Update and Guidance on Ecometrica’s Normative Biodiversity Metric Methodology
Guidance on how Normative Biodiversity Metric assessments can be carried out on Ecometrica's Our Ecosystem software.
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09, 2012
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08, 2012
The Importance of Additionality for Accurate and Relevant Scope 2 Accounting
4 simple examples to illustrate why additionality is essential if contracted renewable electricity is counted as zero in scope 2 inventories
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06, 2012
Corporate Biodiversity Accounting
Corporate biodiversity performance can be presented in a transparent and concise set of accounts for corporate social responsibility reports and business reviews.
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06, 2012
Ryanair and Transatlantic Flights – A Comparison of Carbon Surcharges
With airlines joining the EU emissions trading scheme in 2012, we look at the extra costs passed on by airlines to customers.
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02, 2012
Substitution: a Problem with Current Life Cycle Assessment Standards
This summary paper explains how the "substitution" method creates problems for attributional life cycle assessment.
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12, 2011
Explanation of the Uncertainty Assessment in Ecometrica Sustainability
The uncertainty assessment in Ecometrica Sustainability gives an indication of the relative uncertainty associated with data, emission factors, and conversions, and helps reporting companies to improve the type and quality of data collected.
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11, 2011
Assessing Organisational Biodiversity Performance
This paper sets out how an element of organisational biodiversity impact can be assessed and ranked using a tool called the Normative Biodiversity Metric (NBM).
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09, 2011
Electricity-Specific Emission Factors for Grid Electricity
This paper presents a methodology and results for electricity-specific emission factors based on alternative data available from the IEA.
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07, 2011
How to Minimise the Rebound Effect
The rebound effect occurs when some pro-environmental activity results in some environmental harm which partly or wholly cancels out the initial environmental benefit, and this paper explores how to minimise it.
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06, 2011
Ecometrica Explains the One-Tonne Carbon Tree
At Ecometrica we are often asked, “How many trees do you need to store one tonne of carbon?” To answer this question we tracked down a tree that stored exactly one tonne of carbon.
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03, 2011
Your electric vehicle emits 75 gCO2/km… at the power station
Electric vehicles have zero tailpipe emissions, but what about the emissions at the power station? This Ecometrica paper presents a definitive figure in gCO2/km for UK electric cars when CO2 emissions at the power station are taken into account.
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08, 2010
Improving the Integrity of the CRC through Allowance Transfers
Is the CRC, while encouraging energy efficiency, a flawed scheme for reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Ecometrica's Dr. Richard Tipper thinks so...
