Climate impact documentation, climate accounts and carbon footprint

Climate and CO₂based documentation to customers and authorities about your company's environment impact.

Climate documentation for use in marketing and communication

Today, companies face an increase in demands for the reduction and documentation of their own climate impacts. These demands make it is necessary for the companies to be able to produce documented carbon accounts, product carbon footprints and targeted climate efforts. Subsequently it is important to communicate this information in a reliable way to relevant target groups.

Many companies have an internal wish to work in a structured manner with their own climate impact and use this actively in their marketing. To avoid greenwashing, it is essential that the background data that forms the basis of the climate and environmental communication is as correct as possible.

We ensure that you can document the climate impact of your company to your customers or relevant authorities if for instance your company is subject to a legal obligation to document, for example via the Quota Law.

Correct consultancy – adjusted to the purpose

Irrespective of the starting point, the first step is to calculate and document how your company effects the environment and how much greenhouse gas is emitted as a result of company activities.

Typically, CO₂ is used as a parameter for measuring climate impacts, but also other greenhouse gasses have an impact on the environment. Among other things, such a documentation can consist of a climate account, a carbon footprint or a verification of the CO₂ emission.

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Climate documentation in accordance with approved standards

Documentation from FORCE Technology is prepared in accordance with internationally approved standards. This ensures the credibility and makes it possible to target the efforts, optimise the initiatives and thus achieve the greatest effect, which makes sense economically as well as functionally.

This gives your company a solid basis to inform customers, business partners and interested parties about the climate profile and the optimised strategies.

Our services within climate documentation and CO₂include:

Preparation of climate accounts
You achieve a balance of the emission of greenhouse gasses from your company, organisation, service or other activity. For this we use internationally acknowledged standards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, and the accounts include relevant direct and indirect climate impacts.
Preparation of a carbon footprint
You receive a calculation of the emission of greenhouse gasses from your product using life cycle based methods. We do the calculation by means of a life cycle assessment (LCA) for the part, which you as a producer have direct influence on, but it can also be extended to include the user phase, removal of the product or a recycling process.
Help for CO₂ reduction and neutrality
You receive consultancy on how to reduce CO₂ emissions and other greenhouse gasses as well as consultancy on the possibilities for optimising your energy consumption, purchasing or investing in environmentally friendly energy. At the same time, we will advise you on how to obtain credible reductions or CO₂ neutrality by means of buying allowances or offset.
Science based targets / scientific targets
Do you want you company’s climate reduction targets to be in line with international climate scientists and reflect that your company is taking on its fair share of the greenhouse gas reductions, which are needed to keep the global temperature rise below the politically agreed level? In that case, we can help you select the right method and calculate how ambitious your targets needs to be.
CO₂ verification
You receive a statement of the CO₂ emissions in your company, which is prepared in accordance with statutory demands by our approved CO₂ verifiers. Furthermore, we offer impartial third party verifications, which you can use if you voluntarily wish to document the emission of greenhouse gasses from your company to the outside world.

Our competences within climate and CO₂

FORCE Technology has extensive experience of documentation and consultancy within climate and CO₂ emissions. Our services always begin with a dialogue with our customer regarding your specific needs so we can design a solution that will give the most value to your business.

If you wish to learn more on climate documentation, please do not hesitate to contact us.

FAQ

What is the scope of a climate inventory, scope 1, 2 and 3?
Scope 1 includes all an organizations direct emissions from activities that are owned or controlled by the organization.

Scope 2 are the climate emissions that come from the organizations purchase of electricity.

Scope 3 only includes indirect emissions such as climate emissions from the production of raw materials, transport, use and disposal (when the organization does not own or control the emitting activities). All relevant climate emissions can be included and are measured in the unit CO₂-equivalents.
What is the difference between a carbon footprint and an LCA?
A carbon footprint and an LCA both calculate environmental impacts throughout the life cycle of a product or a service, which usually includes raw materials, production, use, transport and disposal.

An LCA, however, assesses a larger number of different environmental impacts (e.g. acidification, toxicity, eutrophication and global warming), where as a carbon footprint only calculates impacts on global warming. A carbon footprint can therefore be considered a subset of a full LCA.
When is ”green power” actually green?
The term ‘green power’ is not a well defined term and can mean different things depending on the context.

Several suppliers of electricity offer their clients so called green power, which they most often consider to be power, that does not cause a positive net emission of CO₂ in the production and supply of the power. This can be because the power is produced from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind etc.

Alternatively, it can be because the electricity supplier is ensuring the removal of CO₂ from the atmosphere in a quantity that corresponds to the CO₂ emitted by the supply of the power.

To ensure that the purchased power is in fact “green”, it is advised to check that the supplier has the appropriate documentation in the form of for example a REC certificate (Renewable Energy Certificate) or a third party certified voluntary allowance. This documentation can serve the purpose that renewable energy is sold only once and that the CO₂ reduction is in fact taking place and/or that by purchasing green energy you are in fact increasing the available capacity of renewable power.
What is a science based target and why set targets like that?
A so-called science based target is a climate reduction target that is set in accordance with an organizations proportionate reduction obligation if this organization shall assume its “just share” of the climate emission reductions, which are necessary to keep the global temperature rise below the politically agreed level.

The politically agreed level being less than 2 degrees celcius above the pre-industrial level, as described in the assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The theory is that if all organizations set their reduction targets in this way, then the world in unity would achieve the target. There are different ways to calculate how ambitious such a target must be, depending on the business area, geography etc.

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Climate impact documentation, climate accounts and carbon footprint

Climate and CO₂based documentation to customers and authorities about your company's environment impact.

Climate documentation for use in marketing and communication

Correct consultancy – adjusted to the purpose

Svaneke Bryghus is Denmark's first CO2 neutral brewery

Climate documentation in accordance with approved standards

Our services within climate documentation and CO₂include:

Our competences within climate and CO₂

FAQ

Charlotte Merlin

Circular economy

Services

Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Environment communication consultancy

Resource optimisation of products and services

Green business models

Climate impact documentation, climate accounts and carbon footprint

Climate and CO2 based documentation to customers and authorities about your company's environment impact.

Climate documentation for use in marketing and communication

Correct consultancy – adjusted to the purpose

Svaneke Bryghus is Denmark's first CO2 neutral brewery

Climate documentation in accordance with approved standards

Our services within climate documentation and CO2 include:

Our competences within climate and CO2

FAQ

Charlotte Merlin

Circular economy

Services

Life cycle assessment (LCA)

Environment communication consultancy

Resource optimisation of products and services

Green business models

Climate and CO₂based documentation to customers and authorities about your company's environment impact.

Our services within climate documentation and CO₂include:

Our competences within climate and CO₂