One of the leading global specialist carbon solutions company, Greenstone Carbon Management recently announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership with Cleaner Climate that will help South African organizations to measure, manage and report carbon emissions. Companies will now be able to monitor various sources such as energy, travel, freight, waste and water emission.

By leveraging Greenstone's online carbon management solution, Acco2unt, Cleaner Climate helps clients develop strategies to reduce carbon emissions. By offsetting a part of emissions with CDM or VCS carbon credits, Cleaner Climate is enabling customers to save energy as well as cost by identifying such emissions. Following their partnership, Greenstone and Cleaner Climate have also decided to enter into a joint contract with corporate travel company, HRG Rennies.

In a release, Kerry Wright, director at Cleaner Climate said, “The popularity of HRG Rennies Travel's carbon emissions travel report is just one example of how organizations across South Africa are taking carbon emissions measurement seriously. Voluntary reporting, such as the Carbon Disclosure Project, as well as regulatory drivers, such as the new King III compliance guidelines and impending climate change legislation, which will include carbon tax and mandatory emission reporting, have increased the need for accurate carbon reporting.”

Matthew de Villiers, chief executive officer at Greenstone Carbon Management said that, “Organizations need to go beyond the pure mechanics of compliance and proactively identify and manage carbon reduction opportunities to lower the associated risks and costs. Whatever a senior executive's attitude toward the topic of climate change, it is inevitable that carbon management will become a normal strategic and operational requirement of a well managed business. We are confident that the combination of Greenstone's carbon reporting software, with Cleaner climate's carbon management consultancy services, will provide a powerful and immediate one-stop solution for organizations across South Africa. We look forward to working with Cleaner Climate to enable our clients to realize the significant financial and non-financial benefits that can be achieved through accurate carbon emissions measurement and reporting.”



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Edited by Jennifer Russell