ISO14064 Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Carbon Footprinting
There are a number of different gases which contribute to the greenhouse effect; it is this “enhanced greenhouse effect” which is typically seen as the cause of global warming change. Understanding and quantifying your release of greenhouse gases is therefore the first step to controlling and reducing your company’s contribution to climate change.
Each greenhouse gas has been analysed for its impact on the greenhouse effect, and the result described in terms of carbon dioxide equivalence, or CO2e. For example, CO2 itself has a value of 1, whereas Methane (CH4) has an impact 21 times greater than CO2 and has a CO2e value of 21. Another way of looking at this is that one ton of methane has an impact 21 times greater than one ton of CO2.
There are two standards that can be used to measure your CO2e or Carbon Footprint, and these are:
IS014064: Greenhouse Gases
BSi PAS 2050: Product Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The first is an international standard which measures the Carbon Footprint of an organisation, and the second is a British standard that can be used to measure the carbon embedded within a single product.
Usually, the critical exercise to get right is the definition of the organisation’s boundary – in other words what should be included within the Carbon footprint and what should be excluded. If the boundary definition is correctly determined, calculating your Carbon Footprint can be a relatively simple exercise.
Abricon have years of experience in boundary setting and Carbon Footprinting; we have even helped develop a specialist Carbon Tracking Tool that provides you with easily understandable CO2e data and the significant areas of its production within your organisation.
Call Abricon for an free initial discussion on how to measure your Carbon Footprint.
Alternatively, see how you can benefit from government funding to measure your Carbon Footprint to ISO14064.
Contact Abricon for free initial advice on your resource efficiency.
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