Oil Vulnerability Auditing - is anyone using it in NZ?

I'm keen to find out more about this and offer it to local businesses.  I think its a really good way for small and medium sized businesses to have reason to envisage their future and put in place strategies to become more resilient.  I think the University of Birmigham or Liverpool have been helping TTUK with this as well. 

I'll try to find out more information on this.  If anyone has experiance of this I'd be keen to hear your views as well.

Chris

I asked a friend of mine about energy audits, and following is what she had to say.  We are in the Top of the South.  My inference is that if there are businesses providing audits, there must be businesses getting audits.

There are a few options here:

 -Businesses can conduct a self-audit by conducting a “carbon footprint”calculation – there are quite a few of these on-line. One which is gratis and reasonably thorough is on the website of the NZ Council for Sustainable Business Development.

- Of course the above is a voluntary audit. If a business intends to obtain some form of accreditation as a carbon neutral or carbon zero one the process is rigorous and best pursued through organisations such as Landcare or Cawthron.

-There are quite a few specialist firms which work with businesses (or households) to conduct a 1st, 2nd or 3rd level energy audit. EECA can provide funding to companies which spend over a specified (and very large) amount on energy every year to find ways to reduce this. EECA has been working on bringing the energy expenditure threshold down to allow smaller companies to qualify.

-There are also a much smaller number of firms which conduct full throttle emission audits, going beyond  just energy, such as Carbon South.

Ill add my name to the list of interested people,

I was actually looking to see if i could find weather there was any software or established method to do this kind of audit when i came across this thread,

I can provide the following link to the liverpool university web site skematic

http://www.liv.ac.uk/managementschool/odig/effects/vulnerability.htm