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.
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Identifying and measuring climate impact
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.
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Develop Your Decarbonization Roadmap
Creating a robust sustainability strategy
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
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Develop Framework-Aligned Reports
Engaging with key stakeholders
Reporting progress is an essential part of a sustainability strategy. 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
- Developing quarterly or annual reports updating teams, investors, and customers about sustainability progress
Execute Your Sustainability Strategy
Making your goals a reality
CarbonBetter helps clients effectively and efficiently reduce their environmental impact and make progress toward their long-term sustainability goals. Beyond insetting, we help clients define their carbon procurement strategy, employing all potential levers to achieve their ambitious targets. Our services include:
- Defining pragmatic initiatives and business process optimizations to reduce environmental footprint
- Assessing insetting projects and identifying improvement opportunities
- Providing robust implementation support
- 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
Highlighting your success
We believe sustainability stories are meant to be shared as they build loyalty with customers and employees and inspire other companies to make progress. CarbonBetter can create content to share your journey with internal and external stakeholders. Our services typically include:
- Creating compelling stories around your sustainability efforts
- Developing marketability reports for applicable products
- Marketing campaigns to broadcast your sustainability journey
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
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Maintaining environmental footprint data
We understand the potential benefits and challenges of incorporating carbon accounting software into your sustainability efforts. As part of our services, we can:
- Assisting in defining your unique requirements
- Helping in selecting the best-fit carbon accounting software
- Ensuring the accuracy and reliability of your carbon accounting data
- Guiding your team in effectively utilizing the software
- Integrating the use of software into your overall sustainability strategy
A playbook is a customized sustainability strategy document. Each playbook is unique to your sustainability goals and planned decarbonization activities. Typical playbook components include, but are not limited to, your carbon strategy, your environmental performance goals, plans to reduce your environmental impacts, and planned activities to help you reach your targets.
CarbonBetter will meet you wherever you are on your sustainability journey and can help you make progress towards reducing your carbon footprint. We can create a carbon strategy that meets your current needs. We believe it’s not about doing everything - it’s about doing something, and we want to help you take action in a way that works best for your business.
Each client engagement is unique with services tailored to meet your needs. There are no one sized fits all sustainability solutions or carbon strategies. We will partner with you to collaborate on an à la carte scope of work so that we can deliver specific products and services that best align with your sustainability goals.
Yes! If you have already assessed your environmental impacts and completed an annual sustainability report, we would still be happy to help you share your sustainability story. By sharing your environmental impacts and highlighting your successes through storytelling, our goal is that your impact will go beyond the numbers and complicated math associated with your environmental impacts and enable your business to be a leader in the decarbonization of your industry.
Yes, CarbonBetter can provide valuable assistance in all these areas. We help identify the best-fit carbon accounting software for your business's unique needs and guide your team in its effective utilization. We also recognize that for some businesses, particularly smaller ones, using a spreadsheet may be the most efficient and cost-effective method of carbon accounting. We will assess your situation and recommend the most suitable solution. Importantly, we also help validate your carbon emissions data, ensuring its accuracy and reliability, which is critical to your sustainability journey.