In planning, Inventory and Carbon Budget Activities

• Strategic planning in Carbon
• Industrial processes
• GHG emission factors
• Logistics
• Finance
• Risk assessment

Greenhouse Gases Emissions Inventories
To properly approach a problem one has to know it well. How much GHG a company emits? Where? How? ATA answers to these questions systematically tracing the direct and indirect Carbon emissions from the company’s activities. ATA builds a Carbon Inventory. This is a very powerful planning and control tool in many senses. In this area the ISO 14.064-1 standard is used.

Opportunities to Reduce Emissions
We carefully identify and analyse the possibilities of emission reductions considering different aspects: technological improvements, investment needs, operational costs, risks, revenues. Case by case, based in the GHG emissions inventory, opportunities are screened making it possible to soundly decide about their implementation. Carbon neutralizing possibilities are also studied in this phase.

Carbon Credit Projects
Carbon Credits are originated within emission reductions systems, particularly the Kyoto Protocol. One who performs and certifies the emissions reduction will be granted with an additional income through the sale of the Credits into the international market. It is an important financial incentive, mainly by means of the CDM Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. ATA develops the complete cycle of activities involved in the elaboration, validation, approval, registration and sale of Credits for the CDM, the CCx and other voluntary markets.

Carbon Offsetting Projects

• Shifting from fossil to renewable fuels: in steam or hot gases generation and other industrial applications with residues, biofuels and other renewables
• Landfills: gas-to-power systems
• Biomass and residues biodigestion: biogas generation and consumption in agribusiness
• Industrial processes: cement, steel, pulp and paper, aluminium, chemical industry
• Renewable electric power generation: hydro power generation, industrial cogeneration
• Energy efficiency: in consumption
• Forestry: for energy or raw materials supply

Carbon Offsetting Projects
Getting Carbon Neutral in products, services or events is a growing concept in the market. Companies not only seek to seduce Carbon emissions but also to offset the remaining emissions by the acquisition Carbon Credits. It’s the so called Voluntary Market, where ATA provides services as well.

Emissions Reduction Policies Carbon Budgets
The approach to Climate Change problem should not be isolated or punctual, opportunist. The issue claims for a continuous sequence of actions under a systematic decision process It’s programmatic, a policy issue. ATA supports companies do build and manage this process. To continuously reduce emissions, year after year, this is what will secure the future for companies and markets. Carbon Budgets is one of the tools ATA develops in this area.

Project Finance
Be it in the origination of Carbon Credit, be it the offsetting of emissions, ATA provides full support to the design of Carbon Finance structures.