 and 2008 inventories as well as rebaselining the 2006 inventory.

Our Approach:

• ClearCarbon’s staff reviewed NWNA’s 2006 inventory to check for necessary rebaselining actions and to familiarize staff with NWNA data. This allowed ClearCarbon to consolidate multiple years of data requests and minimize excessive interaction with NWNA staff.
• ClearCarbon worked from multiple location lists to determine an accurate location directory for each of the three years, taking into account the company’s structural changes.
• NWNA employees and ClearCarbon worked together to collect transportation data, confirm all data were exclusive and define the difference between scope 1 and scope 3 transport.
• As there were often multiple data sources for the same emissions source, ClearCarbon organized data in a flow chart.
• NWNA internalizes injection molding of bottles at some factories. ClearCarbon created a graphic to compare energy usage at factories with injection molding versus factories without to visually display the impact on energy consumption.

 

Value Created:

NWNA already had a number of reduction projects underway beginning in 2006. ClearCarbon worked with NWNA staff and project consultant to graph the normalized emissions changes from 2006 to 2008 by emissions source to 1) identify emission increases that warrant future attention and 2) highlight emissions decreases resulting from reduction initiatives and changes in energy consumption. ClearCarbon worked with the same team to project emissions through 2013 for NWNA using data provided for planned emissions reduction projects. ClearCarbon was able to show that with production held constant, NWNA will make significant progress towards its 2013 reduction goal. Understanding that additional reductions need to be achieved to reach the goal, and using the results from the 2006-2008 inventories, NWNA has identified other upstream reduction efforts as these are the largest contributors to the overall footprint. Due to the inclusion of credible and transparent data, an emphasis on scope 3 emissions, as well as a clear emissions reduction target and progress towards that goal, NWNA is positioned to competently address customer requests for reporting and other public disclosure venues.

Project Staff

• Ricky Ashenfelter
• Jeremy Mobley
• J. Renee Morin
• Anna Nicholson
• Katie Smith