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Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories are increasingly implemented at a national, organizational, plant or product level. This may be done for a number of reasons, including meeting legal requirements under emissions trading schemes, demonstrating progress towards voluntary commitments, communicating environmental performance to the public or to internally evaluate risk exposure.
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Carbon footprint analyses are used to establish GHG emission profiles across the value chain of companies and to design CO2-neutral products and services.
For both environmental and economic reasons, emission inventories and profiles must be transparent, consistent and credible.
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We have extensive experience of emission inventories in both the compliance market (the Kyoto Protocol system, including CDM/JI, EU ETS) and the voluntary carbon market. We have set the standard in a number of these areas, e.g. by developing mandatory EU monitoring and reporting guidelines as well as high-quality standards for CDM/JI and voluntary credits. Our experience with these as well as other approaches allows us to develop tailor-made systems on the basis of clients’ specifications and needs. Our knowledge of sources of CO2 and non-CO2 emissions, as well as sinks (forests and geological storage) ensures a complete, coherent and consistent approach to emission inventories and profiles.
Our services include:
- Recommendations on achieving conformity of an organisation’s or a country’s GHG reporting system with international, national or other reporting standards
- Developing and implementing GHG emission inventories for all mandatory and voluntary schemes
- Evaluation, validation and/or verification of emission-reporting systems and reports for mandatory and voluntary schemes
- Advice on the relevant communication aspects of an inventory: what are stakeholder expectations and how should the inventory evolve in time?
- Capacity building and training.
References:
- Design and validation of GHG emission inventories for various clients, including Lafarge, Nokia Siemens Networks, Novo-Nordisk, Tetra Pak, Nokia and Tengelmann
- Advice on the future evolution of GHG reporting under the Carbon Disclosure Project: Bayer and Volkswagen
- Carbon Footprint Analyses for different products and services for a range of clients from the industrial, retail and financial sector – e.g. Ben & Jerry’s, XS4all, Philips and Delta Lloyd
- Set-up or validation of installation-specific emission inventories under the EU-Emissions Trading Scheme, including Henkel, E.ON, Cognis, Pirelli, Porsche
and Ursa
- Development, evaluation and review of the EU-ETS monitoring and reporting guidelines on behalf of the European Commission
- Development and implementation of EU ETS monitoring, reporting and verification infrastructure in Romania
- Review of national GHG emission inventory systems on behalf of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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