Climate Positive Business : How You and Your Company Hit Bold Climate Goals and Go Net Zero

This is the decade for climate action. Internal and external stakeholders demand action. How we choose to act in the next ten years will determine our foreseeable future. Businesses hold a critical role for climate futures. The need for businesses to reduce their carbon footprint is now unquestioned, but how to achieve reductions in a credible way is neither clear nor easy once you’ve tackled the obvious energy culprits. __Climate Positive Business__ lays out the path of business climate strategy, highlighting how your business must set goals, measure impact, and improve performance. Greenhouse gas protocols can instruct you on the core accounting process that lies at the heart of climate strategy. At least as important to success are the details that protocols don’t tell you: the sticking points; the areas of controversy, and the best practices. Rooted in real experience and written in an entertaining and engaging style, this book provides you with the tips, tools, and techniques to tackle your company’s carbon footprint, and it helps you do so in a way that is credible and appropriately ambitious to meet stakeholder expectations. The book will equip you with tools to think critically about GHG reduction, carbon offsets, and carbon removal, as well as help ensure we collectively implement real solutions to slow and eventually reverse the climate crisis. It includes lessons learned from real-world consulting projects and provides a plan of action for readers to implement. A go-to book for business looking to understand, manage, and reduce their carbon footprint, it is an invaluable resource for sustainable business practitioners, consultants, and those aspiring to become climate champions. The need for businesses to reduce their carbon footprint is now unquestioned, but how to achieve this is neither clear nor easy. This book lays out the path of business climate strategy, highlighting how your business can set goals, measure impact and improve performance. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 About the author 8 Foreword 10 Acknowledgments 14 Introduction 16 1 Evolve with the business landscape 22 20/20 vision for the 2020s 23 Have some standards 26 The business climate 32 Zombie carbon 38 Cross-cutting issues 40 Whiskey’s for drinking 45 JEDI master 49 2 Block and tackle your climate strategy 55 Set boundaries and collect data 56 Apply emission factors 57 Bang head against Scope 3 60 Set targets 66 Ambition 69 Alignment 69 3 Reduce GHG! The saga continues 72 Reduce significant GHG sources 76 Get the best bang for your buck 78 Scopes 1 and 2 80 Scope 3 84 Working the land 86 So done with farming. How else to remove carbon? 97 4 Choose wisely 112 Are carbon offsets good or bad? 113 Is product X better or worse than product Y? 120 5 Seek the truth and it shall set you free 126 Don’t believe the hype 126 One minus one doesn’t equal zero 130 6 Consider more than carbon 137 Business model: too big to not fail? 138 Business climate risk: manage and mitigate 145 Biodiversity: save two birds with one stone 148 Policy: not from the government, still here to help 153 7 Put it all together 166 Time for action! 166 Call to action 173 Index 176 Carbon,accounting;,Carbon,footprint;,Corporate,social,responsibility;,CSR;,Sustainability;,Sustainable,development;,Climate,change Carbon accounting,Carbon footprint,Corporate social responsibility,CSR,Sustainability,Sustainable development,Climate change "This is the decade for climate action. Internal and external stakeholders demand action. How we choose to act in the next ten years will determine our foreseeable future. Businesses hold a critical role for climate futures. The need for businesses to reduce their carbon footprint is now unquestioned, but how to achieve reductions in a credible way is neither clear nor easy once you've tackled the obvious energy culprits. Climate Positive Business lays out the path of business climate strategy, highlighting how your business must set goals, measure impact and improve performance. Greenhouse gas protocols can instruct you on the core accounting process that lies at the heart of climate strategy. At least as important to success are the details that protocols don't tell you: the sticking points; the areas of controversy; and the best practices. Rooted in real experience and written in an entertaining and engaging style, this book provides you with the tips, tools and techniques to tackle your company's carbon footprint, and it helps you do so in a way that is credible and appropriately ambitious to meet stakeholder expectations. The book will equip you with tools to think critically about GHG reduction, carbon offsets, and carbon removal, as well as help ensure we collectively implement real solutions to slow and eventually reverse the climate crisis. It includes lessons-learned from real-world consulting projects and provides a plan of action for readers to implement. A go-to book for business looking to understand, manage and reduce their carbon footprint. It is an invaluable resource for sustainable business practitioners, consultants and those aspiring to be come climate champions"-- Provided by publisher