Benjamin Franklin told us that a penny saved is a penny earned, and a kilowatt-hour saved is the cost of that kilowatt-hour earned. Actions to eliminate energy waste flow directly to the bottom line to enable simultaneous lower prices, higher profits, and higher wages. As energy savings are probably fungible via the power grid with fossil fuels, they reduce carbon emissions as well.
The ISO 50001:2018 standard for energy management systems is very useful.
The Second World War board game Hunt for the Coal Thief taught Germans how energy waste could hide in plain view in homes and factories, and its interactive nature may have made it even more effective than American and British energy conservation posters. The goal is to find and evict the Coal Thief, who symbolizes energy waste and is modeled on the folk figure sometimes known as the Sack Man or the bogeyman.
Attendees will learn how to address ISO standards' new requirements related to climate change, which they might already be doing if their management systems address climate-related risks to supply chain continuity of operations. They will also learn how to push back against cost-ineffective agendas related to Net Zero and carbon neutrality but embrace activities that reduce all wastes of energy to enable lower prices, higher profits, higher wages, and fewer carbon emissions.
Webinar Highlights
- Know that ISO 9001 and other ISO standards will add to clause 4.1, related to the context of the organization, a requirement that organizations determine whether climate change is relevant to their management systems. Clause 4.2 related to relevant interested parties will add a statement that relevant interested parties may have requirements related to climate change.
- Know how to push back against cost-ineffective agendas related to Net Zero and carbon neutrality. Climate change is important because it is a fact of nature and it creates real risks to continuity of operations. It is not urgent because there are real questions as to how much people can do to prevent it.
- The fact that attendees at the UN's annual climate conference use private jets show that they do not believe it is urgent themselves. There is such a thing as walking one's talk.
- Sellers of carbon offsets and carbon credits often have a profit motive, but they add no value to the supply chain.
- The story of King Canute's futile command that the tide not come in is highly instructive. There was a pre-human time during which there were no polar ice caps and a good part of North America was under water (hence marine fossils in the western US). Ice once covered what is now Canada, as well as New England and parts of New York. Expenditures of money on carbon neutrality and Net Zero are likely to be worse than futile; we lose our money and still get the climate change.
- The high cost of direct air capture (DAC) chemical plants that seek to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is highly instructive. Individuals who want to offset their carbon emissions would do far better to donate money to the US Forest Service, which has no profit motive, to sponsor trees.
- Force majeure (greater force) relates to events beyond the supply chain's control such as war, earthquakes, and ships getting stuck in the Suez Canal. The latter are not climate-related but droughts, hurricanes, flooding, and other weather-related events are. As an example, low water levels in the Gatun Reservoir slow transit through the Panama Canal to increase shipping and therefore lead times. If your organization has a process to address and mitigate these risks, it is already considering climate change.
- Henry Ford had contingency plans to re-route his freight trains if a flood washed out a bridge.
- Futures have been traded for hundreds of years to mitigate risks associated with bad harvests.
Who Should Attend
All with responsibility for ISO 9001 and other ISO standards that will be affected by the upcoming requirements related to climate change.
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