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Carbon Footprint works with a wide range of customers across all business sectors, from SMEs to large household names – to help them reduce costs, maximise sales sustainability and reduce their impact on the environment
Case Studies
IKEA Group
The Need - IKEA, the global leader for furniture and household products wanted to run a global ‘Good Housekeeping competition’ focused on employees carbon emissions.
Carbon Footprint provided - A fully hosted, co-branded multi-language carbon footprint calculator. Its database functionality enabled employees to manage their emissions and for IKEA to report a league table of results, along with pledges to reduce emissions per store.
Outcome - Following the successful competition, IKEA are aiming to run the competition annually as a great demonstration of their environmental values and commitments.
Customer comments- "Carbon Footprint's team were very professional and did a great job, enabling us to run an online carbon footprint competition for our employees around the world“
Deutsche Bank Group
The Need – Deutsche Bank needed a comprehensive carbon footprint calculator tool to integrate into their intranet system. This supported their Earth Day event & Passion for the Planet programme, which underpins their commitment to environmental values & aims to raise awareness & motivate staff.
Carbon Footprint provided – An integrated & easy to use calculator tool with data management facility enabling staff to actively manage their carbon emissions.
Outcome – The calculator tool was successfully launched on Deutsche Bank’s Earth Day & they are now looking to roll-out the carbon management tools more widely.
Customer comments – “Thanks again for all the amendments and efforts you have made possible during the last days at the tool - even so most of these were on a very short notice. - As consequence, we now have a very good tool to globally raise the carbon cautiousness of our employees “
Hoover-Candy
Hoover - Candy needed to -
Understand their carbon emissions as a first step to a carbon reduction & management strategy
Get independent validation & endorsement of new low carbon products to achieve market differentiation & satisfy consumer expectations
Carbon Footprint provided -
Carbon Footprint appraisal of emissions due to their administration & manufacturing operations – showing a clear build up of various operational contributions
Product endorsement following a thorough assessment of their new product
Company endorsement
Outcome - Hoover-Candy are now actively marketing their oven, hob , refrigerator & dishwasher Carbon Footprint approved products
and are cvommitted to achieving ‘2 Star Endorsement’ across the Group within a year.
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Logica Group
Logica needed to -
Evaluate & benchmark the carbon emission impact of their Total Invoice Management (TIM) process against conventional systems
Get independent validation & endorsement that TIM has lower emissions than conventional systems to differentiate their service in market
Carbon Footprint provided -
A Carbon Footprint appraisal tailored to evaluate total emissions & their sources for their TIM sevice
Benchmarking with conventional paper based invoicing process emissions
Once TIM was validated as lower carbon footprint, we awarded Carbon Footprint Approved brand endorsement
Outcome -
Logica are now actively marketing their TIM service as Carbon Footprint approved & able to fully defend their TIM service as delivering quantitative carbon savings
Dial-a-Cab
London's premier taxicab provider needed to -
Address its carbon footprint to meet their own CSR objectives & market needs. They are now carbon neutral.
Carbon Footprint helped Dial-a-Cab by providing -
A Carbon Footprint appraisal of their business operations emissions
Strategies to reduce emissions
A portfolio of managed high quality international carbon offsets to reduce to zero past emissions
Outcome -
Dial-a-Cab now has a carbon management programme - covering taxi & office operations that will minimise carbon emissions & save costs to a bare minimum
They are now able to offer its client base a green choice – differentiating its business
Connaught Environmental
Connaught Environmental needed to make genuine carbon reductions and improve their green credentials to support bids, particularly to meet local authorities’ procurement needs.
Carbon Footprint provided -
An appraisal of a site grounds maintenance service providing
An assessment of their secondary carbon footprint – including emissions due to commuting & and suppliers as Connaught wished to influence behaviours of their employees & supply chain
An onsite energy survey to identify possible energy saving installations
Quantified operational carbon savings of 50% of current emissions & action plans to achieve
Outcome - Connaught are now looking evaluating the cost savings of implementing Carbon Footprint’s recommendations
Looking to roll out carbon appraisals across the broader business
We have provided services to hundreds of businesses and organisations of various sizes around the world, including The United Nations, Miller Homes and UniPart Rail.
Contact us now to start your programme
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