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Data Collection and Systems
The foundation
What data you have, whether you can trust it, and the people, routines and checks that will produce it again next year without us. Most sustainability projects fall over here, not at the clever analysis stage.
What you get
- A list of your data, with every figure traced back to a meter, an invoice, an ERP record, a supplier declaration or an estimate, ranked by how far you can trust it
- A list of what is missing, what it would take to get it, and what it is holding up
- Agreed definitions, units and boundaries, plus a dated library of emission factors, so last year's number can still be explained next year
- Written steps with names against them, a calendar of what is due when, and a trail an auditor can follow
- Templates for asking suppliers and a realistic plan for chasing them, plus tool requirements and a rollout you can run yourselves