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At Morescope we lean on all the major established standards and frameworks within sustainability, with a particular focus on best practices for quantifying carbon footprint and emission reductions. We work to push the envelope and find innovative ways to tackle the many challenges that arise when companies are ambitious in this work. This article aims to give an overview of our methodology and approach.

Overview

Morescope have a varied set of ESG tools in its platform. Here you can find guidance on how to best use our different tools, which will also depend on what you have access to in the platform.

Carbon accounting

Sustainability reporting

Guidance coming soon

Avoided emissions

Guidance coming soon

ESG due diligence

Guidance coming soon

GHG target setting

Guidance coming soon

Decarbonisation

Guidance coming soon

Carbon accounting

Our carbon accounting tools are primarily designed for complete organisational accounting. With extensive tools and features for organising and aggregating your emissions fitting for your organisation and structure.

Estimating and categorising emissions

The hybrid approach to carbon accounting is a methodology that combines both top-down and bottom-up accounting techniques to provide a comprehensive assessment of an organization’s greenhouse gas emissions.

At Morescope, we allow companies to use their existing financial spend data to provide a top-down analysis of greenhouse gas emissions in Scope 1, 2 and 3 (“spend-based method”). Then, companies can easily replace these top-down estimates with more granular data per emission-inducing activity (“activity-based method”) wherever they have this data available. As a minimum, users need to replace spend-estimates with activity data in Scope 1 and 2 as per the GHG Protocol and wide-ranging best practice.

Benefits of the hybrid approach

  • Speed: Instead of starting from scratch, this approach gives you a complete starting point from day one. 
  • Completeness: This approach captures all emissions in the value chain, providing a fuller picture of an organization’s impact in line with best practices and new requirements from the CSRD.
  • Accuracy: The combination of broad estimates with detailed, activity-based data improves the reliability of emissions calculations. 
  • Flexibility: Organizations can adapt the approach based on available data and resources, making it suitable for a wide range of industries and contexts.
  • Improved Decision-Making: A more accurate emissions profile allows organizations to identify key areas for emissions reduction and make informed strategic decisions regarding sustainability initiatives.

Overall, the hybrid approach facilitates a balanced and nuanced understanding of greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing transparency and accountability in sustainability reporting. Read more about the Morescope Hybrid Approach here.

Using accounting data to map your emissions

As climate-reporting requirements are increasing with regulations such as the CSRD, companies have to show completeness in their carbon accounting for all scopes. Getting to a complete GHG inventory can be resource intensive, with our spend based model you get a high quality, complete GHG inventory using your company’s financial data.

Some of the key advantages of our system:

  • With our system you get to completeness quickly. Completeness == compliance
  • Our spend-based model is built and maintained in collaboration with SINTEF and has a high degree of scientific integrity
  • We have integrations with a number of accounting systems and allow for SAF-T and Excel upload
  • A spend based model shows you hotspots. This is an indication of where you should find more information and which suppliers to work with to enrich the spend estimates with activity data

How we estimate your emissions

MoreScope's uses a proprietary environmentally-extended input-output model, originally developed at SINTEF, one of Europe's larges research institutes. The model calculates your emissions based on data from you financial/accounting system, mapping your suppliers, their location and the transactions amount. By running this data through our model, we can predict the sector and category of the transaction which our algorithm takes into account and calculates an estimated emissions amount for that transaction.

VAT or MVA

VAT is included in your transactions amounts, but is automatically excluded from your emissions estimations.

Uploading Transactions

When uploading transactions your have three options, we highly recommend using one of our integration partners for this, as it sets you up for automatic upload of transactions for as long as you would like. If you provider is not yet supported you can upload your transaction either through upload of SAF-T or CSV file.As for uploading transactions manually simply click upload transactions while inside your inventory and follow the on screen instructions. You will be asked to download a template file where you can add your own data for upload. Required fields in the template include name, amount and date. Organization number and country will help increase the accuracy of our model.

Accounting system integrations

For integrations you select the link below that matches your provider, and follow the in depth guides below.

Review your transactions

Our spend model generates estimated emissions based on country and sector of your transactions and helps you categorize them in the GHG Protocol. Because of uncertainties in data, the country and suggested sector of your transactions may not be perfectly correct. It’s therefore adviced that you go through your transactions to double check if they are correct.

To help you through this you can select “All uncertain matches” to quickly highlight the transactions were our model is especially uncertain. The model will also color your transactions based on its certainty.

Throughout this process you have some useful tools at your disposal. All available when you hover over a transaction.

Best practice on reviewing your transactions

  1. To start off, sort your emissions by transaction amount
  2. Check from highest to lowest if the sector and emissions category suggested by our model is correct, if it isn’t you can quickly change it by clicking on the corresponding sector or category.
  3. If you find a transactions where you know there are different emission factors to consider, you can split the transaction into as many part as you need in ordet to more accurately reflect the actual emissions.
  4. After going through the list sorting by amount, it’s recommended to sort your emissions by estimated emissions and approve the transactions as you see fit. Don’t worry, if you make a mistake you can unapprove or unexclude transactions from approved or excluded transactions at any time.
  5. If you need to make changes later on, when your more accurately accounting your emissions, you can always return to this step and process your transactions to fit your needs. To keep track of transactions where you may be uncertain, it could be wise to use the bookmark function, allowing for easy access to that transaction at any time.

Emission sources

Emission sources in Morescope are activity based emissions, which are emissions estimated from consumption data. This way of estimating is considered of higher quality than spend based emissions, because here we are specifying how much of something specific our consumption is.

Activity data example

You have specific consumption data of your fossile fuel consumption for your car fleet.

Navigating to Scope 1 and the sub-category Mobile consumption, you can create a new "emission source". There you can select the specific fuel type you have purchased or used, and enter your consumption data on a annual, quarterly or monthly interval.

Spend your time on what matters

Getting to a complete GHG inventory fit for compliant reporting, can be resource intensive and time consuming.

It is therefore important to spend your time where it provides most value. Always try to prioritise your time and efforts after what is most material to you.

Emission factors for consumption based estimations

Every scope category in Morescope have relevant emission factors from our parameter library accessible when you create an emission source.

When you create an emission source and select a parameter, we automatically select a variant of the parameter that we rate as the highest quality, and of course of the corresponding year you are in.

In the interface, and your exporting, you will always see the full emission factor and where we are getting it from - for full transparency.

Our full parameter library, with 30 000 + factors is always accessible to you inside Morescope, and is constantly maintained and expanded upon.

If you cannot find emission factors for certain activities, contact us and we will see if we can find them for you.

EPD library

In addition to our parameter library with emission factors, you can also search for EPDs across many international EPD libraries directly in an emission source, by selecting "Search for EPDs".

Activity data integrations

For certain scope categories we have integrations available for fetching your activity data automatically.

For 2.1 Purchased electricity we can fetch your energy consumption directly from your meters, if you as a company have any electricity meters registered in Norway. We integrate directly to Elhub.

For 3.3 Fuel and energy related emissions, we automatically generate energy and fuel related production, transportation and transmission emissions, based on the emissions you add in Scope 1 and Scope 2.

Product data with your transactions

Guide coming soon.

Sustainability reporting

Guide coming soon.

Split transactions

If you have any transactions with multiple sectors and emissions categories, you can split the transactions and then add these sectors.

Bookmark transactions

Bookmarking transactions allows you to closely follow a specific transaction throughout the process.

Unapprove

You can quickly unapprove a transactiong by hitting the unapprove button.

Select all and approve all

Once you have reviewed the most important pending transactions and are ready to approve - simply select all transactions using the check-box top right, and click "Approve all transactions".
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