Greenstone Carbon Management, a specialist carbon solutions company, has been selected by leading environmental organization WWF to measure, manage, analyze and report their carbon emissions.
WWF chose Greenstone’s Acco2unt carbon management software to have a transparent and robust process for managing their carbon.
Recently the company released version 2.5 of its Acco2unt carbon management software, with new functionality to enable organizations to measure the energy consumption and carbon emissions arising from the use of ICT equipment across organizations.
WWF-UK addresses global threats to people and nature such as climate change, the peril to endangered species and habitats, and the unsustainable consumption of the world's natural resources. Earlier WWF used its own spreadsheets to calculate carbon emissions, but with emission factors changing every year it was a very time consuming process to manage the data.
“WWF is a leader in the environmental world and it is therefore very important as an organization that we measure our carbon emissions accurately and comprehensively and take measures to reduce them,” said Lucy Potashnick, environmental manager at WWF-UK, in a statement.
“Using Greenstone Carbon Management software tool Acco2unt means we can accurately measure emissions across a variety of sources including electricity, waste, water, and all modes of transport,” Potashnick said.
Potashnick added that the Acco2unt software enables the environmental team at WWF to set targets, create scenarios as well as allowing a wider stakeholder group from the organization to analyze the data.
According to Matthew de Villiers, chief executive officer at Greenstone, the implementation of automated carbon measurement software can reduce administration time spent on manual data collection, allowing them to focus on reducing emissions and the associated financial savings. “This is what we will be working to achieve with WWF.”
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