This simple guide aims to give users a quick overview of how to navigate features of the Our Ecosystem interface. It is specifically designed to help you use publicly available versions of OE, for example nbm.ourecosystem.com. Available layers can be viewed and...
Methodologies which attempt to measure the biodiversity value of land are understandably controversial; biodiversity doesn’t represent a precise and measurable scientific concept, and so is not objectively quantifiable. Despite this, providing businesses with a...
Mandatory Carbon Reporting (MCR) will highlight the accuracy of how companies’ report, but also present an opportunity to align the environmental narrative with the company strategy. Ecometrica CEO Dr Richard Tipper explains his view to Jonathan Shopley, Managing...
Ecometrica has responded to the Defra consultation on Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting for 1,101 London Stock Exchange-listed companies in the UK. The response has been compiled by Ecometrica Chief Executive Officer Dr Richard Tipper, Chief Operating Officer Gary...
There are lots of terms that get used in our industry, such as "greenhouse gases", "CO2", "CO2e", and "carbon", and what they all mean can get confusing. A brief explanation of these key terms is given below. Greenhouse gases A greenhouse gas (or GHG for short) is any...
The UK Government has published the draft Regulation for mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting in Directors’ Reports today (25 July 2012). The Regulation will apply to approximately 1,100 UK quoted companies, with the possibility that it will be extended to cover...
Increasing scarcity of natural resources has become a material risk for firms with a vertically integrated supply chain. Yet few firms truly understand the holistic impacts of their business operations on land use and natural resources or the future availability of...
In the United States, emission factors (EFs) applied to grid electricity consumption are available by both state and by eGRID subregion. If you are using state level EFs, determining which set of factors to apply is simple – just use factors published for the state in...
At the Rio+ 20 sustainability conference, 39 CEOs from finance and investment companies signed up to the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative's (UNEP FI) ’Natural Capital Declaration’. The objective of the Natural Capital Declaration is to integrate...
Gary Davis, Ecometrica's Operations Director, has commented today in an article for Accountancy Age about the lack of specific greenhouse gas - not just carbon or CO2 - expertise in the advisory sector, ahead of Nick Clegg's announcement yesterday that greenhouse gas...
The UK coalition government has formally introduced mandatory carbon reporting, requiring around 1,800 of the UK's largest listed companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions every year. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, in Brazil for the Rio +20 Earth Summit,...