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How Carbon Counter Toolkit helps deliver World Business Council GHG Protocol

ISO 14064 specifies principles and requirements at the organization level for quantification and reporting of GHG emissions and removals.

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Investigate organisational boundaries

To have effective and innovative carbon accounting you will need to situate your organisation within your supply chain. By doing this and looking at what comes into the organisation, what goes on within it and what leaves your facility you will determine the extend of your carbon footprint.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has developed a Green House Gas Reporting Protocol. This advises first setting both your organiastions boundaries and operational boundaries.

Organisational Boundary - this is what your organisation owns or controls (factories/offices/depots/subsiduaries/economic interests...) There are two methods you can use in setting this boundary:

Choose one of the following approaches:

Control approach Equity share approach
This is where your organisation counts all the Green House Gases being emitted from everything that it has control over. It does not count emissions from places where it may own an interest in but does not have control over.

Example of Control Approach: Tesco Supermarkets.

"We included .... all Tesco stores, distribution centres and offices ... primary distribution, business travel .. Tesco.com home delivery vans. ...."

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Task: Decide what your organisation controls

 This approach counts your organisation's GHG emissions from operations according to your organisation's share of equity in those operation.

This reflects your organisations economic interest and percentage of ownership in other companies. For example, unlike the Control Approach, if your organisation owns 20% of another company, even though it does not have total control of what that company does, then 20% of their GHG emissions should be counted as part of your footprint.

Task: Decide what your organisation shares

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