0.2 - The stages of a Bilan Carbone®
Summary and stages of the Bilan Carbone® approach.
The Bilan Carbone® approach is structured into 7 steps.
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When launching a Bilan Carbone® approach, it is necessary to frame:
The maturity level the organisation in terms of carbon accounting and its position on the low-carbon transition pathway. This involves drawing up an initial diagnosis: is the organisation carrying out its first or nth Bilan Carbone®? What are the internal and external expectations? What resources are available? Will this be a first or nth awareness-raising on planetary issues? The method is broken down into 3 main maturity levels in order to propose requirements adapted to the organisation and its objectives: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
The governance and internal governance help to structure, coordinate and ensure the completion of the approach. The level of requirement on the steering of each of the approach's steps, notably hierarchical involvement and training, may depend on the maturity level.
This method necessarily focuses on the induced emissions by a organisation.
The organisation defines its organisational, temporal, and identify its emission sources allowing it to delimit its operational boundary. It identifies the transition risks and opportunities.
This makes it possible to delimit the study and to prepare the accounting phase, ensuring that all the organisation's direct and indirect emissions are included.
The level of requirement for identifying the boundaries may depend on the maturity level of the organisation.
The Stakeholder engagement is a crucial part of the Bilan Carbone® approach, since it enables all the organisation's stakeholders to be made aware and then mobilised to carry out the Bilan Carbone® and engage the transition plan. Stakeholder engagement continues continuously throughout the Bilan Carbone® approach, and must allow the transmission of certain key messages to trigger the move to action.
The Bilan Carbone® method defines the expected outputs, that is to say the messages and the content considered necessary to achieve a move to action and a sufficient reduction in emissions. However, the means (formats, tools, etc.) of achieving these objectives remain at the discretion of the approach coordinator.
The requirements in terms of Stakeholder engagement adapt according to the organisation and its resources, depending on its maturity level.
The accounting step consists both in collecting all the required activity data and converting them into tonnes of CO2 equivalent using GHG emission factors. This involves drawing up the emission profile of the organisation, that is the distribution of the organisation's quantified emissions across the different emission categories of the Bilan Carbone®.
The uncertainties, inherent to the emission factors chosen and to the data collected, must be quantified and displayed transparently on the emissions profile.
The quality of the accounting (accuracy of activity data, of emission factors, etc.) varies according to the maturity level of the organisation and according to its resources.
A Transition Plan is defined following the accounting of emissions. This plan shall include reduction objectives measures, a series ofactions detailed and quantified, a trajectory credible in relation to the actions envisaged and the objectives set.
Some indicators allow the monitoring of the implementation and the performance of these actions.
The level of requirement of the transition plan shall be adapted to the organisation and its resources depending on its maturity level.
The result of a Bilan Carbone® is the quantification of the organisation's GHG emissions, broken down by emission category within the boundaries considered, together with a proposed transition plan in coherence, and the associated monitoring indicators. The expected deliverables are framed, and reported to the organisation for internal or external use, according to its maturity level.
Different export formats of the Bilan Carbone® make it possible to meet regulatory requirements and other carbon accounting methods.
The organisation prepares the next steps of its progress by continuous improvement.
The anonymised emissions profile must be deposited at least on the platform of theOCCF.
The quality of the Bilan Carbone® approach can be assessed by an team of independent evaluators . The evaluation is based on the deliverables produced during the approach, following a framework strict.
Step 7 is optional and voluntary. Only a successful audit allows one to claim a evaluated Bilan Carbone®.
All information on the operational boundary is documented and Do you have a comprehension question?Consult the FAQ . The method is living and therefore likely to evolve (clarifications, additions): find the.
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