Measure your carbon footprint

This is a great way to calculate a baseline for your organisation.

The Carbon Trust have a footprint calculator for organisations.

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Crawford-Brown on October 4, 2009 at 21:33

The Carbon Trust Calculator is a good approach for organisations to use, with several caveats. First, it is in more complete form at the website Act on CO2. Second, an organisation may be required to file a footprint as part of the Carbon Disclosure Project. If so, there is no merit in doing the footprint twice, so my advice is to determine how the CDP footprinting works. Finally, DEFRA have published a draft Greenhouse Gas Protocol businesses in particular should see first before heading down any footprinting pathway.

My reason for providing these caveats is that there is a glut of carbon calculators appearing, as well as carbon reduction organisations. Businesses might rationalise their reduction efforts by looking first at the CBI and BITC programmes and then tailoring their Cambridge Climate Change Charter responses to these national business programmes.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Skipper on October 5, 2009 at 14:29

Thanks for that, Douglas, this is just the kind of informed discussion I was hoping these pages would generate. Here are:

The Act on CO2 Calculator
The Carbon Disclosure Project
Defra's resource list, and
The Department for Energy and Climate Change

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Permalink Reply by Simon Chubb on November 11, 2009 at 17:53

Here's a couple of publications which provide an overview of how to calculate your organisation's carbon footprint:

Carbon Trust, Carbon footprinting intro for organisations, Aug 07

Defra, Carbon Footprinting Guidance for SMEs, Oct 09

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Permalink Reply by Simon Chubb on December 23, 2009 at 13:32

Cambridgeshire County Council are making some home energy meters available through their libraries to enable people to identify the amount and patterns of energy used at home. This file provides further details of how the meters can be obtained and used and contact details for further information.

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Cambridgeshire Libraries Energy Meters.pdf, 21 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jason Palmer on March 5, 2010 at 21:04

We're running an event on measuring your 'Baseline emissions' at the Cambridge Central Library on 24th March from 2-4pm. Come along if you need help with this important stage in managing your organisation's carbon emissions - you can register on the 'Events' page.