Carbon Trust articles

Scope 3 emissions, or `value chain emissions`, represent all the indirect impacts upstream and downstream of an organisation, not already captured by the GHG Protocol`s Scope 1 and 2 reporting. These often represent the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and in some cases can account for up to 90% of the total carbon impact.

The international

Carbon Trust Chief Executive, Tom Delay, discusses the progress that needs to be made by businesses to address water scarcity

With World Water Day focusing minds on the issue of water scarcity, the need for businesses around the world to act fast on easing water shortages becomes more urgent. By 2030 global water demand is predicted to increase dramatically to a level 40% above current supply. This w

Now`s the time to start evaluating how resource scarcity will impact your business - viewpoint from Tom Delay, CEO of the Carbon Trust.

Earlier this year, The Living Report found that as a whole, humanity extracted resources more than 52 percent faster than they could be regenerated. And demand for these resources is expanding too.  According to the US National Intelligence Council`s

Is your brand value at risk? Why brand guardians must stay on top of what`s going on in their wider business from a reputational and environmental risk perspective.

A small but critical role of a Head of Brand has forever been to ensure that their business and its associated partners are adhering to correct, consistent and proper use of the brand assets available to them. If necessary we or one of our team are required to intervene in order to make sure something heinous looking or so

Reducing water use is becoming an increasingly important sustainability metric for business. Viewpoint by Michael Gifford, Head of Operations & Delivery Partners, Carbon Trust Certification, and Morgan Jones, Standard Certification Manager, Carbon Trust Certification.

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has just announced that it will set targets for its contractors to reduce water co

As China celebrated the beginning of the Year of the Snake last week, what should the business community be focusing on as the country strives to promote sustainable growth and long term prosperity?

Corporate investment in clean technology innovation is a win-win opportunity. Viewpoint by Jamie Vollbracht, Head of New Ventures, Innovation, the Carbon Trust.

We live in challenging economic times. Furthermore, there are some fundamental resource constraints that aren`t going away: the population is growing while the world is fixed in size and many of its natural resources are being depleted. Finding innovative, resource-efficient routes to prosperity is now an impe

What are the key outcomes of the UN climate change conference in Doha, and what we can expect in the near-term? Insight from Jeff Beyer, Strategy Associate, the Carbon Trust.

It seems that UN climate change conferences suffer from performance anxiety: the more they`re watched, the worse they perform. So unlike the train wreck negotiations that glared garishly in the media`s spotlights in Copenhagen in 2009, it was heartening to see that the most recent conference in Doha made modest,

For some companies, reporting carbon emissions will require a major shift in their culture, for others it will be business as usual. Which group are you in?

By Michael Gifford, Head of Operations & Delivery Partners and Morgan Jones, Standard Certification Manager

The government recently announced that it will be introducing 

James Smith, Chair of the Carbon Trust, sets out why we need to learn to love CCS - before it`s too late

In front of the Public Liaison Committee in Parliament last week the Prime Minister laid out the importance of carbon capture and storage to the setting of a 2030 carbon target and in helping resolve the current debate on how much gas in the UK it is safe to burn.  Just a month earlier an expert report concluded that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could cut