Sustainability Services - GHG Reporting and Accounting
Reduce your carbon footprint and risk
Carbon regulation is a major business risk (and opportunity) for companies large and small. Uncertainty as to how organizations will be impacted by potential and mandatory EPA greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations and reporting requirements brings difficult challenges to the process of planning, investing, and managing business for the future.
The only safe bet is to engage the issue and be proactive. The old adage, “what gets measured, gets managed”, certainly applies to sustainability and carbon management performance. Establishing a baseline corporate-wide carbon accounting inventory is the first step in a proactive strategy and will allow you to measure where your company stands and chart a course that meets business objectives.
Beyond voluntary corporate commitments, there are other drivers that are forcing business action. These include:
- SEC requirements for climate risk disclosure for publicly traded companies;
- Wal-Mart and other large retailers’ supply chain sustainability requirements;
- EPA's mandatory GHG energy reporting on emissions rule (Part 98); and
- Shareholder proxy initiatives.
Build confidence in your carbon management and sustainability programs.
In this environment, businesses must have confidence in their energy and environmental performance data to leverage it for competitive advantage. Unfortunately, many internal carbon and sustainability initiatives become stalled by the complexity of the data management challenge. Our proven carbon data management solution solves this fundamental challenge by leveraging our process efficiency to provide the highest quality carbon and sustainability accounting, auditing and reporting services available in the market. We provide a true turnkey solution with the systems, high quality data, and professional expertise necessary to drive and sustain competitive advantage.
What we offer:
- Enterprise Carbon Accounting with ecolink®
- Sustainability Reporting & Program Implementation
- Mandatory GHG Reporting and Compliance Services
- Supply Chain GHG Emissions requirements management
Enterprise Carbon Accounting
With the SEC now requiring disclosure of climate related regulatory and business impact, a highly credible corporate carbon inventory is a business necessity. The corporate carbon inventory is fast becoming an essential management tool to support cost reduction as well as customer and stakeholder reporting requirements. Regardless of your compliance or voluntary GHG reporting needs, we offer an efficient, transparent, and high quality solution. We deliver a highly effective business management tool that creates value and efficiency for you.
ecolink® (a core module of the ECM HubSM) is a centralized web-based system to track, analyze, and proactively deliver enterprise wide carbon accounting by managing carbon inventories and sustainability performance. ecolink® has been developed in accordance with the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development's Greenhouse Gas Protocol. This protocol is the most widely used international accounting standard for government and private sector enterprise carbon accounting.
Mandatory GHG Reporting
Our web-based ecolink® system incorporates the latest enterprise carbon accounting methodologies, for mandatory programs including The Climate Registry, and EPA Part 98 methods enabling compliance with state specific and EPA mandatory GHG emissions reporting requirements. This integrated compliance reporting solution ensures the prescribed methods are implemented with an accurate and transparent audit trail that inspires confidence in meeting your obligations. Our GHG reporting and carbon accounting solutions are cost effective, highly efficient, and successfully mitigate your company's carbon emissions compliance risk.
Sustainability Reporting & Program Implementation
Companies are at various stages of implementing sustainability programs. For some just getting started, sustainability is a loosely defined concept that may lack a clear sense of business purpose. For others that are further down the path, their sustainability programs are defining how they use resources, how they continuously improve and are core to strengthening their brand and sustaining competitive advantage. Regardless of where your company is in the sustainability process, we have the expertise and systems to support and tailor a program that is right for your organization.
To meet corporate sustainability objectives, companies require a strong and transparent system to track energy management data and performance metrics. This is an essential element of any successful program and is an absolute necessity for companies required to meet Wal-mart and other supply chain directives. We pride ourselves in maintaining a commercial perspective and are experienced in working with a wide range of companies – from heavy industry and manufacturing to highly brand conscious consumer product companies.
Supply Chain GHG Emissions
Companies require a strong and transparent system to track supply chain GHG emissions and include them in their overall energy data management and performance metrics. Incorporating supply chain GHG emissions is becoming an important element of corporate sustainability programs overall and is mandatory for companies that do business with Wal-mart and other large retailers. Our programs and systems are designed specifically to meet these supply chain requirements and allow you to build competitive advantage with your key customers.
For more information, watch our ECM Hub video or contact:
Kyle Smith at 703.818.9100 or via email.