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 […]
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 […]
Greenhouse Gases are gases that absorb and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range. Those in Earths atmosphere are mostly water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone. Whilst necessary, as without them the Earths temperature would be around -18°C, humans have caused an increase of 40% in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, […]
In our modern era of a warming climate and ever increasing awareness, there is a myriad of terms that we, as a population, may only be partly aware of. ‘Carbon footprint’ is one of those, and it’s full meaning is something of great importance. In short, a carbon footprint is an estimate of the impact […]
What is it? Carbon offsetting can be a hard idea to come round to, but is in reality quite a simple concept. Schemes allow individuals and companies to make a financial contribution to environmentally friendly projects around the world to stabilise their own emissions, be it from travel, day-to-day energy use or material consumption. These […]
We see a lot of visitors to our site who are curious about measuring the impact of their, or their organisations, impact on the planet through their carbon footprint. Some of these visitors, though, aren’t necessarily aware of a lot of the technical terminology behind what we do. So we set out to define six […]
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