Carbon Reduction Plan

In order to reduce its carbon emissions, MCC must first understand its current level of emissions, prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. This baseline emissions figure is the reference point against which all future emissions reduction can be measured against. It is useful to breakdown the overall emissions into three broad categories or scopes, these

are as follows;

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Scope 1

These are direct greenhouse emissions that occur from sources

that are owned or controlled by MCC Ltd.

Scope 2

These are indirect emissions from purchased electricity, steam,

heat and cooling.

Scope 3

All other emissions associated with MCC Ltd’s activities. From this it can be seen that MCC not only has a much greater degree of control on Scopes 1 & 2, but also the ability to provide a much more accurate figure. But that is not to say MCC does not strive to register as accurate a figure as possible for Scope 3, but also to reduce it as much as possible.

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Below are details on how a total emissions figure was arrived at for each scope;

 

Scope 1: The main source of these emissions is from company vehicles, MCC currently has 8 company vehicles. All company vehicles mileage is logged. So a calculation of all company vehicle miles, is performed using the carbon trust carbon calculator.

 

Scope 2: The main sources for these emissions are the electricity and gas purchased for the running and heating of MCC Ltd’s office and its activities. All electricity and gas bills are kept and the relevant usage amounts of both gas and electric are entered into the carbon trust carbon calculator. 

 

Scope 3: By its very indirect nature this category is much harder to measure accurately, and is concerned with but not limited to the following main areas; transportation of purchased goods and services, waste disposal, water usage, employee commuting, home working and business travel. For everything except transportation of purchased goods and services, reasonably good data can be obtained and then using officially recognised conversion factors an emissions figure is obtained. e.g. home working hours from time sheets, business travel from expense claims, water usage and waste disposal from supplier invoices and employee commuting based on staff records and questionnaire. For the distribution of goods and services, information was obtained from our three main suppliers to gain a realistic figure.