‘Code Red for Humanity’ the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Sixth Assessment Report published Monday. “Unless there are immediate rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to 1.5C will be beyond reach.” - Abdalah Mokssit, secretary of the IPCC – We’ve already heated the planet to 1.1C above […]
Want to understand how increased home working will affect your carbon reporting? Concerned about the impact on your employees’ energy bills? Want to know what you can do about it? Join our panel of experts to find out how to measure and report on home working emissions, and how to engage your workforce by helping them […]
If you bid for UK government contracts, it’s time to set your science- based targets and have them validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) – this sets you on your 1.5C trajectory for science-based net zero by 2050. New measures in September 2021 – in time for COP26 – will require businesses to commit […]
Please complete our form to download factorsOn 2 June 2021 BEIS/Defra published the eagerly-awaited 2021 updated set of carbon emissions factors. These are 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, […]
Working from home has become a staple for many of us and it is likely that even as the impacts of COVID-19 subside, we will still require some degree of flexibility within our working environments. We, at Compare Your Footprint, believe that to make truly impactful reductions in your organisation’s carbon footprint, it is important to […]
Author Emma LittlewoodCreator & Strategist Why set science-based targets?Setting science-based targets (SBTs) future-proofs growth, saves money, provides resilience against regulation, boosts investor confidence, spurs innovation and competitiveness – while also demonstrating concrete sustainability commitments to increasingly-conscious consumers. What is the climate emergency?Climate science predicts that unless we dramatically curb temperature rise in the next 11 years […]
Dr Matt Sawyer of SEE Sustainability has created a free guide for primary care showing what ‘Declaring a Climate Emergency’ means and what it can achieve – with help from Livvy Drake, Sustainability and Behaviour Change Consultant, Sustainable Sidekicks. The HealthCare Without Harm report on Global Road Map for Health Care Decarbonization demonstrated several high […]
A recent study conducted in 2020 by IBM found that ‘almost six in ten consumers are willing to change their purchasing habits to help reduce negative environmental impact.’ IBM also found that ‘eight in ten consumers indicate that sustainability is really important to them.’ With findings like these it comes as no surprise that companies are […]
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 […]
IEMA member Adrian Clamp, Sustainability & Systems Director of J. Coffey Construction discusses issues of leading contracting companies committing to Net Zero commitments not being possible without Tier 1 sub-contractor support in order to meet the challenge of the Government’s Net Zero 2050 objective. Following participation in an IEMA Net Zero webinar, J Coffey Construction […]
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