Valerie Green builds the business case for carbon reduction by businesses in Cape Town. See www.nbi.org.za for more.

1. Towards a low carbon economy
The Business case
Valerie Geen
24 April 2013

2. OVERVIEW
• Brief introduction to the NBI
• Drivers for a low carbon pathway
• The South African Context
• The Business response
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6. Drivers for a low carbon pathway
• The cost of Climate Change
• Risk and Opportunity
– Reputation
– Physical
– Legislative
• Resource scarcity and pricing
• Sustainable Business : How?

7. The cost of natural disasters

8. Flooding in Mozambique
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• Approximately 150 000 people displaced
and 55 lives lost
• Estimated $27 million in damages
• $15 million in relief aid
• Infrastructure damage (roads, river
systems, soil
• Access (social and economic impacts)
• Health
Floods in Mozambique
30,January 2013

9. Identifying Risk and Opportunity
74% 59% 68% 74%
83%
78%
Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions

10. JSE Top 100 Carbon Disclosure respondents: 2012

11. SHIFTING POLICY LANDSCAPE

12. Our major source of Emissions
2009 Primary Energy Supply
Coal
Crude Oil
Petroleum Products
Gas
Nuclear
Hydro
Renewables (including biomass)
DoE Energy Balance

13. Making the shift to more sustainable
Business
• Awareness and advocacy
• Data (carbon footprint; energy audits)
• Energy Management Policy/Plan; Climate Change
Strategy; Sustainability Team
• Target setting
• Opportunity identification
• Making the Business case
• Implementation :
People, Technology, Projects, Financing
• Monitoring, measurement and Verification
• Communication

14. How?
• Individual Action
• Collective Action
• Partnerships

15. Thank you
geen.valerie@nbi.org.za
www.nbi.org.za