What is the Carbon Estimator?

Not a carbon expert? Not a problem! The Carbon Estimator is an easy-to-use tool designed to help your company estimate its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with minimal data input requirements. This tool simplifies the process of estimating GHG emissions, making it accessible for companies at all stages of their decarbonization journey, and is particularly beneficial for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with limited carbon knowledge and resources.

Key features

• Effortless estimation: Estimate your GHG emissions across all business operations without needing specific activity data.
• Time and resource-efficient: The intuitive Carbon Estimator questionnaire flow is tailored to your data availability and decarbonization maturity, ensuring a streamlined process.
• Comprehensive coverage: Understand high-level estimates of your carbon footprint across all scope 3 emission categories.
• Automatic updates and sharing: Planned for later this year, your results will be automatically updated in the Metrics tab on the EcoVadis platform.
• Industry standards alignment: The tool follows the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, ensuring the reliability of the estimation process.

Why is this important?

Understanding GHG emissions is the first step toward making meaningful changes. By using the Carbon Estimator, companies can:

• Gain insights: Learn more about their carbon footprint and the metrics behind it thanks to the explanations provided in the tool.
• Demonstrate commitment: Show their commitment to sustainability to customers, stakeholders, and partners.
• Facilitate reporting: Share and report their estimated carbon footprint with the EcoVadis network.
• Advance decarbonization: Progress their decarbonization journey, enhancing overall performance and sustainability efforts.

Benefits for SMEs and Enterprise customers

What are the benefits for SMEs?

• Effortless GHG estimation: Estimate emissions across all business operations without needing specific activity data.
• Resource efficiency: An intuitive and efficient process tailored to data availability and decarbonization maturity.
• Automatic updates: Access to automatic updates and streamlined reporting within the EcoVadis platform (coming later this year).
• No additional cost: This powerful tool is offered at no extra charge, enhancing the company’s value and sustainability efforts.
• Accessibility: Carbon Estimator is available in all EV Platform languages*.

*Except for Arabic (for now)

What do EcoVadis Enterprise customers gain from the Carbon Estimator?

• Improved participation: Carbon Estimator strengthens engagement across the supply chain, making it easy for SMEs to participate.
• Streamlined reporting: Coming later this year, the reporting process will be simplified with automatic updates in the EcoVadis Metrics tab.
• Scope 3 coverage: A complete understanding of the carbon footprint across the supply chain.
• Enhanced value: Demonstrates commitment to decarbonization of trading partners at no additional cost.
• Compliance and reliability: Ensures that supply chain GHG emissions estimates follow industry standards, such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

The EcoVadis Carbon Estimator represents a significant advancement in simplifying the process of estimating GHG emissions. By providing an accessible, user-friendly, and reliable tool, EcoVadis empowers SMEs to take meaningful first steps on their decarbonization journey and helps their partners in their carbon management. 

Which companies will have access to this feature?

This feature will be included in all subscriptions with no additional cost for:

• All rated companies.