… Acco2unt carbon management software takes the complexity out of monitoring carbon emissions across multi-country regulatory requirements...

Monday 1st November 2010 - Greenstone Carbon Management, the global specialist carbon solutions company, has announced today that it is working with G4S, the world's leading security solutions company to help track, manage and forecast future carbon emissions through Greenstone’s Acco2unt* carbon management software. The software allows the organisation to review the impact of carbon emissions during current operations and also model and forecast emissions for any planned business growth.

G4S has over 600,000 employees delivering services to governments and private sector clients in more than 100 countries including operations in Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America and North America. G4S required an easy to use platform to delegate data collection to country and operating unit levels across the business. The Greenstone software automatically calculates carbon emissions at multiple organisational and business unit levels using both the GHG Protocol and, where relevant, national calculation methodologies. Greenstone’s solution enables G4S to apply greater focus on identifying targeted carbon reduction initiatives and meet internal and external reporting demands across the business. Acco2unt will also enable local country teams to set their own reduction targets and monitor performance over time.

Nigel Lockwood, Communications Manager at G4S, said; “As a large multinational organisation, managing our carbon emissions is a complex process. Acco2unt simplifies the process by allowing our environmental coordinators around the world to upload data in a consistent format to one centralised place. G4S is committed to reducing its carbon emissions and using Acco2unt significantly reduces the time spent on data capture and analysis, allowing us to increase our focus on carbon reduction activities and achieve our target. As we operate in 110 countries, we also need to be prepared for localised compliance regulations as they come into force. By working with Greenstone we can keep abreast of regulatory developments and minimise our potential compliance risk.”

Matthew de Villiers, Chief Executive Officer at Greenstone explains, “The complexity and challenges associated with measuring and managing carbon across the global operations of a company the size of G4S is an ideal environment to demonstrate the power and capability of the Acco2unt software. In a world of multiple stakeholders, multiple protocols and numerous reduction initiatives Acco2unt is able to provide clear consistent management information across all levels of the company and enable carbon management activities.”

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