by Mia Pepperdine | Sep 24, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Carbon Footprint, Energy Management, News
You have commissioned an EPD. Data has been collected. The LCA practitioner starts building the model and comes back with a list: this supplier figure covers different modules, that one was calculated under the previous version of the standard, this one has expired,...
by Mia Pepperdine | Sep 24, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Carbon Footprint, Energy Management, News
Most organisations think of ESOS as just an audit, a signature, or a notification, often filed and forgotten for four years. The ones getting value from it treat the audit as the input to something else. Phase 4 asks you to identify cost effective energy savings...
by Mia Pepperdine | Sep 4, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Carbon Footprint, Energy Management, News
Measuring your supply chain emissions and producing a CSRD ready disclosure are two different jobs, and the second one is where most programmes stall. A number in a spreadsheet is not a disclosure. Under CSRD you have to justify why you reported that category at all,...
by Mia Pepperdine | Sep 4, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Carbon Footprint, Energy Management, News
Scope 1 and Scope 2 are, by comparison, easy. You own the boilers. You pay the electricity bills. The data exists somewhere in your organisation and someone can go and find it. Scope 3 is different, because it sits almost entirely in other people’s businesses....
by Mia Pepperdine | Sep 4, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Carbon Footprint, Energy Management, News
Most UK sustainability leaders are running two projects that should be one. On one side, a science based target: baseline, boundary, validation submission, a decarbonisation plan the board will actually fund. On the other, a CSRD data request from a European parent or...
by Mia Pepperdine | Sep 4, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Carbon Footprint, Energy Management, News
If you handle SECR for a group with multiple subsidiaries and sites, you already know the disclosure itself is not the difficult part. It is a handful of figures and a short narrative in the directors’ report. The difficult part is pulling clean, consistent,...