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A greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions assessment measures the emissions associated with your organisation's activities and operations. It creates an emissions inventory, usually expressed as tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO₂e), so you can understand where your emissions come from and where the biggest opportunities for reduction may be.
Measuring your emissions gives you a baseline for understanding your climate impact and making informed decisions about where to reduce it. You may also need emissions information to respond to customer or supply-chain requests, support sustainability reporting, meet procurement requirements or work towards carbon certification or reduction targets.
Not every business is required to measure its greenhouse gas emissions, but you may have to in order to meet legislation or reporting requirements that apply to your organisation, or due to a drive from from customers, contracts, supply chains, funding or certification requirements.
Yes, businesses can calculate their own emissions, and there are purchasable tools and emissions factors available to help, but the main challenge is often deciding what should be included to accurately meet your requirements, finding reliable data, applying the right methodology and emissions factors, and producing an inventory robust enough for the purpose you're using it for.
Yes. Morphum can support you through the emissions measurement and reduction work needed for recognised carbon certification programmes, including helping establish your emissions inventory, identify reduction opportunities and prepare the required information. Certification or verification itself is undertaken by the relevant independent certification body.
The timeframe depends on the size and complexity of your organisation, what emissions need to be included and how readily available your data is. A smaller organisation with good records may move through the process relatively quickly, while a more complex organisation or emissions inventory with significant Scope 3 emissions can require considerably more data collection and analysis.
Scope 1 emissions come directly from sources your organisation owns or controls, such as fuel used in company vehicles or equipment. Scope 2 covers emissions associated with purchased energy, while Scope 3 covers other indirect emissions across your value chain, such as business travel, freight, waste, purchased products and services.
Not every organisation needs to measure every Scope 3 emissions source. Which emissions you include will depend on the purpose of your assessment, the reporting or certification framework you're following, and which sources are relevant to your organisation and value chain.
Scope 3 can be the most challenging part of an emissions assessment because the data often sits outside your organisation. Identifying the most relevant sources and deciding where to focus can help make the assessment both practical and meaningful.
A greenhouse gas emissions assessment generally looks at the emissions associated with an organisation, activity or defined reporting boundary over a particular period. A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) looks at the environmental impacts of a product, material or service across its life cycle, and can consider a much broader range of environmental impacts than greenhouse gas emissions alone.
Life Cycle Assessments ▸Your emissions inventory gives you a baseline for deciding what to do next. You can identify your biggest emissions sources, prioritise reduction opportunities, set targets and track changes over time, as well as using the results to support reporting, certification or communication with customers and other stakeholders.
Start with whatever information you already have about your operations and resource use, such as electricity and fuel records, travel, freight, waste and purchasing data. You don't need to have everything perfectly organised before speaking to us. Part of the process is establishing what information is relevant, what you already have and where there are gaps.
