Corporations discharge greenhouse gas emissions, directly or indirectly and thus contribute to climate change. PE INTERNATIONAL, the premier provider of solutions to manage and offset corporate carbon emissions, serves to help you analyse and manage your carbon footprint. Our global presence and long-standing experience in carbon footprint analysis in business is the robust basis to provide you with mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency.

Our carbon footprint analysis is holistic and comprehensive. It is founded upon the well-established Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. PE INTERNATIONAL has been the global leader in this field for 18-years; our clients benefit from this experience and can count on having the most consistent and transparent data and emission factors available. PE’s services are performed in line with existing and forthcoming protocols such as the GHG protocol, the ISO 14000 series and the PAS 2050. Emission factors for indirect operations are sourced from, e.g., the EU Life Cycle Database and our own databases, which are fully consistent with one another.

PE experts are administering corporate carbon footprint analyses all around the globe for large, branch leaders in the logistics, IT, retail, metals, chemical industry, many of them listed in the DowJones Sustainability Index.

Proven IT solutions - such as the SoFi software - are employed to integrate, consolidate, analyse and manage the carbon footprints of corporate operations and supply chains. Moreover, SoFi supports emissions forecasting and certificates & allowance management for emissions trading according to the EU ETS and addresses all other aspects of EH&S and CSR management.

Working with PE, companies are guaranteed that the leading methods, data, and IT technology are applied for analysing, mitigating and offsetting their carbon footprint in a transparent and credible manner. We also help them keep the big picture in mind: Corporate Sustainability / Corporate Social Responsibility. That’s the brand promise, Carbon Neutrality With Integrity.

The PE methodology in the Corporate Carbon Footprint field encompasses the following steps:

• Carbon footprint analysis and identification of reduction potentials
• Carbon footprint mitigation for the entity or supply chain by:
  • Enhancing energy efficiency
  • Changing technologies
  • Adjusting logistics
  • Altering raw materials
  • Switching to green energy
• Offsetting of and obtaining credits for remaining carbon emissions by:
  • Purchasing Carbon Credits (CER’s) e.g., from PE’s portfolio
  • Participating in carbon reduction projects in developing countries following the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
  • Participating in carbon joint implementation measures (JI)