2.4 Scope – goods and services

The final element in setting the scope for a personal carbon footprint is to consider whether or not to calculate emissions attributable to bought-in goods or services. This area is still in its relative infancy, although the British Standards Institution (BSi), working with the Carbon Trust, has published a Publicly Available Specification (PAS2050) for calculating emissions. However, few products are labelled at present, which makes including estimates in a carbon footprint quite difficult.