The reason our travel emissions were so low in 2008 is due to the fact that we did not have any air travel. All of our employees take public transportation to work, which, thanks to the fact that France uses mostly nuclear energy, has an extremely low carbon footprint.

The most polluting part of our business travel was the occasional taxi to or from the train station when on sales trips.

Thanks for analyzing our footprint so closely! Let us know if you see any other questionable figures!

And based on Verteego’s carbon output for ‘transport of persons’ it is 500 kg and that means it is essentially 2 round trips from SD to SF. I find that incredulous if there is no travel involved in a software selling/consulting type business. Either the travel agency computation is way off or your ‘transport reporting’ is way off

Verteego’s overall emissions for 2008 were 11,560 kg CO2e. To convert any other figures from carbon equivalents to CO2e, simply multiply by 44/12.

With a 6% reduction, our goal for 2009 will be to reduce our emissions by at least 694 kg CO2e.

Keenan, don’t you think we should probably communicate our carbon footprint in CO2 rather than just in C? It would make the figure higher and hence have a more significant impact on people’s minds.

What do you think?