Understand your carbon impact, meet regulatory requirements, and unlock cost-saving opportunities with an expert-led carbon footprint report
Why Carbon Footprinting Matters
Many businesses face growing pressure to measure, report, and reduce their carbon emissions – but navigating the complexity of Scope 1, 2, and 3 reporting can feel overwhelming.
Without accurate data, you risk falling behind on compliance requirements, missing out on cost savings, and losing trust with customers, investors, and regulators.
An accurate carbon footprint is foundational for any sustainability strategy.
What You Will Achieve
By partnering with Energise, you gain:
- A clear, accurate carbon footprint across Scopes 1, 2, and 3
- Confidence in meeting reporting requirements (SECR report, ESOS compliance, CSRD)
- A roadmap to cost-effective emissions reductions
- Auditor-ready data you can be confident in
- Improved ESG performance and stakeholder trust
How Carbon Footprinting Contributes To Providing Business Value
Boost Financial Performance
Energy and resource use are key drivers of carbon emissions – and also major costs. Reducing energy use and improving processes are two ways to save money.
Unlock Revenue Opportunities
All parts of the value chain now recognise carbon emissions as part of the cost of doing business. Having a verified carbon footprint can help you win and retain new business.
Cut Operational
Costs
By measuring your footprint, you can spot opportunities to reduce energy use, improve processes, and cut waste, delivering tangible cost savings alongside emissions reductions.
Strengthen Competitive Advantage
Managing your carbon footprint positions you as a forward-thinking, responsible business. It can enhance your reputation, through building trust.
Our Carbon Footprinting Solution
Our comprehensive Carbon Footprinting service creates clarity for your business. As well as helping you accurately and efficiently assess your greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we can guide you on your next steps and how to use and improve your data.
Our team of experts will guide you through the process, whatever your starting point. We follow a verifiable process to future proof the process.
Focused on value for your investment – you can trust us to deliver.
What’s included:
- Expert support from our consultants via a data screening workshop and ongoing support through the process of gathering the data required from various teams and systems within your business
- Detailed analysis of available data to identify gaps, errors and omissions and management of queries
- A Carbon Footprint Report, aligned to the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064-1, with a summary and detailed breakdown of your emissions for the reporting period, including materiality analysis on the accuracy and uncertainty of available data plus a review of data strengths and recommendations for improvement
- A presentation of your carbon footprint report and our findings to you and your team on findings, recommended next steps and how to use use the report to support your sustainability journey.
Wagamama – Carbon Reporting
Wagamama started their GHG journey with Energise by using ESOS, and later expanding their GHG Reporting to include scope 3 emissions.
Carbon Footprint FAQs
A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by something. Emissions can be direct or indirect. Direct emissions include gas burned for heating, indirect emissions include electricity generated elsewhere. An organisation, product, or individual all have their own carbon footprint. Typically all GHG emissions are converted and reported in CO₂ equivalent (CO₂e).
Managing your carbon footprint is about understanding the environmental cost of business. Your starting point might be regulation, cost saving or stakeholders. Calculating your carbon footprint helps you:
✅ Meet regulatory requirements (e.g. SECR, ESOS, CSRD)
✅ Identify cost-saving opportunities through efficiency improvements
✅ Strengthen your ESG credentials and appeal to investors, customers, and talent
✅ Prepare for future net zero commitments and supply chain pressures
Best practice is to calculate and report an annual carbon footprint. This allows you to track progress over time and set meaningful reduction targets. Annual reporting will help you meet the expectations of regulators, customers, and investors.
Scope 1: Direct emissions from sources you own or control (e.g. fuel use in company vehicles or central heating).
Scope 2: Indirect emissions from electricity you purchase (e.g. electricity for lighting or in company vehicles).
Scope 3: All other indirect emissions across your value chain (e.g. purchased goods, employee travel, waste, use of sold products).
Yes! Many organisations start by calculating Scope 1 and 2 emissions, then expand to Scope 3 once the basics are in place. We can help you design a phased approach that balances ambition with practicality.
We often see customers begin with Upstream Scope 3 emissions calculations and add Downstream in the following year.
Scope 3 emissions cover a vast range of activities you don’t directly control, making data harder to collect and estimate. It can feel overwhelming to know where to start. Some businesses worry that they don’t have good enough data.
At Energise we work with you to understand your business and the challenges you face. We can help you get the best results from your data.
We know that it can feel like a lot to reduce emissions you control let alone those you don’t!
We can help you understand what you are aiming for, and create a plan for how to get there. We can work with you and the resources you have available.
From understanding your suppliers through to collaborative projects, there is something for everyone!
- Offering training and tools to suppliers.
- Conducting joint lifecycle analyses to identify reduction opportunities.
- Encouraging suppliers to implement their own Net Zero strategies.
Life Cycle Analysis identifies emissions hotspots across a product’s lifecycle. This helps you target interventions, such as redesigning products, reducing material use, or improving energy efficiency.
Energise aligns carbon footprinting work with internationally recognised standards, including the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064. This ensures consistency, credibility, and alignment with market and regulatory expectations.
The timeline varies depending on your organisation’s size and data availability, but a typical carbon footprint assessment can take 4–12 weeks. We guide you through the data collection process to ensure accuracy and keep the project on track.
You’ll need to share data on:
Energy use (electricity, gas, fuels)
Business travel and commuting
Purchased goods and services (if including Scope 3)
Waste, water, transport, and other relevant activities
Don’t worry — our team will provide a clear data request and help you fill any gaps.
Knowing your carbon footprint is the first step — the real value comes from using it to set reduction targets, identify quick wins, and build a roadmap towards net zero. Energise can provide actionable advice and ongoing support to help you turn data into impact.
Your carbon footprint report can also support your with compliance requirements such as Streamline Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) and Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS).
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