A guest insight by Neil Rimmer from our industry partner, Vysus Group. The increased attention and focus on emissions is now prevalent in all aspects of life and business, but aside from the environmental requirement, what is driving the increased focus? Onwards from Paris Within industry and society there is an increased discussion in and around the term carbon footprint, in part driven by societal changes, and in others regulatory changes. Since the Paris agreement was drafted in 2015 and came into effect in 2016, countries have been looking at ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). The Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal is to keep the rise in mean global temperature to well below 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial levels, and preferably to limit the increase to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F), recognising that this would substantially reduce the effects of climate change. The interchangeability of the terms GHG emissions and carbon emissions is in part due to the agreed reporting reference for combined GHG emission being CO2 -equivalent or CO2e for short. Carbon dioxide is the largest and most commonly known contributor to GHG emissions due to the large scale burning of fossil fuels. Nationally determined contributions & the […]