Dunedin City Holdings Ltd (DCHL) and its subsidiary companies embarked on a journey in 2020 to develop their first emissions footprint - for each company, and the DCHL Group. This involved working with each DCHL company:

  • Dunedin City Forests

  • Dunedin Airport

  • Delta Utility Services

  • Aurora Energy

  • Dunedin Venues Management

  • Dunedin Railways

  • Dunedin City Treasury

We helped each company develop their GHG Inventory, creating their first baseline year in 2020/21 for ongoing emissions reporting.

The key to success was bringing key stakeholders together early to understand the process their organisation needed to go through. We then offered practical guidance on how to collect data, measure emissions, and report in line with the ISO 14064 standards.

Understanding the Scope 3 ‘indirect emission’ requirements takes time because this requires assessing both the upstream and downstream supply chain. We guided the stakeholders on how to determine which of these indirect emissions were in scope, aligning with ISO requirements and industry best practice.

After successfully implementing their baseline year GHG Inventory, we were then asked to help each DCHL company to set an emissions reduction target and plan. We used the Science Based Targets method for setting a reduction target, then worked with each organisation to identify opportunities which could be implemented across short, medium, and longer-term timeframes. Each company has set a 2030 emission reduction target and has successfully started implementing reduction initiatives.

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