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Achieving sustainability goals
Achieving Sustainability Goals with the Help of Verisae Fresh & Easy is a $302 million US retail firm that committed itself to an ambitious climate change plan, outlined by its parent firm, Tesco. Founded in 2007, Fresh & Easy ...
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Executive Order 13514 on federal sustainability
How does this climate change order differ from Bush era orders?It is said that the federal government is the largest consumer of energy in the United States. As such we can deduce that it is one of the biggest contributors to the problem of ...
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Executive Order 13514 tackles climate change
We`ve seen over the course of 2009 how difficult politics in Washington can be. There seems little doubt that everyone is now aware of the challenges that we face in relation to carbon emissions, greenhouse gases and climate change in general. ...
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Enterprise Carbon Accounting: The quest for unprecedented transparency
Enterprise carbon accounting (ECA) is an essential requirement for companies and will likely become necessary due to government legislation. No longer is it permissible for a company to look within its borders, but it must look at its overall ...
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Refrigerant gas management (case study)
Executive Summary Refrigerant leaks are one the highest maintenance expenses for organizations using or maintaining gas. In addition to compliance, management of refrigerant is important from a cost perspective. A typical 100-store supermarket ...
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Tesco asset management (case study)
Executive Summary Tesco has seen numerous benefits of the Verisae platform over the past three years. The metrics listed are only a small portion of all products and services Tesco leverages across the full Verisae platform and across all Tesco plc ...
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Ahold emissions baseline (case study)
Executive Summary Verisae helped Ahold develop an understanding not only of Ahold’s direct emissions impact, but also the impact of the supply chain and consumers. Ahold worked with a number of external consultants Arthur D Little, DHV, ERM and ...
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UK Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)
Energy Efficiency Reduction Bill a Benchmark for Others?The pressure has been growing on individual companies, producers and emitters of greenhouse gases to try and restrict the output. Up until this time, it has been voluntary to report carbon ...
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What is the carbon reduction commitment?
The UK Carbon Reduction Commitment is a British based initiative, which is anticipated to provide a model for the rest of the world. The US Environmental Protection Agency announced shortly after introduction by the UK Department that they plan to ...
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Determining CRC reporting requirements
All organizations must now establish, evaluate and prioritize their carbon reduction liabilities and get ready to participate in the CRC. It is estimated that some 5,000 organizations in the UK will be required to do so. The Carbon Reduction ...
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Proposed CRC reporting exposes confusion
Both in the United States and in the United Kingdom, initiatives are currently underway to force certain categories of business to proactively reduce the size of their carbon footprint and to produce a series of carbon reports to prove their ...
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A strategy to address the CRC regulations
An organization can initiate immediate action by deciding whether to implement voluntary automated meter reading and thus qualify for what is termed an early action metric. This will help in determining a position in the first year league table and ...
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How to prepare for CRC reporting
2009 is the year for review and the establishment of standards. A comprehensive view of emissions inventory must be in place to act as baselines for future reporting. 2009 will be a key year for thousands of businesses within the UK as they prepare ...
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Non-compliance of CRC carbon reporting
Impacts to Organizations Who Do Not Comply with United Kingdom’s CRC Reporting Requirements Particular attention has been given to the effects of global warming and the potential for climate change. We have been told in no uncertain terms by ...
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Meeting the carbon reduction commitments
How UK Organizations Can Approach and Meet Carbon Reduction Targets The Climate Reduction Commitment legislation represents significant opportunities for those entities that are proactive and are able to meet or exceed their carbon reduction ...
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Carbon reduction commitment (CRC) initiative
British CRC Program Promotes Carbon Footprint Reductions 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, ...
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Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) - Understanding complexity, mitigating risk, and capturing opportunity
Implications of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) are quite far-reaching and will apply both within the public and private sectors across the United Kingdom. About 20,000 organisations will likely be affected, based on how much electricity they ...
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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 ...
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How to define additionality in relation to greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions
Companies that have facilities which use refrigeration and air-conditioning systems or heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems have to measure changes which are imposed upon them due to greenhouse gas emissions. Additionality is a measure ...
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Emission scopes help to categorize greenhouse gas (GHGs) reporting efforts
Emission scopes are being used to determine the category of chemical and usage area, so that facilities can understand and monitor their greenhouse gas impact. The US Clean Air Act and the Montreal Protocol have established that emissions of harmful ...