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Carbon accounting software built for Northern Irish businesses navigating the most ambitious climate targets in the UK, procurement requirements, and growing demands from cross-border and EU customers. Measure, report, and reduce, with a team that knows your context.
NI businesses sit at the intersection of three regulatory contexts: a binding net zero target in NI law, UK-wide procurement and reporting requirements, and growing demands from EU and ROI customers under CSRD. Few other places in Europe carry this combination.
NI has a 100% net zero target written into legislation, with an interim 48% reduction by 2030. Sectoral plans and Carbon Budgets are now in force, with reporting obligations cascading through the public and private sectors.
Any UK government contract above £5 million now requires a Carbon Reduction Plan. PPN 006 (formerly PPN 06/21) sets the format and methodology, the same rules apply to NI suppliers bidding for UK central government work.
NI businesses are not directly subject to the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, but those selling into ROI or wider EU markets are increasingly being asked for ESRS-aligned emissions data by customers who are.
NI businesses face requests from UK procurement, NI public bodies under the Climate Change Act, and EU customers under CSRD. A single, properly measured carbon footprint can serve all three, but only if it's done right the first time, using internationally aligned methodology.
Focus on what matters in practice: the evidence needed for NI council frameworks, UK tenders, and EU customer requests.
GHG Protocol-aligned, using DEFRA conversion factors with NI grid intensity where relevant. The same data structure works for UK reporting and ESRS-aligned EU disclosures.
A PPN 006-compliant Carbon Reduction Plan, plus a Climate Change Act-aligned pathway to NI's 2030 and 2050 targets.
The energy and carbon disclosures you need for your Companies House annual filing, verified by our climate team.
Independent verification of your footprint by our in-house team, the assurance that procurement officers, EU customers, and parent-company auditors increasingly ask for.
Send measurement requests to suppliers across NI, GB and ROI, monitor responses, and consolidate the data into your footprint, the tool large EU customers increasingly expect.
Science-based targets aligned with NI's 2030 and 2050 obligations, intervention modelling, and year-on-year tracking. Beyond a one-off compliance exercise.
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.
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One of Northern Ireland's leading real estate services providers used Climate Essentials to establish a carbon baseline, build a credible reduction pathway, and embed sustainability across their managed portfolio, from building managers to clients.
"Climate Essentials transformed our data into clear carbon insights. We were able to establish a baseline and plan future reductions with real confidence."
Grounded in what our 60+ NI customers, including councils, manufacturers and professional services firms, are dealing with right now.
The Act sets a binding 100% net zero target by 2050, with an interim 48% reduction by 2030. The direct obligation sits with NI government departments, but the practical effect cascades down: public bodies, councils, and large procurers are increasingly required to demonstrate climate action and to expect the same of their suppliers.
If you bid for work with any NI council, government department, or large public body, expect carbon footprint and reduction plan requirements to become more demanding year-on-year.
Not directly. As a UK-registered business, you're outside the scope of CSRD. But if your ROI or EU customers fall under CSRD, and most large ones now do, they will increasingly ask you for ESRS-aligned Scope 1, 2 and 3 data so they can complete their own disclosures.
The practical answer: measure your footprint to GHG Protocol standard now, with proper Scope 3 detail. The same dataset serves UK reporting and EU customer requests.
Two answers depending on contract size and procurer:
UK government contracts above £5m require a PPN 006 Carbon Reduction Plan, whether you're bidding from Belfast or Birmingham.
NI council and NICS framework procurement increasingly requests carbon footprint data, often as a quality criterion rather than a hard requirement. Climate Essentials covers both: PPN 006-compliant output and the underlying footprint data councils typically request.
We use the UK Government / DEFRA greenhouse gas conversion factors, updated annually. Where the NI electricity grid intensity differs materially from the UK average, we apply the NI-specific grid factor to Scope 2 calculations.
For cross-border activity (vehicles, premises, energy use in ROI), we apply the appropriate ROI factors from SEAI. The platform handles the dual-jurisdiction calculation automatically.
Yes. The Self-Serve tier starts at £132/year and is designed for someone in finance or operations (not a sustainability specialist) to complete a full carbon footprint in around two hours of their time.
If you'd rather hand it over, the Managed tier puts a dedicated climate consultant on your account. Many NI manufacturers and professional services firms choose Managed because their data sits across multiple sites and ROI operations.
Yes. We're familiar with both. Invest NI's Green Economy support programmes increasingly expect grant recipients to have measured emissions in place, and Climate Essentials outputs are accepted as evidence. For businesses with cross-border activity, InterTradeIreland's Sustain programme similarly references carbon measurement as a foundation.
If your grant or framework application requires a specific reporting format, talk to us before you submit. We can usually produce what's needed without extra work.
Book a 30-minute demo. We’ll show you how Climate Essentials helps with PPN 006 plan, SECR disclosure, and UK SRS readiness.
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