Climate & Circularity
Climate & Circularity
Ecomatters provides climate impact and energy reduction support in many capacities, offering a full range of services for small to large multinational corporations. It is our priority to work closely with our clients to go beyond the numbers and make sustainability mean something productive for your business.
We support our clients to:
- Calculate and analyse the carbon & energy footprint of your products and business, following the GHG protocol methodology and being ISO 14000 compliant
- Perform eco-efficiency analyses of products and organisations
- Develop carbon footprint data collection and calculation tools or guidelines
- Assess where the emission hotspots are in your product value chain and supply chain, including hotspots on energy consumption
- Perform an energy audit on location, and create an overview of existing energy flows
- Develop a quantified overview of your company’s energy-saving potential for a short or long time period
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Measuring your climate impact is a valuable way to understand the overall impact your product or organisation has on the environment and society
Why Calculate your Climate & Circularity Impacts?
A carbon footprint is a climate change metric, calculated as the total greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted by an individual, organisation, region, or product. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is considered the most important GHG given the large volumes of global emissions, its capacity to absorb thermal radiation, and how it remains in the atmosphere longer than other similar gases that contribute to climate change. Therefore it is used as a single point of reference, and most carbon footprints are calculated in CO2 equivalence. This calculation is standardised so that footprints can be compared between products and organisations.
But why calculate carbon? It is becoming increasingly important for companies and organisations to monitor and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions or even achieve the ambitious target of being carbon neutral. Measuring your carbon footprint is an advantageous way to start looking at the overall climate and energy impact your product or organisation has, and start setting emission reduction targets, including Science-based targets. Carbon calculations are also necessary for sustainability reporting, such as complying with the Global Reporting Initiative standards, participating in the Carbon Disclosure Project, or seeking an Eco Label.
Energy use, in type and efficiency, can play a significant role in the CO2 emissions of a product or an organisation as a whole. As a result, it is increasingly important to track and calculate a product’s or organisation’s energy performance. This can be done through energy calculations and energy audits.
The purpose of an energy audit is to increase insight into your energy use and to map the potential savings measures. An energy audit gives an overview of all energy use and flows and can highlight potentially outdated technologies and/or areas for efficient investment. This way, companies can most effectively implement energy efficiency and cost-saving improvements, which in turn help the EU as a whole achieve its ambitious energy efficiency targets.
Whether you are looking to calculate your carbon footprint, understand your energy use, develop a carbon strategy, or understand where to start for your organisation, Ecomatters can support you. Get in touch to find out how we can help you.
