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More coming from this space. Watch out!
More coming from this space. Watch out!
Greenscore is a Product Carbon Footprint Programme based around ISO14067.(Carbon footprint of products – Requirements and guidelines for quantification and communication). This is a new standard currently in draft form and due for publication in 2014.
Greenscore offers a step by step scientific approach that allows product producers to review findings on a regular basis, and decide at what point the programme delivers what they, or their clients require.
In other words, we make Lifecycle Analysis (LCA) less daunting, customisable and cost effective. Get in touch to find out more.
Why greenscore?
With overwhelming evidence of increased demand from purchasers for product environmental transparency, producers need to have evidence of credible data on Product Life Cycle Inventories and the environmental impact generated from a product during its useful life.
Until now these requests have been daunting for most producers.
Instep has developed a cost effective, scientific programme which allows you to be in the position to meet these important environmental expectations when purchasers are considering their preferred supply chain partners.
Increasingly, organisations are required to report their sustainability efforts. Increasingly as well, many (in Singapore) see that there is a benefit to moving past traditional CSR type non-financial metrics to include measures of material use, water consumption and carbon footprint.
Carbon is increasingly an important aspect of these trends in sustainability reporting, due to the urgent global attention to climate change. Relating back to sustainability reporting, it is for example, one of the items within the Global Reporting Initiative framework, and increasingly, “Green” Certifications are stipulating a requirement or advocating that companies measure their GHG emissions.
From Ideatrotter: What does it take for a city to be innovative? Why is innovation necessary at a city level? Is your city one of the most innovative cities in Asia?
From Guardian: “Nic Marks, founder of the Centre for Wellbeing, talks about the challenges of the global economic system. Marks created the Happy Planet Index to measure global wellbeing and environmental impact, which showed that the world’s wealthiest countries weren’t happier. We are servants to the system, rather than its masters, Marks says. Instead of measuring outputs in terms of economic growth, it should be the quality of people’s experience of life.”
The PwC Low Carbon Economy Index evaluates the rate of decarbonisation of the global economy that is needed to limit warming to 2°C. This is based on a carbon budget that would stabilise atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at 450 ppm and give a 50% probability of limiting warming to 2°C.
This report shows that global carbon intensity decreased between 2000 and 2011 by around 0.8%a year. In 2011, carbon intensity decreased by just 0.7%.The global economy now needs tocut carbon intensity by 5.1% every year from now to 2050 to achievethis carbon budget. This requiredrate of decarbonisation has not been seen even in a single year since the mid-20th century whenthese records began.
Keeping to the 2°C carbon budget will requireunprecedented and sustainedreductions over four decades.Governments’ ambitions to limit warming to 2°C appear highly unrealistic.
Read the report:
From Green Drinks Singapore:
As requested, here are Julian Wong’s slides from his presentation at the October Green Drinks Session. Enjoy!
J.wong Systems Thinking Presentation
