If you supply the resources sector in Western Australia, there’s a good chance you’ve received a request for carbon footprint data. A major mining or energy client, or one of their procurement platforms, asking for your emissions data, your energy use, your fuel records. Often with a short deadline and a questionnaire that makes little sense when it arrives out of the blue. It can feel like an unreasonable ask. You’re a crane hire company, a maintenance contractor, a transport operator, not a listed miner. Why is their reporting suddenly your problem? Here’s the short answer: it isn’t going away,...
