Carbon Footprint & Reporting

 Calculating a carbon footprint is an essential starting point to understand the impact of your business. Footprinting, also known as ‘carbon accounting’, provides the baseline you need to implement an effective sustainability and carbon reduction strategy. It allows you to identify real opportunities to reduce your product and/or Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and take steps to reach your climate ambition. 

There are different types of carbon footprints that relate to businesses, institutions, public sector bodies, and cities. These include organisational, value chain, and product carbon footprints.

Carbon footprinting allows you to delve into your carbon data and measure your impact. By measuring, assessing and reporting your emissions, you have an opportunity to: 

• Understand the dimensions of your footprint and inform decision making across key influences such as procurement, product design, logistics.  
• Gain detailed insights into your supply chain and prioritise actions across different purchased goods and vendors. 
• Inspire product innovation and differentiate yourself from competitors. 
• Set clear carbon reduction targets and pathways for your organisation. 
• Take climate action to create genuine, quantifiable, and visible change for your stakeholders, including investors, customers, and employees. 
• Capture a clear picture of your carbon reduction achievements to date with reliable data. 
• Strengthen your brand reputation as a credible and robust climate leader.