Category FAQs Search : Carbon Footprint
Question: Step by step (reducing carbon footprints)
Answer: To advise on reducing firms’ carbon footprints. Design/methodology/approach – Regards “carbon neutral” as the state where a firm has done everything possible to reduce its carbon footprint and purchases carbon offsets for areas where it cannot. Mentions plans by Marks & Spencer and HSBC for becoming carbon neutral and advises on managing emissions. Findings – Recounts the process stages: calculating the primary (direct) footprint from the firm’s operations and the indirect (secondary) footprint associated with the whole lifecycle of product use; deciding which (or both) to deal with; developing a phased plan, perhaps embedded in an environmental management system; examining options for reduction from various sources, e.g. The Carbon Trust, Energy Savings Trust, Envirowise; engaging employees to co-operate; offsetting irreducible emissions by purchases from emission reduction projects; and, annually reviewing the strategy with prevention in mind, rather than reduction. Provides a range of facts covering standards and legislation (none implemented at present although climate change levies, government agreement (Kyoto), emissions trading, clean development (contributing by reducing emissions in developing countries), government bills to provide frameworks for mandatory reductions, codes of practice, and reduction in the non-energy sector are under consideration). Originality/value – Gives pointers on how firms might reduce their carbon emissions in response to the 2006 Stern Report and thus save the planet.
(Source: , 17 Aug 2021)
Source Link: https://doi-org.onlinedatabase.librarynet.com.my/10.1108/sd.2008.05624aad.003