CLIMATE EXCHANGE PLC

Innovative Organisations: Climate Exchange PLC

Innovative Organisations: Climate Exchange PLC

Introduction

Personal carbon footprints are composed of primary footprints and secondary footprints. Primary footprints are GHG emissions that are directly produced by the burning of fossil fuels as a result of operations in Climate Exchange PLC. Ground and air transportation, electricity consumption, and home heating, hot water, and cooking all contribute to primary carbon footprints at Climate Exchange PLC. Carbon footprints measure the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) or total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with a product or business organization such as Climate Exchange PLC. Carbon footprints of products come from a life-cycle analysis of how much CO2 is produced during a product's life in Climate Exchange PLC. This includes the emissions from a product's inputs and manufacture, transportation to market, use, and disposal.

The green buildings that are incorporated by Climate Exchange PLC's operations are not a panacea for ameliorating all negative environmental impacts resulting from increased development or loss of open space. Personal carbon footprint is a term that refers to how much GHGs an individual person adds to the atmosphere over the course of one year as a result of his or her actions. A carbon footprint incorporated in the manufacturing process of Climate Exchange PLC may be measured in pounds, tons, or metric tons either of CO2 or of all greenhouse gases as units of CO2 equivalent. Secondary carbon footprints include indirect emissions that result from the manufacture, transport, use, and breakdown of products that do not directly require fossil fuel use in Climate Exchange PLC.

Innovative Practices Adapted by Climate Exchange PLC

Climate Exchange PLC has initiated energy star program of the agency to protect the environment and the UK Green Building Council, promotes the improvement of energy efficiency in buildings, usually expressed as a percentage (20% more efficient than conventional buildings or 40% more efficient than other commercial buildings. Such improvements can save energy and reduce environmental impact, but they have not the simplicity or the ambitious vision of an ultimate goal of a consumer "no." In addition, they do not guarantee sustainable development, because the increase in the number of buildings still results in burning fossil fuels and excessive production of greenhouse gases in the long term.

A per the innovative practices adapted in the construction practices of Climate Exchange PLC the buildings that consume zero net energy (ZEB, net zero energy building) is an ultimate goal. ZEB building is a building for residential or commercial whose total net energy consumption from non-renewable sources (e.g. public grid, natural gas and fuel oil) is zero. Climate Exchange's innovatively designed buildings are eco-efficient as renewable energy generated on their site is almost enough. They typically use the public grid at times of the year when the renewable energy generation is insufficient to meet market demand. But at other times, on-site generation is greater than the needs of the building and the surplus electricity is exported to the grid. Currently, Climate Exchange PLC has constructed limited ZEB buildings in the world; ...