Carbon footprinting

Carbon Accounting

We provide carbon accounting and management services to all sizes and types of organisations. We assist in identifying hotspots and setting bold science-aligned targets throughout the value chain. We have leading expertise in supply chain emissions assessment (upstream scope 3). These are often the hardest emissions to quantify and largest portion of a company's emissions.

Find out how we use our spend-based input-output model to give you the most robust and complete emission factors, how life cycle analysis gives you more specific factors, and how we hybridise both to give you the most reliable carbon accounting.

Our guide to Spend Based Carbon Footprinting

Our data model

Our dataset is a multi-regional input-output model, the SWC MRIO. We use it with our clients for get the most realistic carbon footprint from their spend data We also licence it for use in-house by organisations wanting to calculate their own carbon emissions, and by other consultancies who use it with clients.

Our data: SWC MIRO

Carbon Removals

There is no substitute for cutting carbon in line with the science. However, having put in place targets, plans and actions to cut emissions in line with keeping temperature change to within 1.5 degrees, some of our clients also separately want to fund carbon removal projects. We help them to select high quality nature-based projects that we scrutinise for wider environmental and social responsibility.

Our client work is increasingly focused on the whole sustainability journey. Carbon accounting is simply part of the groundwork. We assist companies with taking a whole system approach and then help them to embed this into the current global context and bigger picture. This work ties in to our Big Picture Thinking and Land, Food and Carbon work.

Carbon Tools

We have market-leading supply chain carbon tools. We enable organisations such as BT, Brewdog, Dishoom, AMRC, all the UK's National Parks, and many more to monitor and manage their carbon. We enable city and county councils and national parks to develop consumption-based carbon budgets. We’ve developed calculators for individuals, communities and SMEs.