Report to help businesses develop carbon netural strategy

A report from Forum for the Future in the UK as produced a helpful guide to companies wishing to jump on the climate change bandwagon.

Their 8 recommendations are:

• Embrace a stretching boundary in terms of the emissions included (direct, indirect etc)
• Demonstrate a broad understanding of your entire carbon footprint prior to making any claim of neutrality.
• Exhibit caution in making blanket corporate-wide claims of neutrality
• Consider whether a claim of neutrality will resonate with your stakeholders - it's hard to stand over the idea of shipping bottled water worldwide, however you do it.
• Use the carbon management hierarchy of Avoid - Reduce - Replace - Offset, simply using offsetting without an ongoing reduction in base line emissions is not credible.
• Be completely transparent
• Exhibit and sustain broad leadership on climate change
• and most importantly, Tread neutrality as a long-term commitment and an on-going dynamic challenge.

Also lists some companies they feel are doing it right and some who may be following the letter but not the spirit going carbon neutral.