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Carbon and Sustainability Guidance

C&S Executive Summary

Read the Carbon and Sustainability Executive Summary.

C&S Reporting Guidance Part One

Part one of the C&S Guidance is the technical guidance for suppliers on the requirements for carbon and sustainability reporting under the RTFO. This document includes high level default values for fuel chains.

Version 1.0 published 11 January 08; now removed from the website.

 Version 1.1 published 1 April 08; see addendum 001

C&S Reporting Guidance Part Two

Part two of the Guidance sets out the detail of the fuel chains. For those parties who have detailed information on the fuel supply chain it explains how to carry out carbon intensity calculations.

Version 1.0 published 11 January 08; now removed from website

Version 1.1 published 22 January 08; now removed from the website; see addendum 001

Version 1.2 published 1 April 08; see addendum 002

C&S Summary of key changes

A document summarising the key changes following the public consultation led by the Department for Transport and piloting activities that occurred in the same period.

C&S Technical Guidance - background detail

The two documents below provide background details on the C&S Technical Guidance.

Carbon reporting within the RTFO: Methodology. This document gives a detailed description of the carbon calculation methodology used for the RTFO.

RTFO Sustainability Framework. This document describes the principles underlying the sustainability reporting requirements of the RTFO.

Associated Files

Adobe Portable Document Format file (pdf) C&S Executive Summary (pdf | 94kb)

Adobe Portable Document Format file (pdf) C&S Technical Guidance Part 1 v1.1 (pdf | 502kb)

Adobe Portable Document Format file (pdf) Addendum 001 to C&S Guidance Part 1 (pdf | 53kb)

Adobe Portable Document Format file (pdf) C&S Technical Guidance Part 2 v1.2 (pdf | 1688kb)

Adobe Portable Document Format file (pdf) Addendum to C&S Guidance Part 2 (pdf | 54kb)

Adobe Portable Document Format file (pdf) Addendum 002 to C&S Guidance Part 2 (pdf | 92kb)

Adobe Portable Document Format file (pdf) Summary of changes to the C&S guidance (pdf | 75kb)

Adobe Portable Document Format file (pdf) carbon reporting within the RTFO final methodology (pdf | 1372kb)

Adobe Portable Document Format file (pdf) RTFO Sustainability Framework (pdf | 667kb)