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Measurement is essential if you want to cut your carbon emissions

Posted by Bruce Rowse in Carbon Measurement and Tracking - (1 Comments)

A recent study by IBM published in Forbes magazine says that whilst many companies want to reduce their carbon footprint, many do not have the measurement systems in place. The study says that “Companies aren’t collecting and analyzing the information they really need or aggregating it often enough. Because of that, they can’t implement real … Read more →

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Its nice to consulted on voluntary carbon abatement

Posted by Bruce Rowse in CPRS | Carbon Conservation | Carbon Measurement and Tracking - (0 Comments)

Yesterday I attended the public consultation in Melbourne about accounting for and measuring voluntary greenhouse gas savings. The consultation was run by the Offsets Policy Team from the Department of Climate Change.   It was good to be consulted and heard, and made me feel a little less disenfranchised by the CPRS. Four or five years … Read more →

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Budget 2009: Pay twice to cut carbon.

Posted by Bruce Rowse in CPRS | Carbon Conservation | Carbon Measurement and Tracking | Emissions Trading Scheme - (1 Comments)

Direct quote from the government’s 2009 budget web site: “Households and small businesses will be able to calculate the potential dollar savings from their energy efficiency actions and make tax deductible donations to the Energy Efficiency Savings Pledge Fund. The Australian Carbon Trust will use these donations to purchase and retire Australian emissions units or … Read more →

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Action gets results

Posted by Bruce Rowse in Carbon Conservation | Carbon Measurement and Tracking | Climate Positive | Energy Efficiency | Leadership - (0 Comments)

Its been a while since our last blog post. Which of course means we have been busy helping our customers save lots of carbon! Its always tremendously satisfying to see customers act on our advice and thus cut their energy costs and carbon emissions. We recently helped one of our oldest customers identify savings in … Read more →

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The three pre-requisites for sustainable carbon conservation

Posted by Bruce Rowse in Carbon Conservation | Carbon Measurement and Tracking | Leadership - (0 Comments)

As I’ve observed organisations that are successful in reducing their carbon emissions in an on-going way I’ve noticed that they all have three things in place before they begin to significantly cut their carbon: Leadership commitment. More often that not the most senior level managers will be on the environmental steering committee. A system in … Read more →

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