Reducing Your Emissions

Save Money and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

The carbon footprint audit isolates your biggest emission sources, which are often related to large areas of cost. As part of the audit, we will endeavour to find ways to cost effectively reduce the emissions output of your company. A few examples are below:

Energy Efficiency for your Business
Saving energy is much easier than finding new ways to generate it. We start with lighting, as it is one of the easiest problems to diagnose and solve. We encourage and assist larger energy users to investigate more efficient air-conditioning and heating systems as well. Energy efficiency reduces your carbon footprint and saves money. In many cases, the energy payback of recommended measures can outweigh the cost of the audit.

Staff Practices and Education
Encourage staff to take public transport or to car-pool and remind everyone to switch off computers, monitors and printers at night.

Buy Green
Each time someone buys from a NoCO2 certified business, or purchases a carbon neutral product, then that purchase has a zero climate change impact.  We think that the best way to foster a Low Carbon Economy is to drive transactions within the group of NoCO2 certified companies – which we like to call the Low Carbon Economy.

Next time you need an accountant, lawyer, designer, marketing strategy, promotional product; or if you need to print, hire a venue, organise uniforms, source coffee or wine – nearly everything can be sourced from the Low Carbon Economy. Its an easy way to immediately reduce emissions to zero.

Reduce Business Air Travel
Air travel costs money, time and impacts upon the planet in a big way. It is often the largest emissions source for service based companies. Video conferencing is a time, cost and emissions saving alternative to flying. We encourage businesses to contact CO2NeutralConferencing.com or Broadreach Services (both of which are NoCO2 certified) to seek solutions to reduce their emissions from business travel.

Fuel Switching and Efficiency
Many diesel engines can be run on biodiesel or a mix of diesel and biodiesel. Freight and logistic companies can also increase freight yields through tracking software. For companies with fleets of trucks or diesel driven machinery, these are effective methods for lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

Switch to Green Power
In most office-based businesses, carbon emissions from electricity are the greatest carbon footprint component. Green power is renewable energy, sourced from the sun, wind, water and waste and it will lower your carbon footprint considerably.