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How to Determine A Carbon Footprint – Free “how to” guide to carbon footprint your businesses, products and services

The Carbon Trust has recently launched a new guide to carbon footprinting for businesses. This guide gives clear and simple advice on reducing your emissions and explains how you can manage and reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by understanding what emissions are caused by your business’s products and services.

The carbon footprinting guide outlines three key steps that your business …

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What is a Carbon Footprint?

FootprintFor a while now, the term ‘Carbon Footprint’ has been used by the media and politicians with regard to environment and green issues – but what does it actually mean?  How does it affect you? 

A carbon footprint can be calculated for just about anything.  The term  relates to the amount of Carbon dioxide emissions something produces when functioning – that could be a person, an appliance, a company or even a whole country.  

At an individual level, your carbon footprint will provide you with an indication on how, through your daily routine, you are impacting upon the environment.  Electricity, heating and transportation are all made possible Read More »

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