Carbon Footprint Estimation

Approach:

1. Preliminary Assessment: This involves understanding your company’s operations, scale, and specific industry nuances. This step ensures that all relevant data points are accounted for during the subsequent stages.
2. Data Collection: Adastra will gather detailed data on:

• Energy consumption: This covers both direct usages, like electricity and heating, and indirect energy consumed in the production of goods or services procured by your organization.
• Travel: We will capture data on all modes of travel associated with organizational operations, from daily commutes to international flights.
• Other relevant factors: Depending on your organization's specific operations, this could include water consumption, waste generation, raw material sourcing, or other industry-specific inputs. 3.Carbon Emissions Calculation: Using the gathered data, Adastra will calculate your organization’s carbon emissions. Our methodology aligns with the latest GHG standards and utilizes industry-specific conversion emission factors. This ensures our estimates are both current and tailored to your organization's domain.

4. Identification of Carbon Sources: With the emissions calculated, we'll dissect the data to identify the major carbon sources within your organization. This analysis will highlight areas that contribute most significantly to the carbon footprint, providing a focal point for subsequent reduction strategies.
5. Recommendations and Strategy Development: Based on our findings, we'll provide basic recommendations for carbon reduction. This could involve suggesting energy-efficient technologies, waste management strategies, or promoting alternative travel methods. Additionally, we'll propose a long-term strategy for continuous monitoring and reduction, ensuring the organization remains on the path to sustainability.

Activities:

• Data collection on energy, waste, travel, and other relevant factors
• Carbon emissions calculation based on GHG standards and industry conversion emission factors
• Identification of major carbon sources within the organization
• Basic recommendations for carbon reduction

Deliverables:

• A detailed carbon footprint report
• A breakdown of your organization's emission sources
• Basic guidelines on potential emission-reducing strategies

Outcomes:

• A clear understanding of your company's carbon footprint, pinpointing major sources of emissions, and initial insights into potential areas of improvement
• A recommended reference architecture on AWS which may include but is not limited to AWS Lambda, Carbon Data Lake, Amazon API Gateways, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon CloudFront, QuickSight and others