Welcome to the Carbon Tracker
The FREE Carbon Tracker tool is available to Staffordshire organisations who are sben members. The tool helps measure and monitor your carbon emissions over time. This can help your business be more sustainable, improve environmental performance and cut costs.
What is the Carbon Tracker?
Carbon Tracker is sben’s FREE online carbon foot printing and reporting tool that enables Staffordshire organisations to measure carbon emissions from their energy use, fuel use, travel, water consumption and energy generation.
Funded through Staffordshire County Council, developed by sben, and boosting the Environmental Quality Mark CIC, the Carbon Tracker is available to eligible Staffordshire organisations who are members of sben.
Carbon Tracker will help businesses measure business carbon emissions year on year, so they can focus their actions to reduce emissions over time. A report will be generated for you to share with your board, colleagues, and customers to demonstrate your yearly progress.
Why use the Carbon Tracker?
- Demonstrate leadership and strengthen your green credentials in an increasingly environmentally conscious marketplace.
- Identify the areas of highest emissions in your businesses, which are often the areas of highest cost.
- Track your progress, year on year.
Carbon tracker is a simple framework for setting robust emissions reductions targets for your business.
Eligibility for the Carbon Tracker?
Carbon Tracker is funded by Staffordshire County Council and is FREE to use for:
- Businesses in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
- Members of Staffordshire Business Environment Network (sben).
Apply now for the Carbon Tracker?
Simply register your company details below, we will check your eligibility, then we shall send you a link to access the Carbon Tracker.
How the Carbon Tracker works?
Carbon Tracker is a simple, easy-to-use, online tool that calculates your organisations carbon emissions. To complete the tool, you input a full year’s data (or a period of your choosing) including the following:
- Electricity consumption
- Gas consumption
- Fuel use (fuel oil, diesel (DERV and red diesel), petrol, LPG)
- Biomass (wood pellets, chips, logs)
- Waste & Coolants
- Water consumption
- Company ‘fleet’ travel, include owned/leased vehicles
- Employee ‘grey fleet’ and other travel
- Electricity Generation (including solar and wind)
The tool uses the UK government ‘carbon factors’ to calculate carbon emissions from the data you enter. It has been developed to include the reporting information required by the UK government Environmental Reporting Guidelines, including streamlined energy and carbon reporting guidance.
What is included and what is not included?
Carbon Tracker calculates your organisation’s carbon footprint including:
- Direct emissions from fuel and processes (referred to as scope 1 emissions).
- Indirect emissions from electricity use (or scope 2 emissions).
- Other indirect emissions, including those more closely controlled by your organisation, such as staff travel in their own vehicles or on public transport for work purposes, waste and coolants produced through your activities.
- The tracker has the added benefit of including calculations from emissions associated with your activities which you have no control over (for example the emissions associated with gas extraction and transport, or electricity transmissions and distribution). These, more arm’s length emissions are termed scope 3 emissions, but should still be considered as part of your carbon footprint.
Current exclusions from the tool include:
- Some emissions that are more difficult to measure (for example the emissions associated with your supply chain, steam and heavy goods vehicles).
If you have any further queries about Carbon Tracker then please email sben@staffordshire.gov.uk or call us on 01785 277 379.
