The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) Releases The Facility Decarbonization Playbook
December 15, 2020 | BIERProduction facilities collectively across all sectors account for a large portion of fuel combustion related global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While many companies and facilities are setting ambitions and targets to reduce these emissions, it is still a relatively small percentage of all production facilities across all industrial sectors globally. Alone, one facility does not make the difference needed to tackle climate change impacts of production but taken together, all facilities can have a significant impact following the approach outlined within this playbook.
The focus of the Facility Decarbonization Playbook is on providing guidance to less mature facilities to accelerate the journey from negative to positive impacts with regards to emissions. Because facility decarbonization needs to occur locally, the Facility Decarbonization Playbook offers foundational information to spur local efforts and is considered hugely informative to other sectors that might be lagging. As opposed to a step by step approach, the Playbook provides concise and focused key point for decarbonization through a methodical structure aligned with four pillars:
- Reduction – decreasing emissions by increasing energy efficiency
- Elimination – avoiding emissions by changings processes or technology or switching power or fuel source
- Capture – removing and sequestering emissions (carbon) by industrial or natural techniques
- Compensation – balancing emissions through carbon offsets, insetting, and credit
“The playbook has been developed to be relevant to any sector to accelerate decarbonization efforts. A critical mass of facilities increasing their efforts will open up greater technology availability, shared learnings, and scaled collective actions,” says Nick Martin, Executive Director of BIER.
The complete Decision Guide is available for download at: bit.ly/BIERFacilityDecarb
CONTACT
Nick Martin
+1 (303) 615-3115
nick.martin@anteagroup.us
Executive Director | Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER)
The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) is a technical coalition of leading global beverage companies working together to advance environmental sustainability within the beverage sector.
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