Handprints and Avoided Emissions: Companies Reducing Own and Others’ Footprints

Every month, Aequilibria hosts a Tea Corner where climate action experts from different fields discuss their initiatives or topics of interest over a cup of tea. This month, coinciding with the London Climate Action Week, we’ll be talking about the handprint approach with Greg Norris of SHINE.

Most of us know what a carbon footprint is: the impact on climate change of the human activities and processes. The Paris Agreement, at international level, and the Green Deal, at the European level, are focused on the reduction of the carbon footprint of the products and organizations, to decrease the amount of GHG emissions released in the atmosphere.

Currently, our interests as society, consumers and companies, are the actions that need to be implemented to reduce the negative impacts. However, there is a new perspective that is advancing and that open new opportunities: the carbon handprint.
Carbon handprints are understood as “beneficial climate impacts that organizations can achieve and communicate by providing products and services that reduce footprints of others” and can use in a complementary way with carbon footprint to credibly demonstrate the positive impacts generated by companies.

The handprint approach is a proactive sustainability framework that emphasizes positive contributions individuals and organizations can make to the environment and society. Through this conversation with Greg, participants will learn how to shift from minimizing harm (footprints) to maximizing beneficial impacts (handprints).

The event will last for 30 minutes (inclusive of Q&A).