Carbon Accounting for Irish Businesses
Understand your business emissions, identify where they come from and build a clearer picture of your environmental impact.
Make your carbon footprint easier to understand
Carbon accounting helps businesses measure and understand the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their activities. ecoLedger helps turn that information into something practical and useful for your business.
Measure your emissions
Understand the emissions associated with your business activities.
Find the biggest sources
Identify where your emissions are coming from and where the greatest opportunities for improvement may exist.
Plan your next steps
Use clearer carbon information to support practical reduction and sustainability decisions.
Understand your business emissions
A business's carbon footprint can come from different parts of its operations and value chain.
Direct emissions
Emissions that come directly from sources owned or controlled by the business, such as fuel used in company-owned vehicles or equipment.
Energy-related emissions
Indirect emissions associated with the energy a business purchases and uses, such as electricity, heating or other purchased energy.
Value-chain emissions
Other indirect emissions associated with activities across the wider value chain, such as purchased goods and services, business travel, transport and other relevant activities.
What's included?
We'll work with your available business information to help build a clearer picture of your carbon footprint.
How it works
Understand your business
We'll learn about your business activities, operations and the information available to understand which emissions sources may be relevant.
Gather the relevant information
We'll work with the available business and activity data needed for the carbon assessment.
Calculate and organise the emissions information
We'll organise the relevant information and calculate the associated emissions using an appropriate methodology.
Understand the results
We'll present the results clearly and discuss what they mean for your business.
Identify practical next steps
We'll help you identify areas where your business may be able to reduce its emissions and improve its carbon information over time.
Who is this for?
Carbon Accounting is suitable for Irish businesses that want to understand their environmental impact, respond to sustainability requirements, improve their emissions data or prepare for increasing expectations around carbon reporting.
Small and medium businesses
Build a clearer understanding of your environmental impact without unnecessary complexity.
Growing businesses
Develop better carbon information as your business, customers and supply chain requirements evolve.
Businesses working with larger organisations
Better understand the carbon information that may increasingly be requested by customers, suppliers or business partners.
Why does carbon accounting matter?
Understanding your emissions gives you a clearer starting point for making informed sustainability decisions. It can also help you identify areas where changes to energy use, operations, purchasing or other business activities may reduce your environmental impact.
Carbon Accounting tailored to your business
Carbon Accounting requirements vary significantly between businesses. The scope of the assessment, available data and level of reporting required will determine the appropriate service.
We'll discuss your requirements and confirm the scope and price before work begins.
FAQ
Before you get started
Carbon Accounting is a tailored service because businesses have different activities, data availability and reporting requirements. We'll discuss your needs, confirm the scope of work and provide the appropriate price before proceeding.
Ready to understand your carbon footprint?
Start building a clearer picture of your business emissions with ecoLedger.
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