Circular Economy, Sustainability and Net Zero Carbon Management
1. Sustainability and carbon reduction engineering
Omni Con focuses on finding solutions to transform resources into maximum added value. Because we believe that this is the main point that will achieve sustainability. How much you can use the work outputs obtained from resources without wasting or consuming them will show how much you can manage to maintain them. Therefore, being able to transform work outputs into new forms without wasting will bring a greater chance of contributing to the repetition or renewal of resources. Such an approach may also bring you the opportunity to benefit more from renewable energy. Therefore, it will enable you to be more integrated into the flow of renewable resources in nature. As a result, following this path will enable you to achieve much more effective carbon reduction success.
Based on this approach, Omni Con developed a solution model and mathematical programming so that business actors can control and continuously improve their sustainability. The model in question carries out a 5-step process to optimize the sustainability management of organizations. Within the scope of this methodology, first the general business process of the organization is analyzed and the corporate goals behind it, the products produced and the supply and value chains are discussed.
a) Determining the sustainability score
In the next step, a definition of sustainability specific to the sector to which the organization belongs and its corporate expectations is determined. This definition reveals how to mathematically calculate and improve sustainability in terms of the dynamics of the organization. Depending on the definition, all process flows of the organization are modeled on the same holistic diagram, taking into account the value chains of the organization. Throughout the diagram, all input-output relationships are defined in detail. This model is key to integrally optimizing the entire workflow of the organization and thus maximizing its sustainability. The model is analyzed mathematically and sustainability indicators are determined. Therefore, an increase in these indicators will reveal an increase in the sustainability of the organization. All these indicators are gathered under the name of sustainability score as a single mathematical expression, taking into account the holistic diagram of the organization's value chain. Thus, the increase in the sustainability score can be monitored with the increase in the indicators.
b) Improving the sustainability score
In order to improve the sustainability indicators of the organization, and therefore the sustainability score, the Omni Con model focuses on solutions that will prioritize the optimal combination and integrated control of all process flows that make up the value chain of the organization. Thus, it is aimed to optimize the organization's value chain in the form of a circular economy.
The main purpose here is to develop a setup in which the organization's resources are not wasted, used with maximum efficiency and cyclically transformed into new forms.
In this context, it is also possible to determine which projects and implementation plans are needed to implement such an optimized solution for the organization. Thus, it can be clearly determined at which locations, in what capacities and in what content the organization needs green investment projects along the value chain in order to maximize its sustainability score and carbon reduction. Examples of content for such projects may include:
- Innovative green energy solutions
- New energy production/transmission/distribution technologies
- Renewable energy power plants
- Waste to energy conversion plants
- recycling facilities
- Resource efficiency / process optimization systems
- Carbon capture systems
- water treatment plants
Using this critical information, Omni Con creates a sustainability management, circular economy and net zero carbon plan for the customer. Within the scope of this plan, all necessary information regarding optimized project contents that can maximize sustainability on behalf of the organization can be included, such as carbon reduction, resource efficiency and clean energy.
2. Determination of goals and objectives
Leveraging this sustainability engineering solution from Omni Con means being able to create green project designs that are optimized according to the needs and requirements of the organization. Of course, this is very critical and valuable information for an organization that wants to control its sustainability. Because in this way, the organization will have the necessary numerical information to determine and achieve sustainability and carbon reduction targets. Thus, the organization
- current sustainability score and carbon footprint
- What should be done to improve these values at the highest possible rates?
- Road map containing predictions about when, how long and how much these values may change
is provided.
By gathering all this information, it is possible to establish the organization's sustainability and net zero carbon targets. Moreover, the content of a plan that is based on scientific evidence and can be implemented in a sustainable manner will be obtained. Using this information, the organization will be able to notify international organizations such as CDP or SBTi, as well as explain its sustainability improvement plan. It can also index these plans to different financial gain instruments.