WAL-MART

 “These are not complicated questions, but we have never systematically asked for this kind of information before ” Mike Duke WAL-MART

 65% improvement fleet efficiency 2010 vs ‘05  Power Units – idling  Truck skirts  Hybrid trucks  +57m cases, 49m less miles  Better load planning  7,600 cars off the road TRUCKING EFFICIENCIES

 Reduced packaging  497 fewer containers per year  $2.4m shipping costs  Straight to bottom line  4,000 trees saved  1,000,000 barrels of oil  $60m sales needed for that much profit  Why didn’t we do this sooner?  $2.4 million straight to the bottom line WAL-MART KID CONNECTION

 Sell 100 MILLION CFLS in a year!  Save customers $3b in electricity  20 millions metric tons of CO2  Save $40 over life of bulb WAL-MART CFLS

 Don’t make the farmers to bad guy  Look at whole supply chain  Grow the crops to feed the cows  Methane from the cows and their manure  On-site power generation  Transport milk to process  Process milk into sour cream  Haul sour cream to Distribution Centers (DCs) WAL-MART DAIRY

 Measuring and Reducing GHG CARBON TRUST

 10% of impact is from stores, trucks, etc.  90% of its impact is from the Supply Chain  Fortune 1= 900 lb gorilla  Take the water out of Tide  ¼ the packaging, shipping cost, shelf space  95 million lbs plastic resin saved  400 m gallons of water  125 m lbs cardboard  500,000 gallons of diesel = 11m lbs CO2 WAL-MART

 128 facings of Tide brand products  13 facings of Coldwater products = 10% of slots  NW Reno Wal-Mart, Jan WAL-MART LAUNDRY SOAP

TESCO DROPPING CARBON TRUST LABELS

 2005 – 8% of shoppers left, unfavorable views went from 38% down to 20% in  Require top 200 Chinese suppliers to cut electricity by 20%  It’s still sold 35% more stuff in the US from 2005 to  Index will NOT account for durability  Carbon footprint per year, assuming it lasts 3 vs 5 years?  Index a Long way off  Why?  Nobody cares about carbon  Why?  Because there is no price on it STATUS OF WAL-MART’S INITIATIVE

Carbon = Energy = Money WHY WORRY ABOUT CARBON?