This is the first of a two part blog post about how AMEE represents environmental standards and brings them together in its platform offering them in both machine and human readable forms. These posts are extracts from the white paper … Continue reading →

In this series, we’ve discussed mass-balance analysis and emissions factors as means of calculation carbon emissions. So…which approach is better? The short (and easy) answer to this is that it depends. In a direct, like-for-like comparison, mass-balance methodologies are usually … Continue reading →

The problems of Eschaton, Inc

Eschaton, Inc is in a rather difficult situation with regard to measuring its carbon footprint. While we hope your needs are not as complicated as those of Eschaton, we hope you will find the story of how this fictional company uses the timing features of AMEE to solve their problems helpful in addressing your own.

While all of Eschaton’s products and services report their resource consumption on a weekly basis, starting Mondays, their electricity supplier, CleansingFire Inc, reports emissions factors on a monthly basis. Because months don’t always start on a Monday, this makes matters a little complicated. To make matters worse, in Jefferson state, where Eschaton is based, the local authorities require carbon emissions to be reported monthly, starting not from the beginning of the month, but from the solstices and equinox dates, (21st of each month). How can Eschaton, Inc use AMEE to determine their total carbon emissions for the final solar quarter of 2011, from Wednesday 21st September 2011 to Thursday October 20th 2011? Continue reading →

In the last post, we described mass-balance methodologies for greenhouse gas calculations. Here we describe, another common class of methodologies: emissions factors. Emissions factors are single quantities which represent the rate at which greenhouse gas emissions are produced in relation … Continue reading →

In the last post, we explained that there regularly exists several different greenhouse gas emissions methodologies for specific activities. Understanding the structure of, and assumptions behind, published methodologies – and therefore the reasons for differences between them – can help … Continue reading →

The AMEE platform represents hundreds of greenhouse gas emissions methodologies – formal descriptions of how to calculate the emissions associated with a particular activity (e.g. fuel and electricity consumption, transport, industrial / agricultural processes). In many cases, however, there exists … Continue reading →