Posts Tagged ‘greenhouse gas inventory’
Redmonk is a boutique IT industry analysis firm who have also started a sustainability business line: Greenmonk. On the Greenmonk blog they recently asked for top tips for helping RedMonk/GreenMonk become carbon neutral.
So here is our top tip. The first and most important step is to develop a carbon inventory. You can’t be carbon neutral until you are actively measuring and then managing your carbon footprint.
The Corporate Accounting Standard for creating and managing a carbon inventory is published by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative.
The ISO also publish a standard for greenhouse gas accounting as part of ISO 14064 but it is entirely consistent with the GHG Protocol Initiative’s standard. For a small self-contained services organisation with no direct emissions, like RedMonk, these standards are not onerous to follow.
To make it even easier GHG Protocol Initiative have also published a simple guide for developing a carbon inventory for an office-based organization: Working 9 to 5 on Climate Change. This would be a great place for RedMonk to start.
And of course RedMonk could also engage a climate change consultancy with auditors trained to develop carbon inventories following the GHG Protocol — like Greensense!
