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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
Avoided emissions
ESG due diligence
GHG target setting
Decarbonisation
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.
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.
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.
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:
Morescope 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 is included in your transactions amounts, but is automatically excluded from your emissions estimations.
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.
For integrations you select the link below that matches your provider, and follow the in depth guides below.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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For organisations who are financing other companies, projects or activites, we measure and attribute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as Financed emissions.
In Morescope, companies who are providing business loans or active as financiers of different asset classes, we have specific methodology and easy to use workflow for you to account for these emissions.
Financed emissions are to be accounted for directly in your normal annual inventory, in category 3.15 Investments.
For an in-depth documentation on what data should be collected, how attribution factor s are calculated depending on the asset class of the financed emissions, read more about that on our methodology page.
All financed emissions are accounted in Scope 3, category 15 Investments.
To leverage our efficient spend based model, you can upload your financed emissions directly into 3.15 by uploading CSV/EXCEL file with all your financed emissions.
Follow the downloadable template by clicking "Upload financed emissions" in 3.15.
After uploading your financed emissions and gotten spend based estimates, you can overwrite them by adding them to a activity-based "Financed emission" below.
1. Click "+ Financed emission"
2. Choose the relevant asset class
3. Optionally, input loanee/investee info, country, and industry
4. Assign a data quality score (1-5)
5. Enter the financed Scope 1-3 emissions
6. Calculate or input the attribution factor
1. Click "+ Financed emission"
2. Choose the relevant asset class
3. Optionally, input loanee/investee info, country, and industry
4. Create a data request and share with the loanee
5. Once the form has been responded to, you will recieve an in-app notifiaction.
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