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# EMISSION TRACKING

## Introduction to Ambee Emission Tracking Tool

As the climate crisis moves to the top of consumer agendas, it’s becoming increasingly common for companies to calculate and communicate their carbon footprints. There are a ton of free tools, there are also a ton of paid tools. Then there are hundreds of thousands of sustainability consultants. Common thing about all these tools are that they are all following GHG protocol standards. (Why are we still building this if its so saturated? I m still exploring this atm)

**What is GHG protocol and what are their recommended tools?**

To learn more who, what, why of GHG protocol please visit ghgprotocol.com. Lets talk about the tools they have made the whole world use/follow.

GHG Protocol tools enable companies and cities to develop comprehensive and reliable inventories of their GHG emissions, and help countries and cities track progress toward their climate goals. 
Calculating emissions is a multi-step process. An accurate and useful inventory can only be developed after careful attention to quality control issues and to the activity data required. Only then should emissions be estimated. Companies are also informed to must and should consult GHG Protocol’s Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard for guidance on the entire inventory development process.

Below is a complete listing of all tools developed by GHG Protocol. These tools enable companies to develop comprehensive and reliable inventories of their GHG emissions. Each tool reflects best-practice methods that have been extensively tested by industry experts. Many tools are accompanied by a PDF guidance document, which provides step-by-step guidance on the use of a tool and should be consulted first. Most companies will need to apply more than one tool to cover their emissions.

There are different resources for navigating GHG Protocol tools:

**Cross-sector tools:** Applicable to many industries and businesses regardless of sector.

They recently launched the **GHG Emissions Calculation Tool**, which is a free, Excel-based tool from Greenhouse Gas Protocol and WRI that helps companies estimate their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions based on the GHG Protocol. This tool is currently available as a beta version. To help us improve this free resource, please share your feedback on this tool with us in this brief survey. Thank you in advance. 

**Country-specific tools:** Customized for particular developing countries.

**Sector-specific tools:** Principally designed for the specific sector or industry listed, though they may be applicable to other situations.

**Tools for countries and cities:** These tools help countries and cities track progress toward their climate goals.

So tracking happens frist and then comes the accounting of what has been tracked. Accounting has to happen after tracking without which is like digging a foundation but not building a house and expect everyone to live there and realize billions of $$. 

Another caveat is that only cities would like a public emissions data however enterprises and organizations are interested in tracking business process and action specific emissions as standardized under scope 1, 2 and 3 of GHG protocol. Can we track this using sensors? Atleast in the way I logically see it, it is not possible. (unless I am missing something)

There are 3 type of Carbon accounting. 

First, corporate or entity-level inventories basically combine emissions data from across all of a company’s operations. These inventories contain information on historical emissions, so that they can be used to track reductions that have actually occurred compared to a prior year. 

In contrast, in project-level accounting, they (ghg protocol guys) are concerned with quantifying the future emissions reductions expected from projects that have been established to reduce or avoid emissions, or to sequester carbon. Project-level accounting is used to quantify the imp[act of offset projects. Because we are looking at future impacts from projects in project-level accounting, the emissions reductions are estimated through a comparison with a hypothetical scenario or baseline scenario. 



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### Market Size

The carbon accounting software market share is expected to increase by USD 9.61 billion from 2020 to 2025, and the market’s growth momentum will accelerate at a CAGR of 28.66%.

Top companies
The carbon accounting software market is fragmented. Vendors in the market are focusing on adopting growth strategies such as M&As to increase their market shares and gain a competitive advantage in the market. Vendors are also focusing on differentiating themselves based on service quality and product innovations.

**Intelex Technologies Inc.** – The company offers carbon accounting software under the brand name Air Emissions Management Software. In April 2021, the company announced a partnership with Industrial Scientific for worldwide availability of Intelex HazardIQ for iNet. The integrated solution brings together connected environmental monitoring, industrial hygiene, and seamless incident management to increase worker safety, improve productivity, and streamline operations.

**Carbon Analytics Ltd.** – The company offers carbon calculators and automated business carbon footprint assessment software.

**CarbonetiX** – The company offers carbon accounting software under the brand name CarbonMetriX. Some of the key offerings of the company include End-use Energy Analysis & Reporting, Voltage Optimization and Power Factor Correction, Carbon Accounting Software, Lighting Solutions, Carbon Offsets, Refrigerant de-fouling, Solar Solutions, Energy Efficient Fans, and Automatic Utility Bill Processing.

**ENGIE SA** – The company offers carbon accounting software under the brand name ENGIE Impact Energy and Sustainability Management Platform.

**Greenstep Oy** – The company offers carbon accounting software under the brand name Sustainability.

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## Questions

1. Do we want to do carbon tracking and accounting? It is not our strength. We are not experts to tell others how to do this accounting as we ourselves are learning. (we sure can learn and do, but how will we justify the kind of expertise we need which is not aligning with what our core strength+expertise is?)
2. If we are to make money we have to sell it to corporates/enterprises or Industries (also Oil and NG farms). Enterprises are interested in tracking their emissions from energy consumption to reduction and not CO2 PPM/Bs outside their building or within the compound. Industries, however are interested in exactly that. Should we target industries then?
3. Industries need sensors to be installed within the factory at all emissable (emission factors') locations/units and then extend to other scopes of direct and indirect.
4. What exactly do we want to do? 
5. Doing carbon accounting means creating gross estimates within processes based on energy consumption mostly as per GHG protocol, that also means negligible use of our data. Even if we use our own CO2 sensor data for measuring emission from digital advertisement for example (I m not sure how but hypothetically consider) it would still not be very useful as the estimate itself is enough and accepted by all regulatory bodies as long as it uses GHG protocol standards. 
6. Sales wants us to build this product. Will sales team want this tool and do they see this as a $100M product?




***References***
https://ghgprotocol.org/standards
https://ghgprotocol.org/mitigation-goal-standard
https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard
https://ghgprotocol.org/sites/default/files/standards/ghg-protocol-revised.pdf
**Tools across sector:** https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools#cross_sector_tools_id
**Country specific tool:** https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools#country_specific_tools_id
**Sector specific tools:** https://ghgprotocol.org/calculation-tools#sector_specific_tools_id
**Mitigation goal standard:** https://ghgprotocol.org/sites/default/files/standards/Mitigation_Goal_Standard.pdf

#### Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Learn the basics of corporate greenhouse gas accounting by watching recordings of the Corporate Standard Training Webinar and Scope 2 Guidance Training Webinar. Please note that a certificate of completion will not be provided. 

Download training materials via Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gRS5-o1j1aU6FOrBx2F7MzbunRzcbqGF?usp=sharing

Visit www.ghgprotocol.org/training-capacity-building to learn more.