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Corporate Carbon Footprint – Understanding Scope 1, 2 and 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions

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What’s included a company’s carbon footprint? How to measure corporate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions? Every business leader should know what to consider as part of their company footprint, this video explains what’s included.

Often we tend to think about facilities, energy use, and perhaps the fleet – but these account only for a part of a company’s total carbon footprint. The Sustainability Speaker Susanna Hasenoehrl helps you to better understand this, walking you through the concept of Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.

Scope 1 and 2 emissions arise from a company’s operational activities, such as a production facility, or heating or cooling an office. These can be controlled somewhat easily – for example, by switching to renewable energy, or to an electric fleet.

So what about Scope 3? Pukka, a Unilever brand, reports that 49% of their emissions come from boiling the kettle, to make a ‘cuppa’. This is an example of Scope 3 emissions, which are more indirect – yet related to the usage of a company’s products and services.

For most companies, Scope 3 makes up most of their carbon footprint. Scope 3 emissions can be quite difficult to measure, as it includes things like emissions from waste – when a product is disposed of – the supply chain, outsourced activities, and even business travel.

Nonetheless: when you come across a company’s carbon disclosure, do ask whether Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions are included.
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Health Benefits of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in our Transportation System

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The video begins at 5:58.
Seminar Speaker:
Mel Rader, Co-Director, Upstream Public Health
Event Date:
Friday, January 22, 2010 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm
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By utilizing a mobile capture concept, University of Michigan researchers have designed a way to capture 70-80 percent of all CO2 emissions from truck exhaust pipes. The effort aims to help curb climate change.

Climate change is a pressing issue, and carbon dioxide emissions greatly contribute. This process being developed to collect heavy duty exhaust will help reduce emissions and is a renewable process. Once capacity in the tank is reached, steam or hot gas can be used to recycle the materials and repeat the cycle over and over.

This video features Christina Reynolds, PhD Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Christian M. Lastoskie, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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Transforming rice farming through regenerative production to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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Transforming rice farming through regenerative production to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The global food system is responsible for between 20-30% of greenhouse gas emissions. How can we produce rice, a food staple eaten by over half the world’s population — in a way that uses fewer resources and regenerates nature? More and more farmers around the world are adopting an agroecological approach called the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), which reduces water use, methane production, and the use of chemicals, while providing better yields and reducing labour for rice farmers.
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Harnessing water innovation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Water is vital to our existence. It is no doubt that we need water to live, and it is expected that demand for water will only increase as our population grows. But can we meet this demand while ensuring that we reach our carbon emission targets in the future? The water sector contributes to about 2% of greenhouse gas emissions, and while this is not significantly large, it is still a meaningful amount.

AECOM’s Scott Dunn, Chief Strategy Officer, Asia, and Beverley Stinson, Chief Executive, Global Business Line ‒ Water, join this discussion at the Singapore International Water Week 2022. They explore innovative and smart solutions on how we can potentially reduce carbon emissions in the water sector for a future with more water and less carbon.

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How do you reduce your greenhouse gas emissions?

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We are working on the ACT’s Climate Strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Here are a few ways that Canberrans are playing their part and contributing to a more sustainable city.

UN releases alarming report on greenhouse gas emissions: 'Humanity is on thin ice'

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Greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to increase, exacerbating the challenge world leaders face in preventing the impacts of climate change from worsening, the United Nations warns in its latest climate report. https://abc7ne.ws/3JvtxNU

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What are greenhouse gas emissions and why companies need to act now

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It is not too late to act. Reducing #greenhousegas emissions is crucial to tackling #climatechange. Limiting global warming under 1.5°C is just possible but it requires immediate concrete #climateaction. Discover what greenhouse gas emissions are and kick off your climate #strategy now!

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EGU2012: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: renewable energy & CO2 storage (PC3)

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Press Conference at the 2012 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union. (Credit: EGU/CNTV.at)

The European Geosciences Union (EGU, http://www.egu.eu/) is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide. It is a non-profit interdisciplinary learned association of scientists founded in 2002. The EGU has a current portfolio of 14 diverse scientific journals, which use an innovative open-access format, and organises a number of topical meetings, and education and outreach activities. Its annual General Assembly is the largest and most prominent European geosciences event, attracting over 10,000 scientists from all over the world. The meeting’s sessions cover a wide range of topics, including volcanology, planetary exploration, the Earth’s internal structure and atmosphere, climate change, and renewable energies.
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Ways To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation

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Transportation expert and Better Transit Alliance member, Eric Doherty, provides some examples of how we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our daily transportation needs.

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– Radiation balance – incoming radiant energy from the sun minus outgoing energy heading into space.
– Infrared radiation – electromagnetic radiation that is invisible to us; comes in longer wavelengths than visible light and provides energy transfer we call heat.
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Virtual Chembook, Elmhurst College, Charles E. Ophardt
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Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget, NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/EnergyBalance/page6.php

Infrared spectroscopy/Caltech (mirrored from UCLA chemistry)
http://www.wag.caltech.edu/home/jang/genchem/infrared.htm
http://elmhcx9.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/globalwarmA5.html

Designing Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy Use

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Designing Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy Use

Sanford School of Policy professor Billy Pizer outlines the challenges of designing policies that rein in the environmental impacts of energy use.

While it’s true that Earth’s temperatures and carbon dioxide levels have always fluctuated, the reality is that humans’ greenhouse emissions since the industrial revolution have put us in uncharted territory.

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Written by Dr Benjamin Henley and Assoc Prof Nerilie Abrams.
Animated and edited by Wes Mountain for The Conversation.
Music: Kevin Macleod – Faster Does It
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Agriculture

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The purpose of this video is to understand Greenhouse Gas(GHG) emissions in agriculture. The video talks of three basic constituents of agricultural emissions, viz carbon di oxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. It emphasises on commitment of Nestlé as orgnization to GHG reduction.
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