All your emissions data in one place
Consolidate emissions from across your operations, suppliers and project delivery into a single, accessible platform. No more scattered spreadsheets or manual consolidation.
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Clients and procurement teams increasingly expect carbon data from their creative suppliers. Climate Essentials makes it simple to measure your emissions across travel, digital infrastructure, production and supplier spend, produce credible reports and respond to sustainability questionnaires.
Your clients will soon be asking for:
Three ways we help creative businesses collect, manage and share carbon data without slowing down the work.
Consolidate emissions from across your operations, suppliers and project delivery into a single, accessible platform. No more scattered spreadsheets or manual consolidation.
Creative work spans production partners, freelancers and cloud platforms. Track activity across all of them without manual data chasing or follow-up emails.
Respond to client sustainability requests and procurement questionnaires quickly and accurately. Your data is always current, always exportable, always ready.
More clients are sending supplier sustainability questionnaires and asking for carbon data as part of procurement. Having credible, up-to-date emissions information ready means you can respond quickly instead of scrambling.
Creative work involves varied suppliers, freelancers and fast-moving projects. The platform handles flexible data collection and automated reporting so your team spends hours, not weeks, on sustainability.
In a purpose-driven market, showing that your business takes sustainability seriously is a differentiator. Credible carbon data enhances your brand with clients, talent and partners who care about environmental impact.
Stand out in tenders and proposals where environmental credentials are a key differentiator. When two agencies are evenly matched, the one with verified sustainability data wins the conversation.
From self-serve software to fully managed reporting, choose the level of support that matches where your business is.
The core carbon accounting platform. Designed for businesses to measure, track and report their own emissions.
Hand it over. Our team manages your carbon accounting end-to-end so you can focus on running the business.
Independent verification of your carbon footprint, reductions and offsets, to procurement and investor standard.
CAMA provides sustainable storage and asset management for film, TV and corporate productions, looking after props, sets and costumes for titles including Doctor Who, Slow Horses and Downton Abbey. They partnered with Climate Essentials to measure their own emissions and quantify the carbon saved through reuse.
"Climate Essentials built us a bespoke tool that measures the emissions saved by storing and reusing assets instead of disposing of them. That data has been invaluable for award submissions, client reporting and tax credit applications."
Freelancers, Scope 3, client questionnaires, production emissions, answered plainly.
There is no blanket legal requirement for creative businesses to measure emissions today. But the commercial pressure is growing quickly. More clients, brands and public sector buyers now include sustainability questions in procurement and supplier onboarding.
If you are being asked to complete supplier questionnaires, provide carbon data for pitches, or demonstrate environmental credentials to win work, having a measured footprint moves you from "we care about sustainability" to "here is our data."
Typical emissions sources for creative businesses include office energy, business travel (especially flights for shoots and events), employee commuting, cloud and digital infrastructure, print production, events, purchased goods and services, and freelancer or supplier activity.
The platform uses DEFRA conversion factors and supports spend-based, activity-based and hybrid calculation methods. You do not need perfect data to start. Begin with what you have and then you can improve accuracy over time.
Yes. Freelancer and supplier spend is typically your largest Scope 3 category. The platform lets you capture this through spend-based estimates initially, then replace those with more accurate data over time using our supplier engagement platform.
You can send suppliers and production partners access to our platform to collect their emissions data directly. This builds a more verifiable Scope 3 footprint.
This is one of the most common reasons creative businesses come to us! Once your footprint is measured, the platform generates reports and data exports that you can use to complete supplier sustainability questionnaires, include in pitch decks, and share with procurement teams.
With the Managed Service, our team can also help you draft responses to specific client requests so you are not starting from a blank page each time.
Yes. The platform is designed for someone in operations, finance or general management to complete a full carbon footprint without specialist sustainability knowledge. Most creative businesses using the self-serve tier have someone in a non-specialist role running it.
If you would prefer it handled for you, the Managed Service puts a dedicated climate consultant on your account. They collect your data, build your footprint and produce your verified reports.
The self-serve platform starts from just £132 per year.
The Managed Service (where our team does the work for you) and Verification (independent third-party assurance) are available at tailored quotes. Both are designed to be accessible for small and mid-sized creative businesses, not priced at consultancy rates.
Yes. Climate Essentials offers independent verification that issues GHG Protocol aligned verification statements. This adds credibility when sharing data with clients, including it in award submissions, or publishing sustainability commitments publicly.
Verification is particularly useful for creative businesses that want to make public claims about their environmental performance. Having third-party assurance means your numbers can stand up to scrutiny.
On the self-serve platform, depending on your operations complexity, most creative businesses complete their first footprint within a couple of hours to three weeks depending on data availability. Creative agencies tend to have relatively simple operational footprints (office, travel, digital, suppliers), so the process is usually faster than more complex sectors.
With the Managed Service, our team typically delivers a verified complete footprint and report within 5 working days. The main variable is how quickly you can provide activity data such as energy bills, travel records and supplier spend.
Book a 20-minute demo. We will show you how Climate Essentials helps creative businesses measure emissions, respond to client questionnaires and build credible sustainability credentials.
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