SMB Carbon Accounting Software for Effortless ESG Reporting
RyeStrategy’s powerful carbon accounting software, paired with expert hands-on service, removes the complexity, high cost, and confusion often associated with calculating annual carbon emissions and fulfilling ESG reporting requests for your small to medium-sized business.
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“I was worried because I didn’t know how to collect and calculate our emissions data, but the good news is that I didn’t have to. RyeStrategy took care of everything.”
Ruth Voorhies, CFO, Launch Inc.
Small businesses who tackle carbon accounting on their own report spending 150 hours per year on this effort. Due to a lack of in-house carbon footprint expertise, they’re often left feeling uneasy about the accuracy of the calculations, making them less confident in acting on the results.
When you partner with RyeStrategy, we do the heavy lifting for you. Your assigned sustainability manager handles everything from decoding your climate data requests and following the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) to annual data collection, emissions reduction planning, and ESG reporting.
Yes, carbon accounting is complex and might be new to your business, but becoming increasingly important to your long-term growth. Our goal is to make this process stress-free for you and your team.
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SMBs in particular, due to budget and resource constraints, struggle to measure and reduce carbon emissions quickly and cost-effectively when managing this effort on their own. RyeStrategy provides a powerful solution with custom-tailored mitigation strategies to make decarbonization and ESG reporting simple and cost-efficient.
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Buyer Preference and Regulations
Business buyers and consumers around the globe are starting to strongly prefer companies that are committed to reducing their environmental footprint and show it by reporting on ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) regularly and rigorously.
According to EcoVadis, 91% of B2B customers take sustainability criteria into account in purchasing decisions and 85% of consumers are more likely to buy from a company with a reputation for sustainability.
Also, governmental regulations that compel corporations to provide annual emissions and ESG reporting along with their financials are increasing. This forces more B2B buyers to request emissions data from vendors as part of the initial and ongoing buying process.
For a small business, it’s a huge job that might involve your entire organization and can increase your cost of doing business.
Risky Business
An added challenge is that reporting inaccurate data (whether intentional or not) can carry reputational risks and possible accusations of greenwashing. These issues can impact revenue and create enormous PR headaches that further increase costs.
RyeStrategy’s carbon accounting software and hands-on sustainability support helps you meet all requirements with the least possible interference, at an affordable cost, and with full confidence in data accuracy. It’s how SMBs can differentiate their business and retain their most important customers.
Why should I care about carbon accounting?
Carbon accounting software is used to measure, track, and report your carbon footprint (the total amount of GHG emissions your entire operations emit across scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3). This includes emissions from your supply chain, operations, power or heat use, and even your work from home employees. Your carbon footprint also includes GHG emissions, such as methane and nitrous oxide. These are reported as CO2 equivalents, or CO2e.
How to calculate your carbon footprint
To calculate your corporate carbon footprint, a comprehensive, reliable carbon accounting software and services process will support you through collecting all of the spend and activity data necessary, while complying with current carbon accounting standards and the GHG Protocol. This includes emissions from:
What is carbon accounting software?
Scope 1: Direct activity
Company facilities
Company vehicles
Scope 3: All other indirect upstream and downstream activity
Business travel, leased assets, purchased goods and services, and other emissions from your supply chain and vendors
Scope 2: A portion of indirect upstream activity
Electricity, steam, heating and cooling for own use
Carbon accounting software is used by companies to measure total carbon emissions from their entire operations and value chains. This is the key emissions data needed to include in annual ESG reports, and to prove compliance with corporate sustainability requirements from stakeholders, such as customers, investors, and government entities.
More details in this easy guide to carbon accounting.
Why RyeStrategy?
While some carbon accounting software simply estimates your carbon footprint, RyeStrategy prioritizes exact and complete activity data to provide a robust, actionable carbon footprint analysis, paired with expert hands-on guidance every step of the way. From there, RyeStrategy delivers a prescriptive carbon emissions reduction plan to mitigate your carbon footprint based on your long-term sustainability goals and stakeholder requests.
How can my small business do carbon accounting efficiently and cost-effectively?
There are many solutions, from free carbon footprint calculators to expensive enterprise-scale consulting engagements, and they all have their own advantages and drawbacks.
Carbon Accounting Software only
Sounds less expensive, but be sure to consider your time and resources to manage the project on your own
Requires you and your team to do all the heavy lifting
Unless you have experience with the GHG protocol and understand climate regulations, data accuracy can be at risk
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RyeStrategy Carbon Accounting Software + Services
Cost-efficient and scalable
You get a fractional Chief Sustainability Officer
Assured accuracy and validity of data
Lower-risk ESG reporting
Solutions tailored to your company
You own the data and the software, so changes can be monitored in real time
In-platform mitigation and offsets
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Carbon Accounting Services only
More expensive in most cases
Vendor learning curve may be long
Process may be slow
More likely to meet reporting requirements
Reduces your hours spend on project
Lack of real-time data access
May have limited scalability
A Carbon Accounting Partner that Adds Value to your Business
RyeStrategy provides an end-to-end carbon accounting solution, designed exclusively for small to medium-sized businesses. As a small business ourselves, we understand your needs and have guided hundreds of companies along their ESG journey. We know how to provide exactly the help you need at an affordable price, while minimizing disruption to your day-to-day operations.
No staff need to become an expert in this complex and rapidly changing field. You stay focused on running your business.
With a full-service partner like RyeStrategy we’ll help you unlock the full range of business benefits available in today’s climate-anxious environment, including new revenue streams, brand strength, employee engagement, and decreased operational costs.
You can respond quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively to climate disclosure requests from large customers or regulators.
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Whether you’re ready to start next week or next year, our experts are here to support any stage of your sustainability journey.
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