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| Tool ID: 1 Name: Bottomline3UK Organisation: ISA-UK Research and Consulting Summary: Bottomline3 is a triple bottom line accounting software package for companies or organisations, designed to provide a comprehensive sustainability report. It is based on an extended input-output model, and takes an organisation's financial accounts and on-site fuel usage as input, and from them calculates a wide range of indicators such as carbon footprint and ecological footprint, based on the amount of spending and average emissions from that sector of the economy. It captures direct and indirect emissions, including embodied energy throughout the whole of the supply chain. View full details |
| Tool ID: 18 Name: Costing the impacts of climate change in the UK Organisation: Metroeconomica for UKCIP Summary: The tool provide guidance on a methodology for costing the impacts of climate change including: * identifying and quantifying climate impacts in physical units; * converting these physical impacts into monetary values; * calculating the resource costs of adaptation options; and * weighing up the costs and benefits of the adaptation option, and choosing the preferred option, taking account of risks and uncertainties. View full details |
| Tool ID: 2 Name: DECoRuM Organisation: Oxford Brookes University Summary: DECoRuM is a GIS based, bottom-up, carbon footprinting and carbon reduction tool. It is designed to measure, model, map, benchmark, reduce and manage domestic carbon emissions. The energy consumptions of individual dwellings are modelled within a GIS system, which allows aggregation of carbon emissions up to other scales: street, district, town etc. DECoRuM also includes costs for best-practice energy efficiency interventions and renewable energy technologies, so that costed emission reduction scenarios can be developed. The main target users for the DECoRuM model include planners in local authorities, energy advisers in Energy Efficiency Advice Centres, building surveyors as well as real estate professional. View full details |
| Tool ID: 15 Name: Defra Act On CO2 Calculator Organisation: DEFRA Summary: Provides individuals/households with the opportunity to calculate their carbon footprint and receive a tailored action plan based on their answers to the questions in each section of the calculator. The calculator has three sections - home, appliances and travel. The calculator also allows users to compare their carbon footprint with the national average. View full details |
| Tool ID: 3 Name: EMIT Organisation: Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd Summary: EMIT is an emissions inventory tool. It can be used to store, manipulate and assess emissions data from a variety of sources, including roads, industrial sources, domestic buildings, landfill etc. It incorporates a database of emissions factors, based on the published UK database of emission factors and the UK GHG inventory. GHG, and local pollutant emissions, are calculated by multiplying the activity (e.g. vehicle km), by the appropriate emission factor. Emissions data held in EMIT can be used for: greenhouse gas emissions inventories; local air pollution studies of toxic pollutants; estimating emissions for use in IPPC applications; and road traffic noise mapping studies. The data used in all these environmental assessments must be consistent and traceable. EMIT can help to do this. EMIT is particularly useful for emission-reduction scenario testing, for example to investigate ways of reducing GHG emissions as a step towards meeting objectives. Emissions can be calculated from activity data associated emission factor datasets, estimated as a scaling of a national emissions figure by a local statistic or specified directly by the user. Emissions totals are displayed in the EMIT interface, and can be copied and pasted into other packages for editing, use in reports and so forth. For greenhouse gas inventories, the totals are not only displayed for each of the 6 greenhouse gases explicitly, but also in terms of their Global Warming Potential. View full details |
| Tool ID: 4 Name: Envest2 Organisation: Building Research Establishment Summary: ENVEST is a lifecycle analysis (LCA) tool to estimate and compare the whole-life costs of different building designs. It includes the environmental impacts of different materials and construction methods used in buildings. It is primarily aimed at designers, who input their building designs (height, number of storeys, window area, etc) and choices of elements (external wall, roof covering, etc). Envest 2 identifies those elements with the most influence on the building's environmental impact and whole life cost and shows the effects of selecting different materials. It also predicts the environmental and cost impact of various strategies for heating, cooling and operating a building. View full details |
| Tool ID: 5 Name: GRIP Inventory and Scenario Tool Organisation: Tyndall Centre Summary: GRIP consists of two linked parts: a GHG inventory and a scenario tool. It was developed in a project to produce a regional GHG inventory for the Northwest region of England, and was explicitly aimed at providing a methodology which could be consistently applied across regions. The Scenario Tool, enables policy makers to explore the implications of different energy futures (including domestic, services, industry, electricity generation. transport, View full details |
| Tool ID: 6 Name: Local and Regional Carbon Management Matrix Organisation: Centre for Sustainable Energy Summary: This 'Matrix' is designed for LAs to assess their performance in five key areas where they have an influence on carbon emissions. The assessment allows them to see current performance, and see how performance could be improved through policy changes. The five key areas assessed are: domestic energy efficiency, business energy efficiency, public sector energy efficiency, renewable and low carbon technologies, and transport (which divides into own travel and local transport). Within these, it identifies 49 specific ‘levers’ available to local authorities, together with an ‘overall’ strategic approach for each area. LA performance against each lever is assessed from ‘weak’ to ‘excellent’. By detailing behaviours at each level of performance, the Matrix provides a picture of the incremental steps involved in improving performance. It therefore has the potential to act as both a yardstick to measure performance and a guide to improve it View full details |
| Tool ID: 12 Name: Local Authority Carbon Management Programme Organisation: Carbon Trust Summary: The programme helps local authorities create a systematic analysis of their carbon footprint. Structured action plans are then developed for realising carbon savings and embedding best practice in the authority’s day-to-day operations. The focus is on reducing CO2 emissions from buildings, vehicle fleets, street lighting and landfill sites. The programme can also help authorities map and navigate existing and forthcoming legislation, factor in carbon to procurement decisions and consider potential risks to reputation. View full details |
| Tool ID: 7 Name: National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory Organisation: AEA Energy & Environment Summary: The website is a one-stop-shop for information about total UK and DA emissions of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants, containing reports and useful datasets detailing the trends in emissions and information about how the emissions are calculated, what is being done to reduce emissions, and what the impacts of the emissions are. Various parts of the website are updated on different timescales. GHG Emissions data are updated annually, and the GHG Inventory Report and associated sets of data are published in April each year. The GHG Inventory report for Scotland and other constituent countries is published annually in September. View full details |
| Tool ID: 8 Name: REAP Organisation: Stockholm Environment Institute Summary: REAP is a resource accounting and ecological footprinting tool which allows policy makers to understand and measure the environmental pressures associated with human consumption. The programme also has a scenario tool which models the impacts of policies and creates plausible scenarios of the future. These scenarios can be set against targets or compared to alternative futures based on different trends or assumptions View full details |
| Tool ID: 19 Name: Risk, uncertainty and decision-making Organisation: UKCIP Summary: The report provides guidance to enable decision-makers to recognise and evaluate the risks posed by a changing climate and to make the best use of available information on climate change, its impacts and potential adaptive responses. View full details |
| Tool ID: 9 Name: SECCP GHG spreadsheet tool Organisation: SECCP Emissions Monitoring Group Summary: The SECCP monitoring tool was developed by key partners within the South East Climate Change Partnership, including NETCEN, DTI, DEFRA, the Carbon Trust, Environment Agency, Local Authorities and other professional agencies and companies. The tool allows Local Authorities to calculate direct CO2 equivalent emissions from fuel use, landfill and energy consumed within their district and from their own operations (current reporting year 2004/2005 depending on emission source). The current version does not account for the manufacture of imported goods. View full details |
| Tool ID: 10 Name: Sustainable Energy Toolkit and Benchmark Organisation: IdeA, Defra, and Beacon Authorities Summary: An integrated CD based resource that allows councils to rate their performance against all aspects of sustainable energy practice. This can act as a benchmark, and also a guide as to how to improve performance. It was developed by the sustainable energy Beacon councils, in collaboration with IdeA and DEFRA. View full details |
| Tool ID: 11 Name: UK CEED Carbon Emission Toolkit Organisation: UK Centre for Environmental & Economic Development Summary: UKCEED tool has been developed primarily as a project with LAs in the East of England, based on the REAP model from the Stockholm Environment Institute. The spreadsheet tool which allows LAs to develop a baseline GHG inventory and then develop indicative scenarios of interventions required to achieve desired levels of GHG reductions View full details |
| Tool ID: 14 Name: UKCIP Adaptation database Organisation: UK Climate Impacts Programme Summary: Database of adaptation examples searchable by region, sector and adaptation type. Currently there are about 250 examples included View full details |
| Tool ID: 17 Name: UKCIP Adaptation Wizard Organisation: UKCIP Summary: The Adaptation Wizard will help you adapt to climate change. It will take you through a 4-step process that will help you to: - assess your vulnerability to current climate, - assess your vulnerability to future climate change, - identify options to address your key climate risks, and - help you to begin the process of developing a climate change adaptation strategy. The Wizard is also a guide to the information, tools and resources UKCIP can offer that will help you to better understand climate change and work out how to adapt. The wizard can therefore be used to: • Teach yourself, your colleagues and wider professional network about climate change science and adaptation • Access the information, tools and resources UKCIP provides to help you deal with climate change • Assess your vulnerability to current climate and future climate change • Make a decision, or develop a project, programme, policy or strategy, that is resilient to climate change • Develop a climate change adaptation strategy View full details |
| Tool ID: 13 Name: UKCIP Climate Change Scenarios Organisation: UK Climate Impacts Programme Summary: Provides projected values for a variety of climate variables for the UK for time slices 2020s (2011 to 2040), 2050s (2041 to 2070) and 2080s (2071 to 2100) for each of 4 emission scenarios. Data are available at a 50km squared resolution for: The climatic variables available include: Maximum/mean/minimum temperature (ºC) Total precipitation rate (mm/month) Snowfall rate (mm/day) Wind speed at 10m (m/s) Fractional cloud cover Specific humidity (g/kg) Relative humidity (%) Soil moisture content (mm) Net surface shortwave/longwave flux (W/m²) Total downward surface shortwave flux (W/m²) Surface latent heat flux (W/m²) Mean sea level pressure (hpa) Mean sea surface temperature (°C) Selected derived variables View full details |
| Tool ID: 16 Name: Workbook for Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions Organisation: UKWIR Summary: A standardised, agreed approach for estimating company greenhouse gas emissions has been developed. It follows, where appropriate and possible, the Defra Guidelines on Company Greenhouse Gas Reporting as the official UK guidance, extended to cover industry activities which they do not address, and the minor gases in relation to transport. It addresses emissions from UK water and sewage operations, under the following activity areas: Drinking water treatment and pumping; Sewage treatment and pumping; Sludge treatment and disposal; Administrative activities; and Transport. It includes emission sources in: Distribution, handling, treatment and disposal processes for water, sewage and sludge; Use of grid and other purchased electricity; Production and use of self-generated electricity, from biogas, sludge or other fuels; and Fuel use, including use in processes and transport. For each activity area, two output estimates are provided of the total GWP arising, as follows: (i) in broad accordance with the Defra Guidelines and Kyoto Protocol; and (ii) including short-cycle carbon (i.e. carbon of non-fossil origin). View full details |