Carbon Footprint
Step three - Expert
Carbon footprint calculations help you to see where your major sources of emissions are in your organisation. By this step, you should have calculated your carbon footprint. Now you can use this to see where your quick wins are, such as reducing your energy usage, or sourcing goods and services more locally to reduce your transportation emissions.
Beyond immediate actions, your carbon footprint data provides a foundation for setting long-term sustainability goals. This will help you make informed decisions that influence future growth, reduce your costs and improve your environmental impact.
Carbon Reduction Plan
A Carbon Reduction Plan is a structured approach to cutting emissions, helping you to embed sustainability across your operations.
Creating a Carbon Reduction Plan will:
- Give you a tool to help keep the organisation accountable.
- Highlight short-, medium- and long-term change to reduce carbon emissions.
- Support future growth in a sustainable way.
Key steps to writing a Carbon Reduction Plan
Agile City are a community interest company and operate as a social enterprise. They have two primary revenue streams – renting workspace and hiring space for events and production. Any profits we generate are reinvested in facilities, events and projects. All of their work is rooted in a local context around the canal in north Glasgow, and they believe this reinvestment can have a long-term positive impact on the local economy and regeneration of the area.
Sharing your Carbon Footprint & Progress
Sharing your carbon footprint, both internally and externally, can help to showcase the work you’re doing to create a more sustainable organisation.
Leading by example and sharing your best practice with others can help to encourage further change within your community, and positively influence your stakeholders.
Being transparent about your journey can also encourage cross-sector collaboration and reinforce your reputation as a responsible organisation.
Best ways to share your Carbon Footprint Data
Sector spotlight
Agile City are a community interest company and operate as a social enterprise.
They have two primary revenue streams – renting workspace and hiring space for events and production. Any profits they generate are reinvested in facilities, events and projects local community impact.
After an extensive retrofit, and subsequent tracking of their carbon footprint, the building now generates more energy than it consumes over the course of a year - making it Scotland's first passive warehouse.