In December 2015, world leaders will meet in Paris to make global agreements on tackling climate change. Negotiations during the climate convention will discuss new CO2 emission targets for the year 2030. The CO2 Performance Ladder is on the agenda of climate conference.
Since early this year, ProRail (Dutch Railway infrastructure owner) received a level 5 certificate for the CO2 performance ladder. ProRail is aware that achieving this highest step is an achievement, but remaining on top is the real challenge.
The Foundation for Climate Friendly Procurement and Business (SKAO) today launched a meausurement list on its website. The Measurement List is a comparison basis for CO2 efficiency and reduction measures for companies operating in the same market and are similar in activity. In the Measurement List Handbookl 3.0 is required as part introduced to requirement 3B1.
Last year in The Netherlands companies and consuemres used 37.88 TWh of certified green electricity, with 11.56 TWh was produced in the Netherlands. That was more than 30% of certified green electricity Dutch. This is evident from the statistical annual certification authority Certiq, a daughter of transmission system operator Tennet.