Changing landscape for offsetting emissions

Going beyond reducing your emissions Businesses have an important role in limiting climate change through reducing their emissions in line with science. Those businesses that have wanted to go further have purchased offsets through the voluntary carbon market to balance their remaining emissions and claimed ‘carbon neutrality’. This voluntary mitigation helps to accelerate decarbonisation globally [...]

Global Logistics Emissions Council releases new framework

Planes, trains, ships and automobiles form the backbone of a supply chain and are vital to the global economy. They also generate greenhouse gas emissions, which forward thinking companies aim to control. Carbon accounting and reduction provides a strong business case as well as meeting the expectations of customers, governments and investors.   In the [...]

By |2017-01-02T13:45:33+13:00October 5th, 2016|CSR Data Management, CSR Reporting, Energy and Utility, Supply Chain|

New Method for Carbon Accounting Proposed

It may be surprising to know that in some instances countries are rewarded for policies that increase global emissions and punished for policies that contribute to reducing them. A solution has been presented for the problem. An extremely useful study at Lund University has been proposed which suggests accounting for carbon emissions which enables policy [...]

Is Life Cycle Carbon Accounting a Better Option

Researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Irvine recommend assessing powerstations in terms of lifetime carbon. They argue that approval of future projects should depend on lifecycle costs, and not just annual emissions. They note a general lack of insight into commitment accounting among the general public. They go on to point out that [...]

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