Count- indirect

CARBON COUNTER Toolkit ...Count Indirect										Noticeboard
TOOL KIT

Count Indirect

Electricity

Your organisation's electricity supply will be metered by your utilities company - working out usage is therefore straightforward. You may wish to break down the supply to specific high energy using functions within the organisation. A quantity of your supply may be from renewable sources, this % may be deducted from your counting. Renewable Obligations Certificates in the UK represent a direct claim to emissions reductions resulting from renewable energy generation.

Task 2 Convert your metered electricity to carbon and deduct appropriate ROC figure

Check what Renewable Obligation Certificates your electricity supplier holds
Ask your electricity provider to supply confirmation of the percentage of energy they supply covered by their ROCs.
Deduct this % from your carbon score.

Task 3 Convert to carbon other indirect emissions from measurements acquired

Task 4 Add together your total Direct and Indirect Carbon figures - this is your carbon footprint
Users of your information will want to track and compare figures over a period of time.

Example: Air Travel

Find out the distances travelled by air. Use this. Type in: placename, country

Carbon comparator works out what your carbon footprint for air travel is in real terms.... and doesn't offer you a number of planted trees or few pounds to buy your consience, but spells out what you need to DO to make CO₂ reductions equivalent to your flight emission.
Beware: carbon counters available on the web each use slightly different counting mechanisms - it is therefore possible to reduce your footprint in theory by merely switching to a different counter!

Carbon Counting:
Click drop down menu and
Choose your sector:

Action Aid's UK
Footprint

Check out Wal-Mart calculations of their carbon footprint
The greatest contribution to carbon enissions are customers journeys to visit the store - these are not included in their carbon footprint calculations.

Members can now go to the database
and answer the questions on 'Counting'

Next assess your carbon footprint

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