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Quick Start Guide

This Quick Start Guide is intended to provide a broad overview of the steps to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The most widely accepted protocol for defining and calculating greenhouse gas emissions is the World Resources Institute GHG Protocol. The information presented here is derived from the WRI report, Hot Climate, Cool Commerce: A Service Sector Guide to Greenhouse Gas Management.

Resource Guide

The Curbing Your Climate Impact Resource Guide (770 KB) is designed to help employers reduce emissions and improve their bottom line. The guide provides:

  • Information about climate change and impacts in the Pacific Northwest
  • An overview of the business benefits of climate-friendly practices
  • Steps to documenting and reducing GHG emissions
  • Links to tools and resources
  • Examples of the ways that local employers are responding to climate change

Tool for Assessing Your Business's Carbon Footprint

This carbon footprint calculator* is intended to provide users with a planning-level greenhouse gas emissions inventory to assist in prioritizing and implementing reduction strategies. It is intended primarily for use by Seattle-area businesses interested in benchmarking and reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. The tool allows you to estimate greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions for your company by entering data about your business activities focused on four areas that tend to have significant greenhouse gas impacts: transportation, energy use, materials purchasing, and waste generation.

Use the Data Checklist to gather your data.

* Version 2.1, updated 11/13/07 with:
A new worksheet to process CTR data; capacity for up to 100 facilities; revised data processing worksheet to integrate with Surveymonkey's new data download format; several revised and fixed emission factors (e.g., metro bus, travel and paper purchasing have new EFs; other EFs such as biodiesel were fixed where not working properly); new treatment of materials in the "Reduction Potential" tab on the Results worksheet; steam use in 1000s of pounds instead of pounds. Reducing virgin paper use has an added forest carbon sequestration benefit that wasn't fully captured before.

Business Climate Challenge: Emissions Reporting and Registries

Presentations from the workshop (see agenda), held on Oct. 28, 2008

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