Carbon, GHG & Corporate Sustainability Responsibility (CSR) Assessment
The Green Roundtable (GRT) offers customizable greenhouse gas inventory services to assess an organizations’ environmental performance. Understanding an organization’s greenhouse gas emissions is a useful tool for monitoring performance trends and facilitating continuous improvement. With climate change legislation on the horizon, creating a greenhouse gas inventory puts companies ahead of the curve.
GRT’s role is to provide the client with the necessary leadership, strategy, technical assistance and support to compile and analyze data and identify opportunities for cost-effective improvement. GRT’s greenhouse gas services are often combined with our existing buildings services.
Carbon Footprint/Greenhouse Gas Reduction Assessment
GRT staff provides a comprehensive assessment that identifies clients’ current major emissions sources and opportunities for savings in the future. GRT staff:
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Reviews existing systems and infrastructure
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Analyzes data
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Determines what tools will be used to establish the carbon baseline
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Provides recommendations and a timeline for reducing carbon emissions
Business
The first step in developing a greenhouse gas management plan is to understand company infrastructure, operational practices and goals in order to devise a climate action plan. Typical project services would include the following:
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Meet to review what systems and infrastructure exist, what data are available, what data collection needs to happen for complete reporting
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Create a project timeline and data request spreadsheets
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Assemble data as greenhouse gas inventory
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Provide instructions and on-call guidance on how to maintain the inventory as a living tool
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Analyze data and create a report including a timeline of proposed upgrades and behavior changes that would reduce emissions
Institutional
The Green Roundtable offers services to address the unique challenges faced by institutions. Having a mechanism for understanding sources of greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to creating a strategy for mitigation. GRT offers adaptable programs that allow institutions to effectively address climate change and create buy-in from their community members.
The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) requires that colleges inventory six greenhouse gases covered under the Kyoto Protocol, driving institutions towards creating a climate plan. In addition, colleges must adopt at least two tangible actions to reduce greenhouse gases. GRT has a suite of services to help colleges and universities commit to solving climate change.
Institutions services include:
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Implement a greenhouse gas inventory using methodology consistent with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Resources Institute
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Establish campus green building construction policies
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Evaluate procurement practices and policy development
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Environmental assessment of commuter practices and strategies for reducing emissions
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Social marketing to create large-scale change
Business and Institutional Sustainability Assessments
GRT’s sustainability assessments encompass all aspects of an organization and its facilities at both the individual office and the institutional level. Assessments include:
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Creating the performance baseline
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Analyzing site flows
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Identifying sustainable strategy approaches
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Engaging stakeholders
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Producing a report encompassing findings and recommendations
