[open-sustainability] Avg breakdown of emissions per sector for companies does this exist anywhere?

Thu Dec 6 23:33:59 UTC 2012

Back to the question of Chris - I met Trucost last year - I know they do
this kind of environmental benchmarking -
http://www.trucost.com/free-environmental-skyline, unfortunately this is
not open data.

They offer to give an environmental skyline for any company based on its
sector of operation and revenues -
http://www.trucost.com/buy-company-briefings/ (the first consultation is
"for free").

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Maya Forstater <hiyamaya at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chris .
>
> There should be but there isn't, as far as I know!
>
> The basic data of course you can get at from the CDP......
>
> http://hiyamaya.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/counting-what-counts
>
> But then you need to decide on what the denominator is. If your sectors
> are basic materials you can make it per tonne of output (e.g. steel,
> aluminium etc..). But if it is a more diversified sector you need a
> financial denominator for intensity.
>
> Carbon emissions per $ revenue is not quite open source, but not hard to
> find, but it is not a particularly meaningful metric for comparison.
>
> More meaningful would be carbon tonnes per $ of value added. i.e.
> tonnes/EBITDA ( see
> http://www.btplc.com/responsiblebusiness/ourstory/literatureandezines/publicationsandreports/pdf/csimethodology.pdf)
>
> I think Trucost may have crunched the data for this but that is not
> published.
>
> If you do find out that there is an open data source for this let me know.
> Otherwise I working on how to cook one up (if anyone is interested - get in
> touch.)
>
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> On 3 December 2012 11:28, Chris Adams <chris.adams at amee.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Very specific question here:
>>
>> We know that certain industries are more carbon intensive than others
>> instinctively (high end consulting tends to have lots of flying for
>> example, and steel and aluminium uses lots of energy), but I'm wondering -
>> does anyone know if there is any open data already published that you might
>> build a dataset on top of, to make it easier to work out the footprint of a
>> 'typical' company in a given sector?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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