Episode 3 - How To Work Out The Carbon Footprint Of A Business?

Climate Change Unfolding

The Journey begins… and there seemed no better place to start than working out what I’m currently responsible for emitting. This episode lays out how I went about working out the carbon footprint of my three businesses, and throws a few lessons that I learnt along the way in the mix. I wish I could have listened to this episode before I started out... and saved myself a whole bunch of time! I hope you enjoy. Drop me an email on [email protected] or connect on twitter @SamJamesWard if you have any suggestions, comments or critique! - - - - - - - - - - Here are some links discussed in the podcast: Uganda Carbon Bureau http://www.ugandacarbon.org/ Green house gas calculation tools: https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools The Carbon Trust: https://www.carbontrust.com/home/ Type in your country, and click on the secondary tab to work out the emissions using the cost of a category of items, rather than a per item emission: https://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx The flight calculator recommended by the greenhouse Gas protocol, which presumably then has a very good level of legitimacy: https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/CarbonOffset/Pages/default.aspx Note on that is that this flight calculator comes in at a lower Carbon emissions than a lot of flight calculators online so if you want to be double sure you’ve got it covered, use the climate care calculator which comes in on the higher side: http://www.climatecare.org/home.aspx