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Climate change has been identified as one of the greatest challenges facing nations, governments, business and citizens over future decades.
Several standards have been developed in response to broad community and industry desire for a consistent method for assessing the life cycle GHG emissions of goods and services as well as GHG emissions of an organization's overall activities. Life cycle GHG emissions are the emissions that are released as part of the processes of creating, modifying, transporting, storing, using, providing, recycling or disposing of goods and services. On the other hand, organizational carbon footprint measures the GHG emissions from all the activities across the organization, including energy used in buildings, industrial processes and company vehicles.
The estimation of Carbon Footprint of products, services or organizational activities requires the following actions:
- Calculation method choice
- Defining scopes and boundaries of calculations
- Identification of emission sources - Energy audit
- Data collection and emission factors choice
- Use of calculation tools
- Identification and implementation of action for the reduction of carbon footprint
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of the actions - Quantification of the carbon footprint reduction
The ultimate goal should be carbon neutrality. Carbon neutrality i.e. having a net zero carbon footprint, refers to achieving net zero carbon emissions by balancing a measured amount of carbon released with an equivalent amount saved.
PRIORITY has the expertise to:
- Calculate carbon footprint
- Recommend energy saving - carbon footprint reduction actions
PRORITY has a discrete Environmental Management Department which has implemented several environmental/energy projects concerning ISO 14001/ EMAS and Energy auditing.
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