Many people are familiar with scopes 1, 2, and 3. Scope 1 is the direct CO2 emissions from your company, Scope 2 is indirect emissions, for example, from the energy you purchase. And Scope 3 relates to the emissions generated within the supply chain. However, there is now increasing attention on Scope 0, which refers to the CO2 that the company has emitted in the past. Very few companies currently incorporate this into their strategy.
Oncra offers a solution to the many problems that plague the market for so-called CO2 compensation. The biggest issue is that in this market, compensation credits, or offsets, are offered that do little or nothing to remove CO2. Many credits are issued for not cutting down forests. The Oncra methodology addresses this by only certifying onsets: real, physical capture of CO2 in plants, soils, and materials. This capture is directly measurable, making onsets much more reliable.
The online measurement system of GSES (Global Sustainable Enterprise System) now integrates Scope 0 into its dashboarding to measure organizations and suppliers. Organizations with a net-zero ambition can achieve this with the Scope 0 calculation and then onset, which means paying farmers, builders, or seaweed growers to actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Onsets are certified through the Oncra certification scheme and audited via Audit Independer by independent Certification Bodies. Oncra stands for Open Natural Carbon Removal Accounting and was developed by Climate Cleanup in collaboration with a bank and two provinces, according to the new rules of the European Commission for carbon removal certification.
About the Climate Cleanup Foundation
The goal of the Climate Cleanup Foundation is to remove enough CO2 to solve the climate problem. Climate Cleanup is the initiator of Oncra, which has already mapped 180,000 tons of additional CO2 capture since its launch at the last UN climate conference. This way, organizations can onset instead of offset.
About the GSES System
The Global Sustainable Enterprise System (GSES) is a SaaS platform for measuring the sustainability of organizations, supply chains, assets, products, and events across all aspects of sustainability. GSES operates in more than 110 countries and in over 70 industries, making sustainability accessible and transparent. GSES is used by organizations such as Air Traffic Control Netherlands (LVNL), Schiphol, ABN Amro, Xenos, Wibra, the Johan Cruijff ArenA, Univé, Boon Edam, and many others. Discover more about the Global Sustainable Enterprise System at www.gses-system.com.