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Carbon accounting services

Reducing and tracking your carbon footprint isn’t just good practice; it’s essential. Carbon accounting enables you to identify your carbon footprint, take steps to lower it and mitigate the impact of climate change.

When sustainability and minimising environmental impacts are a key focus for you, your customers, employees, investors and stakeholders, we’ll help you:

Understand and track your emissions
Prepare for future ESG reporting requirements
Create customised reports.

Start your carbon accounting journey with us.

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Ian Gallagher, Director in PEM's Carbon Accounting team

ESG reporting services

Tracking emissions through sustainability accounting enables you to identify areas where you can reduce energy consumption and benefit the environment. It helps to:

Improve operational efficiency and reduce costs
Support decision-making around energy, transportation and waste management
Foster transparency and accountability to stakeholders
Attract investment, demonstrating yourcommitment to sustainability
Drive innovation through the development of sustainable products and services.

We partner with Sumday, a carbon accounting platform that enables businesses of all sizes to measure, manage and report emissions. This helps us turn complex carbon data into actionable insights.

If you’ve set targets for achieving carbon neutrality or net-zero, carbon reporting is essential for tracking progress and taking corrective actions. We’d love to chat to you about our services.

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Liam Snow, Director in PEM's Cloud Accounting team

FAQs

What is carbon accounting readiness?

We begin by doing a carbon accounting readiness assessment, which helps us identify the key data required and potential gaps. From this, we suggest how to proceed, giving you a clear idea of the path forward. We’ll carry out a staff commute survey, which covers emissions associated with working from home, to give a full view.

Once we have completed the initial assessment, we can connect your Xero account to third-party software to conduct assessments for:

Scope 1: emissions from owned or controlled sources, such as fuel consumption in company vehicles or onsite energy use, and
Scope 2: emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, steam, heating and cooling.

While this often makes up a small portion of the overall footprint, it’s a great place to start.

The next step is to conduct assessments for:

Scope 3: emissions from the entire value chain, including activities like employee commuting, business travel, supply chain emissions and product use/disposal.