Measure GHG emissions

Carbon footprint consultants

Carbon footprinting: GHG emissions

Are you struggling to tackle your organisation’s carbon footprint? Are you wondering:

Offering full carbon footprint services, Grain can help.

Our Carbon Footprinting work

Pegasus Group

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Bio Capital

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Grain: carbon footprint consultants

Whether you’re looking to conduct your business’ first greenhouse gas inventory or building on a base year with more detailed data, we can offer our expertise.

What does a carbon footprint include?

Your company’s carbon footprint measures the outputs of actions (e.g. travel, investing, purchasing, manufacturing) and in turn, their impact on the planet. To meet Paris Agreement commitments, it is vital for all organisations to identify and be responsible for the emissions that your organisation releases into the atmosphere.

While the word carbon is often put in front of emissions, footprint and reductions, we are usually referring to a variety of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The most common GHGs are carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄), nitrous oxide (N₂O), and ozone (O₃). Each gas has a different potency and warming impact. For example, methane is about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas, but it dissipates faster.

CO₂e means carbon dioxide equivalent, a metric that considers all greenhouse gases and their different global warming impacts. This comparable figure is usually reported on an annual basis.

Scope 1, 2, and 3

According to the GHG Corporate Protocol, emissions are classified into Scope 1, 2, and 3 based on where they originate:

Scope 1 emissions are the direct GHG emissions from a company’s business activities. These include the generation of electricity, heat and steam, the manufacturing of chemicals, waste processing, transportation using company-owned vehicles and fugitive emissions through equipment leaks.
Scope 2 emissions are the indirect emissions generated by the production of purchased energy. This includes purchased heating, electricity, steam, and cooling.
Scope 3 emissions are all the other indirect emissions occurring in a company’s value chain, including upstream and downstream activities that you do not own or control. For a business which is not directly burning fossil fuels or purchasing a great amount of electricity, Scope 3 emissions can account for over 90% of your footprint.

Measure, analyse, reduce

The Grain team is here to help you measure a detailed carbon footprint, guiding you through a data collection process tailored to your specific industry and needs. We use an online data gathering platform aligned to the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, assuring that our emissions calculations can be trusted and communicated confidently.

A figure of total tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (tCO₂e) will be calculated with a breakdown of sources and scopes. We provide data visualisations demonstrating the key areas of emissions from your business and where to focus reduction targets.

Having a full carbon footprint allows you to be transparent with your stakeholders including customers, suppliers, and employees, demonstrating that you are serious about positive change.

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“Grain is a trusted partner. Always positive and a pleasure to work with, they have quickly grasped our complex organization and really moved our green journey in the right direction.”

“Grain provided Pegasus with great value and expertise in sustainability, to help formulate our sustainability strategy with positive results. We will happily return for future advice.”

“Grain’s in-depth knowledge and understanding hugely simplified and shortened our B Corp journey, allowing us to focus on the areas we needed to work on and making our ambitions a reality.”

Grain has been the driving force to move Rupert’s sustainability programme from good intentions and high-level policy to more integrated reporting systems and management tools.”

“Plastics Europe chose Grain to help articulate our new purpose around sustainability. The communication materials supported our repositioning and allowed us to gain consensus and effectively engage stakeholders.”

"Working with Grain brought clarity and direction to our energy and enthusiasm, giving us a laser focus on the key topics, approaches, and opportunities that would allow us to make the most positive impact possible.”

“Grain have been invaluable at providing clarity and focus, making our B Corp submission the strongest it could be. Most importantly, they inspired us to be a better practice for our team, for our clients and for everyone who lives, works and visits our buildings and neighbourhoods.”

“Grain’s experience in fashion has helped us become more sustainable. We’re very happy with the results, particularly the sustainability report which clearly sets out our goals and achievements.”

“Grain’s knowledge and ability to communicate with the public has been invaluable in the creation and growth of our community organisation, Sustainable Amersham.”

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Measure GHG emissions

Carbon footprint consultants

Carbon footprinting: GHG emissions

Our Carbon Footprinting work

Pegasus Group

Bio Capital

AD Branded Solutions

Grain: carbon footprint consultants

What does a carbon footprint include?

Scope 1, 2, and 3

Measure, analyse, reduce

Trusted by

Why choose Grain?

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