The business school at Edinburgh University is launching a service to provide firms with like-for-like carbon emissions comparison data.

Carbon ENDS, as the service is called, is run by Craig Mackenzie, a senior lecturer at the school. They will be taking groups of companies by sector and producing company funded peer-group comparisons. The first report, due this month, compares companies in the UK supermarket sector.

The service builds on the university's work in running an MSc in climate change, and their work in developing an MSc in carbon finance. MBA students and undergraduates are also able to take an optional course in climate change.