2. webinar today
1. How this webinar will work
2. Introductions
3. Why should businesses strive to be restorative? (10
mins)
4. Kingfisher- Net Positive (25 mins)
5. Q+A (20 mins)
6. What’s next?
2
3. Please send your
questions in
throughout the
webinar from the
question box. We will
try to get through as
many of your
questions as possible
throughout the hour
**don’t raise your
hand, type a question
Any problems email Kester at k.byass@forumforthefuture.org
3
4. who are we?
Zoe Le Grand
Senior Sustainability Advisor
Forum for the Future
Strategic sustainability advice provider and
restorative business enthusiast.
Nick Folland
Group Corporate Affairs Director with
responsibility for leading Net Positive
Kingfisher
Net Positive devotee and committed cyclist
4
5. some questions for you….
• How could your company have a net positive impact?
• What would be the main challenges?
• What impact would it have on your company, internally
and externally?
5
6. why should businesses seek to be
restorative?
pay back our environmental overdraft….
6
10. It’s good for the planet…
but what’s in it for them?
• Mandate for radical innovation
• New relationships with customers
• Leadership
10
11. in summary…
• Need to pay off our existing environmental overdraft and
build up natural capital
• Natural resources will only become more constrained as
the population grows
• Most businesses won’t be doing anything
• Learn from your social sustainability approach and seek
to leave the environment better then when you found it
• It’ll pay off through radical innovations, new relationships
with customers and leadership
11
12. Net Positive
Nick Folland
Kingfisher Corporate Affairs
Director: Net Positive
20. Responsibly sourced timber
Percentage of timber by volume sold from proven
well-managed forests or recycled sources
86% - Proportion of Group timber
50% - Proportion of Group FSC-certified timber
21. Reducing Energy
• 21% - how much we’ve reduced our energy intensity in the past five years
• • 60% - how much of our energy footprint comes from electricity (mainly lighting
stores)
• 1/3 - how much we’ve cut store energy consumption where LED lights introduced
• 2,513 Million KwH – amount of energy our customers saved in 2011 using our
products and services
• £10 Million - Kingfisher’s investment in our Future Homes business in 2011
22. Re-thinking and Innovation
Product / Design / Business models
“Maybe in the future,
retailers like B&Q
won’t sell anything
anymore?”
Ian Cheshire,
Group CEO Kingfisher
• 20% - Proportion of Group
sales from products with
eco credentials in 2011
23. Working with our communities
• £1.77 Million - Contributions to Community and charity projects made
in 2011
• 29,000 - Hours spent by employees volunteering in their local
communities in 2011
26. Foundations in detail
TIMBER ENERGY INNOVATION COMMUNITIES
POSITIVE
IMPACT
Net Positive Impact Measure for Net Positive Impact Measure for
NET
Net Positive Impact Measure for Timber Net Positive Impact Measure for Energy
Innovation Communities
TARGET
100% responsibly sourced timber and 38 TWh of energy saved 1,000 products with closed-loop 4,000 local community NP THRESHOLD
2020
paper in all our operations for customers, equivalent to the energy credentials partnerships
used in 2.3 million UK homes a year
Advice for all customers on energy saving 10% sales from innovative (‘best in class’)
100% responsibly sourced timber
and eco products eco products and services
FSC for all tropical hardwood
All energy-using products to meet best 50% sales from products and services with
practice on energy eco credentials
Strategic sourcing
FOUNDATIONS
25% reduction in absolute carbon footprint All ranges improve sustainability rating
Zero products linked
to tropical deforestation
Marketing to promote sustainable Sustainability designed into own-brand
consumption product ranges
45% reduction in property energy intensity Develop & launch alternative
business models
50% reduction in property carbon intensity
Eco criteria and learning for store
construction and refurbishment
Sustainability accounting to calculate the
full value of sustainability
26
KEY
0-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-100%
27. Foundations
SUPPLIERS
EMPLOYEES ENVIRONMENT
& PARTNERS
Sustainability integrated into performance All own-brand vendors to meet our ethical and Zero waste to landfill
management environmental standards
20% reduction in transport CO2
Sustainability development programme for Carbon and water reduction for top 100 vendors
managers
Indirect transport CO2 reductions
GNFR sustainability standards
Customer advisors trained
on sustainability advice
Green travel
Preferred retail partner for governments and
stakeholders on sustainable living
Employee engagement
Own water footprint
on sustainability
Leadership in SRI indexes and CR rankings
All water-using products to meet best practice on
Best practice on diversity and equality
water saving
Implementation of code of conduct
and group governance
20% reduction in employee accident rate
Chemical policy adhered to
Customer and contractor health and safety
Sustainability for own-brand packaging
Employee engagement surveys for all
Construction timber 100% responsibly sourced
Construction waste reduced by 75%
Construction projects to enhance biodiversity
This part of the scorecard measures progress across the three
other areas where Kingfisher has made sustainability
Peat reduction
commitments. Measurement is based on aggregated scores, which
help us rate our progress towards these targets.
27
KEY
0-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-100%
28. NET POSITIVE IS GOOD
FOR OUR BUSINESS
INCREASING
RISK FINDING NEW BOOSTING THE THE
MITIGATION MARKETS TOP LINE CUSTOMER
BASE
£45-60m to be saved €70bn new market Sales of £2.2bn p.a. Transfer skills
securing sustainable in-home energy in sales from products to create next
timber supply efficiency by 2020 with eco credentials generation DIY
across key regions
29. It’s already helping our bottom-line
- £2.2 billion sales of products with eco credentials (20% of total sales)
- Estimate over £18.5 million of savings achieved from efficiencies in
utilities consumption (E&Y study, 2011)
- B&Q’s £2.9m investment in lighting efficiency predicted to save £0.9
million annually
- In France our Operating companies cut waste costs by €740,000 in
2011/12
- Our overall recycling rate has improved 40% since 2006
29
31. Some of the Challenges we’re facing
Putting your money where your mouth is – plywood
Not being able to find the wood for the trees –
FSC and tracing responsibility
Now developing new tools to measure
progress – 1,000 products with Closed Loop
credentials by 2020.
34. some questions for you….
• How could your company have a net positive impact?
• What would be the main challenges?
• What impact would it have on your company, internally
and externally?
34
35. what’s next for the Forum Network?
Webinars
• 12 February – Sustainability & Brands, with Sally Uren
• 19 March – Future casting, with Peter Madden
Network events
• 31st January, Delhi – Innovation Nation at Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
Launching our publication celebrating India’s success stories in sustainable innovation,
and encouraging them to be scaled up across the country and worldwide.
• 13th March, London – Is your business wired for change?
Exploring the role of digital and communications technologies in enabling radical system
change, and what it means for you and your organisation .
• For more information or to register for our events please contact k.byass@forumforthefuture.org
35
36. thanks!
Nick Folland | nick.folland@kingfisher.com
Zoe Le Grand | z.legrand@forumforthefuture.org | @zlegrand
forumforthefuture.org | registered charity no. 1040519
36
