Carbon Trust Standard

I am writing further to Murray's email below, in relation to gathering information for the proposed Carbon Trust global partnership. Firstly, if you can provide the information referred to below, that would be extremely useful for us in assessing India's suitability to take part in this programme.

Secondly, India would potentially be a Phase 1 country in this partnership, hence if you could provide as much of the following information as possible, that would be excellent.

The questions we need to answer for each of our selected regions are as follows:

1) What are the top ten Key Accounts for Bureau Veritas (India), both for BV Certification and for BV I&F as a whole? 2) Do you consider there to be a market in India for either (i) the Carbon Trust Standard, or (ii) the Carbon Trust carbon footprint product? Please briefly review overview of these two products at:
(i) http://www.carbontruststandard.com/Home/tabid/67/language/en-GB/Default.aspx (ii) http://www.carbon-label.com/business/footprintexpert.htm
3) Could you estimate the typical value to Bureau Veritas (India) of selling these two products to any one client? - Could you estimate the overall market size in terms of number of companies that could be potentially interested? - Could you estimate number of current BV clients that could be interested (provide some examples, name, size of business today with BV)  4) Could you estimate what your market share of each of these products might be in India? 5) Do carbon-related products already form part of the local Bureau Veritas business plan? 6) Daily rate used in your country for this type of product 7) Are there any other certification bodies competing in this market and offering carbon related services? Who is the largest competitor in this market? 8) How many auditors do you have that are trained or could be trained to deliver these services? 9) How many auditors (trained or not yet trained) could start delivering these services before the end of 2010?

Please do contact me if you require clarification, otherwise, the sooner you can provide this information the better (this week if at all possible). Many thanks in advance, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards

Joe

Joseph Bull
Consultant
Sustainability and Carbon Group
Bureau Veritas Solutions


Bureau Veritas is in discussions with the Carbon Trust to enter into global partnership to sell and deliver its carbon footprinting, labelling and carbon certification product/schemes. We are already working with the CT in the UK (as QA partner for its certification scheme) and with this opportunity we anticipate certification and consulting opportunities. There are obvious synergies in key markets due to the CT’s increasingly high global profile, and the fact that it can compliment our own offer (there may be exceptions to this in places).

In practice BV will:

- Receive internal training for auditors/consultants - Carry out marketing and promotion of the CT portfolio - Carry out sales and delivery

A Pilot phase (2-3 markets) is to begin in Q1 2011 (US, China, other), and thereafter a further ~20 markets have been identified by the CT as very good prospects; these would then be phased in over as short a timescale as possible (this may necessitate passage through the I&F Engagements Committee).

I estimate set-up coordination time in each market to be in the region of 4-5 man days per month for up to 6 month or until first sales; this set-up duration will depend on the urgency and the effectiveness with which it is done - we should bear in mind that the CT is in a big hurry to get this to a point of delivery and so all efforts would be made from both sides to reduce set-up time to a minimum. There will also be training time and possibly some financial investment (eg for hosting events). Thereafter sales should combine with existing BV carbon/GHG business development activity, and to the same client base plus new clients wherever possible.

For your information the CT foresees revenues from the sales of its licensed products "reaching a run rate of at least £25 million per annum after 3 years", the proportion of which would be negotiated to reflect value to both parties.

Immediate Next Steps
We need to identify which BV countries that are well placed to participate in such a partnership. The intention is to offer the market place a definitive service that is compatible with ISO standards and existing carbon accounting guidance, leading to the growth of BV's carbon market share.

More detail will follow on both the footprinting/labelling and the certification schemes as well as the contractual conditions that will be discussed and agreed. For now please let me know if you have any questions/initial comments and please can you answer the 9 brief questions on the attached by return (for a next CT meeting on 2 August). 

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Please pass this onto your relevant key colleagues as appropriate. Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you later this week.

For more information on the CT’s portfolio in question, see:
http://www.carbon-label.com/business/about.htm 
http://www.carbon-label.com/business/forbusinesses.htm 

best regards
Murray Sayce
Technical Director
Sustainability Services

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About the Carbon Trust Footprinting Company

The Carbon Label Company was set up by the Carbon Trust in 2007 to help meet the needs of both businesses and their customers. In 2009, the Company became the Carbon Trust Footprinting Company to reflect the breadth of services it now provides to meet:

• Business Needs - to measure, reduce and communicate the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of their products and services, including food and drink.
• Consumer Needs - to help people make choices that would lower their own carbon footprints, and to educate them on how the way they use the products they buy can lower their carbon footprints.

The products the Carbon Trust Footprinting Company provide include consultancy, scoping of projects, and communication via the Carbon Reduction Label.

It also markets Footprint Expert - a product carbon footprinting toolset to help companies produce cost-effective reliable measurements of GHG emissions in their products and services. More information on Footprint Expert can be found at our companion website www.footprintexpert.com

The Carbon Trust Footprinting Certification Company was established in 2009 to provide independent and impartial certification services for product carbon footprints.

This complements the Carbon Trust's work of helping businesses to certify and communicate their corporate carbon footprints.

Creating a standard for comparability

The Carbon Trust, along with Defra, instigated BSI British Standards' development of a Publicly Available specification (the PAS 2050) for assessing GHG emissions of products and services. Developed in parallel, the Code of Good Practice on GHG emissions and reductions claims (the Code), is a guide to making claims about GHG emissions.

When working with businesses, the Carbon Trust Footprinting Company applies its own set of proprietary data to the PAS 2050 and the Code to ensure standardisation of measurements within product and service categories. It is this process that allows customers to easily compare the GHG footprints of different products, whatever their origins.

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