“Carbon footprint” is a term used to describe the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a particular activity or entity, and thus a way for organizations and individuals to assess their contribution to climate change. Understanding these emissions, and where they come from, is necessary in order to reduce them. In the past, companies wanting to measure their carbon footprints have focused on their own emissions, but now they are increasingly concerned with emissions across their entire supply chain.

Supply chain GHG emissions, which include those associated with processes not controlled by the company itself, can be measured at either the company level or the level of an individual product.

While PAS 2050 provides a standard method for assessing a product’s carbon footprint, this guide, “Guide to PAS 2050″, will help businesses to implement the standard by offering specific and practical guidance. It is not a replacement for PAS 2050 and should always be used alongside PAS 2050. There are benefits to both company- and product-level supply chain emissions assessment; however, PAS 2050 and this guide focus on product-level emissions only.

This guide aims to:

- Enable companies of all sizes, and from all industries, to assess the life cycle carbon footprint of their products and to identify emission reduction opportunities

- Share best practices, tools and frameworks for calculating product-level GHG emissions and prioritizing opportunities to reduce emissions

PAS 2050 and this guide focus exclusively on GHG emissions created during a product’s life cycle.

Visit the Carbon Trust website (http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/Pages/Default.aspx) to download supporting documents such as the PAS 2050 Specifications, the Guide to PAS 2050, and the Code of Good Practice.

Paul Tasner
Reclipse Group, Inc.

OK the Holidays and 2009 and decade reflections are done.
The Reclipse compass and talent is pointed in the help business while helping people make the complex simple directions and so far so good.
Reclipse will build on the foundations that we have secured in 2009 and help evangelize and support companies in building and transforming their businesses in the most profound and value oriented manner possible.
The social networking and community marketing focus is a blur of connection and real efficient navigation is needed so the “Fad Focus” moves to a more focused real value/ROI benefit instead of creating blurry “Blink” dots that are short lived and no-one can connect. I am not a twitter fan at this stage of its evolution as you might gather from my comments.
All being well it will be a year to continue the healing from the Economic Flu of the past few years. It will be a year and time of entities figuring out how to truly collaborate/partner to succeed and our umbrella lite methodology of Business Chain Management and Improvement will become a high value add for our clients and partners. We practice the Customer Driven – BC Sell, Recruit, Do methods and this year we will unveil more on these capabilities. Onward – Nigel