Understanding the sources of your emissions is the first step toward reducing your carbon footprint. Emissions are classified into three key categories: Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3. While these terms might seem technical, they provide a structured framework to identify where your business has the most significant environmental impact—and reveal where the greatest opportunities for improvement lie.
This is where ESG Navigate makes a difference. By seamlessly integrating data with actionable insights, it simplifies the complexities of emissions tracking. ESG Navigate automates calculations and transforms raw data into clear, actionable strategies, empowering your business to take meaningful steps toward sustainability.
Scope 1: Direct Emissions
Scope 1 Emissions are known as Direct Emissions. This includes fuel used in company vehicles, gas boilers heating your facilities, or emissions from on-site equipment. It's everything under your direct ownership.
Tracking these emissions is about understanding your operations at their core. ESG Navigate streamlines this process by centralising your data and automating data processes. Simply enter your consumption level and ESG Navigate will convert this into the CO2 equivalent for each emission source, wherever you are in the world.
It doesn't stop at numbers; it helps you identify where efficiencies can be made, like switching to cleaner fuels or maintaining equipment for optimal performance.
- Company facilities (e.g., gas boilers, furnaces)
- Company vehicles and fleet
- On-site equipment emissions
- Direct ownership sources
Scope 2: Indirect Emissions
Scope 2 Emissions are known as Indirect Emissions. This scope covers the energy you purchase—electricity to light your offices, steam to power production, or cooling systems to keep operations running.
ESG Navigate guides you through this process. It helps you track energy use across locations and automatically calculates the Carbon Emissions from each source.
Imagine knowing not just how much electricity you use, but the carbon intensity behind it—whether it's sourced from renewables or fossil fuels. From there, it offers insights to optimise energy efficiency or transition to greener suppliers.
- Purchased electricity for offices
- Steam for power production
- Cooling systems operations
- Energy use tracking across locations
Scope 3: Value Chain Emissions
Scope 3 Emissions encapsulate the Emissions from your company's entire value chain. This includes everything from purchased goods and services and product distribution to employee commuting and how your products are disposed of at the end of their lifecycle.
ESG Navigate helps you map these emissions with ease using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol framework as standard. This divides Scope 3 Emissions into 15 clear and digestible sections, highlighting the best leverage points to achieve Carbon reductions.
ESG Navigate distils information into actionable insights. For example, it might reveal which areas of procurement are driving your carbon footprint or estimate the emissions saved by choosing different materials or fuel sources for your activities.
- Purchased goods and services
- Product distribution
- Employee commuting
- End-of-lifecycle disposal
- Supply chain emissions
Making Complexity Simple
Tracking emissions might seem daunting, but with the right approach, it becomes a natural part of managing your business. ESG Navigate works quietly in the background, collecting, analysing, and presenting data in a way that empowers you to act.
