This was a supporting detail page of the main policy document.
We provide guidance for businesses and organisations on how to measure and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This guidance is aimed at all sizes of business as well as public and third sector organisations. It explains how organisations can measure and report their GHG emissions as well as set targets to reduce them. We also publish annual GHG emission ‘conversion factors’. Organisations can use these to help them calculate CO2 emissions from information like utility bills, fuel consumption and car mileage. These factors are available in a web-based tool: Government conversion factors for company reporting. Mandatory corporate reporting We introduced a regulation in June 2013 that requires all quoted companies to report on their GHG emissions. This regulation will provide transparency around how quoted companies are managing their carbon emissions – information that investors have been calling for. Following consultation on the draft regulation, ministers decided that regulation would come into effect in October 2013 to align with changes being made to the corporate reporting framework.
Guidance, emission factors and background detail to the GHG reporting regulations