Sustainability
Assisting companies in extracting their carbon footprint via enterprise transactions
Overview
Regulators and investors increasingly demand sustainability reporting from companies, emphasising the need for transparency to ensure long-term sustainability.
The Problem
Currently, companies manually enter and track data into Excel spreadsheets which poses challenges such as inaccuracies, inconsistencies, scalability issues, and compliance risks for companies.
My Role
I closely collaborated and worked together with Product Managers, strategy and development to understand product requirements, gather insights and design a solution. I also worked with the central design team to understand feasibility of components used.
Current methods
Calculations in Excel
Emission Standards
Primary Research findings
Conducted research by talking to customers and product stakeholders. Below are some data that was gathered.
Manual calculation of emissions using various spreadsheets
Extensive, multi-month effort to chase down, collect and organise data
These methods don’t pass SEC and SBTi governance requirements
Risk of failing to meet goals, having to restate, being “exposed”
Data entered is Inconsistent and non-auditable.
No accessible links to transaction sources hinders traceability.
Design Goal
How can we digitise the calculation of emissions by extracting data from business transactions and presenting it in a way that allows sustainability analysts to easily track and understand the carbon footprint of their business.
Final Designs
Dashboard
A Overview dashboard that displays various records across U.S. facilities, highlighting activity types (e.g., combustion, electricity), with most activities posted, some requiring attention, and a geographic distribution indicating areas with no records.
Activities
A tabular view of the activities providing more details.
Activity Details
A detailed overview of the activity record, including emission calculations, classifications, and sources.
View Prototype
Impact
The product's design achieved a 100% conversion rate, successfully replacing the use of Excel spreadsheets for emissions calculations.
Customers provided positive feedback, highlighting the product as a valuable and welcomed improvement.
Enhanced calculation methods and improved accuracy significantly reduced errors during emissions calculations.
The calculation method received official approval from governing bodies such as SBTi and SEC.
