Carbon Footprint Measurement

You can’t Manage what you have not Measured

A Carbon Footprint Analysis is the first step in the carbon management journey. The analysis allows your company to determine what its impact is from each of its different activities. By determining the impact of different activities, your company can make decisions about which activities it can change in order to reduce emissions.  In addition to this, the analysis allows your company to participate in global greenhouse gas reporting initiatives, schedule emission reduction targets or determine the business case for carbon neutrality.

So what is a Carbon Footprint?

A Carbon Footprint is the total climate change impact incurred by a product or system over its life cycle; or financial year in the case of a business.

Carbon footprint calculations take into account the emissions impact of the 6 greenhouse gases as defined by the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. These gases are Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Nitrous Oxide (N2O), Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and Sulphur Hexafluoride. Each of these gases has a varying lifetime and a varying level of global warming impact when present in the atmosphere.

To simplify greenhouse gas reporting, companies report their total greenhouse gas impact by using the unit of Carbon Dioxide equivalents (CO2-e). The CO2-e amount that is reported is the number of tonnes of Carbon Dioxide that has the same global warming impact as the mix of all  types of greenhouse gas emissions of a given entity (be it a product, system or company)

CRI provides Carbon Footprint calculations at a company, product or system level. We also create customised calculators to calculate the emissions from events, be-spoke products for the promotional products industry and more.

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