Carbon Accounting

We help your company prepare for a more sustainable future by identifying, measuring, and managing its climate impacts. Carbon accounting provides a clear and reliable foundation for reducing emissions, communicating responsibly, and meeting stakeholder expectations now and in the years to come.

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You will receive expert support in understanding and managing your environmental impacts. We help you identify what matters most and build practical action plans, including for climate risk management and protecting biodiversity.

Get in touch and let’s look together at what your organisation needs. The first step in climate action is simply to get started.

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Calculating your carbon footprint is the first step toward understanding the real climate impacts of your operations. It helps identify the most significant emission sources across your organisation, products, or services, making it possible to set clear reduction targets and make informed, data-driven decisions.

The benefits of Taigawise’s carbon footprinting service:

Calculations in line with the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064
Coverage of Scopes 1-2, and Scope 3 where relevant to your organisation
Access to comprehensive and reliable emissions databases, complemented by our own emission factors when needed
Results available in a clear and user-friendly service platform
Calculations can be independently verified if required
Available as a one-off project or as an annual recurring service

Climate work has the greatest impact when it is built on solid data and developed into goal-oriented, everyday action.

We provide expert support for developing climate programmes and plans, whether you need help with the big picture, the details, or the entire process. We make sure your plans don’t stay in a drawer, but actively support your organisation’s operations and guide practical decision-making.

Climate transition plans are a core part of CSRD-compliant reporting, and they also form a strong foundation for voluntary climate action, just like low-carbon roadmaps.

Our expert-led transition plans and roadmaps typically include:

Short- and long-term emission reduction targets
Concrete actions to achieve those targets
An assessment of how business changes affect emissions
Scenarios, when needed
A monitoring plan defining how progress will be tracked over time

We also develop biodiversity transition plans and nature roadmaps, and are happy to help with other environmental responsibility roadmaps as well.

We carry out scenario and resilience analyses either as part of transition planning or as standalone projects.

In a scenario analysis, we build alternative future pathways based on internationally recognised climate scenarios and frameworks (such as IPCC, IEA, NGFS, TCFD and ISO 14091). The aim is to understand how different climate futures may affect your organisation, including physical and transition risks, and how to prepare for both risks and opportunities.

A resilience analysis assesses how well your organisation can adapt to change, or in other words, how vulnerable it is to environmental risks and how those risks can be reduced. This approach can be applied to any environmental topic, but it is most commonly used for climate change and biodiversity impacts.

Biodiversity has become an increasingly important part of corporate responsibility. Global nature protection targets also require companies to assess and manage their impacts on nature – and we are here to help you get started.

We provide holistic support for corporate nature work, including nature impact assessments, and guidance on impactful communication and stakeholder engagement. We design a practical, company-specific nature roadmap and strengthen your team’s understanding of biodiversity through training and workshops.

We also help you prepare for international reporting frameworks such as TNFD, and for science-based nature targets, including Science Based Targets for Nature (SBTN).

If your organisation would like to calculate its carbon footprint in-house, we offer a comprehensive, hands-on training to get you started. This one-day training is delivered by two Taigawise experts and is priced at €4,500, including:

Key terms, methods, objectives, and benefits of carbon footprinting
How to design a carbon accounting process and schedule that fits your organisation
Scope 1, 2 and 3 calculations
Setting emission reduction targets and creating a transition plan

Measuring your carbon footprint gives you the insight to reduce emissions, cut costs, manage risks, meet stakeholder expectations, and turn sustainability into a concrete, strategic advantage.

Frequently Asked Questions About Carbon Footprinting

Calculating your carbon footprint offers more than just emission data: it provides tangible competitive advantages and supports sustainable growth, regardless of your organisation’s size or situation.

Data-driven decisions and cost efficiency

Carbon footprinting helps your organisation identify its hot spots, or the key emission sources, of which management often reduces costs and improves financial efficiency.

Sustainable competitive advantage

Measuring your carbon footprint makes your sustainability efforts visible, streamlines operations, and meets the growing environmental expectations of customers and markets.

Risk management and compliance

A carbon footprint calculation can be a prerequisite for new projects, business partnerships, or financing, as more and more customers, partners, and investors require verified sustainability efforts and emissions data.

Stronger brand and trust

Purposeful climate action communicates credible leadership in sustainability. It strengthens your brand and builds trust with customers and other stakeholders.

A carbon footprint is a measure of the greenhouse gas emissions caused by a company’s operations. It can also be calculated for specific products, services, or activities. Carbon footprints help organisations and individuals understand their climate impact and identify effective ways to reduce emissions. Typically, a footprint accounts for emissions over a year and includes the full life-cycle emissions (Scope 1, 2, and 3).

A company’s carbon footprint consists of greenhouse gas emissions generated directly or indirectly by its operations and value chain. These emissions are generally categorised into three scopes:

Scope 1 – Direct emissions: Emissions from company-owned sources, such as fuel used in company vehicles or emissions from on-site energy production.
Scope 2 – Indirect emissions from purchased energy: Emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, district heating, or cooling.
Scope 3 – Other indirect value chain emissions: Emissions from product and raw material manufacturing, logistics, employee commuting, waste management, and end-of-life impacts.

Do you need a carbon footprint calculation or support in this area?

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Carbon footprinting is a step-by-step process. First, the goals and boundaries of the calculation are defined, including which activities and emission sources are included. Next, consumption data is collected and validated for accuracy. These data are converted into greenhouse gas emissions using reliable emission factors in line with international standards. Analysis identifies the most significant emission sources and any limitations of the calculation.

To ensure the results lead to action rather than just numbers, they can be used to create a climate roadmap or a climate transition plan, including:

Short- and long-term emission reduction targets
Concrete actions to achieve these targets
Assessment of business changes impacting emissions
Monitoring plan to track emission trends over time

Finally, both the results and the climate roadmap are communicated to stakeholders. Carbon footprinting is often reported as part of broader sustainability reporting, but it can also be shared through other channels. The key is transparency about what has been done and what will be done.

Short answer: The sooner, the better.

There is no single “right” time to start. Any company can benefit now, regardless of the fiscal year, season, or operational schedule. The earlier you start, the easier it is to integrate emissions measurement into your business operations, reporting, and decision-making.

For example, autumn is an excellent time to begin calculating emissions for the current year. There is still ample time to collect necessary data and design an efficient process and responsibilities. A trial run using last year’s data can provide:

Benchmark data for comparing emission reductions and targets
Experience with the carbon accounting process, making the next cycle smoother and faster
Early insight into potential data gaps that can be addressed before formal reporting

Being carbon neutral means that your activities do not increase the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In practice, all emissions are first minimised as much as possible, and any remaining emissions are offset, for example by removing an equivalent amount of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Truly credible carbon neutrality relies on transparent accounting and primary emission reductions, not just offsets.

Pikaopas: Mitä tietoja organisaatio tarvitsee hiilijalanjäljen laskentaan?

Laadimme tarkistuslistan, jonka avulla voit helposti arvioida löytyykö organisaatiostasi tarvittavat tiedot hiilijalanjäljen Scope 1, 2 ja 3 -laskentaan.

Opas on hyödyllinen myös silloin, kun suunnittelette hiilijalanjäljen laskentaa vasta tulevaisuudessa. Näet sen avulla, mitä dataa laskentaan tarvitaan ja voit valmistautua datan keräämiseen jo etukäteen.

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