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Carbon-based decision-making will be central to shifting investment and resources from high to low carbon economic activities. This will require new tools in order to bring carbon impacts into important decision-making process.

In 2009 we organised a seminar to help understand how to measure the carbon impacts of an organisation's spending and investments, and integrate carbon into financial decision-making.

Following the world's first carbon assessment of a national budget the Scottish Government presented on the carbon assessment of their spending and policies. Fife Council covered how they are starting to harness their purchasing power by integrating carbon into spending decisions both large and small. And Head of Environment for South West Regional Development Agency presented on how the agency plans to deliver an ambitious net carbon-neutral investment portfolio by 2013.

Download the presentations below to find out what tools other UK organisations are using to make spending and investment decisions.

Presentations
Scottish Government - Assessing the Carbon Impact of Government Spend and Policies
Fife Council - Building Carbon into Procurement and Investment Decisions
Fife Council - Whole Life Costing
South West RDA - Low Carbon Leadership: Net Zero Carbon Investment Ambition

This event is organised on 5 November 2009, in the Scottish Parliament by the Scottish Carbon Counting Group and the Carbon Accountability Programme. Please download the seminar agenda for more detail here.