Your are about to use ISA software to calculate your organisation’s Triple Bottom Line Account, including a choice of financial, social and environmental indicators. Each indicator characterises the impact of your organisations’ activities. Some of these impacts occur within the premises of your organisation: for example, you may use natural gas which generates CO2 emissions when being combusted. They are called direct, or on-site impacts.
Some other impacts occur off-site: this happens because inputs that your organisation purchases for its operations were produced by other organisations (your suppliers), causing impacts within their premises. These impacts are called indirect impacts. Generally, what your organisation does within its premises causes impacts throughout a multitude of upstream suppliers, spread across the whole country, and even overseas. Accounting for all these indirect, upstream impacts is usually referred to as a life-cycle assessment.
The BottomLine3 software carries out a complete life-cycle assessment of your organisations impacts. You can use the results of this assessment for example in your annual sustainability report.
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