Carbon Management Solution
Track and measure an organisation's greenhouse gas emissions from direct and indirect business activities by calculating carbon footprint using recognised emissions factors, enabling businesses to monitor, report, and manage their environmental impact effectively.
Please review all requirements. Your solution must meet all 🔴 mandatory requirements to qualify.
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Cloud-based Solution Is your solution cloud-based, offering secure, scalable, and accessible services from anywhere with an internet connection? Use case example: 1. A company with multiple offices can access and update their carbon accounting data in real-time, regardless of location.
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Scope 1 and 2 Emissions Calculation Does your solution calculate the company's carbon emissions based on Scope 1 and 2 according to the GHG protocol and/or ISO 14064-1? Use case examples: 1. Scope 1: direct emissions from owned or controlled sources (e.g. company facilities, company vehicles) 2. Scope 2: indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy (e.g. purchased electricity, steam, heating and cooling) consumed by the reporting company.
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Scope 3 Emissions Calculation Does your solution calculate the company's carbon emissions based on Scope 3 according to the GHG protocol and/or ISO 14064-1? Use case examples: 1. Indirect emissions from upstream activities - Purchase of goods and services - Capital goods - Fuel and energy related activities - Transportation and distribution - Waste generated in operations - Business travel - Employee commuting - Leased assets 2. Indirect emissions from downstream activities - Transportation and distribution - Processing of sold products - Use of sold products - End-of-life treatment of sold products - Leased assets - Franchises - Investments
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Carbon Footprint Calculation Does your solution calculate carbon emissions for the company's activities and products based on locally developed emissions factors such as SEFR, EMA and internationally recognised emission factors such as IPCC, IEA, EPA, or UK DEFRA? Use case examples: 1. The solution will suggest the appropriate emission factor to use based on the company's sector/country of operation etc. 2. Company will be able to overwrite the solution's emission factor suggestion and select the relevant emissions factor to use. 3. The solution is able to accommodate the addition of emissions factors that may be developed in future.
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Support and Advisory Does your solution provide guidance/support on setting up and navigating the system? Use case example: 1. Company gets guidance on the necessary data to input and where to input data into the system.
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Roadmapping for Optimisation and Decarbonisation Does your solution incorporate target-setting and recommend decarbonisation pathways and solutions? Use case examples: 1. Through the solution, company is able to get advice and recommendations on emissions reduction. 2. The solution enables target setting and tracking to enable company to track emissions performance over time. 3. The solution recommends and prioritises suitable abatement solutions and is able to estimate emissions savings through various solution adoption.
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Emissions Report Does your solution translate accounting data into an emissions report, including emissions summary and emissions hotspots? Use case example: 1. Company uses the solution to generate an emissions report including year-on-year comparisons (if available) of its emissions profile and hotspots.
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Facilitating Public Reporting and Disclosures on International Platforms Does your solution facilitate the generation of a sustainability report in line with frameworks such as ISSB, GRI, SASB, or TCFD and disclosure on international platforms such as CDP or SBTi? Use case example: 1. Company is able to use the solution to compile data required for public reporting and disclosures on international platforms.
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Benchmarking Does the solution compare company's sustainability performance against industry benchmarks and identify areas for improvement. Use case example: 1. Through the solution, company is able to understand its relative emissions performance against industry peers. 2. The solution can suggest potential areas for improvement according to industry best practices.
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Manage Supply Chain Emissions Does your solution track and manage supply chain emissions? Use case examples: 1. The solution provides access to company's supply chain to directly provide data. 2. The solution provides access to company's supply chain to view selected dashboards.
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Data Collection Does your solution support multiple data collection methods beyond manual data entry, such as CSV imports, data from sensors, auto-population from invoices, and other sources, to enable the management and analysis of data related to carbon emissions? (At least one other data collection method on top of manual data entry is required) Use case examples: 1. Manual data entry: Enable manual data entry via user-friendly interface. 2. Data from sensors: The carbon accounting solution automatically collects real-time electricity usage data from sensors installed. 3. Invoice processing: The solution integrates with SME's accounting software to automatically extract relevant data from utility bills and fuel invoices 4. Integration with ERP: The solution connects with company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to collect data. 5. Third-party data APIs: The solution connects to external APIs to collect relevant datafor autopopulation into the system.
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Visualisation Does your solution include a dashboard that allows for visualising data, including overall emissions profile and breakdown by scope? Use case examples: 1. Overview: SME business owners use a high-level dashboard showing total emissions across all scopes. Interactive charts allow them to drill down into specific regions or business units with a single click. 2. Emissions breakdown: Sustainability teams use stacked bar charts and treemaps to visualise the breakdown (reflect percentage split) of emissions by source and by scope. This helps them prioritise areas for emission reduction initiatives.
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User-friendly Interface Does your solution provide an intuitive interface, allow users to save and retrieve data from their last log in session and can data (e.g. dashboards and reports) be easily translated into printable, exportable and user-friendly formats? Use case examples: 1. Intuitive navigation: A manager based overseas, with minimal training, easily navigates the system to input data. The experienced sustainability director in Singapore efficiently drills down through multiple layers of data using consistent, logical menu structures. 2. Role-based dashboards: When logging in, each user sees a dashboard relevant to their role and responsibilities. 3. Saving and exporting data: User can easily save and retrieve data from last log in session and data (e.g. emissions dashboards and reports) can be easily translated into printable, exportable and user-friendly formats.
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Artificial Intelligence Functionality Does your solution incorporate artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance carbon accounting processes, such as data collection through proxies, predictive analytics, anomaly detection, automated data categorisation or natural language processing? Use case examples: 1. Data collection through proxies: The AI could help fill data gaps using suitable proxies and indicate relevant source information. 2. Predictive analytics: The AI could forecast future emissions based on historical data and planned activities. 3. Anomaly detection: The system could automatically flag unusual spikes in emissions data for further investigation. 4. Automate data categorisation: AI could help categorise and allocate emissions data to the correct scopes and categories. 5. Natural language processing: The AI could assist in extracting relevant emissions data from unstructured text in invoices or reports.
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