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Revisited your emissions reduction target? Wo rl d R e s o u rc e s I n s t i t u te Example: S&P Enterprises’ current emissions and reduction target follow. 02 percent but has still not reached its target. The organization must now answer the following questions: • To reach its target, is a purchase of offsets appropriate and financially possible? • How will further internal reductions be achieved in the coming year? • Is the organization’s emissions reduction target realistic? If it will be easily achieved, should the target be revised to be more aggressive?

Encourage and support employees’ efforts to reduce CO2 emissions at home. net. org. For a list of more resources to help you reduce your organization’s emissions, see the references in Appendix III. OFFSETS Reducing your organization’s CO2 emissions is challenging. Even after your best reduction efforts, you may find you still have not reached your goal. If this is the case, you may wish to consider purchasing carbon offsets. An offset is an emissions reduction or removal project outside the boundaries you have defined that helps another organization reduce their emissions.

83 Solid Fossil Fuels1 Gaseous Fossil Fuels1 Natural Gas Other Fossil Fuels2 Key: tC/TJ = metric tons of carbon/terajoule; tCO2/TJ = metric tons of carbon dioxide/terajoule Notes: 1. pdf 2. S. html 3. CO2 emissions factors are derived from carbon emissions factors w w w . s a f e c l i m a t e . net 55 If the quantity of fuel used in energy units is unknown, energy units can be determined from the mass of fuel used using Table 2. html World Resources Institute appendix ii Emissions Factor Sources The following are common emissions factor sources.