Sustainability & Decarbon­ization Services

Greeneum is your expert partner and guide in decarbonization and sustainability, helping you prepare for the transitions ahead. Our process is accessible because the challenge is daunting. We meet clients wherever they are in their sustainability journey. Some are starting out, while others need help refining or executing their plans. Each client engagement is unique. All services are available à la carte, but an end-to-end approach may include the phases described below—including strategy, implementation, measuring and tracking your progress, and sharing your journey through best-in-class storytelling. We work with change makers to tell their stories—building brand loyalty, establishing thought leadership, and moving the world closer to a net-zero future.

For businesses considering the use of carbon accounting software, we offer assistance in defining technical requirements for and selecting the best-fit software solution with our vendor-agnostic approach. However, it’s important to note that while software can be a powerful tool, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of carbon accounting data requires human expertise. That’s where we come in. At Greeneum, we can help to validate your data and navigate choosing not just the right tool but the right calculation methodologies and emission factors, ensuring the resulting carbon footprint is robust and reliable, providing a solid foundation for your sustainability journey.

Get ready for the net-zero economy

  • Planning
  • Playbook
  • Reporting
  • Execution
  • Storytelling
  • Software Setup

HOW CAN WE HELP?

Whether you’re taking your first step toward decarbonization, or looking to scale your efforts, we’re here to help.

Sustainability Strategic Planning
Progress starts with the right roadmap

We work with organizations at any stage in their sustainability journey to understand their specific needs before we embark on a carbon reduction plan. These steps may include:

Understanding Your Stakeholders
Defining Your Project Scope and Sustainability Plans
Setting Goals
Defining Your Timing
Creating the Roadmap
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SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING OVERVIEW

Sustainability reporting serves as a valuable tool to achieve corporate commitments and better manage climate-related business risks. This white paper walks you through what’s typically included and what should be considered.

CLOSING THE CARBON MARKET GAP WEBINAR

According to Bank of America, carbon offset supply may need to grow as much as 50x by 2050 to achieve net-zero emissions. Watch the replay as three experts discuss efforts to close this gap and the challenges in developing projects and issuing credits at scale.

Decarbonization Playbook Development
Choose the pieces that fit
Greeneum works with organizations to select the exact actions that fit their strategic plan. Measured, discrete steps create real change. If you don’t already have a baseline of your environmental impacts, we’ll start there. Your decarbonization playbook includes:

Assessing Where You Are
Set Tactical Targets that are Measurable and Traceable
Defining Your Actions
Establishing Milestones
Impacts Assessment & Sustainability Reporting
Know your current position
Measuring and reporting progress is an essential part of sustainability strategy – if you don’t know your baseline, you can’t accurately track what progress you are making. We empower clients to quantify and share their impacts in a traceable way with their customers, teams, and other stakeholders through their sustainability reporting.

Greeneum can work independently or with internal teams to assess environmental impacts and create reports that follow standards from internationally recognized protocols. Impacts assessment and sustainability reporting includes:

Quantifying Your Carbon Emissions Footprint
Assessing your Water and Waste impacts
Disclosing your Impacts Through Transparent Reporting
Implement Your Playbook
Make your goals a reality
Greeneum helps clients strategically reduce what they can and make progress toward their long-term carbon reduction goals. Options to explore:

Carbon Offset & Clean Energy Services. Includes renewable energy certificates, carbon offset credits, and renewable natural gas credits.
Efficiency Improvements & Business Process Optimization
Project Analysis, Guidance, & Implementation Support
Resource Reduction Guidance
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Share Your Sustainability Story
Highlight your success
Greeneum believes sustainability stories are meant to be shared – they build loyalty with employees and customers, and they inspire other companies to make progress.

Greeneum can create content to share your journey with internal and external stakeholders. Stories worth sharing can include:

Your motivation to pursue sustainability and carbon reduction
Practical changes your company has made to advance sustainability goals
Quarterly or annual reports updating teams, investors, and customers about sustainability progress

We can create shareable stories in the following ready-to-use formats:

Social media-ready images
Blog-ready posts
Easy-to-share videos
Downloadable one-pagers
Carbon Accounting Software
Setup & Implementation
We understand the potential benefits and challenges of incorporating carbon accounting software into your sustainability efforts. As part of our services, we can:

Assist in defining your unique requirements
Help in selecting the best-fit carbon accounting software
Ensure the accuracy and reliability of your carbon accounting data
Guide your team in effectively utilizing the software
Integrate the use of software into your overall sustainability strategy
Frequently Asked Questions
A playbook is a customized sustainability strategy document. Each playbook is unique to your sustainability goals and planned decarbonization activities. Typical playbook components include, but are not limited to, your carbon strategy, your environmental performance goals, plans to reduce your environmental impacts, and planned activities to help you reach your targets.

Greeneum will meet you wherever you are on your sustainability journey and can help you make progress towards reducing your carbon footprint. We can create a carbon strategy that meets your current needs. We believe it’s not about doing everything – it’s about doing something, and we want to help you take action in a way that works best for your business.

Each client engagement is unique with services tailored to meet your needs. There are no one sized fits all sustainability solutions or carbon strategies. We will partner with you to collaborate on an à la carte scope of work so that we can deliver specific products and services that best align with your sustainability goals.

Yes! If you have already assessed your environmental impacts and completed an annual sustainability report, we would still be happy to help you share your sustainability story. By sharing your environmental impacts and highlighting your successes through storytelling, our goal is that your impact will go beyond the numbers and complicated math associated with your environmental impacts and enable your business to be a leader in the decarbonization of your industry.

Yes, Greeneum can provide valuable assistance in all these areas. We help identify the best-fit carbon accounting software for your business’s unique needs and guide your team in its effective utilization. We also recognize that for some businesses, particularly smaller ones, using a spreadsheet may be the most efficient and cost-effective method of carbon accounting. We will assess your situation and recommend the most suitable solution. Importantly, we also help validate your carbon emissions data, ensuring its accuracy and reliability, which is critical to your sustainability journey.