Neutral Consulting

The current trend encouraged by politicians and industry leaders targeting carbon neutral status is a much welcomed step towards reducing the human impact on global warming and climate change. In order that companies can all use the same language for Carbon Footprint reporting, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) have developed the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting protocol.

The GHG Protocol defines three “scopes” for GHG accounting to distinguish between “direct” and “indirect” emissions, promote transparency and prevent “double counting”.

The GHG Protocol can be regarded as the global standard protocol for greenhouse gas reporting and it is used by the UK Carbon Disclosure Project.