Carbon reduction planning software
Plan what comes next
Measuring your carbon footprint tells you where you are today. VerdaMetric’s carbon reduction planning software uses that information to help you decide what comes next.
Build reduction roadmaps, test different strategies and forecast how planned initiatives could change your emissions over time. Compare different options against your targets and identify where action could have the greatest impact.
Turn your carbon data into a reduction plan
Setting a carbon reduction target is one thing. Working out how you’re going to reach it is another. VerdaMetric’s carbon reduction planning software allows you to plan reduction initiatives against your carbon footprint, estimate the potential impact and see how they affect future emissions.
Instead of treating your target as a standalone figure, you can build a roadmap around the actions your organisation is considering and test different approaches before deciding what to take forward.
Key capabilities
Build a carbon reduction roadmap around planned initiatives, with uptake, target years, modelled emissions savings and estimated cost per tonne of CO2e saved.
Model changes to fuels, energy sources or materials and calculate the potential emissions saving using your existing activity volumes.
Test multiple reduction strategies together and compare different scenarios against historic emissions and future targets.
Include supplier reduction commitments within your roadmap to assess how action across the supply chain could influence Scope 3 emissions.
Set reduction targets and see how planned initiatives compare with the emissions pathway you are working towards.
Project emissions forward using historic performance and planned initiatives to see where your current strategy could take you.
Build a carbon reduction roadmap
A carbon reduction target is more useful when you know what needs to happen to reach it. VerdaMetric’s Reduction Planner allows you to map individual initiatives against your carbon footprint and estimate the contribution each one could make. Apply measures by scope or category, set uptake and target years, model the expected emissions saving and use the total cost of an initiative to calculate its estimated cost per tonne of CO2e saved.
Initiatives can be switched on and off, so you can test different combinations before deciding which measures to prioritise.
Model changes to fuel, energy and materials
Reducing emissions doesn’t always mean reducing activity. Changing the fuel, energy source or material behind an activity can also change its carbon impact.
VerdaMetric’s factor-substitution levers let you test these changes against your existing activity volumes. Compare the current emission factor with an alternative and calculate the potential saving based on the level of uptake you expect.
This result is an estimate based on your own activity rather than a generic reduction assumption.
Compare different carbon reduction scenarios
There is rarely one route to a carbon reduction target. One strategy might prioritise operational changes, while another combines changes across energy, materials and the supply chain.
VerdaMetric’s carbon reduction planning software lets you model multiple reduction strategies and compare side by side. See how different combinations of initiatives affect projected emissions and how each scenario compares with your target.
You can test different routes before deciding which combination of measures should form part of your longer-term carbon reduction roadmap.
Include your supply chain in reduction planning
For organisations with significant Scope 3 emissions, reaching reduction targets can depend heavily on what happens across the supply chain.
Supplier reduction commitments collected through VerdaMetric can be included within the Reduction Planner, so their expected contribution can be considered alongside your organisation’s own initiatives.
This allows supplier action to form part of the wider reduction plan and shows the role it could play in future Scope 3 emissions.
Set targets and look ahead
Targets establish where you want to get to and predictions show whether the actions you’re considering are likely to move you in that direction. VerdaMetric uses historic emissions and planned reduction initiatives to project future performance. Compare your predicted emissions against your target and explore what happens when initiatives, uptake levels or strategies change.
As new reporting-year data becomes available, actual performance can be compared with the roadmap to see how progress compares with what was planned.
From carbon measurement to future action
Your carbon footprint shouldn’t end with a report. Once you understand where emissions are coming from, that information can be used to decide where reductions could be made and which actions to prioritise.
VerdaMetric’s carbon reduction planning software uses your existing carbon data for reduction planning, giving you the ability to model initiatives, compare scenarios and develop a roadmap based on your organisation’s emissions.
