Bilan Cabone®: quantify your Carbon and GHG emissions


More and more private and public actors are considering evaluating their carbon footprint and are looking for ways to reduce it.

EcoAct offers a range of solutions to quantify your emissions and launch your reduction strategy:
 
  • Take up the climate change challenges  
     
  • Reduce your fossil energy dependency

EcoAct is licensed by ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency) to implement the Bilan Carbone®, carbon measurement of any company or local authority wishing to determine the impact of their activities on the environment.
  • Objective: to take into account all GHG emissions produced by any activity or local authority.  
     
  • Economic aspect: Estimation of the money savings thanks to the energy consumption reduction.  
     
  • Responsible aspect: Implementation of a sustainable development approach to reduce your carbon footprint.

The Bilan Carbone® diagnostic includes an overall carbon footprint strategy and a reduction action plan (for instance, by optimizing your energy consumption, people and goods transportation, raw material purchase and consumption, suppliers location, etc.)


The Bilan Carbone® study perimeter

Any human activity generates directly or indirectly greenhouse gases (GHG). The Bilan Carbone® evaluates the emissions from the following sources:
  • Energy consumption from your buildings,  
     
  • Your industrial tool,  
     
  • Services from subcontractors,  
     
  • Products and materials transportation,  
     
  • Employees and visitors transportation,  
     
  • Waste processing,  
     
  • Equipment depreciation,  
     
  • Products or services usage,  
     
  • Products, or services, "end-of-life" handling, etc.  

A diagnostic in six steps

The Bilan Carbone® study includes six steps, as identified by the ADEME specifications guide:
 
1. Introduction to climate change issues (to raise awareness),
2. Study perimeter definition,
3.  Data collection, an important step to be held with the support of an internal project manager,
4. 
 		 Results analysis: emissions quantification, definition of potential actions to improve and reduce emissions, and the calculation of the money savings related to each action,
5. Definition of adapted reduction action plan,
6. 
 		  And ultimately, the final results and reduction action plan will be presented to all the persons who were involved during the study, or who will be involved in the decision making process.
 

The GreenHouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) was initiated in 1998 by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Resources Institute, who work in close relationship with corporations, NGOs and governments to create new tools and solutions to quantify global emissions and act against climate change.

The GHG Protocol is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions.


It is somewhat similar to the Bilan Carbone® tool, which was developed only by France, since they both include the following :
 
  • Direct and indirect emissions inventory from an organization, company or local authority,  
     
  • The main focus is on the most significant emission sources,  
     
  • The definition of emission reduction action plan, including their ranking according to their emission saving potential and the timeframe to implement them.

The Bilan Carbone® tends to have a broader approach, when the GHG Protocol is detailed branch by branch of activity.

EcoAct generally uses the GHG Protocol to quantify GHG emissions for a worldwide-based corporation who wish to make comparisons between its international branches.

 
 
This energy efficiency accounting tool allows quantifying the energy consumption of your buildings to help you understand how to reduce their impact on climate change.

EcoAct is licensed by COFRAC to implement this tool and study.
 



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