Stephen Stokes
VP, Sustainability and Green Technologies
Sustainability as Corporate Strategy
Organizations that fully embrace and quantify sustainability as a key business strategy will drive efficiencies and cost savings throughout their supply chain.
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Dr. Stephen Stokes brings over 20 years of experience working at the interface of climate change, research, teaching, and consultancy to AMR Research. His primary responsibility is guiding companies in understanding risks and exploring opportunities presented by the challenges of climate change and sustainability. Stephen additionally contributes to aspects of research and advisory services in the mining and industrial chemicals sectors.
Before joining AMR Research, Stephen worked as a Resources and Environmental Manager at Perry Resources Ltd. He also served as CEO and Executive Director at Andrew.Stewart Holdings Ltd, which provides advisory, IT solutions, planning, and carbon management services to business interests and local government in Australasia.
Stephen earned his MSc in Earth Sciences from the University of Waikato, his MBA from the University of Auckland, and his Doctorate in Climate Change and Applied Physics from the University of Oxford. Stephen remained at Oxford for much of the earlier portions of his career where he researched, consulted, and taught on the Environment Change and Management program and other interdisciplinary programs.
- SEC, Sustainability, and Financial Accounting: Climate Change Hits the Balance Sheet
- Counting Computing Carbon: The Wal-Mart Sustainability Consortium Spins Out Its Very Own Geek Squad
- The Environmental Shock of the Tectonic Hare and the Insidious and Faustian Climatic Tortoise
- Time for a Who's Who and a What's What for U.S. Green Manufacturing Plants
- The Green Recovery: Clean-Tech Manufacturing Off With a Bang in 2010, Thanks to ARRA Tax Windfall
- Sustainability Peer Forum Teleconference: The Sustainability Outlook for 2010
- Promises, Promises: Copenhagen, Kyoto, Carbon, and the Meaning and Delivery of Binding Emission Reductions
- Smart People, Smart Planet, Smart Planning: A Conversation With IBM's Brain Boxes
February
Designing for Sustainability
February 11, 2010 | 11AM - 12:30PM ET Bookmark to my calendar
We will look at practices for designing around environmental (and social) considerations. We expect to dig into lifecycle analysis (LCA) in detail here and explore how companies can modify their NPDL processes to better serve sustainability goals. Software vendor interest should be concentrated but high for the few concerned (Dassault, Siemens, PTC, SAP, Oracle, Autodesk). Focusing on companies’ sustainability messaging for specific core products rather than just corporate brand, we will discuss how members can put together an integrated design process and design team that takes into account sustainability through the entire value chain.
March
Chemical Group Conference
March 4, 2010 |
San Antonio, TX
Requesting Organization: Institute of Supply Management
Copenhagen Accord, U.S. Climate Policy, and American Manufacturing
March 11, 2010 | 11AM - 12:30PM ET Bookmark to my calendar
The U.S. Senate may or may not pass legislation to slow climate change. It may or may not sign up to a global treaty that commits nations to do so. A possible Senate rejection could pose a threat to the 192-nation effort to forge an agreement. Senate ratification of a global treaty would require 67 votes (big target!) compared with 60 for legislation. Meanwhile, most Republicans and many Democrats from manufacturing states are opposed to any type of carbon legislation. What should U.S. companies in iron, steel, aluminum, cement, glass, pulp and paper, and chemicals do to protect themselves?
April
Sustainable Sourcing
April 8, 2010 | 11AM - 12:30PM ET Bookmark to my calendar
Kraft Foods sources from environmentally friendly cocoa farms in Ecuador, which helps to reverse deforestation in that country’s Amazon forest. Kraft pays a premium price for the Rainforest Alliance-certified cocoa, the farmers make some money, and everyone wins. This session will look at best practices in sourcing sustainably, in particular across global supply chains. We will look at the energy/emissions/water profiles in sourced materials/components; the use of recycled/reused materials and components; and the ecosystem impacts of mined, farmed, fished, or extracted inputs. On the social side, we will look at sourcing from suppliers with adequate EH&S and minimum wage standards.
May
The GHG Protocol and the new Scope III Initiative
May 13, 2010 | 11AM - 12:30PM ET Bookmark to my calendar
The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol is the most widely used accounting tool for businesses to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. The Protocol provides the accounting framework for nearly every GHG program in the world—from the ISO to the Carbon Disclosure Project to the California Climate Registry. It is used by hundreds of individual companies to prepare their GHG inventories. The new Scope III Initiative is trying to come up with a method to inventory the emissions across products’ full lifecycles and corporate supply chains, taking into account impacts both upstream and downstream of the company’s operations. How would a Scope III Protocol focused on supply chain emissions impact members? How would you build a business case for accounting for scope III emissions?
July
Financial Sustainability Metrics: Measuring Up
July 8, 2010 | 11AM - 12:30PM ET Bookmark to my calendar
Sustainability has come a long way in a short time. Now that it’s the norm in the marketplace and company landscape, are we closer to having access to a tool kit? After all, monetization is a critical step in the standardization of sustainability. We will look at current best practices, examine the extent to which they are or are not being employed by the corporate world, and offer some ideas as to the trends we are seeing in their evolution moving forward.
