For Us. For Agencies. For Good. Leveraging the EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals: A Decade of Success using EPEAT in the City of San Francisco Presenters: Janelle Jobe, Director, Global Purchaser Relations, GEC Chris Geiger, Senior Environmental Specialist, City of San Francisco SPEAKERS
Janelle Jobe Director, Global Purchaser Relations Green Electronics Council (GEC)
Chris Geiger, Ph.D S e nio r Enviro nm e nta l S p e c ia lis t City and County of San Francisco
Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum AGENDA
1. Overview of GEC and the EPEAT Ecolabel
2. Explore GEC Tools and Resources
3. City of San Francisco’s EPEAT Case Study
4. GEC’s New and Upcoming Procurement Resources
COHORT CUSTOMIZED ADVISORY WEBINARS WORKSHOPS TRAINING MODULES SERVICES
Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Green Electronics Council (GEC) is a mission driven not-for-profit that collaborates to achieve a world of only sustainable electronic products and services. We advocate for sustainable electronics by helping both manufacturers and large-scale purchasers to:
the challenges facing to address those to change internal sustainable IT challenges operational, manufacturing and procurement behaviors
4 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum GEC SUPPORTS INSTITUTIONAL PURCHASERS GEC seeks to fulfill our mission by supporting large-scale purchasers to buy sustainable electronic products and services as a way to incentivize producers to make sustainable electronic products. GEC Freely Available Tools and Resources ✔Sustainable Procurement Policy & ✔Sustainability Impact One-pagers contract language examples ✔Circular Electronics Partnership ✔Case Studies ✔Sustainable Procurement Training ✔Purchaser Guides ✔Webinars (2020) • Labor and Human Rights (2017 ✔Technology and Conservation Series version being updated in 2020) ✔Public-Private Purchaser Series • Cloud Services Procurements (launched March 2019) ✔EPEAT, leading global ecolabel • Procurement for Circular • EPEAT Benefits Calculations Economy (September 2020) • EPEAT Purchaser Awards
5 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum EPEAT RELIESRDPARTY ON 3VALIDATION Green Electronics Council GEC • Owns and oversees the EPEAT Program with focus on efficiency, credibility and sustainability impact
EPEAT Program • Approves, oversees, provides guidance to Conformity Assurance EPEAT Program Bodies • Targets and triggers verification investigations • Facilitates advisory bodies focused on increasing EPEAT technical and programmatic excellence • Maintains online Registry of conforming products, the EPEAT Registry Conformity Assurance Bodies (CABs) CTC CESI GEC • 3rd Party Verifiers that qualify and manage Auditors • Work with manufacturers to verify that products meet the EPEAT criteria claimed Dekra TUV-R UL • Conduct ongoing verification investigations • Serve as technical resource for EPEAT VDE Participating Manufacturers (MFRs) • Identify which criteria their product(s) claim • Work with their CAB to verify claims MFR 1 MFR 2 MFR 3 MFR 4 • Implement corrective actions, as needed March 2019
6 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum EPEAT ECOLABEL PRODUCT CATEGORIES
Current Categories Upcoming Categories
PC/Display PV Modules & Inverters (PVMI) September 2020
Imaging Equipment Network Infrastructure [Enterprise Switches and Routers; Customer Premises Routers] Jan/Feb 2021 Televisions Health & Wellbeing Wearables Fall 2021 Mobile Phones
Products meeting EPEAT criteria listed at Servers https://epeat.net
NASTD August 2019
7 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum HOW ARE EPEAT CRITERIA DEVELOPED?
In partnership with criteria development organizations Use balanced voluntary consensus process Criteria address impacts across llifecycle of product
8 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum BRANDS PARTICIPATING IN EPEAT* Ace Computers Google Panasonic Acer Inc Howard Technology Positivo Tecnologia S.A. Algoritmos Procesos y Disenos, S.A. Solutions Ricoh AOC International (Europe) B.V. HP Inc. Riso Kagaku Corporation Apple Inc Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Samsung ASUSTek Computer Inc Hypertechnologie-Ciara Sharp Atrust Computer Corp Hyundai IT America Corp Teknoservice S.L. BenQ IBM Ticnova Quality Team SL Brother International Corporation IGEL Technology GmbH Toshiba Canon Iiyama Corporation Transource CEZAR Cezary Machnio I Piotr Inforlandia S.A. UNOWHY Gebka Sp Zoo Kodak Alaris ViewSonic Corporation Cisco Systems Konica Minolta Visioneer CTL Corporation Kyocera Xerox Dell Inc Lenovo Zebra Technologies DT Research Lexmark International, Inc Durabook Americas Inc. LG Electronics Inc. EIZO Corporation Login Informatica Epson Microsoft Corporation Fujitsu Limited MMD Monitors and Displays GETAC Nederland B.V. *As of July 2020 Northern Micro Inc
9 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum HOW ARE PRODUCTS RATED BY EPEAT? • EPEAT is a “tiered” ecolabel to spur innovation by Participating Manufacturers • Products must meet all required criteria to be covered by EPEAT – Just by being “EPEAT” tells purchasers the product is more sustainable • Products are rated bronze, silver or gold based on the number of optional criteria they meet
Meets less than 50% Meets 50 to 75% Meets more than 75% Optional Criteria Optional Criteria Optional Criteria
10 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum EPEAT CRITERIA ADDRESS LIFECYCLE SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT
• Restricted • Product energy • Labor • Design for substances in efficiency • Worker health longevity, product • Manufacturing & safety repair, • Substance energy • Responsible recycling and inventory efficiency mineral reuse • Hazard • Reporting on sourcing • Recycled GHG emissions assessment • Corporate content • Renewable reporting • Water use energy use • Environmental • EOL • F-GHG management emissions management systems Social impact Climate change mitigation mitigation change Climate Zero waste Zero Reduction of chemicals of concern
11 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum ADDRESSING SUSTAINABILITY IMPACTS
Targeted use of EPEAT ecolabel to maximize the benefits of EPEAT criteria to address specific sustainability concerns: • Chemicals • Climate • Plastics • Social • Zero waste GEC EPEAT BENEFITS CALCULATOR
• Web-based calculator for EPEAT product categories, building on successful EPA calculator
• Quantifies life cycle benefits of purchasing sustainable ICT products conforming to criteria in EPEAT ecolabel
http://greenelectronicscouncil.org/epeat-benefits-calculator/
13 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum EPEAT HELPS ORGANIZATIONS WITH THEIR SUSTAI
Guidance is available Sustainable Development Goals on how EPEAT supports GRI Buying EPEAT Products Reporting supports meeting the Sustainable Use of EPEAT will Development Goals strengthen SDG 8 and supply chain organizations CDP transparency and secure Response working environments UN Global Compact and Purchasing EPEAT SDG 11 environmental impact of products allows an cities organization to report against UN SDG 12 and waste Global Compact reduction, sustainable Principles public procurement
14 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum GEC PURCHASER GUIDES
Cloud Services Circularity Purchaser Guide Purchaser Guide
Labor and Human Rights Purchaser Guide
15 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum GEC SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT TRAINING
GEC applies a “Procurement First” Attend GEC philosophy to our sustainable Sustainable procurement training – ensuring Purchasing Workshop procurement best practices drive the content. Training provides participants: – Tactics applicable to all spend categories with special focus on ICT 2020 Free Sustainable Procurement – Commodity prioritization and Trainings sustainable specification development February: Higher Education Climate – Guidance on how to embed Leadership Summit sustainability into the procurement June: Institute for Public Procurement process (NIGP) – Approaches to reporting sustainable July: State of California Higher spend Education Sustainability – Advice on how to maintain a October: Academy of European Law sustainable purchasing program (ERA)
16 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT TRAINING MATERIALS
Materials: A PowerPoint version of course is available free to EPEAT Purchasers
Learning objectives focus:
4 hours of Commodity prioritization & o learning sustainable specification development GEC Training Fully o How to embed sustainability in customizable the procurement process Material content s o Sustainable spend reporting approaches Reuse content o How to maintain sustainable purchasing program
17 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum 2020 EPEAT PURCHASER AWARDS
Agnes Scott College Department of Veterans Affairs, IT Scottish Government (On behalf of the Air Force Information Technology Operations and Services Scottish Public Sector) Commodity Council East Tennessee Technology Park Shared Services Canada Atlanta Veterans Affairs Health Care Experience Scottsdale South Dakota State University System Hackensack Meridian Health Stanford Health Care Battelle Energy Alliance Interface Stanford University Bowdoin College Kaiser Permanente State of California Brookhaven National Laboratory King County State of Florida California State University, Long Beach Los Angeles Department of Water and State of Maryland California State University, Los Angeles Power State of Minnesota CHBWV - CH2M Hill BWTX West Valley Loyola University Chicago State of Oregon DAS Procurement City and County of San Francisco Maryland Department of Transportation Services City of Austin Purchasing Office McGill University State of Pennsylvania, Department of City of Durango Missile Defense Agency General Services, Bureau of Procurement City of Keene, New Hampshire Mission Support Alliance; CH2M Hill Swift & Staley City of Orlando PRC; WRPS; HPMC; WAI-Hanford Texas Department of Information City of Portland, Oregon Moab UMTRA Project Resources City of San Diego NASPO ValuePoint The Government of the District of City of Seattle National Renewable Energy Laboratory Columbia Office of Contracting and Cleveland Clinic New York State Procurement Commonwealth of Massachusetts NIH Information Technology Acquisition U.S. Department of Agriculture Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC; and Assessment Center U.S. Department of Homeland Security Pantex Plant Oak Ridge Associated Universities U.S. General Services Administration Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC; Y-12 (ORAU) University of California Santa Barbara National Security Complex Office of Training DEA University of Vermont DEA Chicago Field Division Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, US Dept. of Energy Legacy Management DEA Detroit Field Division U.S. Department of Energy Voya Financial DEA North Central Laboratory Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory WA State Dept of Enterprise Services DEA Office of Investigative Technology Providence Public Schools Wipro Limited Department of Energy - Hanford Program Sandia National Laboratories Department of Veterans Affairs
18 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum A Decade of Success using EPEAT in the City of San Francisco
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19 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Contents
1. San Francisco policy context 2. SF’s Green Purchasing Program 3. Why I.T. is important 4. 2008 EPEAT Gold requirement 5. 2019 Update and expansion 6. Su s ta in a b ility b e n e fits 7. Wh y e c o la b e ls a n d re g is trie s a re im p o rta n t San Francisco’s policy context San Francisco mandates (Precautionary Prin c ip le )
✧ Anticipatory action to prevent harm
✧ Right to know product ingredients
✧ Exa m in e fu ll ra n g e o f a lte rn a tive s ( a lte rn a tive s assessment)
✧ Full cost accounting
22 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum San Francisco mandates (Green Purchasing)
✧ Reduce exposure to hazardous chemicals ✧ Re d u c e c lim a te im p a c ts ✧ Im p ro ve a ir q u a lity ✧ Protect wa ter qua lity ✧ Preserve resources • Maximize water & energy efficiency • Ma xim ize re c yc le d c o n te n t a n d re c yc la b ility • Fa vo r p ro d u c t d u ra b ility, re p a ira b ility • C o n s id e r life c yc le im p a c ts
23 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum San Francisco’s Green Purchasing Program
24 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum What Is Green Purchasing?
25 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Considerations for Green Products
Impact
26 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Considerations for Green Products
Impact
Pe rform a nce
27 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Considerations for Green Products
Impact
Pe rform a nce
Cost
28 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Who decides what you can buy?
29 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum SFApproved.org
30 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Why is I.T. important? Toxics Why is I.T. important? Waste 49 million tons/year 49 million tons of waste per year…
34 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum …about this much…
35 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Why is I.T. important? Energy
36 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum 2008 - 0 9 : Firs t US C ity to re q u ire EPEAT Go ld
https://www.epea t.net/
37 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Computers, printers, monitors
38 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum 2 2 2019: Update and expansion of requirements
• Personal computers , including desktops, laptops, tablets, workstations, thin clients and computer monitors UPDATEEPEAT Gold to Bronze
• Enterprise computer servers, excluding network infrastructure, appliances, blades UPDATEEPEAT Bronze
• Imaging equipment , including copiers, digital duplicators, facsimile machines, multifunction devices, printers, mailing machines and scanners NEWEPEAT Gold
• Televisions and large displays , including signage displays NEWEPEAT Bronze or ENERGY STAR
41 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Sustainability benefits: Greenhouse gas reductions
1.75 million kg CO2 = 375 cars off the road Sustainability benefits: Energy savings
2.84 million KwH = 234 households for 1 year Sustainability benefits: Hazardous waste
7,026 kg = weight of 56 refrigerators
44 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Purchasing trends – Desktops/laptops/monitors
45 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Why ecolabels and registries are important Specifying Environmentally Preferable Products
EASY DIFFICULT fewer resources required more resources Existing Existing third- (borrowed) Alternativ party specifications es certificati + analyses ons & validation Homegrow registries n Existing standards + specificatio validation ns + validation
47 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Specifying Environmentally Preferable Products
EASY DIFFICULT fewer resources required more resources
ExistingExisting Existing thirdthird- - (borrowed) Alternativ partyparty specifications es certificaticertificati + analyses ons & validation Homegrow n registries Existing standards + specificatio validation ns + validation Transforming global supply chains
49 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum
Progress
2007 76 598 22 696
2019 18 516 1,249 1,783
51 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Raising the bar – a n d ris in g to m e e t it # EPEAT GOLD computers/displays GOLD # EPEAT
52 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Lessons learned
53 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Thank you!
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Labor & Human Rights Guide
PVMI Product Categor y
55 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Updated Labor & Human Rights Purchaser Guide • Achieve updated Labor and Human Rights Purchaser Guide that is credible, user friendly, and reflective of current social impacts.
• Identify new procurement strategies that Purchasers or Manufacturers can employ to promote labor and human rights.
• Support institutional purchasers’ worldwide to purchase electronics originating from more socially responsible supply chains to achieve a more sustainable world. PVMI Product Category Launch
Photovoltaic Modules and Inverters product category launch is planned for September 2020
To learn more: • Download EPEAT PVMI criteria for free on the GEC website at www.greenelectronicscouncil.org under the EPEAT Criteria section.
57 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Q&A
58 Leveraging EPEAT Ecolabel to Realize Sustainability Goals – NIGP Forum Thank you for attending!
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