Preparing carbon data for a consultant
Agree the brief, gather useful records and prepare a clear handover before working with a carbon consultant.
Guides
Carbon reporting, in plain English
Find the records you need, understand your figures and decide what to do next. These guides also help you prepare for a consultant or a customer’s request. If you need a Carbon Reduction Plan, follow the current app’s collection, review and document steps.
Use your footprint in the business
Practical next steps, whether or not you need a tender document
How to understand your business carbon footprint
Check what your figures cover, understand larger sources and use the evidence behind the total.
How to choose practical carbon reduction actions
Investigate realistic changes, record honest measures and decide how to check their effect.
What to send when a customer asks for your carbon footprint
Clarify what the buyer needs and choose relevant documents without oversharing business information.
Start with the footprint
Practical foundations for any reporting purpose
Small business carbon footprint: what data do I need?
A checklist of the records needed for a Standard CRP, plus the optional information used in Extended footprint.
Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions explained
Understand where emissions sit, why your reporting boundary matters and how familiar small-business activities are usually classified.
Statement, Carbon Reduction Plan or Evidence Pack?
Start with the CRP and its supporting Evidence Pack. Learn when the optional separate Statement is useful and why it does not replace the CRP's own declaration.
Buyer and tender requirements
When a procurement asks for a plan
PPN 006 explained for small businesses
What PPN 006 is, whether it applies to you, what your Carbon Reduction Plan must contain, how it is assessed, and where self-preparation or professional support may fit.
How to write a Carbon Reduction Plan
A practical walkthrough with a fictional small-business example, a section-by-section checklist and the checks to make before publication.
Keep your work organised
For your own business or an organisation you support
Saving and opening projects
Understand browser autosave, keep portable project files and switch organisations or devices without mixing up your work.
Preparing branded, editable documents
Choose plain reports or optional branding, edit Word documents and distinguish final deliverables from working files.
Using Carbon Verify for client work
How to collect client information, prepare the report, obtain approval and hand over the files. Includes a fictional two-client example.
Carbon reporting for your business and your clients
See how portable projects, editable documents and local processing support advisers without another mode or workspace.