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Established in 1997, Best Foot Forward has successfully completed well over 1000 footprint analyses helping more than 100 organisations to measure, manage, communicate and reduce their environmental impact.

Whether you are interested in standards compliance, strategy development, or measuring the footprint of products, services or events, Best Foot Forward can provide the metrics you need.

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Heritage Lottery Fund

Heritage Lottery Fund

Posted on Mon 13 Jul 2009

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) gives grants to projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the UK using money from the National Lottery for Good Causes. The HLF already requires organisations to report on environmental considerations as part of the application, and for this project BFF was commissioned to explore the feasibility to introduce carbon accounting as part of the application process. We identified the potential for applicants to forecast data on building energy use and visitor transport modes which can be converted to greenhouse gas emissions using an online calculator, such as the trial HLF Footprinter™ developed as part our work. Applicants would be able to use the tool to model alternative low carbon solutions, and the HLF could use footprint results as part of their assessment process

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Pinning down Scope 3

Posted on Mon 13 Jul 2009

Measuring so-called Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is relatively straightforward: look at your energy and fuel bills and total up the resulting carbon. But quantifying scope 3 emissions (the indirect emissions associated with your purchased goods and services) is a different matter altogether. Reporting Scope 3 emissions is currently an optional element of the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064-1 but is increasingly being recognised as both operationally important and expected. For example, DEFRA and DECC’s draft guidance on GHG reporting (for publication later this year) cites the measurement of some Scope 3 impacts as desirable ‘best practice’.

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Best Foot Forward offers sustainability products, designs sustainability tools and delivers sustainability publications. We work with clients to measure the business carbon footprint, offer wider carbon accounting services and provide business carbon calculator tools. Ecological footprint analysis (also known as the environmental footprint) is another area of expertise we apply to support environmental impact projects