Carbon footprint for companies
Climate change is one of the greatest environmental concerns of our time
and organisations in all sectors are coming under increasing pressure to
demonstrate their commitment to minimise the carbon emissions associated
with their operations.
This need has created a new set of corporate carbon drivers:
- Demonstrating to stakeholders a commitment to cut carbon emissions.
- Driving down energy consumption as a means of
reducing carbon emissions. - Using these activities to minimise production costs and the effect of energy price volatility.
- Making increased use of waste minimisation techniques to reduce carbon impacts.
- Making new carbon-based legislation work for you wherever possible.
- Strengthening your brand and reputation by becoming a low carbon business.
On the basis that you can only manage what you can measure, organisations
have recently turned their attention to assessing, reporting and reducing
their
corporate carbon footprint. Many are also looking at the footprint of their
key products and services throughout their entire life-cycle.
Due to the profile that carbon footprints are assuming, they need to stand
up to external scrutiny. Whatever method is used to calculate carbon footprints,
it is the data on which they are based that are key to the credibility of
the results that you publish. This is why the work is often best performed
by independent specialists and must be done using the very best information
available.
More and more companies are realising that adopting ethical values and reducing
their carbon impact is paying off in more ways that previously imagined.
In fact, some companies will now only deal with ‘carbon responsible’
businesses - and the trend is picking up fast.
Reducing costs, increasing profits and improving brand attractiveness are
just some of the ways in which reducing your carbon footprint can help your
business.