The Ways and Means to Reduce Carbon

Following are seven of the most common scenarios under which you may find your company needing expert consulting from Futurepast.

1. You Want to Define Your Carbon Strategy
Your organization is assessing its carbon risks and opportunities. Management wants to minimize the impacts of direct threats from climate change, new regulatory requirements, changing market preferences, and chart a course toward a less carbon-intense future. You need a carbon strategy.

2. You Want to Quantify Your Organization’s Carbon Emissions
Management wants information about its GHG emissions at the organizational level or at the facility level to help implement its carbon strategy. You need a greenhouse gas inventory.

Establishing a GHG inventory helps your organization in the following ways:

  • It aggregates information from the source or unit level to facility and organizational levels to facilitate management analysis and review
  • It permits comparisons of carbon intensity among similar operating units
  • It provides information for mandatory reporting to the US EPA under the Clean Air Act (effective as of 2010-01-01)
  • It informs disclosure to such agencies as the Securities and Exchange Commission or through such means as corporate sustainability reports.

3. You Want to Develop a GHG Emission Reduction Project
You are developing a forestry, landfill gas, or livestock manure management project. You want help planning and implementing the project, selecting a verification body, and selling your offset credits. You need carbon offset project assistance.

4. You Want to Calculate Your Product’s Carbon Footprint
Your customers, whether end-users or manufacturing or distribution partners, want to know the quantity of GHG emissions that are associated with your product or service. You need a carbon footprint.  A carbon footprint expresses the mass of GHGs that can be allocated to a product unit or service, usually in grams per unit. Carbon footprint information is used for strategic planning purposes, for achieving compliance with international legal requirements or with customer information requests, and for marketing your products. Carbon footprint information represents a form of environmental claim and is created using a modified life cycle assessment methodology. Carbon footprint claims should be reviewed for compliance with Federal Trade Commission laws and regulations.

5. You Want to Verify Your Quantified GHG Emissions
You have established a GHG inventory for your organization but want assurance that the quantification is accurate.  You need verification of your greenhouse gas emissions. Verification is performed by a greenhouse gas verifier who audits both the processes by which your GHG emissions have been quantified and the results of those processes. The verifier delivers a GHG Statement which expresses the verifier’s opinion concerning the conformity of the inventory to applicable accounting rules and the accuracy of the inventory amounts, which typically are consolidated across units or facilities and expressed in metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e).

6. You Want Help Complying With Mandatory GHG Emissions Reporting Requirements
You are subject to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s mandatory reporting of GHG emissions under the Clean Air Act and one or more state or provincial programs. You want help quantifying your emissions, analyzing your fuel use, or developing a monitoring plan that meets the requirements of Subpart 98 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations and the applicable requirements of the state or province. You need greenhouse gas regulatory compliance assistance.

7. You Want Your Management System to Support Your GHG Information Needs.
You want to make counting carbon easier and more efficient. You know your organization and its supply chain has a lot of useful information to help you count carbon, but you’re finding the information hard to locate and organize. You want to optimize the management system you currently have and to integrate your counting carbon requirements into its information systems and support processes. You need management system consulting services.