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Silvana Claassen | Sr. Carbon Advisor
Silvana assists businesses and organisations in measuring, reducing and offsetting their carbon emissions. As a result, she helps them become climate leaders.
We offer a wide range of services to guide your company on its climate and sustainability journey, from buying carbon credits, to reducing and mapping your environmental impact. Our offering is fully in line with your business priorities. Most importantly, they will help you compete and prosper in a low-carbon world.
Our products and solutions range from carbon footprinting and emission reduction strategies to sustainability roadmaps. In addition, we also offer carbon credits advisory, carbon tax consulting. Finally, we offer sustainability marketing services. These and other solutions will help you become a true corporate climate action leader in South Africa. Most importantly, it will help preserve our planet and empower vulnerable people.
Silvana Claassen | Sr. Carbon Advisor
Silvana assists businesses and organisations in measuring, reducing and offsetting their carbon emissions. As a result, she helps them become climate leaders.
Evaluating the main sources of carbon emissions of your business is the starting point for your carbon management programme. Like a doctor measuring a patient’s pulse, establishing a baseline carbon footprint provides a valuable indicator of possible areas of where your business can improve.
A carbon footprint is required by all South African companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, as well as for companies that fall under the South African Mandatory GHG Reporting Legislation.
A carbon footprint will also help you understand whether or not you are liable to pay carbon tax.
Knowing your carbon footprint is important as it is the starting point for developing an effective corporate climate change strategy.
CO2management is our proprietary Greenhouse Gas accounting tool that puts you in the driving seat to effectively measure and monitor your organisation’s carbon emissions.
CO2management enables you to easily calculate your carbon footprint: all you need is to define your scope boundaries. You then feed the CO2management database with your monthly, quarterly or annual data for electricity, transportation, processes etc. Once you entered your data, the tool automatically generates a carbon footprint report following the GHG Protocol standard.
By using CO2management continuously, you can track your carbon performance over time and identify emission hot spots sooner rather than later.
Spend your time on realising your climate goals, not paperwork – choose CO2management.
CDP runs a global disclosure system that assesses corporates and cities which voluntarily disclose against questionnaires relating to Climate Change, Water, Forests and Supply Chains.
The organisation works on behalf of 872 investors representing US$100 trillion in assets, and around a third of the world’s invested capital. The disclosure scores published by CDP allow these investors to see that companies are incorporating sustainability into their business strategy and practices, so that they can assess the climate change risk in their investment portfolios. Investors now more than ever, want to know their money is backing companies who will be there in the long term. Your business may choose or be asked by stakeholders to disclose to CDP.
In 2018, over 7,000 companies disclosed to CDP, an increase of 11% on the previous year. Reporting companies now represent over 50% of global market capitalisation which indicates the growing importance of corporate sustainability and the increasing demand of stakeholders and investors for climate and sustainability transparency.
In recognizing the tangible business benefits of disclosure and action, companies are raising their ambitions and taking meaningful steps to address climate change, deforestation and water security. This ensures their long-term sustainability and profitability, as well as equipping them to respond to regulatory and policy changes, such as the Paris Agreement.
Environmental disclosure makes sound business sense and now more companies than ever are disclosing to CDP.
The transition to a low-carbon economy is underway and accelerating globally. Every company in every sector will be transformed. Companies are getting on track now for low-carbon and future-proof growth by setting a science-based target.
Science-based targets provide companies with a clearly defined pathway to future-proof growth by specifying how much and how quickly they need to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
What is a science-based target?
A science-based target is a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target that is in line with the level of decarbonisation required to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial temperatures, as described in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR5).
Why keep your company’s climate performance and impacts a secret? Organisations like yours make a difference by actively combating the adverse effects of climate change and the world should know about it!
We work with you to develop targeted and relevant marketing campaigns accompanied by verifiable statistics, graphics, and testimonials to help you tell your story in a compelling way.
Showcase your climate leadership by using our high-quality offset logos and certificates. Include these logos and certificates on your website, letterheads, packages, vehicles, products and at events – in fact anywhere your brand touches!
Whatever your marketing and communications goals are, we have the expertise and resources to help you deliver a powerful message. We empower you to demonstrate how your climate strategy has directly benefitted stakeholders by providing:
Communicate your climate strategy, so you can build your brand and inspire others to take responsibility for their emissions.
THE NATIONAL POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN. Find out how The Climate Neutral Group can help your business navigate the regulations – https://climateneutralgroup.co.za/pollution-prevention-plan/
Who hasn't been captivated by the recent US election results? With Biden the projected the winner, the planet could breathe a big sigh of relief with his commitment to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. https://bit.ly/3piCizW
Can Spekboom help in the fight against climate change and our changing weather? A farm in the Klein Karoo is determined to find out https://bbc.in/357U2WG
Read our article: OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY IS THE KEY TO BUILDING BUSINESS RESILIENCE https://bit.ly/3jzY5io
Under the Carbon Tax Act, domestic carbon offsets can be used to help carbon tax liable companies pay less carbon tax. And these savings can be considerable.
Read our article below for more information.
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https://climateneutralgroup.co.za/carbon-tax-offsets-explained/