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Itella - Carbon footprint calculation with the help of Tofuture - case study
Itella is a service business whose core competency lies in information and product flow management. One of the key issues on Itella´s responsibility agenda is the carbon footprint of its service products, e.g. letters, parcels, unaddressed mail, magazine delivery and hybrid mail services. Tofuture helped Itella to introduce systematic carbon footprint calculation by developing a system that ...
By Tofuture Oy
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Carbon footprint of the households' consumption in China
This paper studies the direct and embodied carbon footprint of households' consumption in China. The study results show that the embodied carbon footprint of Chinese households is far higher than direct carbon footprint. The direct carbon footprint of urban households is resulted from consumption of power, heat and petroleum products, while the rural households are mostly due to consumption of ...
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Carbon footprint calculator
Calculate your emissions – for small and medium-sized businesses Carbon-And-More offers a cool Carbon Footprint Calculator designed by experts for non-experts. Our Carbon Footprint Calculator has been created to help businesses manage and report their company’s carbon emissions. The Carbon Footprint Calculator is focused on SMEs (Small and Medium Size Enterprises) and is featured ...
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Dynamic carbon footprinting
The early focus by individual businesses on the reduction of their own carbon footprint is being superseded by a phase of building carbon-constrained business networks. Across these networks, businesses evaluate each others' footprints and conduct business accordingly. Dynamic carbon footprinting is emerging as a powerful tool for guiding operational logic and business transformation into the ...
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Case study - Itella
ITELLA – Carbon footprint calculation with the help of Tofuture Itella is a service business whose core competency lies in information and product flow management. One of the key issues on Itella´s responsibility agenda is the carbon footprint of its service products, e.g. letters, parcels, unaddressed mail, magazine delivery and hybrid mail services. Tofuture helped Itella to ...
By Tofuture Oy
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Carbon footprint, benchmarks - ZBD
ZBD’s electronic point of purchase (EPOP) device is an electronic price and information display designed as a replacement for paper labels. Its primary target market is in environments where retailers can gain sales and reduce waste by amending prices frequently, such as delicatessen counters and on other perishable items, or where prices and promotions need regular change to reflect a ...
By Greenstone+
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BT calls for sustainable procurement from 6,000 suppliers
BT demands its suppliers to measure, report and reduce their carbon footprint with new sustainable procurement ...
By Vital Energi
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Intelligent buildings grow by 14% in the US
New report reveals that the total amount of intelligent buildings grew 14% in the US despite the economy’s downturn. Recent findings from the third annual Green Building Market & Impact Report have shown that despite precipitous declines in the rate of growth of the economy, the total amount of LEED-certified intelligent buildings grew by one billion square feet in 2010, up to eight ...
By Vital Energi
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Biofuels and carbon footprint
Europe’s use of biofuels to fuel its vehicles risks driving land grabs and deforestation, increasing food prices, exacerbating poverty and hunger, and accelerating climate change. We are seriously concerned that the Commission has not yet taken action to ensure that Europe’s green transport policy discourages those biofuels that cause higher greenhouse gas emissions than fossil ...
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Toro obtains the seal of the Carbon Footprint
Toro obtains the “Calculation” seal from the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge by registering its Carbon Footprint with the Spanish Climate Change Office. The Carbon Footprint of the product is the total amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated in each of the phases of the product life cycle (from the extraction of the raw materials of which it is ...
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Carbon footprint, corporate strategy
Virgin Group includes nearly seventy companies across a diverse range of sectors from aviation to wine distribution, each facing different carbon management challenges. The companies range from small office based organisations with a few employees to large multinationals with thousands of employees. Greenstone was commissioned by Virgin Group to undertake a carbon mapping exercise to identify ...
By Greenstone+
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Progeva, mitigation actions for the reduction of carbon emissions - Case Study
Carbon footprint is a measure of the impact that human activities have on the greenhouse effect. Expressed in equivalent tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2 eq), carbon footprint measures how much CO2 is given off in the production of given goods and ...
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Carbon footprints of Scandinavian wastewater treatment plants
This study estimates the carbon footprints of 16 municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), all situated in Scandinavian countries, by using a simple model. The carbon footprint calculations were based on operational data, literature emission factors (efs) and measurements of greenhouse gas emissions at some of the studied WWTPs. No carbon neutral WWTPs were found. The carbon footprints ...
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A web-based open emissions calculator
Many organisations and governmental agencies offer online calculators to calculate the carbon footprint of industrial activities. Furthermore, airline companies offer online tools to estimate carbon footprint and promote the purchase of carbon offsets in order to make the trip carbon neutral. This paper presents a free online emissions calculator that computes various emissions-related statistics ...
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Introduction to Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) requirements
Environmental managers from thousands of UK commercial enterprises will take on a much more important role within their respective organizations when the Carbon Reduction Commitment, or CRC, comes into effect in 2010. The initiative of the British government's Department for Energy and Climate Change has been rather hurriedly introduced and its scope is not fully understood by many of the very ...
By Accruent
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Carbon footprint of food-related activities in Finnish households
Consumers play an important role in the food chain environmental system. However, there seem to be only few studies that have focused on food-related environmental impacts of consumer activities. This paper identifies the primary consumer activities that affect carbon footprints and their relative importance, and consumer choice in household food-related transportation, preservation and ...
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Carbon footprint, scenario planning, reduction strategies, benchmarking
Ocado Limited, the unique and independent online grocer, is the first newcomer to the UK grocery market for a generation. The company has created a blueprint for the future of sustainable grocery shopping offering an alternative to going to the supermarket that is simple, fast, fun, greener and more accurate. Ocado delivers orders out of a single fulfilment centre, not a network of stores, and ...
By Greenstone+
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Impact of climate change issues on businesses: an action plan using a corporate governance approach
Business globally are readying themselves for wide-ranging impacts as they transition towards a low-carbon footprint economy. This paper discusses the major impacts for the firm due to the move to a low-carbon footprint system. In doing so it highlights the crucial link between opportunities, costs, risks and structural changes faced by firms, and presents a framework for managing the complex, ...
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Projects to reduce the Carbon Footprint
To understand the projects aimed at reducing the Carbon Footprint on the planet, we must understand the context. Not only is it necessary to explain what the Carbon Footprint consists of, but it is also necessary to understand its effects and contribution to Climate Change. The Carbon Footprint is a metric that quantifies the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere in each small ...
By TECAM
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New Zealand wine brand - first to display carbon footprint
Mobius Marlborough sauvignon blanc becomes the first wine brand to display carbon emissions per glass depending on export ...
By Vital Energi
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