MAPPING: zero paper philosophy!
MAPPING Suite and sustainable development
How is sustainable development integrated into MAPPING's activities?
- One answer: Zero Paper!
Efficiently managing your company’s use of paper helps preserve the environment as well as your pocketbook!
MAPPING is at your side to:
- Provide you with a competitive solution to convert your documents into e-documents: compliant archiving, optimized print processes, no need to invest in more efficient printers,
- Help reduce your paper consumption and therefore your carbon footprint by automating the production of e-documents.
- Lower the financial impact of the green tax on non eco-friendly behaviors as is already planned in some countries.
MAPPING Suite software solutions help reduce your carbon footprint!
Fact
Today, we know that our way of living and conducting business threatens our environment to such an extent that we might have to face irreversible consequences. Climate change is already causing the following problems:
All of this threatens our economy, our finances and our personal lives. Today, we must rethink our lifestyles and find solutions to limit the impact of human activities on our environment |
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The Kyoto protocol
In 1992, the Earth Summit held in Rio, Brazil raised awareness of the risks associated with climate change due to economic overexploitation. The richest countries, with the exception of the United States, have pledged to:
- Stabilize greenhouse gas emissions to the level of 1990,
- Define quantitative commitments by country,
- Make use of the defined "flexibility mechanisms" such as emissions allowances and emissions trading.
The objective was to tackle the biggest polluters (paper, glass, energy) who account for about 50% of global carbon dioxide emissions. The European Union has implemented the protocol gradually through a system of quotas (directive 2003/87).
What we can do
As a result, most companies now have to rethink the way they do business and take into account global warming issues by:
- Raising staff awareness of best practices such as switching off unused lights and monitors, saving paper, etc.
- Including ecology in business strategies: eco-friendly offices, green products, etc.
Today, adopting eco-friendly behaviors in the enterprise helps stand out from the competition and improves brand image. Working green might soon become an obligation for all businesses (not just those with the highest CFCG emissions) as is already the case in France with the Eco Tax.
Your Carbon Footprint
The carbon footprint is a method used to calculate greenhouse gases emissions using readily available data with a view to evaluate the emissions induced by such or such activity. Developed by the ADEME agency, the carbon footprint calculation method is ISO 14064 compliant and supports the 2003/87/CE directive on emissions trade.
Greenhouse effect is caused by:
- CO2 Carbon Dioxide: burning fossil energies, depletion of forests,
- CH4-Methane: livestock raising, garbage dumps
- HFC and PFC-Halo carbons: production of cold gas contained in spray cans
- N2O-Protoxide: use of fertilizers, chemicals
- SF6, sulfur hexafluoride: electric transformer
How is the carbon footprint calculated ?
A calculator considers the following criteria to compute greenhouse gases emissions induced by direct or indirect human activity:
- Electricity or steam purchased, means of transport used by company staff and clients,
- Transportation of raw materials, supplies, and manufactured goods,
- Construction of company buildings,
- Manufacturing of raw materials used in each activity (including the paper in an office!)
- Disposal of generated waste,
- Consumption of energy and other emissions of products sold, and disposal of those products once at the end of their life cycle.
In short, this method is used to count all emissions, whether happening directly inside the company or indirectly at customer or supplier sites as long as they are induced by processes required by the business.
With the carbon footprint, any company or administration wishing to do something to limit climate change can discover its overall impact on the climate, what it can do to reduce it in the short and long run, and learn about its exposure to the risk of using more fossil fuels, through an eco-tax for example.
The company will then be able to:
- Decide on a plan to reduce GHG emissions (financial impact),
- Define reduction targets while aiming to become ISO certified,
- Voluntarily publish the quantity of emissions (to impact brand image) or through legislation (directive 2003/87)
- Change the company strategy to stand out from the competition,
- Anticipate the introduction of restrictive legislation.
