As the Global Reporting Initiative recommends, we have reported our Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in line with the GHG Protocol to ensure comparability of data with other reporting requirements and organisations. The GHG Protocol is the most widely adopted tool to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. It provides the accounting framework for nearly every GHG standard and programme in the world, including the UK Carbon Reduction Commitment to which UEA is obligated.

We are currently reporting our emissions of GHGs associated with direct emissions (scope 1), purchased electricity consumption (scope 2) and indirect emissions associated with our water consumption and waste (scope 3). In future years we will increase the scope and accuracy with which we report scope 3 emissions.

The concept of “scope”

Three “scopes” are defined for GHG accounting and reporting purposes to help:

• Delineate direct and indirect emission sources,
• Improve transparency, and
• Provide utility for different types of organisations, different types of climate policies and business goals

Scopes 1 and 2 are carefully defined to ensure that two or more companies will not account for emissions in the same scope. This makes the scopes amenable for use in GHG programmes where double counting matters.

Want more information?

• GHG Protocol - further information on the scope of GHG emissions.