Measure - indirect

Product use: Use a standard accounting methodology to estimate emissions from end-consumer use for products you supply. 'Ball park' figures can be generated based on Kw hours and product use. eg. energy used= 10kw product with lifetime expectancy of 15 years with avarage 5,000 operating hours per year.

Outsourced Activities: Your organsaition may have outsourced particularly pollluting processes to other companies. Although you are not in control of these processes, or responsible for the operating methods of the company, you should consider including these activities. Establish what proportion of the total work is carried out for your organisation. eg if outsource company provides 20% of their total production to your organisation. Your measurements should include the same % of their GHG emissions.

GHG Intensive materials: These are materials used by your organisation that are of particular concern at a national level and include cement & aluminium. You should develop a methodology for 'weighting' these materials in relation to the % used in your overall production processes and product

Service sector: The highest emissions for most of the service sector will be external employee business travel. Check out distances travelled together with passenger allocated carbon.

Transport: Consider adding a percentage of the emissions caused by companies that supply and deliver goods and services for your organisation. Look at distribution and re-distribution trails.

Transport Example

Indirect Emissions	Contact	Information Required	Method
Distributor	Wheels Transport Ltd	% of organisations goods carried	10% of Wheels Transport business is carrying our goods. They have 100 vehicles on the road every day. Their average journeys are 200 miles using av 30 litres of Deisel. 200miles x 10%=20 miles 20 miles= 3 litres x 100 vehicles 300 litres x 365 days
		Number of vehicles Average journey distance Number of days per year Average Miles per Litre of Fuel
Deisel use by distributor resulting from our operations = 109,500 litres/year
This assumes that journey distances of our goods is within the average (not always shortest / longest journey), occurs daily in all vehicles with goods of average weight.

Task 4. Make an inventory of Indirect Emissions
List sources of indirect emissions to be measured together with methods for measuring. Use the transport example above as a model.

Task 5. Collect data from the inventory you have made

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