How AusTech Consulting Simplified Carbon Footprinting and Sustainability Reporting
How can a small business simplify supplier sustainability reporting without dedicated staff?
AusTech Consulting, a professional and technical training company, partnered with RyeStrategy to manage supplier sustainability disclosures required by a key client account. RyeStrategy identified the disclosure areas most relevant to a smaller business, consolidated requirements through a proprietary portal, and flagged only the information gaps that needed AusTech's input. Since the engagement began, AusTech has maintained annual carbon footprint updates, started reduction planning, and stayed compliant with its client's requirements.
Building a Clear Carbon Footprint Foundation.
For small businesses, carbon footprinting and sustainability disclosures can quickly become a significant operational burden, especially without dedicated internal resources.
As a professional and technical training company, AusTech Consulting needed support navigating carbon footprint reporting and supplier sustainability disclosures while continuing to focus on client delivery.
Shane McTaggart, President at AusTech shared, “Fully identifying the areas relevant to my business, determining what information was required, and developing appropriate responses would have been time- and cost-prohibitive given my limited resources.”
Full Sustainability Support from RyeStrategy
That’s where RyeStrategy became an extension of the team.
With expertise in carbon accounting and supplier sustainability reporting, RyeStrategy helped identify the disclosure areas most relevant to a smaller business, and streamlined the full reporting process. Their support included managing communications, consolidating requirements through a proprietary portal, and clearly flagging only the information gaps that required client input.
According to Shane, “RyeStrategy’s professional staff made the process far more manageable by navigating the system and understanding the complex requirements needed to complete the disclosures.”
Since this initial collaboration, AusTech has consistently updated its annual carbon footprint, begun the reduction planning and implementation process, and maintained its compliance with a key account.
Creating Long-Term Business Readiness
Beyond completing the immediate reporting requirements, the process created long-term value by “providing useful insight into expectations and future considerations,” Shane noted.
For AusTech Consulting, what began as a daunting reporting requirement became a practical foundation for future sustainability planning, demonstrating how the right carbon accounting and sustainability partner can make meaningful progress achievable for smaller businesses.
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About RyeStrategy
Based in Seattle, RyeStrategy is a CDP-accredited, mission-oriented company specialized in carbon accounting, mitigation coaching, and climate disclosure solutions for organizations at any point in their sustainability journey. Learn how RyeStrategy helped Salesforce, Ideascale, and Wazoku achieve their sustainability goals.
From exhaustive carbon footprinting and mitigation coaching, to setting science-based targets and reporting climate data to CDP, SBTi or custom reporting platforms, RyeStrategy acts as a hands-on extension of the team, custom-tailoring services to fulfill climate disclosure requirements easily and accurately.
Meet with a sustainability specialist to learn more about RyeStrategy solutions.
