Collect your company’s emissions data
Collecting carbon and ESG data is the first step in an organisation's journey to sustainability and in developing a comprehensive decarbonisation strategy.
Where it all begins: Uncover your carbon & ESG data
Collecting emissions data is a real challenge for companies. The data collection phase is defined by sourcing data required for carbon accounting and ESG reporting, which means coordinating data from various departments and stakeholders.
This can include everything from employee commute information, building electricity use, and weight of waste produced in your business’ office. Many people find this task to be ambiguous and difficult as many sources of data need to be configured and collating accurate information can be quite tedious.
This can include everything from employee commute information, building electricity use, and weight of waste produced in your business’ office. Many people find this task to be ambiguous and difficult as many sources of data need to be configured and collating accurate information can be quite tedious.
Challenges
Emissions data collection is a demanding process
Issues in data collection
Difficulty in identifying all relevant data points to collect at an early stage.
Data limitations
Difficulty in ensuring quality, accuracy, and consistency of emissions data - leading to the use of national averages.
Data perfection
The assumption that climate data needs to be perfect to realise a first carbon assessment is making the data collection a cumbersome and time-consuming process.
Retrieving data
Carbon data is often stored in silos across departments, regions, business units and decision-makers, which makes it challenging for companies to find and consolidate the data.
Analogue data
Some data may not even be digitally available yet (e.g. paper contracts for renting an office, paper utility bills).
Lack of team resources
Scope 3 data is likely to require the involvement of several departments like procurement, R&D, manufacturing, and marketing. Creating a team to collate all this information can be challenging.
Retrieving Scope 3 emissions
Scope 3 emissions data is the most challenging to gather since it depends on external stakeholders and suppliers. It’s also the most important scope as it represents 90% of a company’s carbon footprint. Hence, companies need to tackle data collection across their entire value chain to account for scope 3 emissions.
Importance
Why is collecting emissions data essential?
Accurate carbon footprint assessment
High data transparency is a non-negotiable for an accurate carbon footprint assessment. By ensuring emissions data quality, accuracy, and consistency, companies can start their decarbonisation journey on the right path.
Identify emissions hotspots
Precise and regular emissions data collection allow companies to clearly identify their emissions activities and highlight major emissions hotspots for their reduction plan.
Understand what constitutes your scope 1, 2, 3
Understand the category of emissions and scopes 1, 2, 3.
Our solution
Digital, qualitative & automated data collection
CAse studies
