World Wildlife Fund

Climate Savers: Elements of Fulfillment Strategies

 Johnson & Johnson

• Johnson & Johnson is tracking and publicizing its CO2 reduction goal worldwide to every level of management. The goal is also being included in the company's annual environmental report.
• The company covering buildings, equipment, management practices, maintenance practices, and operational practices developed a comprehensive set of energy efficiency best practices. Sixty-seven percent of the best practices have been completed worldwide.
• J&J is participating in the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification program for existing buildings with its world headquarters building serving as a pilot project. A task force has also been developed to create guidelines that will allow the company to obtain LEED certification for all new facilities.
• On-site renewable generation: Installation of four solar systems for a total of 1193 kW at California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania facilities.
• International on-site generation includes a solar hot water system at J&J Brazil providing 20,240 kWh/yr. of hot water and a solar hot water system at Janssen-Cilag, Portugal providing 8400 kWh/yr. of hot water.
• Purchasing of Renewable Energy:
  • All Texas operations: 15 percent wind power, 10.6 million kWh/year.
  • Cordis, Netherlands: 10 percent wind power, 1.1 million kWh/year.
  • Centocor, Netherlands: 100 percent wind power, 12 million kWh/year.
• An annual energy week is conducted worldwide to improve employee awareness. The theme last year was "You Have the Power to Save Energy for a Brighter Future." Activities to increase awareness include conferences in different regions and an active energy Web site, which includes a renewable site and graphics depicting CO2 reduction levels.
• The U.S. fleet emissions have been inventoried and the company is in the process of establishing a reduction goal for vehicles.

 IBM (International Business Machines)

• Performance results against the Climate Savers Goal: The total estimated CO2 emissions reduction percentages for 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 associated with energy conservation projects were 4.6 percent, 4.65 percent, 4.62 percent and 6.8 percent respectively.
• Energy conservation savings equivalent to 4 percent annually is being achieved through a variety of best practices:
• Upgrading IT equipment with more efficient models,
• Upgrading lighting systems to maximize energy efficiency,
• Specifying and installing variable frequency drives on electric motors,
• Utilizing thermal storage and freecooling opportunities,
• Reducing reheat energy,
• Rebalancing exhaust systems,
• Specifying and installing energy efficient motors,
• Managing air compressors in an energy efficient mode,
• Optimizing clean-room temperature and humidity settings,
• Integrating fan filter unit technology into clean room design,
• Varying temperature and humidity settings and improve site load factor.
• Over a 12-year period (1990-2001), IBM reduced total energy use by 31% through conservation efforts alone.
• In 2001, IBM reduced electricity use by 390 million-kilowatt hours and fuel use by 2.2 million gallons of oil. The company avoided an estimated 220,100 tons of CO2 emissions and saved an estimated $22.7 million.
• One percent of energy consumed at IBM comes from renewable sources.
• Wind energy for IBM Boulder: Xcel Energy delivers 300 megawatt-hours of electricity per year from wind energy resources.
• Solar energy for IBM Switzerland: In 2000, IBM Switzerland installed a photovoltaic system on the roof of its Zurich headquarters building. The installation generates 40-megawatt hours of electricity per year.
• Biomass energy for IBM UK: The IBM UK headquarters building at North Harbour entered a renewable energy contract with Eastern Energy for the supply of 48,000 megawatt hours (100 percent of the building's energy needs) of renewable energy last year. This energy supply, produced by biomass, is from landfill gas.
• Wind energy for IBM Austin: This Texas location is getting 5.25 million kilowatt-hours of electricity from renewable energy sources.

 Polaroid

• Polaroid installed a 300-ton high-efficiency replacement chiller, which is saving the company 2,000,000 kWh/year.
• The Scottish operations of the company are identifying and eliminating leaks in compressed air, vacuum and nitrogen systems. The company also installed more efficient nozzles and air knives. This means that compressors and vacuum pumps are running less, creating more efficient cycle times and using less energy. Savings will be significant.
• More energy efficient lighting has been installed throughout the company in the U.S. and Europe. Warehouses and conference rooms have been equipped with intelligent switches, which reduce the time that lighting is on.
• New construction and renovations are designed using standards for the efficient use of lighting and equipment.
• The Mexico operations of the company replaced diesel and liquid propane with natural gas for generating steam and hot water. This changeover resulted in a significant decrease in costs and CO2.
• At Polaroid, the Kaizen approach will be used to implement the energy element of the company's climate management strategy. The company will continuously improve its efforts to integrate energy awareness and conservation into all levels and functions of the company. In particular, Polaroid intends to ensure that users of energy will now be supporting the energy efficiency and reduction efforts that were once primarily the domain of facility engineers.

 Lafarge

• Lafarge has put into place a global CO2 management plan in an effort to make continuous progress towards meeting its reduction commitments.
• Each country and region where the company operates is developing an action plan.
• Country/ regional managers are evaluated on their performance with attention given to meeting the action plan objectives contained in the company's three year technical plans.
• CO2 reduction action plans address resource recovery, including the use of alternate fuels and raw materials that lower the carbon intensity of cement manufacturing; cementitious materials to supplement the use of limestone as a raw material, to lower the percentage of clinker in cement products and the percent of cement in concrete products; and improve the energy efficiency of cement manufacturing plants to lower fossil fuel and electricity that is used in clinkers and/or the cement manufacturing process.
• CO2 reduction progress will continue to be tracked on an annual and global basis.

 The Collins Companies

• During the year 2002 The Collins Companies invested more than $20 million to upgrade its softwood mill in Chester, California and new production began in October. This investment allows the mill to gain 60 percent in production efficiency.
• The Fremont sawmill at Lakeview, Oregon made upgrades to a more efficient manufacturing process and installed a new low pressure kiln at the beginning of 2002.
• Collins Products shut down two natural gas boilers in the first quarter of 2002, reducing natural gas usage. The plant is now purchasing an average of 60,000 lbs/hour of steam from the City of Klamath Falls Cogen plant, an efficient steam generation facility, saving 11.2 million CO2 tons/year.
• In 2002, Collins Products replaced seven constant volume pumps and replaced the existing motor control with programmable logic control inverted drives, saving 10.2 million tons of CO2 in next 15 years.
• At Kane Pennsylvania, Collins Hardwood replaced old compressors with newer, more efficient motors saving 5 million tons of CO2 in next the 15 years.
• Collins Products also installed motion sensors on vending machines saving 46 percent of normal electrical costs to run a machine and eliminated 10 overhead lights on the particleboard production line.
• Between 2003 and 2004 a backpressure turbine will be installed in the Fremont Lakeview mill to generate approximately 638 kWh to save 27 million tons of CO2 in next 15 years.
• A similar but smaller backpressure turbine is being considered for installation in a Kane, Pennsylvania hardwood mill.

 Sagawa Express

• Sagawa is reducing CO2 emissions 6 percent below 2002 levels by 2012.
• The company will be introducing 7,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles to its fleet, replacing thousands of diesel vehicles.
• Sagawa is the first transport and logistics company and first company in Asia to join Climate Savers.