ESG Carbon Footprint

Overview

Companies that fail to prioritize ESG may struggle to attract investment from socially responsible investors, which could limit their growth potential and put them at a disadvantage compared to their competitors who are investing in sustainability. Additionally, customers who value sustainability and responsible business practices may choose to do business with companies that prioritize ESG, which could lead to a loss of revenue and market share for companies that do not.

The impact of this problem is significant, as more and more investors and customers are prioritizing sustainability and responsible business practices. Companies that fail to adapt to this shift in values may find themselves at a disadvantage in terms of attracting investment and customers, which could ultimately impact their long-term success and profitability.

Key Features & Functionality

• Operational Dashboard
  • Provides the ability to track different KPIs and carbon footprint in relation to scope 1,2 and 3. As well as the climate impact from direct and indirect emissions. Allows you to monitor your monthly & yearly emissions, evaluate the highest emission categories, monitor the progress and impact of your mitigation strategy over time.
• Carbon Footprint Emissions Calculator
  • Calculate the carbon footprint emission calculation, either by selecting categories manually or by uploading an Chart Of Accounts (COA) excel. Provides a 360 view of all emissions, with the ability to update, deactivate and duplicate footprints. As well as the ability to track Scope 1,2 & 3 emissions.
• AI Recommendations & Chatbot
  • AI recommendations of how to reduce emissions based on chatGPT integration, that provides answers to all carbon offset related questions.
• Upload Carbon Credit/Offset
  • Ability to update and upload the carbon credit purchase by adding details of the new carbon credit project and uploading related certificates to calculate the net emissions.
• Analytics & Reporting
  • An extensive & powerful analytics dashboard enables stakeholders to track, monitor and report on key data points such as; Net Carbon Emissions, Carbon Credit/Offset, and GHG emissions. Global filters allow for a deep dive into emissions overtime to be segregated by categories, departments, employees, vendors, scope etc.

Benefits & Business Impact

ESG Carbon Footprint, is built on Appian's enterprise-grade business automation platform to create robust workflows that track the end-to-end Carbon emission process and mitigation strategy for organizations. Solution solves these challenges better by tracking and staying ahead of the constantly evolving regulatory landscape. This is done by ensuring compliance through the use of Artificial Intelligence while still ensuring that goals are tracked, and decisions can be made in anticipation of future developments.

• 360 Tracking
  • Provides 360 visibility of scope 1,2 and 3 direct and indirect emissions.
• Improved Scalability and Flexibility
  • Reduces processing time and improves the firm's ability to capture carbon emission manually as well as using an organization chart of accounts. Also provide capabilities to flexible enough to get adapted as per the organization process.
• AI Suggestion
  • Provides suggestion on how to reduce carbon emission powered by CHAT GPT.
• Regulatory Compliance
  • Leveraging vetted factors covering all economic sectors, sourced from leading data providers
  • Dramatically reduces corporate financial and reputational risk and facilitates staying ahead of fast evolving regulatory changes.
• Analytics and Reporting
  • Track, analyze and act on carbon emissions, to strategically adapt and accelerate your decision-making process.
  • Provides accurate real-time actionable information for key decision-makers.
• Carbon Offset
  • Track your carbon emissions and jumpstart your journey towards net zero by offsetting your emissions.
  • Offset your carbon emissions effectively in a trackable, measurable and reportable method.