The world’s top scientists have concluded that climate change is almost certainly a fact, that it is the result of human activity, and that it will get significantly (and potentially dangerously) worse unless we all start to take responsibility and significant actions now.

Action involves reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Before we can reduce and manage our emissions effectively, we need to understand our emissions. This is best done via Carbon Footprinting.

What is a Carbon Footprint?
Carbon footprinting is the measurement of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emitted by a business as part of everyday operations (via travel, resource use, energy use, waste disposal etc.). A carbon footprint is typically expressed as tons of CO₂ emitted per annum.

How do we calculate your Carbon Footprint?
DNV collect your organisational activity data (e.g. electricity use in GWh) that results in polluting emissions and multiply this by an emission factor (kg of CO₂ emitted per kWh of electricity) to calculate emissions of CO₂. The emissions from each different business activity are then added together to produce the total tons of CO₂ emitted by the organisation.

Result
Once your organization’s CO₂ emissions have been estimated, opportunities can be identified for emission reductions through analysis of the data, by focussing on priority areas and by taking appropriate actions. Many of these actions will save your company money as well as benefiting the environment.

Offsetting Carbon Emissions
Once emissions have been minimised, DNV can also advise your company regarding offsetting remaining CO₂ emissions (i.e. going “carbon neutral”).

Offsetting the remaining CO₂ emissions involves purchasing what are known as carbon offsets, with a result of net zero emissions. Offset activities include supporting energy conservation activities and supporting renewable projects such as wind farms.