Together, we achieve goals. 
What's your today?

Water is an essential resource for life on earth, but its availability and quality are under pressure due to a number of factors, from climate change to population growth and industrial activity. To understand and address these challenges, two key tools have been developed: the water footprint and the water footprint. Although both are related to water use, they differ in their approach and application.

Earth Hour is an annual event created by the environmental organization WWF, celebrated worldwide on the last Saturday of March to raise awareness about climate change and promote sustainable actions. This year, on the upcoming Saturday, March 25, for one hour (from 20:30 to 21:30), lights in homes, businesses, and iconic monuments around the world will be turned off to show their commitment to the fight against climate change.

Grup Carles, as a company committed to sustainability, is registered in the Carbon Footprint, Compensation, and CO2 Absorption Projects Registry of the Ministeri per a la Transició Ecològica i el Repte Demogràfic. We are proud to announce that in January, we obtained the Carbon Footprint Calculation Seal. This is a first step towards continuing our sustainability strategy through the implementation of actions to mitigate climate change.

When we talk about carbon footprinting, the concepts of calculation, validation and verification are concepts related to the different steps to be followed in the process of assessing and ensuring the accuracy of carbon footprint information. So what is the difference between these concepts?

The emission factors for the calculation of the carbon footprint, as every year, have been updated by the Spanish Climate Change Office. Last Friday, 10 May, the new data were shared, which are essential to understand and calculate the carbon footprint of our activities and to take effective measures to mitigate climate change.

A carbon footprint is defined as ‘the total greenhouse gases emitted by the direct or indirect effect of an individual, organisation, event or product’.

There is a wide variety of standards and methodologies for calculating the carbon footprint at international level, as is evident from the reports of the European Commission. 

When referring to the carbon footprint of an organisation and the emission sources that are analysed in its calculation, we refer to the concepts of Scope or Category (depending on the calculation method used: GHG Protocol or ISO 14064-1- respectively).