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Our Man in Doha: Day Three - Carbon footprinting is an international pursuit
Jeff Beyer is our man in Doha, representing the Carbon Trust at a number of events taking place alongside the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, and reporting back with his own perspective on what is taking place. I was delighted to speak at the EU pavilion this afternoon at the request of Minister Corrado Clini, the Italian Minister of the Environment, Land and Sea. I ...
By Carbon Trust
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Footprint Expert 4.0 software now includes new carbon footprinting standards
Launch of Carbon Trust Footprint Expert 4.0 enables carbon footprints of products and services to be calculated against PAS2050:2011 and the WRI/WBCSD GHG Product Standard The Carbon Trust has launched a new release of Footprint Expert - version 4.0. Previous versions enabled companies to calculate and report the footprint of their products and services according to the first ...
By Carbon Trust
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Global carbon footprinting catalysed by launch of new international standard
Carbon Trust broadens product carbon footprint certification services: meeting demand for international verification - including new WRI and WBCSD standard Today, the Carbon Trust is announcing that it is the first organisation to offer a service certifying to the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) new international standard for ...
By Carbon Trust
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New initiative announced to help ICT industry measure carbon footprint
New global guidance will provide common approaches for calculating carbon emissions of ICT products and services ICT companies and their customers will soon have common approaches and methodologies to calculate the carbon footprints of ICT products and services thanks to industry guidance due to be published at the end of the year. The guidance is being developed through a collaboration between ...
By Carbon Trust
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New GHG standards unveiled for corporate value chain and products
Yesterday, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol launched two new standards in response to businesses that want to better understand and measure their climate impacts beyond their own operations. The new standards provide companies with a comprehensive way of measuring the emissions produced when making a product and across the value chain. The Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) and Product Life Cycle ...
By Greenstone+
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The centre for sustainability and excellence conducts a study of the greenhouse gas emissions of medline polypropylene products
Medline Industries, Inc., as part of its renewed commitment to leadership in green healthcare, worked with the Center for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) to complete a baseline Carbon Footprint study of its Polypropylene (PP) product line. The scope of the project involved measuring the greenhouse gases emitted during the sourcing of raw materials and transportation, and included the ...
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RICanada supports the Ontario’s planned Industrial Emissions Performance Standard
OTTAWA, Feb. 20, 2019 – Renewable Industries Canada (RICanada) supports the Government of Ontario’s Emissions Performance Standard (EPS). Ontario’s domestic ethanol producers are a crucial part of the solution to reducing GHG emissions and air pollution in the province. Ethanol is a clean-burning, renewable fuel that can reduce GHG emissions by over 60% compared to traditional ...
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US companies to benefit from ClimateCHECK`s combined expertise
ClimateCHECK, a firm that provides greenhouse gas (GHG) management and solutions for companies, organizations and governmental agencies, announces the opening of its San Francisco office. Lead by climate change and clean technology experts, ClimateCHECK’s expansion demonstrates the market demand by U.S. companies for technically advanced GHG management services. The management of GHG emissions is ...
By ClimateCHECK
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DP World selects Greenstone for online Carbon Management Tool
In line with its commitment to reduce its carbon footprint significantly across its 50 marine terminals across the world, DP World has become the first global port operator to roll out Greenstone Carbon Management and The CarbonNeutral Company’s carbon management and reduction solution newly developed for the ports and marine sector. The move comes as part of the global ...
By Greenstone+
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Introducing Watershed Supply Chain
Today, we’re launching Watershed Supply Chain, the first solution dedicated to helping businesses reduce carbon emissions at scale across their supply chain. Our goal is to make measuring, understanding, and reducing emissions across businesses’ supply chains fast, easy, and effective. For most companies, emissions from supplier and vendor activities make up a significant share of ...
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Response to the department of energy and climate change’s publication of draft energy bill
The Carbon Trust responds to the Department of Energy and Climate Change's publication of draft Energy Bill on Tuesday 22 May 2012. Simon Retallack, Strategy Manager at the Carbon Trust, said: "Electricity market reform is critical to ensure that our carbon and energy security objectives are met over the coming years. Providing a stable and long term price for low carbon energy is essential to ...
By Carbon Trust
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Monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) a major theme at the UN climate negotiations
More than 190 countries gathered in Lima, Peru in December 2014 to debate a future agreement to limit our carbon emissions to avoid dangerous climate change. Members of the Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) attended and presented its work to measure and verify greenhouse gas emissions and to follow the debate about how progress will be measured in the future. ...
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MRV a major theme at the UN climate negotiations
More than 190 countries gathered in Lima, Peru in December 2014 to debate a future agreement to limit our carbon emissions to avoid dangerous climate change. Members of the Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) attended and presented its work to measure and verify greenhouse gas emissions and to follow the debate about how progress will be measured in the future. ...
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The carbon marketing wars have begun
Their logos and packaging are near clones—Lay's potato chips in the United States and Walkers crisps in the United Kingdom. The story behind the similarity is that both brands are owned by PepsiCo. But a subtle difference sets them apart. Each bag of Walkers crisps carries a label stating that 75.0 grams of carbon were emitted to produce a 34.5 gram bag of chips. In 2007, Walkers became the ...
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Charting A Greener Future: Optical Gas Imaging at the Heart of US EPA’s Rule 40 CFR Part 60
Introduction In the quest for environmental sustainability, the recently enacted Rule 40 CFR Part 60 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) stands as a beacon, particularly for industries aiming to reduce emissions and embrace cleaner practices. This blog post delves into the pivotal role of Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) within the framework of this new rule, exploring how ...
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Greenhouse gas protocol launches in India
The use of standards to account for corporate greenhouse gases is increasingly common in developed countries – but it is emerging in developing countries as well. In India, companies’ focus on value chain inventories and life cycle thinking is in nascent stages. That’s why the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a collaboration of the World Resources Institute and the World Business ...
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First Climate LLC is founding reporter of the Climate Registry
First Climate LLC has become a Founding Reporter of The Climate Registry by being among the first to join the organization. The Climate Registry is a non-profit organization established to measure and publicly report greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in a common, accurate and transparent manner consistent across industry sectors and borders. Thirty-nine U.S. states, eight Canadian provinces, six ...
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Anvil knitwear completes life cycle assessment of tee made from recycled plastic bottles
Anvil Knitwear announced today the results of its greenhouse gas (GHG) life cycle assessment (LCA) for its AnvilSustainable™ t-shirt, which is made from recycled PET plastic bottles and transitional cotton, grown on farms making the switch to organic processes. The analysis of the AnvilSustainable tee, which encompassed a cradle-to-grave approach, found the footprint to be 3.29 kgCO2e/tee. ...
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We need your help: take our survey on greenhouse gas accounting for the financial sector
The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol recently partnered with the UNEP Finance Initiative in a critically important endeavor – developing guidance to help the financial sector measure its ”financed emissions” and track reductions. These types of emissions, which are associated with lending and investments, are the most significant part of a financial institution’s carbon ...
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FirstCarbon Solutions and the Carbon Disclosure Project Partner to Complete Supplier Scoring for CDP Supply Chain 2011/12
FirstCarbon Solutions, a pioneer and industry leader in environmental business intelligence today announced a partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in which FirstCarbon Solutions will score all company submissions to CDP Supply Chain, a program which works with global corporations to understand the impacts of climate change across the supply ...
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