About Us

 

The Carbon Benchmarking Project is based within the Management School at the University of Edinburgh. It is directed by Dr. Craig Mackenzie, one of the UK's most experienced corporate responsibility benchmarkers, and is supported by an experienced team and an advisory board comprising several of the organisations in the world of business and climate change.

 

 

 

About the Carbon Benchmarking Project

 

The Carbon Benchmarking Project was established in March 2007 to evaluate and compare the performance of companies on climate change. It is located within the University of Edinburgh Management School.

 

The Project aims to use benchmarking to increase understanding of corporate performance on climate change by company managers and stakeholders. It will work with companies and stakeholders to:











This work will be led by an experienced benchmarking team and supported by an expert advisory board.

Develop high quality, sector-specific, carbon benchmarking frameworks for each major business sector.

Publish regularly-repeated, high profile benchmark reports, providing a detailed and objective measure of relative corporate performance.

Develop the performance measurement and disclosure standards, methods and networks that will allow carbon benchmarking to proliferate internationally.

Build the tools to allow stakeholders to use performance data to support and reward corporate emissions reduction activity more effectively (e.g. a climate leaders index).