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More innovation for mid-sized companies with our °C management
Create your science-driven and VSME-compliant Climate Footprint report incl. scope 3 emissions with minimal effort. And align your Net zero strategy Paris-compatible with a temperature KPI (well below 2°C).
The climate crisis is becoming ever more present. And let's be honest: unfortunately we will exceed the 1.5°C limit and thus come close to dangerous tipping points.
This makes it all the more important to stay well below 2°C. Companies must produce more sustainably. And ALL OF US (from companies to end consumers) need to consume more consciously and moderately - this is often underestimated.
Only with this interaction we can still achieve the Net Zero Transformation in time. In this spirit, we help companies AND consumers.
Here you will find our video "eco.income - Climate Footprint management for a bright future" The video is provided by YouTube. To view the video, you must accept the cookies from external media:
We were convinced by the fact that it is a scientifically sound and comparatively simple, consumption-based accounting approach. We also like the climate impact in degrees Celsius, which indicates the rise in temperature if all companies were to behave like ours.
Martin Grotzke, Co-Owner
Netzvitamine GmbH
eco.income prepared a carbon footprint for the DSTCMP - the think space for decision-makers in German-speaking tourism - in 2023. Thanks to the structured query of the required data (all that was needed was an export of the corresponding expenditure from the accounting software), our effort was very manageable and targeted. Based on this, Jurij Peters and his team produced a well-founded analysis including Scope 3 emissions. The “hotspots” of the industry meeting from a climate perspective were easily identified and the results helped us to take appropriate measures for subsequent years in order to achieve an even better carbon footprint.
Benjamin Buhl, Managing Director
elbdudler GmbH
The right choice for us as an SME to know our certified climate footprint. A clear tool, competent contacts and uncomplicated cooperation that we can only recommend.
Christopher Rohs, Managing Director
Impact Hub Hamburg GmbH
eco.income helped us understand our carbon footprint based on our financial transactions. The team was knowledgeable, thorough, patient, and the analysis provided valuable help in identifying areas where we can become more climate conscious. Highly recommended!
Boris Kozlowski, Ex Co-Founder & Co-Managing Director
Our basis: the eco.income Climate Footprint Index
Our index is a world-leading index solution for calculating the entire climate impact of our purchases and consumption based on payment transactions. The underlying calculation method is science-driven and the process for determining greenhouse gas emissions has been verified by TÜV Rheinland. Our calculations and reporting for companies are furthermore in compliance with the international GHG protocol standard.
The special feature: we use - not territorial-based accounting (TBA), but - consumption-based accounting (CBA) and allocate GHG emissions globally across borders to those who demand them. In this way, we take into account the fact that GHG emissions that occur elsewhere in the world but are demanded and consumed in Germany e.g. (embedded in imported products and goods), are also included in the emission factors in Germany according to their cause. For this we use the most sophisticated methods and databases. We use a hybrid model of input-output analysis and life cycle assessment to generate our index: the GHG intensities (kg CO2e / unit of currency) for 40+ spend categories, for 40+ countries. We map the index to the suppliers or the required category tree of our customers.
The hybrid model - in a little more detail In the top-down approach, we use Environmentally-extended Multi-regional Input Output Analysis (EE-MRIOA), in combination with the leading database EXIOBASE. With this, we determine the average GHG intensities per country per category using CBA logic. Here, we analyze a country's economy by economic sector and product group as part of the complex global trade. We take into account 1) ALL global financial flows and GHG emissions associated with the production and trade of goods and purchase of services across borders, 2) in a consistent manner (harmonized raw data in Exiobase), and 3) finally allocate with Input Output Analysis the financial and GHG flows along the production and supply chains to the final procurement and consumption of economic agents.
In the bottom-up approach, we use a life cycle assessment (LCA) logic. We use this for direct GHG emissions, e.g. from the combustion of gasoline in cars or natural gas in businesses/households, since they are not included in the input-output databases. And especially for determining the expression of habit modifiers, to distinguish from averages (e.g. "sometimes sustainable" in the category electronics ). This makes the calculations more accurate without going on product level. But we also go on product level if needed. We can replace average GHG intensities with specific ones by looking at invoices from our B2B customers and using GHG factors from leading "botton-up" databases such as ecoinvent for the products and services listed there.
Extrapolation, updates, benchmarking Our model is based on a complex, non-linear, weighted chain of extrapolations, which means that we do not rely solely on the publication of new data and provide updated GHG intensities annually. To ensure quality, we regularly benchmark our model at the micro level, i.e. we compare our category-based calculations to actual product-level results. In addition, we perform macro-level benchmarking, i.e. we scale our index to national GHG emissions - with national expenditures - and compare it to official sources such as the European Environment Agency (EEA).
Take a look at our beginnings
In 2020 we laid the methodological foundation for consumption-based accounting with a master thesis. We will be happy to send you an excerpt (in German).
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