We can help you become Carbon Neutral by establishing your total carbon emissions from your business operations. A carbon footprint calculation converts the emissions from your business activities into a single greenhouse gas equivalent. This is performed using a carbon calculator that uses up to date Green House Gas Protocols.
These calculations take into account carbon emitted from your organization's usage of:
- Electricity
- Gas
- Water
- Paper
- Waste
- Car Travel
- Air Travel
These carbon footprint reports are compiled in accordance with the principles contained in the National Carbon Offset Standard that came into effect on 1st July 2010. These principles are in turn based upon those outlined in the international standard for the quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions - ISO 14064. The principles are summarized as follows:
Relevance: Ensuring the greenhouse gas footprint of an organisation reflects the greenhouse gas emissions attributed to that organisation.
Completeness: Accounting for and reporting all greenhouse gas emissions sources and activities within the defined boundary of the organisation as well as disclosing and justifying all exclusions.
Consistency: Using consistent methodologies to allow for meaningful comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions over time. Documenting any changes to the data, boundary, methods, or any other relevant factors.
Transparency: Greenhouse gas information is compiled, analysed and documented clearly and coherently so that auditors may evaluate its credibility. Disclosing any relevant assumptions and making appropriate references to the calculation methodologies and data sources used.
Accuracy: Ensuring that the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions is systematically neither over nor under actual emissions, as far as can be judged, and that uncertainties are reduced as far as practicable. Where uncertainty is high using conservative values and assumptions. Achieving sufficient accuracy to enable users to make decisions with reasonable assurance as to the integrity of the reported information.
Once we have completed the carbon footprint calculation you will receive a carbon footprint report, a certificate and a window decal (see below). This will then provide you with the necessary data to achieve carbon neutrality through a process of MEASURE - MONITOR - REDUCE - OFFSET - REVIEW.
