Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting is an emerging priority in today’s market
Understanding and measuring your carbon footprint can help prepare your organization for emerging regulatory requirements, address investor and customer requests, and potentially unlock enterprise value.
Whether you use the term carbon emissions, carbon footprint, or GHG emissions, this topic is a material concern across industries and reporting frameworks. Emerging regulations, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) climate rule proposal, the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, and the United States’ Federal Acquisition Regulation are pressing companies to assess, measure, and manage climate-related risks and opportunities. A key component in that effort is quantitative measurement of GHG emissions.
But understanding your carbon footprint can do more than help your organization prepare for coming regulations. It’s also a critical step toward ESG maturity that can help unlock enterprise value, enhance customer relationships, and open doors to new sources of capital.
Measuring your Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions can seem like a daunting task, especially when you factor in the availability and quality of data as well as the complexity and span of your operations. Luckily, you don’t have to tackle this task alone.
Our team of specialists can help you develop and enhance your GHG emissions accounting
We help companies establish or improve their carbon footprint estimates using clear, auditable processes that align with globally recognized measurement criteria, such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol jointly convened by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
A GHG emissions assessment can do more than prepare your organization for regulatory reporting – it can help assess risk and positively affect the bottom line. Estimating GHG emissions requires companies to measure their resource consumption, which supports better management of energy costs and increased resource efficiency. Plus, as investors, creditors, and key customers implement their own ESG management practices, they want to do business with organizations that demonstrate transparency. Getting started can seem daunting – but our ESG team is here to help.
Every company is unique, which is why we customize our approach to meet our clients’ needs and consider company size, industry, business model, global footprint, and specific reporting goals. Our specialists know the approach to emissions measurement often can be shaped by the availability of data at your organization, so we work with you to understand where you are, plan for where you need to be, and recommend priorities along the way.
Ways we can help
Our team can help you better understand your carbon footprint inventory or enhance existing processes to help make your GHG accounting assurance ready.
Reporting goals
Data collection
Estimates and technology
Reporting goals
Data collection
Estimates and technology
Readiness assessment
Process support
Readiness assessment
Process support
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Our team of ESG specialists is here to help your organization with GHG emissions accounting, applying our deep expertise at the intersection of sustainability and traditional accounting and reporting issues.
Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve already been estimating your Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, our team can create a custom plan to get your GHG emissions accounting estimate set up and ready for assurance, if necessary. Plus, we can help you see where these measurements might affect other areas of your business.
Contact our team today to see how we can help with GHG emissions accounting.