The Forestry Commission is using its employee expenses system to
help measure its
carbon footprint.
The commission uses emissions data from the system, together
with data drawn from its internal credit card reconciliation and
fleet management systems, to measure the carbon footprint of each
employee.
The organisation is required to measure and reduce emissions
under the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act.
Steve Atkins, head of finance systems development at the
Forestry Commission, said, "It made sense to build a carbon
measurement tool into our expense management system, because it
provides an easy and reliable method of tracking staff transport
emissions."
Staff enter their car mileage into the system, which calculates
the carbon output for every journey. Staff are also required to
enter information on taxi, bus, rail and air journeys.
The employee expense management system was supplied by COA
Solutions.