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2005 Climate Protection Award Winners
CORPORATE & GOVERNMENTAL AWARDSORGANIZATION & ASSOCIATION AWARDS
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
CORPORATE & GOVERNMENTAL AWARDS
American Electric Power
Since the early 1990s, American Electric Power (AEP), the largest generating company and consumer of coal in the United States, has developed and implemented a broad portfolio of actions to reduce, avoid or sequester greenhouse gas emissions. Between 2003 and 2006, American Electric Power (AEP) will reduce or offset a cumulative 10 percent of its total greenhouse gas emissions, preventing approximately 18 million cumulative tons of carbon dioxide. AEP has reduced SF6 emissions from 1999 emissions of 19,778 pounds (a leakage rate of 10 percent), to 2003 emissions of 12,929 pounds (a leakage rate of 4 percent). AEP is one of the largest wind generators and plans to almost double the amount of wind generation produced or purchased by the company by 2006. In addition, AEP has had a successful biomass pilot project at its Picway Plant near Columbus, Ohio. AEP is participating in forest conservation and reforestation projects that are helping to sequester millions of tons of carbon, and supports conservation and reforestation projects in Bolivia, Brazil, and the United States that will offset 29.8 million metric tones of CO2 over the next 40 years. AEP has contributed more than $25 million to terrestrial sequestration and reforestation, $600,000 to reforestation organizations, and is a founding member of PowerTree Carbon Company, a US-based voluntary carbon sequestration consortium. AEP is also a participating member of UtiliTree Carbon Company, a consortium of 41 utilities that invest in forestry projects that manage greenhouse gases.
City of Boulder
In May 2002, Boulder pledged to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to seven percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The city is in the process of developing a dynamic and strategic local action plan, which will serve as a roadmap to the emissions reduction goal. The plan increases the energy efficiency of Boulder's commercial, residential, and industrial buildings and increases the use of renewable energy and fuels. Boulder's Partners for A Clean Environment (PACE) program offers pollution prevention outreach, on-site technical assistance and certification to Boulder businesses. PACE has expanded its focus to actively promote energy efficiency and utility rebate programs. The Green Points Program requires new homes, home additions and remodels over 500 square feet to incorporate a choice of green building measures that outperform International Energy Conservation Codes (IECC) by an average of 30 percent. All newly constructed city facilities must meet LEED Silver standards. Other city programs that reduce GHG emissions are: Open Space Acquisition, Great Options in Transportation, City Facilities Energy Conservation program, LED Traffic Lights, Clean Wood Waste Drop Off, Alternative-fueled Vehicles in City Fleet, Urban Forestry and Curbside Recycling.
The California Energy Commission
Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Transportation and Climate Change Programs
Over the past three decades, the California Energy Commission (Energy Commission) has demonstrated state and national-level leadership in energy efficiency, renewable energy, alternative transportation, and climate change. The Energy Commission has convened the state=s Climate Change Advisory Committee, participates with agencies in California, Oregon, and Washington as part of the West Coast Governor=s Global Warming Initiative, funds climate change research, and supports the California Climate Action Registry. The Energy Commission actively promotes reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through a range of programs including energy efficiency standards, incentives for renewable energy, export of clean energy technology, siting of high-efficiency power plants, and development and deployment of alternative technologies and fuels in the transportation sector. The Energy Commission advances adaptation to climate change through the state=s energy, transportation, and water plans. Adaptation is fostered through education and public outreach with its climate change web portal.
Cinergy
Cinergy is demonstrating leadership on climate change though voluntary programs to reduce GHG emissions. Cinergy is a founding member of the Department of Energy's Climate Challenge program, is a charter member of the EPA's Climate Leaders and SF6 reduction programs, and is a member of the EPA Natural Gas Star program and the EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program. Cinergy has pledged to reduce its GHG emissions 5 percent below its 2000 baseline GHG emissions for the period 2010-2012. In addition, between now and 2009, Cinergy will spend $21 million dollars to develop a strategy to accomplish its GHG management goal. Cinergy will investigate the feasibility of implementing projects that reduce or offset emissions through improved power plant efficiency, combined heat and power, landfill gas capture and electric generation, end-user energy conservation, renewable energy generation, terrestrial sequestration, SF6 usage reduction, fly ash reuse, and materials recycling. Overall, Cinergy reduced or offset GHG emissions by 4.8 million tons in 2001; 5.1 million tons in 2002; and 4.9 million tons in 2003.
Connecticut Governor's Steering Committee
Connecticut has emerged as a model for other states attempting to address global climate change through intelligence, innovation, vision and collaboration. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman R.K. Pachauri says, "Connecticut's climate change action planning process represents what is good about democracy!" The Connecticut Governor's Steering Committee, made up of leaders from more than six key state agencies advised by industry stakeholders and the citizens, developed an emissions inventory and selected thirty eight initial actions that that are being promptly implemented. These initial actions include: new laws and executive orders for GHG reporting, development of a GHG registry, new energy efficiency standards for certain products and appliances, tax exemptions on hybrid vehicles, state shared energy savings and procurement orders, California emissions standards for light duty vehicles, and climate change mitigation through local agriculture support and land preservation.
Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls technology makes cars more fuel-efficient through advanced battery technology and environmentally-friendly interior components, and makes buildings "greener" through technologies and services that consume less energy. Energy-saving initiatives applied in Johnson Controls' own facilities reduced energy consumption by 30 percent from 1997 levels, preventing the release of more than 20 million pounds of greenhouse gases and hundreds of thousands of pounds of other air pollutants. From 2002 to 2012, Johnson Controls will reduce green house gas emissions by another 18 percent to fulfill its commitment to Climate RESOLVE and EPA's Climate Leaders program. Johnson Controls helped develop the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) rating system and is involved in the High-Performance Green Buildings Initiative. Green buildings utilize simple materials, technologies, design, and construction methods to create sustainable "green" buildings. They cost no more than traditional buildings and usually cost substantially less to operate and maintain in the long run. By making full use of energy management technologies that are commercially available, Johnson Controls can reduce the energy costs in non-residential buildings by 50 percent.
3M
Strong energy conservation strategies have achieved a 62 percent improvement in energy efficiency at 3M since 1973. Recently, 3M initiated an aggressive greenhouse gas management strategy aimed at reducing 3M's manufacturing greenhouse gas footprint and developing a range of products that help customers reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Worldwide, 3M will cut its absolute GHG emissions in half by 2005 (from a 1990 base year). This emission reduction goal includes both Kyoto and non-Kyoto greenhouse gasses and is being accomplished through manufacturing process improvements and additional pollution control equipment. 3M is also working to reduce GHG emissions through the purchase of renewable energy. 3M products that help customers reduce their GHG footprint include replacements for ozone-depleting halon, energy conservation products, light management technologies, fuel cell components, high-temperature superconducting materials, and Aluminum Matrix Composites that reduce transmission losses by up to 25%, thereby saving energy and reducing emissions.
McDonald's, Coca-Cola & Unilever Refrigerants Naturally Partnership
The Coca-Cola Company, McDonald's and Unilever have committed to an energy-efficient, HFC-free future wherever cost-effective. Each company demonstrated leadership in their respective areas of the food and beverage sector when they joined with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Greenpeace to promote natural refrigerant technology in the food and drink industry and its supply chain. When fully implemented, commitments made by Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Unilever will have dramatic benefits to climate protection. The Coca-Cola Company estimates that in 2010 direct indirect greenhouse gas emissions from its new cold drink equipment will be reduced by 700,000 CO2-equivalent tons. 650 HFC-free coolers and vending machines placed by Coca-Cola at the Olympic Games in Athens were 8.5% to 17.6% more efficient than comparable HFC-refrigerated units in laboratory and field trials. An HFC-free McDonald's restaurant in Vejle, Denmark, uses 12% less energy. Unilever placed 15, 000 HFC-free freezers in the market by 2004 and will have a further 35,000 in place before June 2005. Field trials indicate a 9% energy saving with these freezers, and the corresponding reduction in CO2 emissions is estimated to be 840 tonnes per year in 2004 rising to about 30,000 tonnes per year by 2010. At the 2004 "Refrigerants, Naturally" conference, these three companies invited other industry players to join them in combating global climate change.
Rhode Island Greenhouse Gas Stakeholders
In 2001, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, the State Energy Office and stakeholders from business, industry, non profits and government developed a Greenhouse Gas Action Plan of 52 strategies to reduce GHG emissions by over 1 million metric tons and save $700 million through 2020. Strategies implemented include a Renewable Energy Standard law and CA-LEV II standards for new vehicles. Those underway include buying 100 percent renewable energy for the state house, Executive Orders for Clean Vehicles and Energy Efficient New Buildings, streamlining environmental permitting for clean distributed energy, fossil fuel energy efficiency assistance, and improved energy measures in the state building code.
City of Syracuse
The Syracuse Comprehensive Energy and Climate Protection Initiatives Program is reducing the City's energy use and associated costs 20% by 2006 and greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2010. The City has taken the innovative step of working closely with the State University of New York-Syracuse, and International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) to train students to conduct an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions and quantify results from the City's climate protection policies and programs. Syracuse has replaced all mercury vapor street lighting with high pressure sodium, replaced incandescent traffic signals with light emitting diodes (LEDs), upgraded lighting in all city parking garages, and upgraded city buildings and parks to reduce their climate impacts. The total annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from these initiatives, which are also reducing NO2, VOCS and PM10 emissions, is equivalent to 11,000 Tons of carbon dioxide annually.
United Technologies Corporation
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) has pledged to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 16% per dollar of revenue from 2001 to 2006. UTC’s energy use (normalized for revenue) dropped 9% in 2004 for a cumulative reduction of 40% since 1997, meeting their 2006 energy efficiency goal. Normalized water use decreased 19%in 2004, with cumulative reductions of 53%. Air emissions dropped 27% in 2004, with cumulative reductions since 1999 of 58%. UTC has also met their Climate Leaders GHG goal two years ahead of its target. UTC has also earned the EPA Climate Wise Partner Achievement Award and the EPA National Clean Water Act Recognition Award for outstanding storm water management.
York International
York International was the first manufacturer to introduce and actively promote the application of variable speed drive technology to centrifugal chillers. This effort began in 1979 and continues today with the latest generation of products. The technology has evolved from large, expensive floor-mounted drives to compact, unit-mounted and factory installed drives. As a result of York's leadership, 70% of York centrifugal chillers have variable speed drive and all chiller manufacturers now offer centrifugal chillers using this technology. The application of variable speed drive will typically reduce annual energy consumption of centrifugal chillers by enhancing off-design performance. York is also the first company to apply variable speed drive technology to the air-cooled screw chiller platform, offering the same significant kWh savings in an air-cooled package.
ORGANIZATION & ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Improved Mobile Air Conditioning Organizing Team
Ward Atkinson (Sun Test Engineering), Martin Drigotas (DuPont Fluorochemicals), William Hill (General Motors), Elvis Hoffpauir (MACS), and Stephen Andersen (U.S. EPA) organized the Improved Mobile Air Conditioning (I-MAC 30/50) Partnership to promote cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. I-MAC 30/50 will reduce direct system refrigerant leakage by 50%; improve system efficiency by 30%; reduce system loads by 30%; and reduce service refrigerant losses by 50%. When all cars are equipped with improved systems and professionally serviced, the fuel savings will be over 2.5 billion gallons of fuel annually in the U.S. alone and 3 to 5 billion gallons of fuel globally each year. The combination of fuel savings and reduced refrigerant emissions will save over 35 billion kg of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually. In addition to this, the improved system saves the average American consumer $420 or more over the life of the vehicle.
Tufts Climate Initiative
Tufts University's Climate Initiative (TCI) is a nationally-recognized leader in the fight against climate change. Tufts is reducing its own emissions of climate altering gases by taking direct and measurable actions: a combination of renewable energy, energy efficiency, fuel-switching, and behavioral change. Tufts has nearly leveled university emissions despite growth in the number of campus buildings. TCI helps the university to facilitate long-term change to protect the climate -- bridging the gap between theory and practice through strategic partnerships with the university's division of operations, faculty, and students. Students - America's future leaders - are active citizens in Tufts' climate change actions through academic courses, extracurricular activities, peer education, and research. Tufts is a Founding Member of the Chicago Climate Exchange and has adopted both international and regional climate goals.
Mr. Sandeep Ganesh
Mr. Sandeep Ganesh of Winrock International-India is the driving force behind the "Hyderabad Air" outreach campaign which uses Integrated Environmental Strategies (IES) to identify, analyze and implement cost-effective measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and toxic pollutants. Mr. Ganesh developed the conceptual framework, established a local design/marketing team, recruited schools, secured the cooperation of the local bus company for public interest advertising, and worked with the local media to ensure widespread publicity for the campaign. Mr. Ganesh has shown remarkable insight, perseverance, and creativity in his efforts to design a program that resonates with the local population and that targets an influential group (school children) to influence changes in behavior.
Sonia Hamel
For over a decade, Sonia Hamel has provided great leadership, creativity, insight and courage in pursing climate protection. She has been an important source of strategic thinking, analytical rigor, and inspiration in climate change forums for Massachusetts, for New England and for the Northeast states. Ms. Hamel has established better connections between state and local policy makers, creating new opportunities for successful inter-governmental climate partnerships. She works "in the trenches" to find cost-effective, innovative approaches to reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) and influences progress at the very highest levels of state government. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ms. Hamel champions the "multiple benefits approach," which accounts for the fact that GHG emission reduction also lowers emissions of NOx, SO2 and mercury while supporting economic development, reduced energy costs, and improved public health. For the New England region, Ms. Hamel served as principle author of the groundbreaking Climate Action Plan where New England Governors/Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG/ECP) formally committed to a 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Dr. Hideki Nishida
Dr. Hideki Nishida was instrumental in organizing the voluntary pledge to reduce PFCs emitted from the manufacture of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) by forming the World LCD Industry Cooperation Committee (WLICC) in cooperation with Korean and Taiwanese LCD associations. At first, Korean and Taiwanese associations had difficulties setting a stringent emission goal for WLICC for 2010, because their LCD sales were burgeoning and it was hard to estimate emissions for the future. Through both formal and informal meetings, Dr. Nishida was able to convince all WLICC members of the importance of a challenging emission reduction goal. Dr. Nishida's dedication and enthusiasm was the deciding factor in reaching a consensus on reducing PFC emissions. The decision was to reduce them by a factor of ten: to less than 0.82 million metric tons of carbon equivalent (MMTCE) by 2010. The goal was announced publicly on January 20, 2003, and each LCD association is now working to reduce emissions accordingly.