Our toolkit includes two online training sessions with one of our experienced carbon accounting professionals.

Instructor-led and small class sizes:
We won’t leave you to fend for yourselves with a recording and slide show - you can send up to two colleagues to our instructor-led courses and ask questions specific to your business throughout.

Templates for data collection:
You will be provided with templates to help with all your data collection needs.

By the end of the training, you will be confident in collecting the data required to calculate your organisation’s full scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon footprint in line with international best practice – the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

(Includes access to online tool)

Get in touch for a bespoke quote

As you collect and upload your footprint data you can call on our experts for optional support, which is charged at an hourly rate. This could be in the form of email requests or calls. A typical business may need seven hours of support for the entirety of the footprint.

Bioregional offers an optional 1.5-hour session for product-based companies (for example manufacturers and retailers), which explains product-specific data requirements.

If you’re a manufacturer or retailer, you’ll need to calculate all the emissions from the materials/ingredients that make up your products. This includes emissions from raw materials, logistics, subcontracted processes, the product’s full lifespan usage, and end-of-life (waste) processes.

Our optional product session explains the data you'll need to make the necessary calculations and the ways your company can create appropriate estimates for data where it isn’t available.

We’ll also cover the types of emissions factors available for products and how your company can improve the specificity of its product footprint each year.

We don't offer third-party auditing services as these are not required for scope 3 emissions reporting. However, having your footprint quality checked and validated by a respected carbon accounting consultancy adds credibility to your results and prevents reporting errors, giving you the confidence that your carbon footprint is accurate.

We will review:

• your report downloaded from Compare Your Footprint,
• any additional calculations made that were not on the online tool,
• the data collection files used by your company.

We will then review and query any issues in up to three rounds of feedback. Validation must be booked at least six weeks in advance.

Katri is our in-house expert when it comes to business carbon footprints, and even if we do say so ourselves: she is pretty darn amazing. She’s recently calculated footprints for clients including The Portman Estate, Mitchells & Butlers, and Raven Housing Trust.

Katri has an academic background in engineering and sustainability in practice, and leads the carbon accounting work for Bioregional’s business team, as well as the creation of bespoke environmental reporting tools.

Before Bioregional, Katri worked with a range of sustainability organisations covering circular economy, behaviour change, waste reduction and carbon offsetting. She has implemented the NUS’s Green Impact sustainable behaviour change programme with a variety of organisations, from SMEs to a local county council.

Steph is a recent – and brilliant – addition to the Bioregional team, joining in early 2024 as Principal Consultant in the Sustainable Business team. Steph supports Bioregional’s clients to understand and report their impacts and develop ambitious net-zero roadmaps and wider sustainability strategies. She leads our carbon toolkit service and works with clients such as Allegra Care, Troup Bywaters + Anders, and Kingfisher group. Steph has eight years of consulting experience, having worked on large UK government-funded programmes to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Before Bioregional, Steph set up and ran the sustainability consultancy arm, mdsustain, supporting large charities and SMEs to understand, assess, improve, and communicate their sustainability. This role included managing the in-house sustainability of the parent company MannionDaniels, where she oversaw the annual carbon accounting and reduction strategies, ISO 14001 auditing process, and B Corp and UN Global Compact reporting requirements.

A carbon footprint is simply the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an individual, event, organisation, service, place or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Your baseline carbon footprint refers to the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by an individual, organization, or country at a specific point in time – eg a reporting year of your choice. Your baseline is the starting point for measuring progress towards reducing your emissions. Our first session will guide you through all the jargon (there’s a lot!) – but you'll soon know your GHG from your scope 3.

Carbon accounting is a process that involves measuring and reporting an organisation's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) is the leading industry rulebook for measuring and managing greenhouse gas emissions - you can think of it like a standardised language for organisations (companies, governments, etc.) to track their climate impact. It's the most widely used system for accounting for greenhouse gas emissions around the world and it provides frameworks to measure emissions from a company's operations, across its entire value chain (including suppliers and customers).

Scopes 1, 2 and 3 are categories used to classify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with an organisation's activities. They were established by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, a widely used international framework for emissions accounting.

Here's a breakdown of each scope:

Scope 1: Direct emissions

These are emissions from sources that the company owns or directly controls.

Examples include burning fuel in company vehicles, boilers, and industrial processes.

Scope 2: Indirect emissions from purchased energy

These are emissions released during the generation of the energy a company purchases.

In simpler terms, it's the indirect consequence of your electricity, heating, or cooling use.

The emissions themselves are produced by the power plants or facilities that generate the energy you buy.

Scope 3: Other indirect emissions

This is the broadest category and covers all other indirect emissions that arise from a company's activities but occur outside their owned or controlled sources.

Examples include emissions from the production and transportation of goods a company purchases, employee commuting, and business travel.

Generally, scope 3 emissions are the most significant for many companies but also the most complex to measure.

It’s a fair question – and one we unpick in much greater depth on our blog. In short, drawbacks of using a free tool can include limited features, lack of data quality, scalability issues, lack of system integrations, limited support/updates, lack of regulatory compliance, security concerns, limited analysis/insights, and questions around long-term viability. Read our full blog to find out more.

Compare Your Footprint (CYF) is an industry-leading carbon accounting tool because of the quality of its data, and robustness of its methodologies. On our blog comparing free vs paid carbon accounting tools, we set out why it is our tool of choice.

Our toolkit includes your first year of CYF – and our experts will set up everything you need for you. After your first year, we’ll hand over full ownership of your account, and you’ll have full control. You can view CYF’s pricing structure here.

The average SME carbon footprint completed by our team costs in the region of £10,000+. Our toolkit offers a significantly more cost-effective way for you to calculate a full carbon footprint for your organisation - get in touch for a quote. Our training will upskill and empower your team to assess your own emissions each year confidently and independently.

The course is suitable for complete beginners – no prior knowledge is needed. We’ll explain all the carbon basics and take you through carbon jargon so we’re all on the same page.

Not at all – a basic working knowledge of Excel is all you’ll need.