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Greenstone will demonstrate how it enables organisations to accurately measure, manage, plan, store and report emission data, while tracking performance on their carbon footprint at multiple organisational levels and to model carbon footprint reduction strategies.  

Sustainable Business is a new addition to SustainabilityLive in 2010. Carbon reduction, resource efficiency, and corporate responsibility is at the top of every organisation’s agenda. From retailers and manufacturers, to banks and utilities every company has a responsibility to change their practices, strategies and processes. The three day event will provide attendees with the stage to engage fully in the sustainability agenda.

Matthew de Villiers, Chief Executive at Greenstone Carbon Management, said “Carbon emissions increasingly constitute a tangible cost for businesses through the introduction of wide regulatory reporting requirements, emission cap and trade systems and taxes designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Manually inputting this amount of data onto spreadsheets is a laborious and expensive task. By contrast, modern carbon accounting software systems can integrate with companies' recording and analysis applications to automatically download this information, or to enable people at individual parts of the organisation to input the data directly to the system. As carbon emissions become more directly regulated, this will become an increasingly important advantage as the cost of manual centralised upkeep of records is likely to spiral.”

de Villiers continues, “For many organisations, carbon represents a new management challenge and risk to business leaders. As with any new challenge the first step is to understand one’s exposure – in the case of carbon this means measuring carbon emissions across the enterprise and establishing a baseline.  From this baseline compliance exposure and liability can be addressed and carbon management processes and reduction activities can be initiated to address operational risks. Our software suite Acco2unt addresses these challenges in very practical but immediate way – and in fact our software is now being used by a wide variety of companies from FTSE 100 multinational businesses to single site SMEs and has been deployed in over 30 countries.”

Greenstone is accredited by the Carbon Trust to provide specialist carbon management strategies and solutions that help private and public sector organisations manage their climate change risks within a commercial context.  Greenstone’s consulting team includes experts with a blend of capabilities covering scientific and commercial skills in sectors such as IT, automotive, travel and leisure, building and property, utilities, financial services, legal, FMCG and retail. 

Visit Greenstone Carbon Management at Stand K65, Sustainable Business, SustainabilityLive, NEC, Birmingham. To find out more visit http://www.sustainabilitylive.com/