…Practical demonstrations to show how organisations can meet carbon reduction and compliance requirements while generating savings and revenue opportunities…
Friday 9th April 2010 – Greenstone Carbon Management, the global specialist carbon solutions company, has announced that it will be exhibiting at Sustainable Business, SustainabilityLive Event from 20th-22nd April 2010. Greenstone will showcase its enterprise carbon accounting software suite Acco2unt* and demonstrate how it enables organisations to accurately measure, manage, plan, store and report emission data, while tracking performance on their carbon footprint at multiple organisational levels and to model carbon footprint reduction strategies.
Sustainable Business is a new addition to SustainabilityLive in 2010. Carbon reduction, resource efficiency, and corporate responsibility is at the top of every organisation’s agenda. From retailers and manufacturers, to banks and utilities every company has a responsibility to change their practices, strategies and processes. The three day event will provide attendees with the stage to engage fully in the sustainability agenda.
Matthew de Villiers, Chief Executive at Greenstone Carbon Management, said “Carbon emissions increasingly constitute a tangible cost for businesses through the introduction of wide regulatory reporting requirements, emission cap and trade systems and taxes designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Manually inputting this amount of data onto spreadsheets is a laborious and expensive task. By contrast, modern carbon accounting software systems can integrate with companies’ recording and analysis applications to automatically download this information, or to enable people at individual parts of the organisation to input the data directly to the system. As carbon emissions become more directly regulated, this will become an increasingly important advantage as the cost of manual centralised upkeep of records is likely to spiral.”
de Villiers continues, “For many organisations, carbon represents a new management challenge and risk to business leaders. As with any new challenge the first step is to understand one’s exposure – in the case of carbon this means measuring carbon emissions across the enterprise and establishing a baseline. From this baseline compliance exposure and liability can be addressed and carbon management processes and reduction activities can be initiated to address operational risks. Our software suite Acco2unt addresses these challenges in very practical but immediate way – and in fact our software is now being used by a wide variety of companies from FTSE 100 multinational businesses to single site SMEs and has been deployed in over 30 countries.”
Greenstone is accredited by the Carbon Trust to provide specialist carbon management strategies and solutions that help private and public sector organisations manage their climate change risks within a commercial context. Greenstone’s consulting team includes experts with a blend of capabilities covering scientific and commercial skills in sectors such as IT, automotive, travel and leisure, building and property, utilities, financial services, legal, FMCG and retail.
Visit Greenstone Carbon Management at Stand K65, Sustainable Business, SustainabilityLive, NEC, Birmingham. To find out more visit www.sustainabilitylive.com
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Notes to Editor
* Greenstone’s unique Acco2unt software product suite provides organisations with robust carbon management and accounting solutions. It enables organisations to measure, manage, plan, store and report emission data, track performance on their carbon footprint at multiple organisational levels and to accurately model carbon footprint reduction strategies. Acco2unt can significantly reduce the burden of auditing and reporting for compliance purposes, for stakeholders and customers. An extensive list of emission sources is included in the software’s calculation covering energy, travel and transport, IT, together with waste and water consumption.
About Greenstone Carbon Management Limited
Greenstone Carbon Management Limited is a specialist carbon solutions company – based in London, United Kingdom. Formed in 2006, it works in partnership with major commercial and public sector organisations to help measure, manage and mitigate their carbon emissions to realise business and financial benefits. Greenstone’s proposition comprises both consulting advice and access to a suite of Carbon Management software tools through a SaaS model.
Typically, engagements with clients follow a three step process: (i) Carbon Readiness Assessment; (ii) Carbon Measurement and (iii) Carbon Reduction Strategies. During the engagement, Greenstone will provide tools to help measure and manage the organisation’s carbon emissions, help set up processes to gather data and to train personnel to manage their carbon footprint on an ongoing basis.
Greenstone has worked with a range of global businesses and respected brands such as the Virgin Group, Fujitsu and Ocado Limited. For further information please visit http://www.greenstonecarbon.com
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