When a customer asks for your carbon footprint, have the answer ready.
The Carbon Tracker Emissions Ledger is carbon accounting software for New Zealand businesses. Record fuel, power, freight and waste as you go, and it builds your scope 1, 2 and 3 footprint from more than 900 official emission factors.
$99 a year plus GST. Card needed to start. Nothing is charged for 14 days, and you can cancel in one click before then.
- GHG Protocol scopes 1, 2 and 3
- 900+ official factors
- Records that never change
Sample business - year to date
Sample account- Total measured emissions
- 9.7 ttonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent
- Records in the ledger
- 12each locked to its factor
- Emission factors available
- 900+searchable catalogue
The question is coming. It may already be in your inbox.
Supplier forms, tenders and lending conversations now often include one question: what are your emissions? For a small or mid-sized business that question usually lands on whoever does the accounts, with a tender deadline attached. The answer is not hard to produce if you have been keeping the records. It is very hard to produce from a year of old invoices.
The Emissions Ledger is where you keep those records. It follows the scope 1, 2 and 3 structure of the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, the framework most reporting requests are built on, and it uses New Zealand's official emission factors, so the number you give a customer is one you can stand behind.
What the Emissions Ledger does
- Sites and sources. Set up each reporting boundary, such as an office, a depot or a farm, and the sources inside it: a meter, a vehicle, a tank, a waste stream.
- The right factor, found for you. Search the catalogue of more than 900 published factors. The source takes its unit from the factor you pick, so litres stay litres and kilowatt hours stay kilowatt hours.
- Scope 1, 2 and 3 totals. Direct emissions, purchased energy and other indirect emissions, each reported on its own.
- Data quality on every reading. Mark a reading as measured, or say how it was derived. You can see how much of your total rests on measured data.
- Frozen-factor records. Each record keeps the factor it was built with. If a factor is updated next year, last year's figure does not move.
- Corrections that leave a trail. Fixing a mistake writes a new record that supersedes the old one, so there is always a history.
Start recording this month, and next year's answer writes itself.
Add your first site and source today. 14 days free, then $99 a year plus GST.
Site, source, reading. Then repeat.
If you can read a power bill and a fuel card statement, you can run the ledger.
Add a site
Name the boundary you are reporting for. One business can have several.
Add a source
Search for the emission factor that matches it, such as diesel, electricity or air travel, and attach it to the source.
Record readings
Enter the quantity and the date observed whenever a bill or statement arrives. The emissions are calculated and locked.
Why records that never change matter
Most footprint spreadsheets recalculate. Update a factor and every past year quietly shifts, which means the figure you gave a customer last March is no longer the figure in your file. Auditors and procurement teams notice. The Emissions Ledger is built the other way round: a saved record is fixed, and the factor, its source and its publication year are stored with it. What you reported stays reported.
The ledger sits alongside the other Carbon Tracker dashboards, so a business with land can keep everything together. Use the farm emissions calculator for stock and fertiliser, and the forest carbon calculator for the units your trees earn. If your business has ETS surrender obligations as well as a footprint to report, the ETS obligations dashboard handles that side. And if you decide to offset part of your footprint with New Zealand Units, they are bought on the Carbon Trader marketplace.
Who should be using the Emissions Ledger
- Suppliers answering emissions questions in tenders and supplier forms.
- Owners and finance managers who have been asked for a footprint by a bank or a large customer.
- Businesses getting ready for certification or assurance, who need clean source records first.
- Accountants and advisers keeping ledgers for clients.
The ledger is a record-keeping and calculation tool. It does not certify or audit your footprint, and it is not a substitute for assurance where a customer or regulator requires it.
The Emissions Ledger or a footprint spreadsheet?
| Emissions Ledger | A spreadsheet | |
|---|---|---|
| Emission factors | 900+ official factors, searchable | Typed in from a PDF |
| Past figures | Locked to the factor used | Recalculate when anything changes |
| Measured or estimated | Recorded on every reading | Nobody remembers |
| Corrections | New record, old one kept | Overwritten |
| Scopes | 1, 2 and 3 totalled for you | Manual sorting |
$99 a year. One price, every site.
One price per user, however many sites and sources you record.
One dashboard
or $9.95 a month. The Emissions Ledger on its own, for all your sites.
Start free trialEach extra dashboard
or $2.50 a month. Add one to the same sign-in at any time, charged from the day you add it.
Start free trialAll four dashboards
or $15.95 a month. Forest, farm, obligations and the emissions ledger for the price of two and a half.
Start free trial- 14 days free on every plan. A card is needed to start and the first charge is on day 15.
- Cancel in one click from your account page. Cancel during the trial and you are never charged.
- Prices exclude GST. Paying yearly saves two months.
- Change dashboards, or switch between monthly and yearly, whenever you like.
Carbon accounting questions, answered
What are scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions?
Scope 1 is direct emissions from things you own or control, such as vehicles and boilers. Scope 2 is purchased energy, mainly electricity. Scope 3 is other indirect emissions in your value chain, such as freight, travel and waste.
Which emission factors does the ledger use?
The official New Zealand Measuring Emissions catalogue, with more than 900 factors covering fuels, electricity, transport, freight, waste, agriculture and more. You search the catalogue and pick the factor that matches your source.
What is a frozen-factor record?
A record that stores the emission factor it was calculated with. If the published factor changes later, the saved record does not, so figures you have already reported stay the same.
Do I need a consultant to use carbon accounting software?
Not to keep the ledger. If you can enter a quantity from a bill and choose the matching factor, you can run it yourself. You may still want outside help if a customer requires independent assurance.
Can I record an estimate when I do not have a measured figure?
Yes. Mark the reading as derived and say how you arrived at it. The ledger then shows how much of your total comes from measured readings and how much does not.
Can I record emissions for more than one site?
Yes. Add a site for each reporting boundary and as many sources under each as you need.
Does the ledger give me a certified footprint?
No. It gives you sourced, consistent records and totals. Certification and assurance are separate services, and good records make them faster and cheaper.
What happens when I make a mistake in a reading?
You correct it, and the ledger writes a new record that supersedes the old one. The original is kept in the history, so there is a clear trail of what changed.
What units do I enter readings in?
Whatever unit the emission factor uses. A source takes its unit from the factor you attach, so diesel is entered in litres and electricity in kilowatt hours without any converting.
How long does it take to set up?
Most businesses can add a site, their main sources and a first set of readings in one sitting. After that it is a few minutes whenever a bill arrives.
Contact us
Been sent a supplier emissions form and not sure where to start? Tell us what you have been asked for and we will show you how the ledger answers it. Or start the free trial and record your first readings today.