Insights
Notes on carbon data, governance and sustainability strategy.
Topics currently in preparation, covering the questions that come up most often in carbon accounting, ESG data governance and sustainability transformation work.
Planned articles
Carbon accounting
How to build a Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG inventory
Scope 3
Why Scope 3 is fundamentally a data problem
Inventory review
Five warning signs in a corporate GHG inventory
Assurance
How to prepare your carbon inventory for external assurance
Inventory review
What should a GHG inventory review actually test?
Due diligence
What investors should test during carbon due diligence
Due diligence
How reliable are the carbon numbers in ESG due diligence?
Scope 3
Moving beyond spend-based Scope 3 calculations
Supply chain
How to improve supplier emissions data
Methodology
Choosing the right emission factors
Data quality
What good carbon-data quality looks like
AI & automation
Where AI can actually help sustainability teams
Data
From sustainability spreadsheet to scalable data process
Due diligence
How to verify sustainability data before an investment decision
Due diligence
Why ESG due diligence should look beyond policies
Lending
What lenders should ask about a company's carbon footprint
Data governance
What good sustainability data governance actually looks like
Data governance
Who owns ESG data, and why nobody can answer it
Data governance
Building a source-to-report map for ESG reporting
Reporting governance
Reporting controls for ESG information
Strategy
Designing a sustainability operating model that works
Strategy
From net-zero strategy to an executable programme
Transformation
Running sustainability transformation across finance, procurement and technology
Technology strategy
Choosing sustainability technology without starting from the tool
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