Climate change is the most important environmental challenge of our time.
As the threat of climate change continues to grow, savy consumers, employees, shareholders and investors alike now expect businesses to do their part and take responsibility for their environmental impact. As such, we've developed a free, easy to use carbon calculator to help service-based organisations measure their footprint and offset their emissions.
How to use this tool?
The Calculator is designed for service-based organisations, with up to five office locations, where the majority of its emissions occur in the country of the head office.
It estimates emissions for seven typical emission sources for office-based organisations, covering scope 1 and 2 emissions and material scope 3 emissions.
This Calculator is only intended to provide an estimate of carbon emissions for organisations and does not represent a verified carbon footprint.
Contact us directly if you require a verified carbon footprint and or if have an emission profile greater than 1,000 tonnes.
Calculator Methodology
The Calculator draws on carbon accounting principles and methodologies from the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (WBCSD, WRI), and applies Point Advisory’s extensive carbon accounting experience. Users should note its inherent limitations when deciding how to use the outputs of the calculator. For further information please down the Methodology.
Carbon Offsets
Carbon offsets, also known as carbon credits, are used by leading organisations to help reduce the impact of their carbon footprint. Each offset represents one metric tonne of greenhouse gas emissions (t-CO2e). When you purchase a carbon offset from a third party, you are essentially paying someone else to offset, or reduce, one tonne of carbon emissions from the atmosphere in another location, on your behalf. Effectively you are paying someone else to do what you can't.
As such it is important to reduce your own emissions first, where possible, before buying carbon offsets. Typically organisations will calculate their carbon footprint annually, often at the end of the financial year. They will then purchase the required offsets and permanently retire them, thus neutralising their carbon footprint. Whilst carbon offsets come in all shapes and sizes, fundamentally a certified (or verified) offset from a reputable carbon standard, helps to ensure the unit is credible and from a trusted supplier.