ISSUES

Assess carbon footprint - internal

Many organisations should have calculated their energy use under the terms of the Climate Change Levy (software) and may already have those calculations electronically.

Your organisations carbon footprint is the amount of CO₂ emitted through the use of fossil fuels as part of your everyday activities. You will need to decide:

• the scope of the footprint - how far upstream and downstream from your organisation you will include
• which, if not all, greenhouse gases to include - eg you may be able to include methane & nitrous oxides, these are expressed in units of Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e )