Understand your carbon impact, meet regulatory requirements, and unlock cost-saving opportunities with expert-led footprinting and reporting services.
Our Carbon Footprinting Solution
Energise offers a comprehensive Carbon Footprinting service designed to help you accurately assess your greenhouse gas emissions across all scopes. Our team combines data expertise, regulatory knowledge, and market insights to guide you through footprinting, reporting, and action planning, turning complexity into clarity and opportunity.
What You'll Achieve
By partnering with Energise, you gain:
- A clear, accurate carbon footprint across Scopes 1, 2, and 3
- Confidence in meeting reporting requirements (SECR, ESOS, CSRD)
- A roadmap to cost-effective emissions reductions
- Improved ESG performance and stakeholder trust
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.
Why Carbon Footprinting Pays Off For Your Business
Boost Financial Performance
UK businesses that actively reduce emissions often improve operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen financial resilience. Tracking and managing your footprint helps you optimise resource use, identify inefficiencies, and deliver better returns.
Unlock Revenue Opportunities
Many customers, investors, and supply chains now require carbon reporting as part of doing business. Having a verified carbon footprint can open doors to new markets, strengthen bids for contracts, and meet the expectations of ESG-conscious stakeholders — helping you win and retain business.
Cut Operational Costs
Energy and resource use are key drivers of carbon emissions — and also major 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.
Access Better Financing
Banks and investors are increasingly offering favourable terms and financial products to businesses that can demonstrate robust sustainability practices. Reporting on your carbon footprint can strengthen your ESG profile and improve access to capital.
Strengthen Competitive Advantage
Proactively managing your carbon footprint positions you as a forward-thinking, responsible business. It enhances your reputation, builds customer and stakeholder trust, and ensures you stay ahead of tightening UK regulations and market expectations.
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 Footprinting FAQs
A carbon footprint measures the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly or indirectly by an organisation, product, or individual. It includes emissions from energy use, transportation, purchased goods, waste, and more — typically reported in CO₂ equivalent (CO₂e) terms.
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 your carbon footprint annually. This allows you to track progress over time, set meaningful reduction targets, and meet the expectations of regulators, customers, and investors.
Scope 1: Direct emissions from sources you own or control (e.g. fuel use, company vehicles, onsite processes).
Scope 2: Indirect emissions from the energy you purchase (e.g. electricity, heating, cooling).
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.
Scope 3 emissions cover a vast range of activities you don’t directly control, making data harder to collect and estimate. However, they often represent the largest portion of a business’s carbon footprint, so addressing them is critical for achieving meaningful reductions and meeting stakeholder expectations.
Collaborative approaches work best, such as:
- 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.
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