Metre Bilbao obtains the Certificate Aenor of the Footprint of Carbon

Metre Bilbao has obtained the certificate of the Footprint of Carbon ‘Environingingment CO₂ Verified' delivered by Aenor (Spanish Association of Normalisation and Certification). Of this form turns into the first company of the rail transport of the State in obtaining it. This certificate accredits the veracity of the calculation of the Footprint of Carbon of an organisation, that is to say, the group of broadcasts of gases of Effect Invernadero (GEI) produced like consequence of his activities. The delivery of the recognition has produced in the frame of a celebrated day in the headquarters of Metre Bilbao.

This certificate is based in the Norm ISO 14064-1:2006, that establishes the requirements for the design, development and management of inventories of broadcasts of GEI of the companies, as well as for the presentation of reports on these inventories.

Between the main advantages of the certificate find the increase of the credibility and transparency in front of the markets when demanding include the inventory in the public Registers of GEI; it allows to manage the risks of GEI and identify the opportunities of reduction; it facilitates the development and implantation of strategies and plans of management of GEI like the development of compulsory programs or the participation in markets of CO₂ and supposes an early performance in front of the climatic change.

Of izda. To dcha.: Jaime Fontanals (director of New Products of Aenor); Txema Oleaga (president of Metre Bilbao); Luz Emparanza (director of Aenor in the Basque Country); Fernando Barrenechea (general director Ihobe) and Iñaki Prego (adviser delegated of Metre Bilbao).

The norm ISO 14064 includes the requirements to determine the limits of the broadcasts and remociones of GEI of the organisations and identify the activities or specific actions of the companies with the object to improve the management of the GEI. Likewise it includes the requirements and orientations for the management of the quality of the inventory, the report, the internal audits and the responsibilities of the organisation in the activities of verification.

Unlike the compulsory verification that the Protocol of Kioto establishes for the business activities and included installations in the National Plan of Allocations (PNA), this certificate is voluntary for the companies that, like Metre Bilbao, want to go further of the fulfillment of the exigencias legal of Kioto; in fact, it is indicated for all type of organisations.

In concrete, Aenor has verified the inventory of the broadcasts in all the installations of Metre Bilbao: roads, stations, trains, subestaciones electrical, workshops of Sopelana and Ariz, his central offices and parkings or expenses of vehicles motors. The certificate of Aenor accredits that the inventory of Metre Bilbao collects a total of broadcasts quantified in “tonnes of CO₂ equivalent” that issues in each one of the installations of the company that explodes the metre of Bilbao.

Stand out that 80% of the broadcasts (12.000t) produce by consumption of power by what the projects of energetic efficiency in what it finds immersed, will purchase a vital importance in the near future.

Metre Bilbao issued in the year 2010 a total of 14.495t CO₂, what supposes 0,003 t of CO₂ by each kilometre that has visited Metre Bilbao and 0,025 t of CO₂ by each 1.000 travellers/travellers by kilometre.