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Digital Footprints Are Growing…


Date: January, 2012


Are digital footprints treading on the toes of carbon footprints, as more of what we do – work, rest and play – moves online? Ecometrica Operations Director, Gary Davis, comments in E&T, the magazine of The Institution of Engineering and Technology. Continue reading

Highgate Tech Fund Invests In Ecometrica


Date: January, 2012


The Highgate EIS Tech Fund announces an investment in Ecometrica, a leading provider of Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Ecosystem Mapping Solutions. London, 11th January 2012 – The Highgate Tech Fund today announced that, after several months of detailed due diligence, … Continue reading

Ecometrica Presentation from the iCarb Conference 2011


Date: November, 2011



Operations Director Gary Davis will be speaking at the 4th International Conference on Carbon Accounting in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 25th 2011… Continue reading

How to Minimise the Rebound Effect


Date: July, 2011


In its broadest sense the rebound effect occurs when some pro-environmental activity results, directly or indirectly, in some environmental harm which partly or wholly cancels out the initial environmental benefit. This new Ecometrica paper explains the rebound effect in more detail, and discusses how it can be minimised. Continue reading

Ecometrica’s Review of the Climate Challenge Fund


Date: June, 2011


Ecometrica and Brook Lyndhurst were commissioned to carry out a review of the CCF, with the aims of exploring the impacts of projects and identifying the factors which contribute to the projects‟ success. The review also explored questions around the potential of community projects to deliver behaviour change, emissions reductions and wider sustainability aims. Continue reading

DfT Report: Regional Level Actions to Avoid ILUC


Date: June, 2011


This report, authored by Ecometrica and commissioned by the Department for Transport (DfT), considers the potential to reduce the risk of ILUC by actions taken at a regional level, for example by a region with a country, a national government or an international body such as the European Union. Continue reading

Ecometrica Response to Mandatory GHG Reporting Consultation


Date: June, 2011


The UK government and devolved administrations have established action on climate change as a key priority. Greater progress can be made if GHG emissions are accepted as a fiduciary responsibility of companies and other organisations.

Ecometrica supports a broad mandate in order to promote the idea of fiduciary responsibility on GHG emissions as widely as possible, and discusses this within the summary response below. A full consultation response is to be released shortly. Continue reading

RSA Streamlines GHG Reporting Process with Our Impacts


Date: May, 2011



Ecometrica has worked with RSA for the last three years, having been engaged to carry out GHG calculations for their inventory and assist with CDP submissions. This year we were pleased to use the Our Impacts web-based GHG accounting solution to complete RSA’s CDP submission because we were convinced it would save time and improve accuracy.
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Ecometrica-led NICFI Results Published


Date: May, 2011



Ecometrica’s Richard Tipper presents results of evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forests Initiative (NICFI) to stakeholders in Oslo… Continue reading

Ecometrica presenting at Environmental Finance Conference


Date: April, 2011


Ecometrica’s lead remote sensing specialist, Dr Karin Viergever, will lead a session on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification at the 2nd Annual Forestry, Biomass and Sustainability conference The conference brings together top-level panellists and speakers from industry and government to discuss … Continue reading

Your electric vehicle emits 75 gCO2/km… at the power station


Date: March, 2011



With no tailpipe emissions, electric cars are being hailed as the future of motoring. However, some argue that generating the electricity required to power them will offset those emission savings. Now, Ecometrica have finally put some statistics alongside the speculation… … Continue reading

BioCarbon Tracker Featured in Sunday Times Supplement


Date: January, 2011



BioCarbon Tracker, the advanced ecosystem mapping platform for identifying global vegetation at risk from land use change, has been featured on a full-page article in the Sunday Times Supplement. Continue reading

Carbon counting is ‘good for business’ – BBC Website


Date: December, 2010



New research by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the Carbon Disclosure project has found that measuring emissions using carbon accounting tools like Ecometrica’s Our Impacts can bring business benefits. Continue reading

Ecometrica Selected by the CDP as Carbon Calculation Partner


Date: November, 2010


Ecometrica has been named as a carbon calculation partner by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an independent not-for-profit organisation holding the largest database of primary corporate climate change information in the world. Continue reading

Ecometrica Gain Carbon Disclosure Project Accreditation


Date: November, 2010



Ecometrica is delighted to announce that it has been accredited under the Carbon Disclosure Project scheme as carbon calculation partners. Continue reading

Greenergy Launch BioCarbon Tracker


Date: November, 2010



Greenergy used Ecometrica’s expertise in land use and remote sensing, combined with our advanced web mapping technology to deliver BioCarbon Tracker. Continue reading

Report Your Emissions but Beware the ‘Reality Bomb’


Date: July, 2010


Report Your Emissions but Beware the ‘Reality Bomb’ Continue reading