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As a company or individual, you have a responsibility to be aware of the impact you are having on the environment.
Identifying a baseline value for your carbon output is the first step in addressing the risks and opportunities that lie ahead as well as setting reduction targets for your future.
Carbon calculations and management of an organisation's carbon footprint is about quantifying and understanding greenhouse gas emissions that directly contribute to global climate change.
"To save tomorrow today, we must either adapt our own
behaviour patterns or be forced to adapt to new and
unpredictable climatic behaviour."
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What is driving carbon footprinting?
- Sustainability reporting - meeting the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines and other sustainability reporting requirements.
- Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) - providing investor information and disclosing greenhouse gas risks and opportunities (now in South Africa).
- Energy management and cost savings - understanding costs, risks and opportunities in reducing energy expenditure.
- Carbon trading - analysing potential carbon credit opportunities.
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