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!

How to be carbon neutral? is a post from: Greensense