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There are Direct impacts of an organisations activity - just like a person eats and breathes, so an organisation consumes energy and creates waste.

But like each of us (perperson), an organisation has much more impact on the environment Indirectly than Directly (person is ca 20X..what is your organisation?) The energy consumed may not be wood, but elcetricity which is made in power stations many miles away where a further set of environmental impacts are created - such as warming the water round the power station.
While we seem to have cleaned up our act in the developed countires - the chimneys have long gone, the impacts have been shifted elsewhere..cutting down forests to make palm oil to run our cars with biofuel.

The Carbon Counting Toolkit is designed to help people in organisations start to count carbon.
Work through a series of steps to help you set up a system for reducing your organisation's carbon footprint.

Several sites count your individual carbon footprint and offer ways of purchasing offsetts to negate your own emissions. Although reducing your own personal carbon footprint is laudable, by working collectively can we make more significant changes to reduce our carbon emissions.

Check out how Carbon Counting Toolkit (suitable for VQ levels 4 & 3) fits
World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol

What Goes In, On and Out of an Organisation

IN

ON

OUT

CO2 Molecular Model
Roads & Transport.

Electricity from power generators miles away - oil & gas, and now coal from anywhere but UK

Raw materials and components from around the globe

Packaging

Services

Land use

Industrial and chemical processes

DIRECT fuel consumption eg in furnaces

INDIRECT electricity demand

Goods

Services

DIRECT emissions from processes

INDIRECT emissions from power suppliers

Packaging

Wastes

Finite Fossil Fuels

Alternative Energy

Biofuels

Deforestation

Carbon Ownershsip

TOOLKIT
Measure, Count, Assess, Target

CO2 Contamination

Global Warming

Climate Change

The Carbon Counting Toolkit aims to

  • Provide a step by step approach to
  • Measure, count, assess, reduce and report carbon emissions
  • Link with all other carbon appropriate sites and sources
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