Introduction You’ve decided to create a GHG inventory within your organization. Great! You’ve set your organizational and operational boundaries, selected your consolidation approach (equity share, financial control, or operational control), chosen a baseline year, and set up measures to mitigate double counting. Now what? The following steps will help you identify and calculate your organization’s […]
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Market and Location-Based Electricity Emission Factors
Introduction When setting up a GHG inventory, there are several choices of activity data and emission factors used for calculating emissions from purchases of electricity, steam, heat, and cooling (i.e. scope 2). The primary piece of data needed to quantify scope 2 emissions is the amount of electricity purchased. This information can be found in […]
Establishing Boundaries for a GHG Inventory
Introduction After you’ve secured organization support, and before you start collecting emissions data, you’ll need to establish clear boundaries for your greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory. The inventory will provide the foundation for your company’s climate change strategy by enabling you to identify reduction opportunities, set reduction targets, and track progress over time. When developing a […]
Best Practices for Setting Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets
Setting greenhouse gas reduction targets is like setting a destination on your company’s GPS. It ensures that important issues stay top of mind for senior management, guiding them in making decisions about what products to offer, which materials to use, and which technologies to adopt to effectively manage the company’s environmental impact. Imagine you’ve just […]