CO2focus

About us

CO2focus is an independent international advisory company leading the way in voluntary action on climate change. The company was established in 2007 as a private entity (ltd), located in Oslo, Norway.

Whichever industry you work in, your company will be producing the CO2 emissions that create climate change. The extent to which a company tackles its contribution to climate change is becoming a key measure of business performance and a critical factor in competitive tenders and consumer buying decisions. CO2focus has the tool to address this problem today!

Our vision

The main goal of CO2focus is to be among the leading providers of climate management services for both companies and public organizations world-wide. We support the market with high quality UN approved carbon credits (CER's), climate management services and solutions for effective handling and administration of climate issues.

Our qualities

CO2focus delivers climate management services through a team of highly experienced people from a variety of academic backgrounds: carbon trading; management consulting; engineering; sales and marketing. This, combined with an extensive knowledge of business and international industry for many years, gives CO2focus a unique mix of skills conveyable to any client situation.

Energy- and Carbon Accounting for organisations

CO2focus offers an extensive platform for climate management. One of the main elements in climate management is the preparation of your organisations´ carbon accounting.

Our model is based on the international standard the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative (The GHG Protocol), which is the most widely used accounting tool to manage greenhouse gas emissions. The standard was developed through a decade-long partnership between businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world and was in 2006 used as the basis for the ISO standard 14064-I.

CO2focus has recently developed CEMAsys©, a web-based energy, travel, waste, water and carbon accounting platform. The system is being used by all our clients, read more about it here.

A successful climate strategy will always include a corporate energy- and greenhouse gas inventory. Our tools are tailored to be used in the reporting to for example CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), GRI, UN Global Compact and used with an environmental management system like ISO 14001 and EMAS.

The GHG protocol builds the climate reporting on three scopes of direct and indirect emissions, covering the six main greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 (methane), N2O (nitrous oxide), SF6 (Sulfur hexafluoride), HFCs and PFCs (Hydro- and perfluorocarbons).

Carbon Accounting —Requirements and opportunities

With the CO2focus energy- and carbon accounting, your organisation gets a complete tool to work systematically with reducing your energy consumption and the greenhouse gas emissions. Energy use and climate issues are subject to increased interest both in public and private sectors. A frequent questions is: How will this impact my business?

The energy- and carbon accounting has many applications, depending on company and sector. However, common to all are the following requirements and opportunities:

Requirements from society and customers

• Requirements for climate reporting from various stakeholders (investors, customers, authorities etc)
• Requirements for environmental and energy reporting in the annual report
• Requirements in public and private tenders
• Increased taxes and fees on fossile fuels or greenhouse gas emissions
• Increasing energy costs

New opportunities

• Show responsibility and build a good reputation among various stakeholders
• Carbon accounting forms and important part in Corportate Social Responsibility reporting and is a good starting point for any CSR work.
• Energy- and carbon accounting bring attention to cost efficiency in operations, buildings, communications and daily activities.
• Carbon accounting is fundamental to any climate action plan or strategy.
• Advantageous attachment in tenders
• Long term competitiveness
• Proactive attitude towards a sustainable and greener economy

Our system CEMAsys© is tailored to facilitate the reporting to various organisations and standards; CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), GRI, UN Global Compact or an environmental management system such as ISO 14001, EMAS or other environmental certifications.