Carbon

Providing impactful guidance to organisations on environmental  measurement and strategy.

Every business activity, in every country, produces some kind of impact on the natural world*. Whether you produce materially intensive physical goods or intellectual services, understanding organisational impacts on the nature* is becoming increasingly important - and indeed, often a legal requirement.

But if you run a company, what sort of evidence would you require to transform your operations and strategy? How do companies go about understanding their impacts and instituting programmes of improvement? How can you ensure that  deep sustainability practices* have a positive impact on your core corporate activities in the marketplace?  Being sustainable* as a company is about more than gloss and press - it  means  more than statements and ambition.

WRC specialise in developing an expert evidence base to guide your  understanding  of  environmental  impacts  and  shaping  strategies  to  reduce  them.

We can form detailed baseline emissions inventories by source, sector and scope, conforming to all industry-standard reporting requirements. These are often then related to customised models projecting how emissions (1) will likely and (2) could change over time according to different economic scenarios composing growth, policy ambition and market   formations. We can relate these findings to science-based pathways and carbon budgets in-line with IPCC targets, national legislation and custom policy frameworks. Importantly, we have industry-leading expertise in the specification of detailed, place specific programmes of decarbonisation within corporate strategy. 

*Nature;  Sustainability;  Carbon;  Emissions:  these  terms  are  all  quite  complicated.  WRC  unashamedly  consider    beyond  the  measurement  of  CO2  emissions  alone.  Impacts  on  nature  include  inter  alia  resource  depletion,  additional  eco  toxicity,  ecosystem  externalities,  economic  ‘bads’  through  lifecycle...      

True,  Deep,  Accurate  sustainability  includes  much  more  than  the  ubiquitous  ‘Carbon  Footprint’.