As global warming, sustainability and environmental issues move to the forefront of political and business concerns, we expect Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tracking and Reporting to be as essential as energy tracking.
Why? An organization's "carbon footprint" is determined almost entirely by its energy usage. This is because energy usage contributes to the production of greenhouse gases. Thus, high energy usage increases a company’s “carbon footprint.” However, because they are related, you can track one by tracking the other. By tracking your energy usage, you can track your greenhouse gas emissions. EnergyCAP has created a single platform to track both!
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tracking and Reporting is essential to:
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Establish a GHG baseline; |
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Benchmark GHG emissions and emission reductions from facility to facility and department to department; |
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Bring visibility to the organization's carbon reduction initiatives; |
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Identify particularly high "offenders"; |
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Track the impact of credits obtained via direct purchase and use of "green" supply contracts; |
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Determine if the organization qualifies for the sale of credits. |
EnergyCAP tracks and calculates GHG Emissions from direct and indirect energy sources. Indirect greenhouse gas emissions are those from the consumption of purchased electricity, heat, and steam. Direct emissions are those resulting from the combustion of fuels and industrial processes as well as from a variety of onsite fugitive emissions.
EnergyCAP provides a variety of options for viewing and reporting GHG emissions; they can be viewed/reported according to total emissions, direct and indirect, stationary and mobile, by commodity and/or by GHG gas type.
A complete GHG factor database is available for download based on EPA eGrid and other sources.
Also, GHG factors for manual entry are also available.
Total Annual GreenHouse Gas Emissions - includes both direct and indirect emission sources.
Annual GreenHouse Gas Emissions attributable to Direct Stationary sources.
Annual GreenHouse Gas Emissions attributable to Indirect Purchased Electricity.
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The California Climate Action Registry is a private non-profit organization originally formed by the State of California. The California Registry serves as a voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) registry to protect and promote early actions to reduce GHG emissions by organizations. The California Registry provides leadership on climate change by developing and promoting credible, accurate, and consistent GHG reporting standards and tools for organizations to measure, monitor, third-party verify and reduce their GHG emissions consistently across industry sectors and geographical borders.
Go to the California Climate Action Registry.
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The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), launched in 2003, is the world’s first and North America’s only active voluntary, legally binding integrated trading system to reduce emissions of all six major greenhouse gases (GHGs), with offset projects worldwide. CCX Members are leaders in greenhouse gas (GHG) management and represent all sectors of the global economy, as well as public sector innovators.
Go to CCX Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors.
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The Climate Registry is a collaboration between states, provinces and tribes aimed at developing and managing a common greenhouse gas emissions reporting system with high integrity that is capable of supporting various greenhouse gas emission reporting and reduction policies for its member states and tribes and reporting entities. It will provide an accurate, complete, consistent, transparent and verified set of greenhouse gas emissions data from reporting entities, supported by a robust accounting and verification infrastructure.
Go to the Climate Registry. |
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Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop comprehensive climate change strategies. Partner companies commit to reducing their impact on the global environment by completing a corporate-wide inventory of their greenhouse gas emissions based on a quality management system, setting aggressive reduction goals, and annually reporting their progress to EPA.
Go to EPA Climate Leaders. |
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) was jointly convened in 1998 by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). The GHG Protocol is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions.
Go to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
As part of its National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides an Emission Factor Database (EFDB). The EFDB is meant to be a recognized library, where users can find emission factors and other parameters with background documentation or technical references that can be used for estimating greenhouse gas emissions and removals.
Go to the IPCC Emission Factor Database. |
