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strategic goals; iii) choice of the activity data to collect and EFs. The face-to-face
meetings with the organizations, which were aimed at better involving the end-users
and analyzing in detail the major difficulties encountered, were an important element
of the experimentation phase.
All the 19 Italian organizations have calculated their CFO. Four organizations
have analyzed only direct emissions and energy indirect emissions and focused on
energy consumption. The others have investigated the indirect emissions too, such as
materials in input, packaging, home-to-work transport, waste and capitals good, in
order to get a more complete view of their carbon footprint and to select targets and
strategies for a (potential) GHG reduction. A survey, which was aimed at monitoring
the economic impacts of the project actions, has shown that most of the time (51%)
for the CFO calculation was dedicated to the definition of the system boundary and
the data collection, followed by the hours for data input in Bilan Carbone® Clim’Foot
and analysis of the results (40%) and the hours for educational activity (9%).
During the voluntary program, strengths and weaknesses of Clim’Foot tools were
also assessed. The organizations highlighted the need to have additional EFs to calculate their CFO, which were then built up and implemented in the DB (waste and water
treatment, minerals water, renewable energies). Further development is in progress,
which includes construction, chemicals and waste scenarios. All organizations highlighted that this experience increased their awareness on GHG problems. Some of
them decided also to include the results of CFO in their quality management plan as
an indicator to evaluate the efficacy of improvement actions related to energy.
After the calculation of their CFO, 13 organizations have defined mitigation
actions, aimed at improving the mobility of the employees, increasing the share
of renewable energy, improving the heating systems and overall reducing the emissions from purchased goods. Moreover, one organization developed a Sustainability
Report that presents the policy and the actions to improve its social and environmental sustainability, including the environmental benefits obtained thanks to the
implementation of the mitigation actions. As the monitoring of the total CO 2 emissions does not permit the assessment of the efficacy of the mitigation actions because
emissions depend on the annual production, they defined the indicator “CO 2 emitted
for unit of production,” which catches the real environmental improvement better
than the measurement of the total energy saving. At the end of the Clim’Foot project,
2 organizations have also developed an Action Plan where:
• a steering committee was set up to provide a governance of the action plan;
• the objective and targets of GHG reduction were defined;
• a set of mitigation actions was identified as well as strategies towards the defined
objective and targets, in terms of finance and timeline;
• a list of environmental performance indicators was selected to check the outcomes
of mitigation actions, such as CO 2eq per meter of tissue produced;
Furthermore, by the end of the project in August 2018, two organizations changed
their electricity mix and chose a supplier who provides 100% renewable energy,
implementing a mitigation action for CFO reduction, in agreement with their
environmental policy.
S. Scalbi et al.
strategic goals; iii) choice of the activity data to collect and EFs. The face-to-face
meetings with the organizations, which were aimed at better involving the end-users
and analyzing in detail the major difficulties encountered, were an important element
of the experimentation phase.
All the 19 Italian organizations have calculated their CFO. Four organizations
have analyzed only direct emissions and energy indirect emissions and focused on
energy consumption. The others have investigated the indirect emissions too, such as
materials in input, packaging, home-to-work transport, waste and capitals good, in
order to get a more complete view of their carbon footprint and to select targets and
strategies for a (potential) GHG reduction. A survey, which was aimed at monitoring
the economic impacts of the project actions, has shown that most of the time (51%)
for the CFO calculation was dedicated to the definition of the system boundary and
the data collection, followed by the hours for data input in Bilan Carbone® Clim’Foot
and analysis of the results (40%) and the hours for educational activity (9%).
During the voluntary program, strengths and weaknesses of Clim’Foot tools were
also assessed. The organizations highlighted the need to have additional EFs to calculate their CFO, which were then built up and implemented in the DB (waste and water
treatment, minerals water, renewable energies). Further development is in progress,
which includes construction, chemicals and waste scenarios. All organizations highlighted that this experience increased their awareness on GHG problems. Some of
them decided also to include the results of CFO in their quality management plan as
an indicator to evaluate the efficacy of improvement actions related to energy.
After the calculation of their CFO, 13 organizations have defined mitigation
actions, aimed at improving the mobility of the employees, increasing the share
of renewable energy, improving the heating systems and overall reducing the emissions from purchased goods. Moreover, one organization developed a Sustainability
Report that presents the policy and the actions to improve its social and environmental sustainability, including the environmental benefits obtained thanks to the
implementation of the mitigation actions. As the monitoring of the total CO 2 emissions does not permit the assessment of the efficacy of the mitigation actions because
emissions depend on the annual production, they defined the indicator “CO 2 emitted
for unit of production,” which catches the real environmental improvement better
than the measurement of the total energy saving. At the end of the Clim’Foot project,
2 organizations have also developed an Action Plan where:
• a steering committee was set up to provide a governance of the action plan;
• the objective and targets of GHG reduction were defined;
• a set of mitigation actions was identified as well as strategies towards the defined
objective and targets, in terms of finance and timeline;
• a list of environmental performance indicators was selected to check the outcomes
of mitigation actions, such as CO 2eq per meter of tissue produced;
Furthermore, by the end of the project in August 2018, two organizations changed
their electricity mix and chose a supplier who provides 100% renewable energy,
implementing a mitigation action for CFO reduction, in agreement with their
environmental policy.