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A credible climate strategy starts with a credible and complete carbon inventory.
CRI provides carbon inventories for organisations, products and services to help clients understand their emissions profile, meet reporting requirements, support customer and stakeholder requests, and identify practical opportunities for reduction.
Our approach is underpinned by the NoCO2 Net Zero Standard, which provides a systematic framework for inventory completeness, emissions attribution, data quality, supplier-specific emissions factor use, data assurance and transparent reporting.
Whether an organisation needs a whole-of-business greenhouse gas inventory or a product-level lifecycle assessment, CRI helps turn emissions data into information that can be used for decision-making, disclosure and decarbonisation.
A complete and structured emissions inventory
CRI prepares organisational carbon inventories using the NoCO2 Net Zero Standard's inventory framework.
The approach builds on the GHG Protocol but extends it with clearer rules for emissions attribution, data quality, financial reconciliation and transparent disclosure. It is designed to help organisations understand not only how much they emit, but which emissions are attributable to their operations, value chain and climate claims.
Learn more about the Net Zero StandardAn organisational inventory may include:
The NoCO2 Net Zero Standard separates emissions into three inventory types:
Emissions that are attributable to the organisation and in scope for a NoCO2 Net Zero claim.
Value chain emissions that are disclosed for transparency but are not attributed to the organisation's net zero claim.
Emissions outside the organisation's value chain that the organisation may influence, but which are not counted toward its net zero claim.
This structure helps organisations clearly communicate where emissions occur, what the organisation is accountable for, and where it may have broader influence.
An organisational carbon inventory can support:
Product and service-level emissions assessment
CRI also prepares product and service-level carbon assessments where organisations need emissions information for a specific product, product range, material, process or service.
These assessments may take the form of:
This approach is most suitable where customers, procurement teams, regulators or market expectations require product-specific emissions data rather than a whole-of-organisation emissions factor.
Depending on the purpose of the assessment, this may include:
LCA is useful for organisations that want to understand the carbon impact of a product in detail, compare design options, identify emissions hotspots, support product redesign, or provide customers with more accurate emissions information.
This may be calculated on a cradle-to-gate, cradle-to-customer or cradle-to-grave basis, depending on the intended use of the result.
A Product Carbon Footprint can support:
They are commonly used in sectors where customers require transparent product-level data, such as construction, manufacturing, packaging, materials, food and consumer goods.
CRI can assist organisations to prepare the underlying carbon and life cycle data required to support EPD development, including emissions modelling, data collection, methodology documentation and verification support.
The right carbon inventory depends on what the organisation needs to achieve.
An organisational inventory is usually the right starting point, where the organisation wants to understand its overall emissions profile, meet reporting requirements, develop a decarbonisation strategy, or prepare for a NoCO2 Net Zero pathway.
A product or service-level assessment is more appropriate where the organisation needs emissions data for a specific product, product range, or service supplied to customers.
In some cases, both approaches are valuable. An organisational inventory can identify material emissions across the business, while LCA, PCF or EPD work can provide deeper service-level data for priority products and services.
A carbon inventory should do more than produce a number.
CRI's inventory services are designed to help organisations understand where emissions occur, what data can be improved, which sources are most material, and where practical reductions are available.
Measure accurately. Understand the boundary. Improve the data. Reduce emissions.
CRI has been helping organisations reduce their emissions since 2006. Let's talk about what a practical pathway looks like for your organisation.
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