Industrial sites tend to look like the obvious source of a company’s emissions — the stacks and the steam are visible in a way that a spreadsheet is not. The visible part is real, but it is rarely the whole number, and knowing the split is what makes reduction...
Ask any auditor, investor or regulator how a company should measure its greenhouse gas emissions and you will hear the same answer: the GHG Protocol. It is the accounting standard behind the overwhelming majority of corporate carbon reporting worldwide, and the...
Draft — pending editorial review. Every carbon figure you publish ultimately comes down to one calculation: activity data multiplied by an emission factor. Understanding what that factor actually is — and isn’t — matters more than most people expect. The basic...
Draft — pending editorial review. If you’ve started looking at carbon reporting, you’ve run into “Scope 1, 2 and 3” almost immediately — and it’s worth understanding properly, because it shapes how you collect data from day one. Scope 1:...
