Are you one of the 11,900 organisations that need to comply with SECR? This guide will help you to get started. What is SECR?SECR is a sustainability regulation that came into force on the 1st April 2019. It requires organisations to publicly report on carbon emissions and energy use. SECR is closely aligned with previous mandatory […]
Introduction In October 2018 the IPCC published a special report highlighting the need for us to stay below 1.5 degrees warming compared to pre-industrial times. Since this announcement, a plethora of campaigns and policies have been put forward across the globe some more pertinent than others. Recently Germany passed a bill to be coal free by 2038 […]
Evidence shows that the Earth’s life support system is at risk if the global average surface temperature continues to rise. We need to stabilise the Earth’s temperature at a maximum of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change.1 To achieve the 1.5°C cap, global carbon emissions must stop increasing in […]
Each year the UK government publishes an updated set of greenhouse gas emission conversion factors for calculating carbon emissions for a range of activities and processes. Compare Your Footprint uses this set of average carbon factors for UK-based organisations, and where relevant also for some international operations, in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol average data method.What’s […]
In the last 170 years, we have added 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, whereby half of this amount has been added in the previous 30 – 35 years (The World Counts, 2020). As a result, governments and business are being placed under increasing pressure to introduce and implement sustainable practices that […]
Businesses however big or small can reduce their carbon emissions, there are many changes that can be made to business operations in order to do this. We have compiled 10 actions you can take to significantly reduce carbon emissions. 1. Switch to renewable energy backed by REGO certificates REGOs – or Renewable Energy Guarantees of […]
At Compare Your Footprint, we want to help as many businesses as ever to go ‘green’. This is why we offered a free webinar for businesses looking to be guided through the carbon emission reporting inventories, as defined by the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, with a specific focus on the corporate […]
Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) is an international consortium of business and environmental NGOs. They work in collaboration with Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TFCD) to offer guidance on effective climate-related financial disclosures. Download your To-Dos below!
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