Carbon Footprinting

In today’s market place many businesses are keen to demonstrate their green credentials and one of the best ways to do this is to actively monitor and track your carbon footprint to enable this to be reported in the annual reports to demonstrate that progress is being made with regards to energy efficiency.

A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organisation, event or product, and is expressed as a carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). A carbon footprint accounts for all six Kyoto GHG emissions:

• carbon dioxide (CO2)
• methane (CH4)
• nitrous oxide (N2O)
• hydrofluorocarbons (HFC’s)
• perfluorocarbons (PFC’s)
• sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)

Carbon Focus can work with your business to develop a carbon foot printing methodology that works for your organisation to enable you to effectively manage your emissions against a baseline and demonstrate improvement.

The benefits of measuring your carbon footprint include:

• Increased ability to demonstrate corporate social responsibility which can improve marketing
• respond to requests from customers and investors for carbon emissions data
• participate in carbon reporting initiatives such as the Carbon Disclosure Project
• measure your emissions levels as part of a carbon reduction or offsetting strategy