Decarbo’Solution® Certified Experts: Hands-on expertise to help companies reduce their carbon footprint
Many consultants and experts want to develop expertise in “carbon footprint calculation” so they can provide their clients with the necessary carbon strategy advice. This expertise is, in fact, increasingly in demand among companies and local governments seeking to measure and reduce their CO2 emissions, driven by new regulatory requirements and the direct and indirect benefits of this commitment.
A carbon assessment provides an overview of an organization’s carbon footprint. By quantifying all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—whether directly or indirectly generated—it enables the implementation of action plans to reduce them as much as possible.
Mandatory for companies with more than 50 employees that are benefiting from the economic recovery plan (2021 Finance Act, Art. 244), for those with more than 500 employees, or 250 employees in the overseas departments, as well as for local governments with more than 50,000 residents (Grenelle II Act, July 12, 2010), it is also a decision with economic, commercial, and environmentally responsible impacts that are widely appreciated by all types of businesses.
More and more companies are deciding on their own to conduct a carbon assessment for a variety of reasons, including, in particular, the resulting ease of managing their carbon trajectory.
Is it complicated to conduct a comprehensive assessment?
An emissions inventory is essentially a comprehensive compilation of a company’s emission sources. It is broken down into three categoriesthat classify a company’s greenhouse gas emissions by source or by type of activity.
- Scope 1: so-called direct emissions: emissions from fixed or mobile facilities located within the organizational boundary
- Scope 2: Indirect energy-related emissions: emissions associated with the production of electricity, heat, steam, or cooling
- Scope 3: Other Indirect Emissions
Including all three scopes in a GHG inventory provides a comprehensive overview of an organization's emissions.
Once the assessment has been completed, it is necessary to reduce the reported emissions and establish a low-carbon pathway.
The concept of “Bilan Carbone”—which is, in fact, merely a registered trademark in France—has always been difficult to grasp. Was this intentional, to justify the involvement of experts?
The effectiveness of the Decarbo’Solution® solution makes it easy for all types of companies to adopt its calculation method, thanks to a simplified and intuitive approachand effective online training tools.
For more information, see GHG Scope 4.
Decarbo’Solution®, a platform designed to make it easier for you to access your GHG assessment
Decarbo’Solution® (Decarbo’Solution®), a green tech company, has been helping organizations and local governments conduct comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions assessments since 2012.
This online platform, accessible at any time, offers tools and servicesto help users identify, calculate, and reduce theircarbon footprint, and to prepare a carbon footprint assessment by industry sectorin accordance with relevant regulations, guidelines, standards, and international norms.
The Decarbo’Solution® calculator allows you to generate a comprehensive GHG inventory covering all threescopesand the following seven emission categories:Travel, Incoming Materials and Services, Energy, Refrigerants, Water Consumption, and Waste.
It also assesses, at a given point in time,the impact of your business on the climatethrough targeted reporting on the main sources of emissions in your industry.
However, this100% guided and 100% customizableapproach may seem intimidating to some.
To address this concern, the Decarbo’Solution® platform offers all users assistance and guidance from a Decarbo’Solution® expert. A four-hour mini-training course is more than sufficient, given the online support and information tools available.
What is a Decarbo’Solution® expert?
The Decarbo’Solution® Certified Expert (E.A.)has the primary mission of presenting Decarbo’Solution® services, convincing stakeholders of their ability to use them independently, and promoting this best practice throughout their subsidiaries, subcontractors, and suppliers.
In addition, they may offer—or outsource through the Decarbo’Solution® network of Certified Experts—support and consulting services for reducing GHG emissions and for defining and managing aCSR commitment. They may also be assigned such projects by another Carbon Footprint Expert or a Decarbo’Solution® client interested in their specific expertise.
Each user can contact a Certified Expert via the instant messaging feature available on the platform. The experts come from a variety of fields. This means that every user can findan expert with expertise in their specific fieldto help them implement their reduction action plan.
A network for sharing and building on skills
The creation of a Decarbo’Solution® Certified Experts network enables professionals to pool and share best practices to support businesses and local governments in their strategic decision to jointhe fight against global warming.
This allows us to provide the best possible support to users of the Decarbo’Solution® platform byleveraging each individual’s expertise, while each expert, in turn, benefits from the technical or geographic complementarity of the other experts’ expertise.
Thanks to this network of carbon footprint experts in the field, any organization canconduct a comprehensive and compliantcarbon footprint assessment and implement a reduction action plan.