Carbon presents a new and fundamental challenge to business. Suddenly, we have a commodity that every organisation must account for. It is a cost and a risk. For many companies, it also offers opportunity.
But carbon is not like a raw material, or like interest rates where the cost or the risk is easy to identify and quantify. Carbon is everywhere. It is in the supply chain, in processing and manufacturing, in offices and call centres, in employee work habits and executive travel, and in the packaging and final disposal of products. Carbon spans the balance sheet. As we move towards an era of carbon regulation and taxes, it is clearly a liability. But as the world drives towards a low-carbon economy, there are also many opportunities. Managed in the right way, for some, carbon can become an asset.
This ubiquity of carbon in all that a modern organisation does, and the fact that it impacts companies in positive and negative ways, means that it requires a holistic enterprise-wide response. Carbon must be measured, monitored and managed across the board. It must be tackled top down and bottom up. In short, it requires Enterprise Carbon Management.
Enterprise Carbon Management (ECM) is Zerofootprint’s proprietary method for helping a company measure, monitor, and reduce its carbon emissions. It’s an end-to-end, customizable solution that allows you to measure and track your company’s environmental impact, and leverage this for competitive advantage.
All of Zerofootprint’s greenhouse gas measurements are done according to international standards. Greenhouse gas inventories are performed according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, an international emissions accounting standard.
To learn more about ECM, please contact ecm@zerofootprint.net