Environmental Management

Measuring Your Carbon Footprint

Measuring your carbon footprint is a new service provided by Hazcon, reflecting our ongoing commitment to environmental health.

It is essential for businesses to have a baseline analysis of their carbon footprint so that future energy efficiency improvements can be compared. Hazcon can now provide a Carbon Inventory and Report on your business that will provide this information.

An understanding of climate change in general and carbon issues in particular will become important with the introduction of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme due in 2011.

Advantages of this service are:

• Help to identify any risks associated with future greenhouse gas reduction
• Assist in prioritising reduction opportunities
• Set targets, measure and report progress. Small businesses are not required to report now but the market will soon insist that they improve their green credentials. Businesses will need to know their carbon footprint or run the risk of others not wanting to do business with them
• Manage and reduce increased exposure to liability from upstream and downstream in the production chain
• Early adopters may enhance their reputation, save costs, gain marketing advantages, reduce risk and enhance sustainable growth opportunities
• Shareholders, customers, the community and the insurance industry will all require a greater commitment to sustainability from business
• Government regulation and policy are changing to ensure a healthy habitable world for our children and also to meet our international obligations
• Differentiate your business in an environmentally conscious market place