Sectors

Partnering for biodiversity conservation on landfill sites

As part of its reputational risk management, SITA France is developing different programs aiming to conserve biodiversity on its landfill sites. These initiatives include field programs, such as the Red Kite conservation project, and development of new methodologies designed to better assess impacts on biodiversity and consequently better monitor conservation and rehabilitation actions.

Conserving biodiversity along distribution lines

Hydro-Québec is a government-owned utility with a single shareholder, the Québec government. Its mandate is to generate, transmit and distribute electricity in Québec. It sells surplus power on wholesale markets and is also active in arbitrage and purchase/resale transactions. The company has more than 23,000 employees and operates essentially with renewable energy sources, especially hydropower. Hydro-Québec relies on a total installed capacity of 36,427 MW, of which 97% comes from its 59 hydroelectric generating stations and 26 large reservoirs. Besides hydropower, it relies on wind power, which makes up 1% to 2% of its total capacity now and should rise to about 10% by 2015.

Ontario Power Generation biodiversity policy

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is an Ontario-based electricity generation company whose principal business is the generation and sale of electricity in Ontario. OPG’s focus is on the efficient production and sale of electricity from its generating assets, while operating in a safe, open and environmentally responsible manner. OPG was established under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) and is wholly owned by the Province of Ontario. At December 31, 2009, OPG’s electricity generating portfolio had an in-service capacity of 21,729 megawatts. OPG’s electricity generating portfolio consists of 3 nuclear generating stations, 5 thermal generating stations, 65 hydroelectric generating stations, of which 4 are being redeveloped, and 2 wind power turbines.

Shell Canada Southwest Alberta Montane research program

Shell has been operating in Canada since 1911, and is now one of the country’s largest integrated oil and gas companies. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Shell Canada employs more than 8,200 people across Canada and represented nearly a third of all global recruitment in 2008. Shell Canada holds approximately 30% of Royal Dutch Shell’s global resource base. A leading manufacturer, distributor and marketer of refined petroleum products, Shell produces natural gas, natural gas liquids and bitumen, and is Canada’s largest producer of sulphur. Shell is one of Canada’s largest oil sands developers.

Oiled seabird rehabilitation program

Suncor Energy Inc. is Canada’s largest integrated energy company, with its head office in Calgary, Alberta. Suncor combines a leading position in oil sands with complementary operations in refining and marketing, natural gas production and conventional oil production internationally and off shore East Coast Canada. The company’s oil sands business, located near Fort McMurray, Alberta, produces bitumen recovered from oil sands through mining and in-situ technology and upgrades it into refinery feedstock, diesel fuel and by-products. Suncor operates four refineries with a capacity of approximately 433,000 barrels-per-day and one specialty lubricants plant producing more than 350 automotive, industrial and food grade lubricants and greases. Its retail and wholesale network includes more than 1,500 Petro-Canada outlets in Canada, and 165 Phillips 66 outlets in Colorado, United States. In addition to its petroleum business, Suncor has invested in four wind power projects and operates Canada’s largest ethanol production facility. The company has a market capitalization of $58 billion Canadian (as of October 30, 2009).

Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuel

http://rsb.epfl.ch/

Global initiative to ensure that biofuels deliver on their promises of climate change mitigation, economic development, and energy security without causing environmental and/or social damages, such as deforestation and food insecurity. The RSB has developed a third-party certification system for biofuel sustainability standards, encompassing environmental, social, and economic principles and criteria.

Better Sugarcane Initiative

http://www.bonsucro.com/

Bonsucro is a multistakeholder collaboration working to provide standards and a certification scheme incorporating a set of principles, criteria, indicators and verifiers that certify farmers who produce sustainable sugar. The standard contains specific reference to biodiversity and was finalised in November 2009.

Energy and Biodiversity Initiative

http://www.theebi.org

A partnership between leading energy companies and conservation organizations endeavoring to develop and promote best practices for integrating biodiversity conservation into oil and gas development and transmission.

Specifically relevant are the following guides:
(i) Integrating biodiversity into environmental management systems
(ii) Integrating biodiversity into Environmental & Social Impact Assessment

Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP)

http://www.isep.or.jp/e/Eng_index.html

The ISEP is an independent, non-profit research organization, founded in 2000 by energy experts and climate change campaigners. The endeavour to provide resources and services to support sustainable energy policies. Some central activities carried out by ISEP include advising the japanese government and local municipalities on topics relating to the promotion of renewable energy, the improvement of energy efficiency, and restructuring the energy market.

Global Bioenergy Partnership

http://www.globalbioenergy.org/

The purpose of the Global Bioenergy Partnership is to provide a mechanism for Partners to organize, coordinate, and implement targeted international research, development, demonstration, and commercial activities related to production, delivery, conversion, and use of biomass for energy, with a focus on developing countries.

GBEP provides also a forum to develop effective policy frameworks to:

• suggest rules and tools to promote sustainable biomass and bioenergy development;
• facilitate investments in bioenergy;
• promote project development and implementation;
• foster R&D and commercial bioenergy activities.