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CarbonRiver becomes a UK consulting partner to The Carbon Disclosure Project

CarbonRiver is proud to announce that, with immediate effect, it will be a UK consulting partner to The Carbon Disclosure Project. CDP is an independent, not-for-profit organization with over 3,700 … more

Prof. Sangwon Suh is Coordinating Lead Author at The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Prof. Sangwon Suh, Carbon River Director and Chief Scientist, is Coordinating Lead Author at The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC is the leading international body for the assessment … more

Professor Sangwon Suh Chairs prestigious Gordon Research Conference

Prof. Sangwon Suh, Carbon River Director and Chief Scientist, Chairs the prestigious Industrial Ecology Gordon Research Conference held last month in Les Diablerets, Switzerland. Gordon Research Conferences are a group of distinguished international scientific … more

Carbon River completes “groundbreaking” supply chain carbon footprint of First Group plc

“Carbon River has undertaken a comprehensive CO2e footprint and analysis of our supply chain emissions. Their groundbreaking approach has efficiently delivered insight regarding both the scale, and source … more

Carbon River part of the IBM Industry Innovation Partner Study Tour in Dublin

Carbon River, already on the shortlist for IBM’s Global Entrepreneur of the Year award, was invited to be part of the IBM Industry Innovation Partner Study Tour last month at … more

New article by Prof. Suh: Replacing Gasoline with Corn Ethanol Results in Significant Environmental Problem-Shifting

Previous studies on the life-cycle environmental impacts of corn ethanol and gasoline focused almost exclusively on energy balance and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and largely overlooked the influence of regional … more

Direct + Indirect RAF GHG Footprint

“CarbonRiver has been able to demonstrate via the use of its hybrid measurement approach that the RAF cadets can easily account for, and subsequently manage the complete carbon footprint of … more

Highly efficient GHG Product footprinting for Aggregate Industries

“Carbon River have demonstrated a breadth of carbon footprinting capability that has helped us to better understand the sensitivities or certain parameters in the manufacturing process” Shamir Ghumra; Head of … more

New WRI Value Chain (Scope 3) + Product Protocols Published — endorsing CarbonRiver’s Hybrid Approach

On October 4th the WRI + WBCSD launched the new Value Chain (Scope 3) + Product GHG Protocols, both of which endorse the role of Hybrid EIO techniques — the very … more

Sangwon awarded not 1 — but 2 international prizes!

We’re delighted and proud to announce CarbonRiver’s Sangwon Suh has been awarded BOTH the Wassily Leontief Memorial Prize (for a paper analysing numerous environmental impacts across Scope 1,2 AND 3 for the ENTIRE U.S.A), AND the Sir Richard Stone prize by The International Association for Input-Output Analysis (IIOA).

CarbonRiver’s Prof. Suh opens the European Commission’s ‘Green Week’

CarbonRiver’s Chief Scientist, prof. Sangwon Suh opens the European Commissions’s 2011 Green Week together with Jackie McGlade, Executive Director, European Environment Agency, in the opening session chaired by Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

“A quantum change…” CarbonRiver welcomes Keith Routledge

With over thirty years energy and carbon management professional experience, Keith (a Carbon Trust Accredited Consultant) has led and delivered carbon management projects to some of the world’s leading organisations including Akzo Nobel, Pizza Hut, Wrigley and the UK National Health Service.

“I’m excited to be working with CarbonRiver and the prospect they represent of making a quantum change in behaviour and expectations to achieve a goal of a sustainable, low carbon world.”

Nationwide hospital network supply chain analysis

CarbonRiver undertake pilot to carbon account for the supply chain of a nationwide hospital and healthcare network. The combination of CarbonRiver’s breadth and quality of data, analytical expertise and data … more

“Blazing a trail!” Dr. Gideon Middleton joins CarbonRiver

CarbonRiver is delighted to welcome Gideon Middleton to the team. Gideon brings a wealth of academic and applied knowledge and experience to CarbonRiver, further re-enforcing CarbonRiver’s market leading approach and services.

“I’m … more

“Groundbreaking”

CarbonRiver were commissioned to footprint the Telco’s solution by service, by product, by location for 120+ countries. Advice was given on how to achieve a differentiated sustainability proposition for the £100+m … more

“Rewarding and enlightening!”

Make Wood Work is a national campaign aimed at securing the long-term future of wood panel manufacturing in the UK. The future competitiveness of the industry is under threat — … more

CarbonRiver to deliver UNFCCC Nigerian National Carbon Inventory Project

CarbonRiver is the approved technical partner currently engaged in the initial stages of the Nigerian National Carbon Inventory Project. This programme is a part of the UN Intergovernmental Panel for Climate … more

CarbonRiver’s S. Suh publishes Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology

“Handbook of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology” covers an array of topics including the history of industrial ecology and input-output economics, material flow analysis, LCA, sustainable consumption, policy applications, energy … more