9th June, 2009

Trucost has developed a robust and cost effective methodology to help local authorities measure and report on the CO₂ emissions from their outsourced services and respond to National Indicator 185; a compulsory performance indicator within the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA).

The Trucost approach:

• Identifies your most carbon intensive providers of outsourced services, using your purchase ledger information - in Trucost's experience around 10% of a local authority's service providers will be responsible for 90% of the total CO2 emissions.
• Collects CO₂ emissions data from your most carbon intensive service providers through a secure, online data collection portal.
• Supports your service providers in providing information - we'll contact them and help them to provide the right information.
• Completes your NI 185 submission - by combining data from your outsourced services with your own CO₂ emissions data.
• Provides a starting point for developing an ongoing environmental strategy - whether you want to collect CO₂ emissions data for all your outsourced services or evaluate your boarder supply chain.
• Understand opportunities to reduce carbon across your outsourced services and wider supply chain, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

To find out how Trucost can help you address National Indicator 185, contact Tom Barnett on 020 7160 9812 or email tom.barnett@trucost.com