Website: The Carbon Trust

This report from The Carbon Trust clearly explains how to manage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by understanding what emissions are caused by a business’s activities or products.

The Carbon Trust’s carbon footprinting guide outlines the key steps that a business can take to:

• Calculate its organizational carbon footprint -- by measuring greenhouse gas emissions arising from all its activities and setting a benchmark for reducing emissions in the future. The guide also explains how to have the business’s carbon footprint independently verified to help communicate claims with integrity.
• Assess, communicate and verify the carbon footprint of a product -- a product’s carbon footprint includes carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions across its entire lifecycle from manufacture and distribution to its use and disposal.
• Use a carbon footprint for ongoing carbon management -- calculating a carbon footprint is just the first step in putting together a carbon management programme to reduce emissions. A carbon management programme can help to encourage innovation and create cost-savings across a business.

Finally, it explains how the Carbon Trust can help you calculate your carbon emissions, and work with you to develop a full carbon management strategy for your organisation. The report can be downloaded here (subscription required).