Carbon Footprint Analysis and Climate Change Strategy
Measuring your carbon footprint enables you to make improvements in your organisation's overall environmental performance, identifying no-cost, low-cost and investment actions that will make a difference to your organisation and its reputation. It is also the starting point for writing and implementing a Climate Change Strategy.
What does a Carbon Footprint Analysis entail?
- A basic carbon footprint with recommendations on how to improve performance;
- A detailed carbon footprint with an environmental audit leading to an action plan and specific steps to reduce your footprint
- Carbon footprinting software, integrated into your organisation, giving you the controls to measure your performance
- Ongoing assistance with carbon management, producing an improvement plan and helping you to deliver the actions involved
Why undertake a Basic Carbon Footprint?
A basic carbon footprint will involve looking at the processes within your organisation, collecting key data, usually from readily available sources such as utility bills, and calculating the amount of carbon your organisation is responsible for. We will then make recommendations to help you improve your performance.
Why undertake a Detailed Carbon Footprint?
A detailed carbon footprint involves an in-depth environmental audit, including a thorough analysis of your organisation's practices and a diagnostic process that identifies key areas of work, resulting in an action plan to reduce carbon within your organisation and the opportunity to make cost savings and find more efficient ways of working.
A transparent Carbon Footprint Report can be used to verify carbon offsetting schemes or provide evidence for legislation.
Carbon Footprinting Software
Large organisations often need a more sophisticated solution for carbon management; our carbon Footprinting software provides the answer. As a web-based tool that can be made accessible to multiple users, Footprinter™ enables you to make carbon footprinting an integral part of your reporting procedures.
What is Footprinter™?
Footprinter™ is a next-generation carbon accounting tool, developed to help you achieve your carbon measurement and reduction responsibilities throughout your whole organisation.
As well as being able to calculate the footprint of your organisation and any specific projects, it will allow you to model "what if" scenarios and to compare and contrast data. Using the most accurate and comprehensive data available, it will provide a baseline assessment and diagnostic information so that you can make informed decisions about where you should focus resources to shrink your footprint and reduce your environmental impact.
Footprinter™ is powered by Best Foot Forward and delivered by Responsible Solutions Ltd. Since 1997, Best Foot Forward have completed over 100 footprint projects and, in April 2005, were awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development for working with businesses and organisations in helping them calculate their carbon footprints.
Carbon Footprinting for the Construction Industry
Construction Footprinter is a new carbon Footprinter analysis and accounting tool specifically developed to meet the demands of construction sector companies in reducing their carbon footprint. Click here to be directed to our dedicated Construction Footprinter site.