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Greenly’s Platform Demo Tour: Climate Strategy Made Easy
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Today, companies around the world are starting to put climate change at the forefront of their business strategies – but many of those businesses may find the process of looking to implement a climate strategy costly, overwhelming, and time consuming.
Luckily, we at Greenly are here to help – as our platform can help to make your company confident in achieving its new environmental goals, all while simplifying the process.
Greenly is a SaaS platform which works to help businesses streamline their climate strategy, such as by offering an all-in-one place for your company to manage supplier engagement, LCA, environmental regulations such as the CSRD, and more!
In this article, we’ll give you a breakdown on Greenly’s platform demo tour – and how we can help make climate strategy accessible and simple for your company and others around the world.
What is the Greenly platform and how does it help simplify your company’s climate strategy?
Greenly’s platform offers an all-in-one place for your company to employ its environmental strategy, with dedicated sections to help your company comply with environmental regulations, draft life cycle analysis, and even offer training sessions to your employees.
“ Greenly’s platform is unique because it offers a one-stop solution for many of the challenges companies may face while implementing their climate strategy. ”
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Our platform can support your company in:
- Calculating your GHG emissions and ensuring they remain in line with current standards
- Assistance in designing the perfect decarbonization strategy for your company
- Conduct a LCA for all of your products and services
- Help engaging your suppliers and stakeholders through consistent data collection
- Boosting employee awareness with included training sessions
- Comply with environmental regulations such as the CSRD
👉 One of the most unique and beneficial component of Greenly’s platform is it’s user-friendly intuitive interface in addition to being able to receive personalized support from our climate experts – all of which can help to make implementing your climate strategy easier.
Let’s break down the Greenly platform together!
Since Greenly’s platform is all inclusive, there’s a lot to discover and understand about what we offer – but don’t worry, we’re going to break down everything Greenly’s platform has to offer to make implementing your climate strategy easier.
Dashboard
Essentially serving as the home page of our platform, this is where your company can find all the relevant information necessary to track the progress of your current carbon reduction efforts.
This includes access and options to view or upload:
- Accounting documents for improved data collection and analyzation
- View current employee engagement
- Complete activity or spend based models
- Share your current reduction plans to be assessed for improvement
“ Greenly makes use of a double analysis method to ensure that all the data your company provides is calculated as precisely as possible. ”
💡 The goal of our entire platform is to simply the process companies must undergo to reduce their carbon footprint and implement effective sustainability strategies.
GHG Assessment
Our platform can provide a comprehensive GHG Assessment, as we use data collection and analysis in addition to working with our climate experts to draft your GHG report.
“ A GHG assessment is important because it serves as a baseline to determine which climate actions should be prioritized moving forward. ”
In order to collect the necessary data needed to complete a GHG Assessment, we offer the following methods of data collection:
- Included and customized templates which you can download, fill in, and easily re-upload to the platform
- Questionnaires which can be sent out to employees or suppliers for improve calculation of your scope 3 emissions for better computations of your company's emissions
👉 Once you’ve uploaded your data to the platform via your preferred method of choice – we’ll do an input data quality check and manually validate the data with our climate experts to ensure the best emission factors have been used.
Decarbonization Targets
Once your GHG assessment has been completed, your company can then use our platform to set science-based targets aligned with the results from your GHG assessment.
We can offer a wide range of potential action plans, but we don’t just offer the idea – we’ll give you an in-depth guide on how to implement these action plans in addition to explaining exactly how these actions will help your company to progress on its climate journey.
In addition to this, we know that costs are a major roadblock for companies trying to employ an effective carbon strategy – which is why we’ve made sure to add the costs associated with each potential action plan to help your company plan its finances accordingly.
👉 Our platform will help you to set decarbonization targets in line with the Paris Agreement – which will simultaneously help to ensure your company remains compliant throughout your decarbonization process.
Employee’s platform
Effective internal communication can make a big difference in implementing a long-term and durable climate strategy – which is why we’ve included a section dedicated to employees on our platform.
In this section of the platform, employees will be able to view their own GHG emissions created from work – such as via their commutes or meals eaten while at the office. This can help to incentivize employees to participate in training and receive special certifications.
👉 The main goal of the employee platform is to encourage employees to become more aware of their environmental impact and be inspired to participate in trainings related to a company’s climate strategy – such as learning about the CSRD or life cycle assessment.
Supplier Engagement
Suppliers are a pivotal part to include in any climate strategy, as they are the basis for many of your products and services – which is why our platform has a whole section dedicated to your suppliers and their sustainability efforts.
This part of the platform can help you to:
- Retrieve data on your supplier’s own GHG and LCAs
- Collect data directly from your suppliers
- Curate automated emails to create consistent communication
- Reach out directly to your suppliers if they haven’t responded to automated emails or questionnaires
- Track your supplier’s progress and follow up whenever necessary
Suppliers are essential to your company’s climate journey, as their individual activities could elicit higher scope emissions on your company’s end – meaning it is imperative to inspire your suppliers to go green, too.
💡 As a result, this component of our platform helps to make your climate strategy easier as keeping track of all of your suppliers can often feel like an uphill battle – but our platform will provide your organization with one concise place to keep track of everything supplier-related.
LCA
LCA, or life cycle analysis, is a massive component to reducing your company’s carbon emissions – seeing as the overall environmental impact of your product could be created even from the raw sourcing of its materials or when the product is thrown away.
Therefore, we’ve included a section on LCA to help simplify the process of a life cycle assessment and help your company take action with ease.
“ We can help you to conduct an LCA in accordance with ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 – which in turn, can continue to help simplify the implementation of your effective climate strategy by ensuring that your LCA remains up-to-date with these well-known standards. ”
👉 Our platform allows your company to create an LCA compatible with your individual goals and objectives, and also to create personalized templates to make it easier to input the products you wish to conduct an LCA!
CSRD
The CSRD is an environmental regulation in the EU which will require thousands of companies to report their climate risks and overall environmental impact.
Complying with detailed regulations such as these, but Greenly’s platform can help to simplify the process – such as by providing you with a double materiality assessment and a gap analysis to help your company save on time throughout the required reporting process.
Other ways in which the Greenly platform can help to make CSRD easier and clarify your climate strategy include:
- Retrieving estimated pre-assessment results specialized to your sector to help jump-start the development of your climate strategy;
- Easily breaking down how your company may be impacting surrounding communities, consumers, air pollution, and more – all of which is to be included in a CSRD report;
- Ready-to-send surveys made in-house at Greenly to help cut back on the time you spend trying to communicate with or collect data from your stakeholders.
Offsetting
Many companies will decide to look into carbon offsets to help counter their current environmental impact, or to compensate for the rest of their emissions that are proving more difficult to reduce – but many companies may struggle on where to even begin searching for the right carbon offset for them.
Our platform offers users access to Greenly’s Carbon Contribute Network, which serves as a certified catalog for companies to browse for suitable carbon offsetting projects – such as projects to implement renewable energy.
Climate App Store
Oftentimes, what makes curating the perfect climate strategy challenging for your company is a lack of understanding of how your company’s specific activities could be contributing to a greater carbon footprint.
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💡 This is one of our most niche offerings at Greenly which can drastically reduce any challenges you may face in finding the exact information your company needs to employ an effective climate strategy.
Sharing Reports
It’s not only important to communicate your climate progress internally, but to share your progress externally – such as with stakeholders, customers, or even future investors looking to understand where your company stands in terms of sustainability prior to an initial meeting.
👉 Greenly’s platform allows you to export your progress reports in multiple formats, which can reduce the time it usually takes for your company to draft its own report from scratch.
As we say in French, voilà – you now have insight on how our platform works to help make climate strategy easier for your company.
Ultimately, Greenly’s platform can help to make implementing your climate strategy easier with auto-mated emails, templates, and more to help cut back on the time and effort necessary to curate an effective climate strategy.
What about Greenly?
If reading this article on our platform demo tour and how it can help your company to make implementing a climate strategy easy has made you interested in reducing your carbon emissions to further fight against climate change – why wait another minute?
At Greenly we can help you to assess your company’s carbon footprint, and then give you the tools you need to cut down on emissions. We offer a free demo for you to better understand our platform and all that it has to offer – including assistance with boosting supplier engagement, personalized assistance, and new ways to involve your employees.
Click here to learn more about Greenly and how we can help you reduce your carbon footprint.
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