Step 3 - Vision and footprint goals

It is important to set a clear vision and detailed goals. This will help you communicate what you are striving towards and it will also help encourage your colleagues and other stakeholders to find new solutions. By clarifying your priorities and setting a level of ambitions you will clarify what you are not prioritising and why, this is surprisingly good to know. An essential part in defining a vision and relevant goals is your footpring measurement. You need to measure your emissions and resource utilisation in order to define a starting point. The first time you measure your footprint it is fairly time consuming but once the structure and experience is in place you can make it part normal reporting.

Some companies choose to hire a consultant to help them other companies will do it themselves. In order to understand your footprint you need to use a tool that will help you calculate your discharge. There are a number of different tools, methods and systems that can help you. Here are some of the most commonly used…

GRI Global Reporting Initiative

The Guidelines should be used as the basis for all reporting. They are the foundation upon which all other reporting guidance is based, and outline core content for reporting that is broadly relevant to all organizations regardless of size, sector, or location. The Guidelines contain principles and guidance as well as standard disclosures – including indicators – to outline a disclosure framework that organizations can voluntarily, flexibly, and incrementally, adopt.
http://www.globalreporting.org/Home

Carbon Disclosure Project

The CDP Corporate Supply Chain Programme, initiated in 2007, represents an integral aspect of the Carbon Disclosure Project’s drive to promote management of greenhouse gases within industry. Building on the annual CDP Information Request, it effectively leverages CDP’s unique position as the world’s largest resource of corporate greenhouse gas emissions data. CDP’s 2008 Information Request, compiled and issued on behalf of Signatory Investors, attracted responses from more than 1,550 corporations, while CDP’s website is the largest climate change related corporate database in the world.
http://www.cdproject.net/index.asp

GHG Protocol

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. A decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the GHG Protocol is working with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.
http://www.ghgprotocol.org/


Corporate Ecosystem Services Review

The Corporate Ecosystem Services Review - Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks and Opportunities Arising from Ecosystem Change
Ecosystem degradation is highly relevant to business because companies not only impact ecosystems and the services they provide but also depend on them. Ecosystem degradation, therefore, can pose a number of risks to corporate performance as well as create new business opportunities.
Product development
http://www.wri.org/publication/corporate-ecosystem-services-review

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