UKWIR seeks partners for carbon accounting workbook

UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) is seeking expressions of interest from partners to develop the latest annual revision of its Carbon Accounting Workbook, which ensures the water sector has a robust framework for calculating its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Working with experts across the water sector, UKWIR developed the Carbon Accounting Workbook and launched it in 2005 as a standardised workbook for estimating operational GHG emissions.

Senior programme manager at UKWIR, Mandy Fletton, said: “This project will ensure the sector’s GHG emission factors are updated so that they remain current and aligned with official data sources and best practices. This will empower water companies to make even better-informed decisions about their carbon reduction strategies, further solidifying their collective commitment to a more sustainable future."

UKWIR is seeking partners to:

• deliver a new tool that covers all water industry specific emissions sources, hosted on a digital platform;

• update the emission factors to reflect 2024 UK and Irish government conversion factor values;

• facilitate a review to ensure core functionality of Carbon Accounting Workbook version 18 is retained;

• liaise with the project steering group to confirm any additional functionality required to meet water sector needs including additional emission factors and estimating methodology;

• incorporate outputs of other sector research activity, for instance outputs of recommendations to process emission calculation methodology;

• undertake thorough quality assurance testing of the tool, using existing company data;

• facilitate water company user testing of the tool by providing workbooks already populated with companies’ most recent data; and

• provide comprehensive user guidance and a helpline for companies to use.