New best practice guide to provide template on how to accurately report carbon data

[BusinessGreen.com, 25 May 2009] PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has today launched a new best practice guide designed to help firms report on their carbon emissions in accordance with the government's new Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation.

The CRC is to come into effect from next year and will require around 5,000 UK firms to report on their carbon footprint and enter into a legally binding emissions cap-and-trade scheme.

The new guide from PwC outlines how a fictitious UK-listed technology company, imaginatively titled Typico plc, should report on its greenhouse gas emissions, providing a template for the kinds of strategies, targets, benchmarking and reporting methodologies firms will be required to adopt.

It also provides a format that companies can use for their own carbon reports, as well as an example of a carbon data summary that can be included in annual report and account statements.

Read the full report at BusinessGreen.com.