Carbon Strategy & Accounting

The current drive towards the reduction of GHG emissions from anthropogenic sources has resulted in a need for businesses to implement robust and effective policies relating to climate change. An important consideration of any carbon strategy is how carbon and other GHG emissions will be accounted for in terms of organisational boundaries, emissions scope and data sources.

SISTech has considerable experience in working with clients to formulate practical carbon strategies which are cognisant of current legislative requirements and best practice across a wide range of industrial sectors. Furthermore, carbon accounting expertise has been developed and honed through projects relating to the embodied carbon in building materials, the evaluation of carbon accounting methodologies relating to the water and construction industries, and in the selection of carbon accounting toolsets suitable for the use by local communities.

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Example Projects

Embodied carbon of Natural Stone study for Historic Scotland – An LCA based approach to measure the embodied carbon associated with the quarrying and processing of natural stone.

Carbon Evaluation for Moffat CAN – An evaluation of a community based project involving calculating carbon savings and attitude changes.

Carbon Evaluation for ICE – A project designed to assess methodological best practice in whole life carbon accounting for the evaluation and management of major infrastructure projects.

Carbon Evaluation for Transition Edinburgh South – This project is ongoing.

Carbon Evaluation for PIPER – This project involves assessing the impact of a school based community project.

Sustainability statements to accompany Section 36 planning applications – Carbon accounting and sustainability statements to accompany Section 36 planning applications for biomass electricity plants.

Carbon Accounting for a major utility company – This project involved auditing various sustainability and carbon accounting models developed within a major utility company in the UK.

UK Water Industry Research Carbon Accounting – This project involved developing a set of standardised guidelines for UK water companies.

Carbon Footprinting tool for Greener Kirkcaldy – This project involved .

Carbon strategy for major mixed use development – SISTech developed a Carbon Strategy for the Leith Docks mixed-use development in Edinburgh, the largest outline planning application in Scottish history.