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Climate & Carbon Analytics
Emissions and energy measured from data rather than estimated from a coefficient in a spreadsheet.
Why this is hard
Most carbon reporting is an activity figure multiplied by a published factor. That is defensible until somebody asks what actually happened at a particular site in a particular month. We work on measurement instead: facility-level emissions from observed data, energy intensity from metered reality, and the arithmetic of turning both into a number that survives assurance.
Questions we are working on
- How close can facility-level emissions be pinned from independent observation rather than self-reporting?
- What is the honest uncertainty on an emissions figure, and how should it be published alongside it?
- How do metered energy data and satellite observation disagree, and which is right when they do?
- What does an audit trail for a sustainability disclosure need to contain to be worth anything?
What comes out of it
- Facility and asset-level emissions assessment from observed and modelled sources
- Energy intensity per unit of output, built from sub-metering rather than allocation
- Uncertainty carried through the calculation instead of dropped at the last step
- Disclosure-grade audit trails, so a figure can be traced back to the readings behind it
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