Initiatives
Identifying areas of environmental impact: IAG has examined how it impacts the environment and developed strategies to minimise its environmental footprint. The Group has identified - with the help of its stakeholders - that its impacts sit primarily in the areas of: paper use, air travel, electricity and fuel use.
Following this identification process, the Group developed systems for capturing data. Integrating new acquisitions such as CGU and NZI into the data has been challenging. Significantly, it has affected the ability to establish a baseline of data. The graphs above illustrate IAG's "line in the sand". The Group realises that without historical information it's difficult to show improvement. To this end IAG has been monitoring its performance internally on a regular basis. This data will be reported annually, providing stakeholders with more reliable and useful information in the future.
Sustainability champions: To lead Group-wide sustainability performance, IAG has established a network of Sustainability Champions. This team develops action plans to deliver on sustainability strategies to minimise environmental and social impacts. These have included targets for employee volunteering, converting printers to duplex and informing teams of the environmental consequences of their actions.
Videoconferencing: Many parts of the company have replaced air travel with videoconferencing. Key people have been trained in videoconferencing to reduce air travel. The internal monitoring indicates that there has been a slight decline in air travel since June 2003. It is hoped that a more significant reduction will be seen in air kilometres, along with a greater use of videoconferencing in the coming year. Results will be reported on in the 2005 Sustainability Report.
Recycling: IAG has developed a consumable recycling program to enable the recycling of printer, fax and toner cartridges and waste. This program, run in conjunction with Planet Ark, gives insights into the number of print consumable items that are recycled, plus a measurable result, which will help environmental performance and reporting. By working with Planet Ark, the Group is able to recycle all printer waste (not only cartridges) and in 2005 will be able to report correctly on the amount of non-biodegradable landfill it has disposed of.
Greenpower: IAG has made a commitment to purchase 11.5% of electricity as Greenpower - electricity purchased from accredited clean renewable sources. Greenpower applies to a range of the Group's sites across NSW, Victoria and ACT from 1 August 2002 to 30 June 2005.
Hybrid cars: During the year, the Group bought 36 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles for its fleet, with 14 more on order for the Group's assessors. These cars use approximately 50% less petrol than comparative cars and emit 90% less greenhouse gases (source: Toyota). Toyota reported that the initial purchase of 26 vehicles was the largest business order of the Prius since the first model launched in Australia in 2001.
More paper saving: The Group's Technical Research Centre has, for the past two years, been transferring its Smash Repair Times Manual from hard to soft copy and has uploaded it to a website for smash repairers and assessors. This manual provides a benchmark to smash repairers on time spent on labour and paint jobs. The hard copy that the electronic version replaced was two volumes, A4 in size and contained roughly 500 pages per volume. Since the establishment of the website, no hard copies of the manual have been produced.
| Equivalent tonnes of CO2 emissions | |
|---|---|
| Emissions Source | 2003/2004 |
| Electricity | 45,233 |
| Tool of trade car fleet | 8,590 |
| Office paper | 1,328 |
| Print paper | 5,975 |
| Air travel | 4,190 |
| Total greenhouse gas emissions | |
|---|---|
| Total | 65,315 |
| Total CO2 /FTE | 6.7 |
| Target 10% reduction per FTE in 2005/06 | 6.03 |
| Electricity usage | ||
|---|---|---|
| Unit | FY 2004 | |
| Total electricity (black and green) | MWh | 43,668 |
| Black electricity | MWh | 41,120 |
| Green electricity | MWh | 2,547 |
| Total MWh / FTE | 4.5 |
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| Target 10% reduction per FTE in 2004/05 | 4.05 | |
| Paper usage Office paper | ||
|---|---|---|
| Unit | FY 2004 | |
| Paper consumption | Tonnes | 474 |
| Recycled commingled waste (predominantly paper) | Tonnes | 195 |
| Paper consumption / FTE | kgs | 49 |
| Target 15% reduction in office paper per FTE in 2004/05 | 41.65 | |
| Print paper | ||
|---|---|---|
| Unit | FY 2004 | |
| Print paper consumption | Tonnes | 2,133 |
| Total risks in force | 16,432,926 |
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| Print paper consumption per risks in force | kgs | 0.13 |
| Target 15% reduction in office paper per Risks in Force in 2004/05 | 0.11 | |
| Tool of trade car fleet usage | ||
|---|---|---|
| Unit | FY 2004 | |
| Fuel consumption | kl | 3436 |
| Total kl/vehicle | 3.3 |
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| Target 5% reduction per vehicle in 2004/05 | 3.1 | |
| Air travel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Unit | FY 2004 | |
| Air kms travelled | kms | 23,137,409 |
| Domestic | % | 90,000 |
| Trans-tasman | % | 8,000 |
| International | % | 2,000 |
| Air kms | kms/FTE | 2,378 |
| Target 5% reduction per FTE in 2004/05 | 2,259 | |
indicates that KPMG has provided assurance on the figures. For more information please see the Assurance statement.