The international carbon emission management model that printing companies should understand
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With the improvement of international environmental protection and green low-carbon voices, the environmental requirements put forward by the international market and customers are gradually increasing, the requirements are becoming more and more detailed, and the scope of coverage is becoming wider and wider, which has an increasingly greater impact on the operation of printing enterprises. There are three main models for current international carbon emissions management: corporate carbon emissions management, product carbon emissions management, and carbon reduction management programs for offices.
Enterprise carbon inventory: ISO14064-1
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) officially announced the ISO 14064 series of standards related to greenhouse gas management and inspection on March 1, 2006. For enterprises, the company mainly conducts inventory checks on the company's greenhouse gas emissions to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions are accurately controlled and managed, and further promotes voluntary greenhouse gas reduction plans based on the results of the inventory. According to the requirements of ISO 14064-1, the scope of carbon inventory includes three categories.
Category 1: Focus on direct emissions of greenhouse gases, directed to sources of emissions that are owned or controlled by the reporting organization, such as factory chimneys, processes, ventilation, and fixed combustion sources, processes, and vehicles owned/controlled by the organization. emission.
Category 2: Focus on indirect emissions of energy, ie greenhouse gas emissions from input electricity, heat or steam. Calculations are made for greenhouse gases that are indirectly emitted from the generation of incoming/outsourced electricity, heat or steam. Mainly refers to indirect greenhouse gas emissions caused by the use of input energy.
Category 3: Refers to other indirect emissions that allow calculations for other indirect emissions from the results of the activities of the reporting organization, which refers to greenhouse gas emissions due to other non-use of energy (eg, staff travel by vehicle) Emissions).
Product and office carbon emission regulations
PAS 2050 is a greenhouse gas inventory standard for the life cycle of products and services. It was developed by the British Standards Institute (BSI) to help companies manage the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their production processes while looking for their products. Opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during design, production and sales. Through the carbon accounting of the product, we can mark the various greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of the product.
In the PAS 2050 User Guide, the carbon footprint of goods and services can be evaluated in terms of raw materials, production, distribution, use and disposal. In terms of raw materials, enterprises must collect paper production data from major suppliers; in the production process, it is necessary to establish a machine energy consumption database; in the distribution chain, the carbon emissions of the product transportation process are calculated according to the distribution place of the products; Involving energy consumption, when consumers use it, carbon emissions can be neglected; according to the product's production cycle and final disposal method, the carbon emissions of the product disposal stage are accounted for.
LOOP, the Low Carbon Office Program, is the first project launched by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to address mitigation actions. The project aims to help companies measure the carbon footprint of their office activities through a series of tools and guidelines, adopting best practices in management and technology, promoting employee behavioral changes, and label certification to reduce office Greenhouse gas emissions from operational operations.
International carbon label policy
The carbon label is to alleviate climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote low-carbon emission technologies, and use the quantitative index of the greenhouse gas emissions emitted by the products in the production process to inform consumers in the form of labels. Carbon information for the product. By using carbon footprint labels on commodities to guide buyers and consumers to choose low-carbon emissions, they can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change.
At present, the carbon label policy pilot areas are mainly in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, the United States and Japan. The first carbon label is the UK Carbon Trust. France passed the French New Environmental Protection Act on July 12, 2010, requiring products sold on the French market to be labeled with environmental information about the product, including marking its entire life cycle (ie from raw materials, manufacturing, storage, disposal, recycling to recycling). The whole process) and the carbon content of the package, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the product in the production process is marked on the product label, so that consumers clearly know how much the product will affect the global environment. Formally implemented on the 1st of the month.
At the same time, the International Organization for Standardization is also actively promoting the adoption of ISO standards to regulate product carbon accounting and labeling requirements. For example, the ISO14067 standard will include carbon emission quantification, calculation, communication and labeling of products, and officially incorporate product carbon emissions into international standardization management. .
How do printing companies act
Although carbon emission management is not included in the compulsory management standards for export enterprises, as the international community increases its environmental protection efforts, the pressure on energy conservation and emission reduction will increase. If it is to continue to go out, then the carbon label and We cannot afford to pay attention to the trade barriers brought about by the carbon tax and other aspects.
So how do we deal with international trade barriers to carbon emissions? In fact, whether it is to carry out corporate carbon inventory or product carbon accounting, its real purpose is not to calculate, but to find out the most carbon emissions through accounting, and reduce the enterprise through practical and feasible emission reduction actions. This is the key to the carbon footprint of the product. Generally speaking, in the entire carbon emission accounting, the main carbon emissions come from energy consumption. Therefore, in the short term, the focus of the company's emission reduction actions is still on energy conservation, but it is not necessary to do energy conservation management. It is easy for China to incorporate energy conservation and emission reduction into the national “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, which shows the importance of energy conservation.
Printing enterprises can refer to the national energy management system standard GB/T22331-2012 (equivalent to ISO50001:2011) for comprehensive energy management of enterprises, through the promotion of energy system, starting from the technical level and management level, in achieving energy-saving goals. At the same time, it also achieves the effect of reducing emissions. At the same time, due to energy-saving technological transformation (such as the introduction of energy-saving equipment such as energy-saving machines), it can improve the comprehensive management level of enterprises and accelerate the improvement of production efficiency.