Emissions regulations are increasing in number around the world. For organizations with international operations the regulatory landscape is becoming more complex by the month.

Furthermore, these increasing regulations will impose indirect costs on other businesses (and households), as a result of increased costs in areas such as electricity and fuel.

FoundationFootprint™ is designed to manage the complexity of reporting against a growing number of emissions regulations facing large organisations, multi-nationals and government bodies.

FoundationFootprint™ is a web based, real time carbon footprint and resource management system, built to follow the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and ISO 14064.  FoundationFootprint™ integrates seamlessly with both a company’s internal systems and their utilities and suppliers IT systems to track energy, fuel, water, waste and supply chain emissions.

FoundationFootprint™ is a robust emissions compliance and reporting system

Although not all regulatory programs follow the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and ISO 14064 the core pillars of carbon reporting that these standards provide remain key aspects:

• well defined organisational structures and boundaries,
• accurate emission source and emission factor definition and
• accurate raw data for reporting

Whilst staying true to the core principles of carbon management FoundationFootprint™ is built with the flexibility to add “compliance modules” to the core feature set. These compliance modules are designed to meet the unique reporting needs of specific regulatory programs around the world.

The different compliance modules provide added features and guidance for the reporting organisation to ensure

• Timely, structured and automated data gathering and reporting
• Correct emission factors are used
• The correct emissions and resources are reported on
• Easy and secure access for third party verification
• Regional requirements such as languages, units of measure and time zones are accomodated
• Staying up to date with the requirements of changing regulations

Below is a list of regulatory programs that FoundationFootprint™ can be used for. Should you have other requirements please contact us to discuss your needs.

New Zealand

The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme covering the following sectors ( Read More » ):

• Forestry
• Stationary Energy and Industrial Processes (SEIP)
• Liquid Fossil Fuels (LFF)

Australia

The National Greenhouse and Energy Registry System (the NGER Act)

UK

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme

USA

The Climate Registry