Evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions
TerrAria deals with the carbon footprint (CFP) of manufacturing companies.
The carbon footprint approach aims to assess the direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions for which an organisation is responsible by quantifying and monitoring emissions and evaluating possible mitigation.
The direct greenhouse gas emissions of the organisation include all emissions for which it is directly responsible and over which it has full control. Indirect emissions, on the other hand, include all greenhouse gas emissions for which the organisation is not directly responsible and over which it has limited control.
Emissions are classified into the three ‘Scopes’ defined by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol in order to distinguish the different types of emissions for which a company is responsible.
Scope 1 includes direct emissions, i.e. from sources directly owned or controlled by an organisation. As far as manufacturing companies are concerned, most Scope 1 emissions come from stationary combustion. In addition to these, emissions from mobile combustion, process emissions and fugitive emissions are also counted as Scope 1.
Scope 2 covers emissions that a company causes indirectly and originate from the place where the energy that it buys and uses is produced. Emissions from grid electricity consumption are therefore the main ones to be included in Scope 2. They are considered indirect emissions because the electricity production responsible for the emissions occurs outside the company.
Scope 3 involves emissions for which the company itself is not responsible and which are not the result of company activities. This represents the largest category of greenhouse gas emissions and includes all emissions related to the extraction and transport of raw materials entering the company, related to the transport of working materials such as packaging and equipment, due to the travel of employees and visitors, as well as to the transport of products leaving the company and their end-of-life.
When applied to a product, the carbon footprint approach allows for the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions related to each stage of a product’s life cycle, from the sourcing of raw materials to the production stage, followed by use and end-of-life. By assessing a product’s CFP, it is possible to identify the critical points related to greenhouse gas emissions (expressed in kg of CO2 equivalent), and thus gain insight into reduction strategies.
THE ROLE OF TERRARIA
In the process of calculating the Carbon Footprint, TerrAria s.r.l. assists the company in the identification and collection of the necessary data up to the calculation of the carbon footprint, estimating the tonnes of equivalent CO2 for which the company is responsible in its production process and evaluating possible initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint.
