Guidelines for business to help measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

New guidance to measure and tackle greenhouse gas emissions for businesses and organisations has been published by Defra and DECC. The guidance has been published alongside advice on what it means to be carbon neutral.
The guidance is aimed at all sizes of business as well as public and third sector organisations.
Complementing the GHG guidance, further guidance has been published on how businesses can be carbon neutral by following a three-stage process of calculating, reducing and offsetting emissions. Until now there has been no formal definition of carbon neutral. This latest guidance will help the Advertising Standards Authority in its rulings ahead of Defra’s revised Green Claims Code, due for publication later this year, which will help advertisers making environmental claims about products and services.
Guidance
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/reporting/index.htm
‘Carbon neutral means that – through a transparent process of calculating emissions, reducing those emissions and offsetting residual emissions – net carbon emissions equal zero’.
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/consultations/open/carbon_neutrali...