Introduction
The BESST carbon monitoring tool aims to assist organisations in reducing their contribution to climate change. The direct benefit of understanding emissions is lower energy and resource costs.
The Carbon Monitoring Tool is a spreadsheet that calculates a company's Greenhouse Gas emissions or the 'Corporate Carbon Footprint.' The tool measures emissions from fuel and energy consumed with additional options for adding data from waste and water. The diagram below shows the three scope model that Defra set out, the tool is based on this.
from: 'Guidance on how to measure and report your greenhouse gas emissions': Defra 2009
The spreadsheet has space for data from 2008 to 2014. The results are automatically generated in output tables and graphs.
Getting started...
Before starting using the carbon monitoring tool it is a good idea to get most of the information that you will need. Some company information is also needed so that a measure of intensity can be calculated allowing easier comparisons between companies and previous years.
For a list of data required and some ideas of where to find it click here.
Download Tool
The spreadsheet is only available in 2007 version MS Excel, unfortunately older versions cannot support all the necessary functions. If you do not have the 2007 version of office then you'll need to download the microsoft office compatibility pack
There are 2 versions of the spreadsheet one for if you record your data by calendar year another by financial year.
To download the spreadsheet by financial year click here
To download the spreadsheet by calendar year click here
The individual pages on the menu bar offer help and explanations for each section of the spreadsheet. There are hyperlinked from the spreadsheet.
Once up to date data has been added to the spreadsheet then please send in your data summary - for instructions on how to do this please click here
If you require any further or more assistance about the carbon monitoring tool then please contact Jaclyn Kitson on 01952 567578 or Jaclyn.kitson@telford.gov.uk
Disclaimer
This carbon monitoring tool is provided free-of-charge, and you acknowledge that it would be unreasonable to hold us liable in respect of any loss or damage arising as a result of your use of this tool and the information associated with it.
