360 DECARBONISATION PARTNER
Carbon offsetting.
Who’s this for?
Any organisation looking to credibly abate their residual carbon emissions alongside efforts to make reductions. This service is ideal for those looking to claim a building is a “Net Zero Carbon Aligned Building (plus offsets)” in accordance with the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard (NZCBS). It can also plug into wider corporate, portfolio or asset net zero strategies.
Outputs.
A Carbon Offsetting Strategy that includes:
- Redefined net zero carbon ambition and public commitment
- Credible carbon offsetting objectives, approach and best practice principles
- Residual carbon emission balance to offset
- Projection of carbon offsetting cost using a blend of carbon credit types
- Opportunities to limit offsetting costs via renewable energy and a forward agreement
- Governance and disclosure approach
- Tenant decarbonisation approaches including green lease clauses
Process.
1.
Optional extra – Carbon accounting. Building operations
We can calculate the residual operational emissions for buildings using existing projections or performance data for energy, water and refrigerant leakage.
2.
Cost modelling
We model the anticipated cost of purchasing high quality carbon credits and the avoided offset cost if procuring renewable energy and via a forward agreement.
3.
Decision making workshop
We facilitate a client workshop with appropriate stakeholders or decisionmakers, such as investors, to the decide the carbon offsetting approach.
4.
Strategy creation
We write a carbon offsetting strategy based on the decisions made in the workshop.
5.
Optional extra – facilitate carbon credit procurement with offset broker
We can work with an offset broker to procure carbon credits according to the strategy.