Turning data into impact for North East businesses.
From clients and suppliers to investors, stakeholders want to know: what is your organisation’s carbon impact?
Organisations are increasingly being asked for carbon data by suppliers, customers, and investors. For example, larger organisations such as NHS trusts are requesting that their suppliers provide carbon footprint data and details of Net Zero commitments. Businesses that calculate their footprint demonstrate responsibility, strengthen relationships, and improve their ability to compete in procurement processes.
Understanding your carbon footprint isn’t just about compliance, it’s about creating a more efficient, resilient organisation. Measuring emissions across all scopes, direct (Scope 1), energy-related (Scope 2), and supply chain or indirect (Scope 3), provides a comprehensive view of your environmental impact and highlights opportunities for improvement. It is also a vital component of your clients own NetZero plan, and your own decarbonisation plan directly impacts that of your clients.
From data to insight with SmartCarbon
Tracking emissions across all scopes can seem complex, but SmartCarbon, a North East-based carbon emissions consultancy and reporting platform, makes it straightforward. Genee Consulting has partnered with SmartCarbon on multiple projects to help organisations capture accurate data and transform it into actionable insights.
Managing Director of SmartCarbon, Lee Jackson, said “we’ve worked closely with Genee over recent years and helped many organisations to understand their carbon footprint as part of their wider environmental impact. Through this measurement we are then able to use the data to put in place meaningful decarbonisation plans that support regional and national Net Zero commitments”
By using SmartCarbon, businesses can measure emissions from energy use, transport, materials, and supply chains, providing a complete picture of their carbon footprint. This ensures organisations can satisfy requests from customers, including NHS trusts, while also complying with reporting requirements.
Creating resource-efficient organisations
Carbon accounting is not just a reporting exercise, it’s a tool for operational improvement. Analysing footprint data allows businesses to identify areas for improvement, reduce waste, and improve resource efficiency. For example, optimising energy consumption, streamlining transport, or reducing material use can lower both emissions and costs.
These insights support smarter decisionmaking, helping organisations prioritise initiatives that deliver the greatest environmental and financial impact. In practice, embracing carbon accounting creates a leaner, more sustainable operation that benefits the bottom line as well as reducing impact on the planet.
Integrating with Investors in the Environment (iiE)
Genee Consulting delivers Investors in the Environment (iiE), a nationally recognised environmental accreditation scheme, which provides the tools, templates and expertise to support your organisation to develop a holistic, and applicable environmental management system. When paired with SmartCarbon, it forms a holistic system where data drives continuous improvement. While SmartCarbon provides detailed carbon insights, iiE helps embed sustainability into everyday operations, ensuring measurable action follows the numbers, driving both resource and cost reductions.
The bottom line
Calculating your carbon footprint across all scopes is now a strategic advantage. Organisations that embrace carbon accounting, with tools like SmartCarbon and Investors in the Environment, gain transparency, improve resource efficiency, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
By turning carbon data into actionable insights, businesses can enhance operational performance, strengthen customer relationships, and create longterm value, for the organisation, the community, and the environment.
For support in tracking and reporting your organisation’s emissions, contact SmartCarbon at l.jackson@ smartcarboncalculator.com. To build this into a wider environmental management system which drives reductions, contact Genee at jo@genee.org.uk