Valpak Limited | Helping You to Gain Carbon Accounting Standards

Currently carbon reporting is only regulated for large emitting organisations and, more recently through the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), for those companies with half hourly electricity meters and an annual electricity consumption of over 6,000 megawatt hours.

However, Defra are currently consulting on the introduction of mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reporting for companies. In France, mandatory carbon labelling is already being piloted (which will impact all imported products sold on the French market).

Helping You to Obtain Carbon Standards

In addition to these regulatory requirements, a large number of organisations are voluntarily calculating, reducing and reporting their environmental credentials. There are many carbon accounting standards which can be followed voluntarily. We can help you to obtain all of the standards which are briefly outlined below. Please call 0141 548 8210 to find out more.

Carbon Standards

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ISO 14040/44

The ISO 14040/44 standards set out the main aspects to be considered when carrying out life cycle assessment (LCA), including an explanation of ‘goal and scope of the LCA, the life cycle inventory analysis (LCI) phase, the life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase, the life cycle interpretation phase, reporting and critical review of the LCA’.
WRI/ WBCSD Standards

The GHG Protocol, produced by the WRI and WBCSD, is one of the most widely used accounting standards to understand, quantify, and manage organisational greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, they have recently published two new standards: the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Standard and the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard. These can be downloaded for free from www.ghgprotocol.org.
ISO 14064
This Standard is published in three parts:
- ISO 14064-1:2006 specifies principles and requirements at the organisation level for quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals
- ISO 14064-2:2006 specifies principles and requirements and provides guidance at the project level for quantification, monitoring and reporting of activities intended to cause greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions or removal enhancements
- ISO 14064-3:2006 specifies principles and requirements and provides guidance for those conducting or managing the validation and/or verification of greenhouse gas (GHG) assertions
PAS 2050

PAS 2050 is based on standardised life cycle assessment (LCA) methods as detailed in BS EN ISO 14040 and BS EN ISO 14044 and as such covers the GHG emissions released from cradle-to-grave (for business-to-consumer assessments) or cradle-to-gate (for business-to-business assessments) and therefore may include emissions associated with the creation, modification, transportation, storage, use, provision and recycling or disposal of products or services.

PAS 2050 was launched in October 2008, with a revised edition published in September 2011.
PAS 2060

PAS 2060 was published by the British Standards Institute (BSI) in April 2010 and aims to provide a common and consistent approach for the demonstration of carbon neutrality for organisations, products, events, buildings, towns, cities and services. By doing this, claims of carbon neutrality can then be compared.

A declaration of commitment to achieving carbon neutrality requires an entity to determine its carbon footprint, in line with recognised methodologies, and then produce a Carbon Footprint Management Plan describing how it intends to achieve carbon neutrality.

The Carbon Footprint Management Plan should not only include plans of how emissions will be reduced, but should also include details of the procurement of carbon offsets for residual emissions (which are required to meet a specified standard). However, the specification does focus on encouraging entities to work towards reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and to achieve genuine reductions in those emissions

We are a carbon neutral company to PAS 2060 and have the expertise to advise you on how to achieve carbon neutrality to this standard.

Important Notice

On the 30 September, BSI published an updated version of their product carbon footprinting guidance document, PAS 2050. Read more here

2010 Customer Survey

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