Organizational Carbon Footprint

An organization's carbon footprint reveals the annual climate impact of your operations. It covers all greenhouse gas emissions generated by both the organization's own operations and the entire value chain – from raw material procurement to the end-use of products and services. Carbon footprint calculation is conducted according to internationally recognized standards, such as the GHG Protocol (Greenhouse Gas Protocol) and ISO 14064 standard. This ensures that the results are reliable and comparable.

The carbon footprint calculation results provide a solid foundation for sustainability communication and reporting. They enable transparent communication about your climate actions and progress towards emission targets. Regular monitoring helps verify the effectiveness of measures and identify new areas for development.

Our experts support you throughout the process from baseline assessment to results analysis and action planning. We help you utilize the results in strategic decision-making and effectively communicate your achievements. Together, we can build a sustainable competitive advantage for your organization and ensure your success in a low-carbon future.

Carbon footprint calculation of a service is a key tool in understanding and managing your organization's climate impacts. It helps identify the most significant climate impacts of your operations, systematically develop your services toward a low-carbon direction, and achieve cost savings through more efficient use of energy and resources. Transparent communication about your service's climate impacts also strengthens your position as a responsible actor in the market and responds to growing environmental awareness among customers.

With Etteplan, you can implement comprehensive service carbon footprint calculations that consider the emissions throughout your service's lifecycle and help you understand how different components impact the whole. Service carbon footprint calculation includes both direct and indirect emissions, whose identification is essential for achieving effective emission reductions.

Direct emissions:

Indirect emissions:

We develop a customized calculation tool for your organization that enables you to independently calculate and monitor your carbon footprint or other environmental impacts systematically. The tool is designed to meet your specific needs, processes, and industry characteristics. In implementation, we utilize our data experts' knowledge and consider industry standards and guidelines.

A customized calculation tool enhances and standardizes environmental impact calculation. It provides a clear structure for data collection and processing and converts them into comparable metrics. This gives you a reliable overview of your operations' environmental impacts and allows you to focus on analyzing results and planning actions.

Benefits of the calculation tool:

The development of the tool progresses in close collaboration with your organization. First, we map user needs and define key tool features together. In the design phase, we emphasize clear structure and usability that support effective decision-making at different organizational levels.

The tool also enables scenario comparison and modeling of future development paths. The information produced by the tool can be utilized in both strategic planning and stakeholder communication.

Today, certain public and private entities require an emissions report for the service they purchase. Etteplan's professionals can help your company build a calculator and report.

We develop customized calculators that allow you to calculate, for example, the carbon footprint of an individual service. This enables service-specific emission tracking and helps identify the most effective ways to reduce emissions. The calculator can be designed to consider emission sources and special characteristics relevant to your specific service.

Our experts support you in determining and reducing your organization's carbon footprint throughout the journey from mapping the initial situation to analyzing results and planning emission reductions. We help identify the most significant emission sources and prioritize the most impactful measures. Together we build a concrete roadmap toward a low-carbon future and ensure that you can effectively communicate results to your stakeholders.

Carbon footprint calculation is an investment in the future – it helps prepare for tightening emission requirements and strengthens your market position. At the same time, it provides tools for continuous development of your operations and reducing climate impacts.

If you are interested in determining your company's carbon footprint and your opportunities to reduce it, contact us and we'll be happy to discuss further how we can support your climate work.