I'm sometimes asked "why bother going to the trouble of calculating emissions or other environmental impacts with actual business data when it is possible to look up various environmental impacts from economic input-output tables?". Well... Did you hear the one about...

Ecometrica's online geospatial analysis platform will apply complex models to multiple layers of geospatial data and give you results on arbitrary polygons containing many millions of cells within seconds. And that's without using any of those tricks: having to...

Ecometrica Chairman, Richard Tipper presented evidence to a meeting of All Party Parliamentary Group for Biodiversity and GLOBE UK today (24th October) at the House of Commons. The meeting covered developments within the UK to use Natural Capital Accounting and...

London, September 26, 2013 – Ecometrica, provider of world's most widely used sustainability software is delighted to announce that Associated British Foods (ABF) plc, a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group, has selected Ecometrica...

Since we launched the concept of Audit Ready Output early in 2013 there have been a number of organisations who claim to offer the same thing but as far as we know, no-one else has had this claim backed up by an independent assurance exercise of their own, which makes...

The regulations for introducing mandatory greenhouse gas reporting (the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors' Report) Regulations 2013) were approved by the House of Commons yesterday morning (Tuesday 16 July), and will go to the House of Lords later...

by Paul Hatchwell, Senior Writer, The ENDS Report: The journal for environmental policy and business in the UK. www.endsreport.com UK-listed companies now face a duty to incorporate carbon emissions reporting in their annual company reports from 1 October but can do...

Now that the requirement to report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in directors’ reports has been laid before Parliament we can see the final text of the statutory instrument and reflect on what it means for reporting companies. Compared to the previous draft of the...

The Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013 - known colloquially as Mandatory Carbon Reporting, or MCR - has now been laid before Parliament. The new regulations require all reports produced in relation to financial years ending on...

In June 2013, CDP and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced that they are aligning areas of their reporting frameworks that will make it easier for responding companies to produce their sustainability management reports. The two outfits have signed a memorandum...

As the global atmospheric concentration of CO2 nudges 400 parts per million, I reflect on some of the changes in understanding and policy since I started working in this area, in 1995. At that time our grasp of the global carbon cycle was quite uncertain. We knew CO2...

There's an awful lot of misinformation out there about UK mandatory carbon reporting; namely when it comes into force, which companies are affected and what action they need to take. It's vital that everyone is clear about when the regulations take effect at the very...

Now that Canada has officially withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol, does the private sector still have a strong incentive to manage and reduce their emissions? In a word, yes. Even if meeting nationwide emission reduction targets is no longer legally mandated, from the...

We increasingly hear arguments advocating for extending Daylight Saving Time year-round in the United States, mostly on an environmental basis: if DST saves energy, why not make it permanent, and thereby reduce national GHG emissions? To follow up on Sylvie Trottier's...

At the end of 2012 Ecometrica awarded two scholarships to Emily Woollen and Alice Duff to develop research from their respective PhD and Masters theses into Our Ecosystem apps. The two resulting apps demonstrate the ease with which you can use very different...