If you have a business, you are certainly looking to grow through various strategies. But behind each decision, you need to think about several elements, especially when it comes to the environment. Indeed, everyone is looking to act responsibly to limit their carbon footprint, so it's only natural to expect the same from businesses of all sizes.
But to make sure you are taking the right direction, it is important to have an awareness of your company's carbon footprint, and for that you will have to go for a carbon footprint calculation. Why and how to do it? Here's everything you need to know to easily find out your company's carbon footprint!
If you are interested in this subject, you probably already know that it is important to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to do so you need to know your carbon footprint. This is the main reason why you need to do a carbon footprint calculation for your company.
But in concrete terms, why do you need to perform a carbon footprint calculation? Here are a few explanations that will be enough to convince you if you still have any hesitation.
A carbon footprint calculation is necessary if you have to comply with the regulations in force. But the same applies to companies with less than 500 employees wishing to develop a more responsible professional activity.
So before you start making decisions to have a more responsible professional activity, you must succeed in your corporate carbon footprint calculation. But how to do it?
The carbon footprint calculation takes into account your carbon footprint, i.e. all the greenhouse gas emissions of your activity.
The carbon footprint calculation will also take into account the scope and method, i.e. what you buy, move and use to make your business successful. All of this data will be analyzed over a given period of time called a time scope, usually a 12 month period.
However, when calculating your company's carbon footprint, you will encounter two approaches, the monetary one, i.e. in kgCO2e/€, and the physical one, i.e. in kgCO2e/km.
Understand the monetary approach: it will help you to quickly calculate your CO2 emission according to your expenses (material purchases, investment in communication etc).
Use the physical approach: it allows you to have a complementary approach by analyzing data that cannot be summarized in terms of expenses, such as a car journey for example. This precise approach will help to have a complete assessment of your CO2 emissions.
Once your carbon footprint calculation has been carried out based on direct and indirect emissions, scopes and different categories, you will have to continue your work.
Indeed, what can you do with the result of your carbon footprint calculation?
All of this will take time but you will gradually achieve better results in your corporate carbon footprint calculation!