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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At the launch of 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 divided into 3 main maturity levels in order to propose requirements adapted to the organisation and its objectives: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
The steering and internal governance allow structuring, coordinating and ensuring the completion of the approach. The level of requirement on the steering of each of the steps of the approach, 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 prepare the accounting phase, ensuring that all the organisation's direct and indirect emissions are included.
The level of requirement on the identification of 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 to get moving 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 contents considered necessary to achieve a move to action and a sufficient reduction in emissions. However, the means (formats, tools, etc.) to achieve 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 emission factors. This involves drawing up the emission profile of the organisation, i.e. the distribution of the organisation's quantified emissions across the different 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 must include objectives reduction targets, a series ofactions detailed and quantified actions, a trajectory credible in relation to the actions envisaged and the objectives set.
Performance indicators allow monitoring of the implementation and the performance of these actions.
The level of requirement of the transition plan is to 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, distributed by emission category within the considered boundaries, together with a proposed coherent transition plan, 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 formats export of Bilan Carbone® allow meeting regulatory requirements and other carbon accounting methods.
The organisation prepares the next steps of its progression in continuous improvement.
The anonymised emissions profile must be submitted at least on the platform of theOCCF.
The quality of the Bilan Carbone® approach can be evaluated by a team of evaluators independent. 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 to claim a Bilan Carbone® evaluated.
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