Data Collection and Systems

What you get

• A list of your data, with every figure traced back to a meter, an invoice, an ERP record, a supplier declaration or an estimate, ranked by how far you can trust it
• A list of what is missing, what it would take to get it, and what it is holding up
• Agreed definitions, units and boundaries, plus a dated library of emission factors, so last year's number can still be explained next year
• Written steps with names against them, a calendar of what is due when, and a trail an auditor can follow
• Where you file a BRSR, each disclosure mapped to the record that answers it, so the return is assembled from your own data rather than rebuilt from scratch every year. For the BRSR Core attributes that need assurance, we prepare the evidence an assurance provider will ask for. We do not provide the assurance ourselves
• Templates for asking suppliers and a realistic plan for chasing them, plus tool requirements and a rollout you can run yourselves

Standards

Data gets collected and documented to suit the study it will feed. For life cycle work that means ISO 14040 and 14044: agreed units, a stated boundary, a rule for splitting shared impacts, and a data-quality note against each figure, written down at collection time rather than reconstructed afterwards. For a corporate inventory it means the GHG Protocol: Scope 1, 2 and 3 boundaries set once and applied the same way each year, with a dated factor behind every figure.