{"id":7354,"date":"2023-09-14T19:47:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2023-09-14T19:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:47:55","slug":"how-to-reduce-a-companys-carbon-footprint-in-racing-to-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/09\/14\/how-to-reduce-a-companys-carbon-footprint-in-racing-to-net-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"How to reduce a company&#039;s carbon footprint in the race to net zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>We must all strive to achieve the Paris Agreement&#039;s goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and achieving a net-zero economy. The sense of urgency has also extended to investors, who are increasingly putting pressure on companies to define clear climate change strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Measuring the impact of a company&#039;s carbon footprint<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>The first step is to calculate the company&#039;s carbon footprint. By measuring total greenhouse gas emissions, usually over a year, a company can assess its baseline environmental impact. The analysis includes three types of emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Scope 1 are direct emissions that arise from sources controlled or owned by the company, such as burning fuel in boilers, furnaces and company vehicles. Scope 2 is from the purchase of electricity, steam, heat or cooling, while Scope 3 is from other indirect activities in upstream and downstream business operations such as the supply chain, business travel, commuting and waste. Scope 3 also includes, in the case of a property and asset manager such as Lombard Odier, investments made on behalf of our clients. <\/span><span>Scope 4 emissions, or avoidable emissions, have recently attracted attention, in part due to trends in working from home. While these emission reductions occur outside the company&#039;s value chain, Scope 4 facilitates decarbonisation for other parts of the economy. (<em>Ebba Lepage<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must all strive to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and achieving a net-zero economy. The sense of urgency has also spread to investors, who are increasingly putting pressure on companies to define clear climate change strategies. Measuring a company\u2019s carbon footprint The first step is to calculate a company\u2019s carbon footprint. By measuring total greenhouse gas emissions, usually over [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}