Sustainability & Decarbon­ization Services

CarbonBetter^® is your expert partner and guide in decarbonization and sustainability, helping you prepare for the transitions ahead. Our process is accessible because the challenge is daunting. We meet clients wherever they are in their sustainability journey. Some are starting out, while others need help refining or executing their plans. Each client engagement is unique. All services are available à la carte, but an end-to-end approach may include the phases described below—including strategy, implementation, measuring and tracking your progress, and sharing your journey through best-in-class storytelling. We work with change makers to tell their stories—building brand loyalty, establishing thought leadership, and moving the world closer to a net-zero future.

For businesses considering the use of carbon accounting software, we offer assistance in defining technical requirements for and selecting the best-fit software solution with our vendor-agnostic approach. However, it’s important to note that while software can be a powerful tool, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of carbon accounting data requires human expertise. That’s where we come in. At CarbonBetter, we can help to validate your data and navigate choosing not just the right tool but the right calculation methodologies and emission factors, ensuring the resulting carbon footprint is robust and reliable, providing a solid foundation for your sustainability journey.

• Planning
• Strategy
• Reporting
• Execution
• Marketing
• Software Advisory

Sustainability Strategic Planning

Progress starts with the right roadmap

CarbonBetter understands that organizations are at different levels of maturity with regard to sustainability. We take pride in enabling our clients to get started on this journey effectively and efficiently, allowing them to maximize the impact of their sustainability efforts. We typically begin this process by helping organizations identify key climate change-related risks to their businesses and supporting a detailed understanding of their environmental footprint. The specific steps as companies begin this journey with CarbonBetter often include:

• Conducting materiality assessments
• Educating stakeholders, including senior leadership and the board, on sustainability-related topics
• Selecting relevant sustainability frameworks for adoption
• Measuring environmental footprint (Scope 1, 2, and 3), including water and waste
• Performing product life cycle assessments (LCAs)
• Developing site-specific carbon footprint
• Verifying environmental impact estimations and providing associated limited assurance

SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING OVERVIEW

Sustainability reporting serves as a valuable tool to achieve corporate commitments and better manage climate-related business risks. This white paper walks you through what's typically included and what should be considered.

Closing the Carbon Market Gap

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Decarbonization Playbook Development

Choose the pieces that fit

CarbonBetter works with organizations to define their complete sustainability roadmap, including identifying pragmatic actions to achieve the strategic plan. We start by assessing where you are and then develop a sustainability and decarbonization roadmap highlighting key milestones needed to stay on track. Decarbonization strategy development typically includes:

• Creating an overall sustainability agenda
• Setting sustainability targets that are ambitious yet rooted in pragmatism
• Developing sustainability and decarbonization roadmap
• Establishing key milestones to achieve the decarbonization roadmap
• Drafting direct and indirect environmental footprint reduction strategies and planning
• Providing topical subject matter expert support as needed

Impacts Assessment & Sustainability Reporting

Know your current position

Measuring and reporting progress are essential parts of a sustainability strategy. We believe sustainability stories are meant to be shared as they build loyalty with customers and employees and inspire other companies to make progress. We support clients in identifying appropriate frameworks and sharing their impacts in a traceable way with their customers, teams, and other stakeholders through their sustainability reporting.

CarbonBetter can work independently or with internal teams to create reports that follow standards from internationally recognized protocols. Typical support in this phase of the sustainability journey includes:

• Selecting the appropriate sustainability standard (GRI, SASB, CDP, etc.) for reporting
• Drafting sustainability reports following relevant standards
• Supporting regulatory compliance, gap assessments, and risk management
• Creating compelling stories around your sustainability efforts
• Developing marketability reports for applicable products

Implement Your Playbook

Make your goals a reality

CarbonBetter helps clients strategically reduce what they can and make progress toward their long-term carbon reduction goals. Beyond insetting, we help clients define their carbon procurement strategy, employing all potential levers to achieve their ambitious targets. Our services include:

• Identifying efficiency improvements and business process optimizations to reduce environmental footprint
• Assessing insetting projects and providing relevant implementation support
• Providing advisory support to achieve decarbonization goals
• Procuring relevant carbon offset and clean energy products, including carbon offset credits, renewable energy certificates (RECs), and renewable natural gas certificates (RNGs)

Share Your Sustainability Story

Highlight your success

CarbonBetter believes sustainability stories are meant to be shared - they build loyalty with employees and customers, and they inspire other companies to make progress.

CarbonBetter can create content to share your journey with internal and external stakeholders. Stories worth sharing can include:

• Your motivation to pursue sustainability and carbon reduction
• Practical changes your company has made to advance sustainability goals
• Quarterly or annual reports updating teams, investors, and customers about sustainability progress

We can create shareable stories in the following ready-to-use formats:

• Social media-ready images
• Blog-ready posts
• Easy-to-share videos
• Downloadable one-pagers

Carbon Accounting Software

Advisory and selection

We understand the potential benefits and challenges of incorporating carbon accounting software into your sustainability efforts. As part of our services, we can:

• Assist in defining your unique requirements
• Help in selecting the best-fit carbon accounting software
• Ensure the accuracy and reliability of your carbon accounting data
• Guide your team in effectively utilizing the software
• Integrate the use of software into your overall sustainability strategy