Know Your Impact.

We cover all three scopes defined by the GHG Protocol. Scope 1 includes direct emissions from owned or controlled sources such as gas boilers, company vehicles, and refrigerant leaks. Scope 2 covers indirect emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, steam, heating, and cooling. Scope 3 encompasses all other indirect emissions in your value chain, including purchased goods and services, business travel, employee commuting, waste disposal, upstream transportation, and downstream use of sold products. We assess all 15 Scope 3 categories and determine which are material to your organisation.

A typical organisational carbon footprint takes between 4 and 8 weeks from kickoff to final report delivery. The main variable is data availability. If your utility bills, fleet records, and procurement data are well-organised, we can work quickly. If significant data gathering is required, particularly for Scope 3 supplier engagement, the timeline may extend. We always provide a clear project plan with milestones at the outset, and we can accommodate urgent deadlines for tender submissions or reporting cycles.

We provide a comprehensive data request template at the start of every engagement. Typical data includes electricity and gas bills (or meter readings), fuel purchase records for company vehicles, refrigerant top-up logs, business travel bookings, employee commuting surveys, waste disposal records, and procurement spend data broken down by category. We guide you through every step and can work with whatever level of data granularity you currently have, improving accuracy over successive reporting periods.

Absolutely. We work with organisations of all sizes, from SMEs with 20 employees to large corporates with thousands of staff across multiple sites. For smaller businesses, we offer streamlined packages that focus on the most material emission sources without unnecessary complexity. Many SMEs come to us because a client or contracting authority has asked them to provide carbon data as part of a supply chain requirement, and we help them respond quickly and credibly.

Spend-based data is a recognised and widely used methodology for estimating Scope 3 emissions, particularly in the early stages of carbon footprinting. It uses economic input-output models to convert procurement spend into estimated emissions. While it is less precise than activity-based data (such as actual quantities of materials purchased), it provides a credible starting point that is accepted by the GHG Protocol, SBTi, and most reporting frameworks. We always flag where spend-based estimates are used and recommend a data improvement plan to progressively replace estimates with primary data over time.