Para toda empresa que tenga en consideración la lucha contra el cambio climático debe empezar por medir su huella de carbono de organización o corporativa.
La Huella de Carbono es el cálculo de la totalidad de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) emitidos por efecto directo o indirecto por un individuo, organización o producto, configurándose así, como punto de referencia inicial para el comienzo de actuaciones de reducción de emisiones de GEI y para la sustitución de recursos y materiales para una mejora en el comportamiento medioambiental.
Desde Euro-Funding, además de ayudaros en la obtención del sello del Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITERD) que reconoce el registro del cálculo, la reducción y/o la compensación de la huella de carbono, implantamos un procedimiento de recopilación de datos para facilitar la realización de futuras huellas de carbono. De esta manera, se reducen los costes asociados mediante la ejecución y se crea una herramienta de referencia para posibles proyectos energéticos y medioambientales que se planteen en el futuro.
The Carbon Footprint of an organisation includes those emissions associated with the company’s activity, and there is a state register for those entities that wish to register their footprint.
Companies carry out activities that result in the generation of GHGs, for example, during the manufacturing or transport of products. The carbon footprint of an organisation measures and analyses all those emissions emitted directly or indirectly through the activity carried out by that company.
At Euro-Funding, in addition to obtaining the seal of the Ministry for Ecological Transition (MITECO) that recognises your registration of the calculation, reduction and/or compensation of your carbon footprint, we implement a data collection procedure to facilitate future carbon footprinting. This reduces the associated costs and creates from scratch an information base for future energy and environmental projects.
The royal decree regulating the registration of organisational carbon footprint (Royal Decree 163/2014) will be updated very soon. Currently, this royal decree is voluntary, but after its update, in accordance with the law on climate change and energy transition (Law 7/2021), it will oblige certain companies to calculate and register their organisational carbon footprint, as well as to have a plan to reduce their emissions.
Two types of emissions can be distinguished according to an organisation’s operations:
Calculating the carbon footprint of an organisation involves a detailed analysis of the activity it carries out, varying in complexity depending on the quantity and type of GHG emitting sources considered for the calculation.
Depending on the scope of your organisation’s carbon footprint, verification of the calculations and the reduction plan by an authorised external entity may be mandatory. Euro-Funding recommends companies accredited by the Spanish National Accreditation Body (ENAC) and provides support throughout the verification process.
MITERD provides a graphic badge/stamp in recognition of the calculation of the carbon footprint. It is a seal that can evolve according to the efforts made, as it allows the following situations to be indicated in the same anagram:
SHALL WE TALK ABOUT CALCULATING YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT?
Calculating your carbon footprint will allow you to reduce costs by identifying the biggest energy consumers.
The water footprint is an environmental indicator that defines the relationship of our organisation, service or product with the use of fresh water and its direct contamination of the environment. In this way, the WF has become a key tool in the fight against the pollution of natural resources, and is also a sign of environmental commitment that is increasingly requested by both suppliers and customers.
It is made up of three elements depending on where the water comes from:
Green water footprint: this is the water from precipitation (rain and snow) that is stored in the soil, in the root zone, and evaporates, transpires or is incorporated by the plants.
Blue water footprint: water that comes from groundwater or surface water resources and either evaporates during the production of a good, is incorporated into it or is discharged into the sea. Irrigated agriculture, industry and domestic water use may have a blue water footprint.
Grey water footprint: this is the amount of fresh water required to dilute polluted water in the production process until it meets quality standards.
On the other hand and in relation to the Carbon Footprint, there is the Product Carbon Footprint, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). These services study all phases of a product’s life cycle from the procurement of raw materials and energy to the management of the waste generated, measuring the environmental impact including the emissions generated, respectively.
LCA is applied to several environmental impact categories (climate change, ecotoxicity, eutrophication and fuel consumption, among others) or exclusively to the climate change category for the product carbon footprint service.
Euro-Funding has a team of experts in environmental projects. In collaboration with our clients, they take care of finding the right projects to offset and register them with the Ministry for Ecological Transition (MITECO).
Currently, the subject of environmental offsets is booming due to the current era of continuous change towards a low-carbon and more environmentally friendly economy. Therefore, Euro-Funding relies on a medium and long term strategy following a methodology that allows us to reduce associated costs and to take advantage of the information collected in other corporate projects at an energy or environmental level.
REDUCE YOUR CO2 EMISSIONS
Calculating your carbon footprint will allow you to reduce costs by identifying the biggest energy consumers.
The calculation of the carbon footprint makes it easier to obtain data that can be used as a global environmental indicator of the activity carried out by the organisation. This calculation is thus configured as a basic reference point for initiating actions to reduce energy consumption and for the use of resources and materials with better environmental performance. The main benefits of calculating the carbon footprint for an organisation are as follows:
Strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of an organisation depend to a large extent on each entity and the type of activity carried out by these types of organisations. However, a global strategy that in all cases provides a successful result is the improvement of efficiency in energy consumption and supply. It is in this area where energy self-consumption plays an essential role in reducing the carbon footprint of an organisation.
At Euro-Funding we carry out the following activities to reduce our carbon footprint:
The interesting thing about measuring the carbon footprint is how the results can be translated into an ambitious climate action plan. The Euro-Funding team takes a baseline year to calculate your carbon footprint and from there develops a climate action strategy and a roadmap towards zero emissions.
Many companies today need to develop a sustainability plan if they want to effectively combat relevant issues such as climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. The elaboration and development of a corporate sustainability plan helps companies to have a better public image, greater efficiency and better brand representation. Click here
The sustainability report is the main tool available to companies to communicate, on a voluntary basis, their performance or impact in environmental, social and corporate governance matters. The information included in the sustainability report is relevant for both internal and external stakeholders (customers, suppliers and/or potential investors). Ampliar información Sustainability
From Euro-Funding we collaborate in obtaining these grants aimed at promoting the eco-design of new products, improving waste management, and promoting digitisation in our country. These grants aim to promote major initiatives that favour the transformation of the Spanish economy towards a circular production model that is more sustainable, efficient
Environmental aid is intended for the development of projects of general interest and is considered to be of social interest in the protection of the environment. For the purposes of the purposes of social interest in environmental protection, activities of social interest are understood to be all those activities derived
The energy audit is an in-depth study of a building with the aim of revealing a number of energy saving and efficiency opportunities for the company. Ampliar información Ayudas Medioambientales Cálculo de la huella de carbono Ayudas Economia Circular Auditoría energética Ayudas Medioambientales Cálculo de la huella de carbono Ayudas
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) refers to the complete study of the environmental impact that a product or service can generate in the different phases of its life, from the extraction of raw materials to the use and end of life of the product, once it has been discarded as waste.