e3CAT is an affordable, internet-based software solution that can help your organization with your carbon accounting requirements including greenhouse gas emissions data collection, management and reporting.

Compiling a GHG inventory improves a company’s understanding of its emissions profile and any potential GHG liability or “exposure.” A company’s GHG exposure is increasingly becoming a management issue in light of heightened scrutiny by the insurance industry, shareholders, and the emergence of environmental regulations/policies designed to reduce GHG emissions.

In the context of future GHG regulations, significant GHG emissions in a company’s value chain may result in increased costs, even if the company itself is not directly subject to regulations. Thus investors may view significant indirect emissions upstream or downstream of a company’s operations as potential liabilities that need to be managed and reduced.
What gets measured gets managed. e3CAT can help identify the most effective emission reduction opportunities. This can drive increased materials and energy efficiency as well as the development of new products and services that reduce the GHG impacts of customers or suppliers. This in turn can reduce production costs and help differentiate your organization in an increasingly environmentally conscious marketplace.

e3CAT was built for small to medium sized entities that do not require a large enterprise management system. This application can seamlessly interact with e3’s Enterprise Carbon Management (e3ECM) Application when an organization is ready to implement an enterprise carbon program. 

e3CAT Features

• State-of-the-art, web-based software application
• Secure data model based on standards used in leading financial applications
• Flexible data-import and enterprise connectivity interfaces to support automated data collection and roll-up
• Full task and document management features to support implementation of GHG reduction strategies
• A data warehouse of all six greenhouse gases that you organization needs to track
• An emission inventory in near-real time and integration into a single corporate dashboard
• An audit trail of your organizations carbon profile on a facility level as well as aggregate totals
• An automated reporting engine to assist with voluntary and mandatory disclosure submissions

e3CAT Benefits

• Prepares your organization for future legislative changes
• Identifies cost savings through managing resources and implementing good environmental practice
• Provides supporting data to generate great PR through communicating your environmental successes
• Supports for all major international GHG reporting protocols (e.g, WRI, ISO 14064/14065)
• Automated tracking of client-defined KPIs, such as carbon emissions per day, per employee, per unit of space, per facility, per unit of EBITD
• Real-time monitoring of all GHG generating activities at the facility level
• Management of detailed GHG emission reduction targets that support ongoing comparison of actual performance to targets
• Automated generation of highly detailed GHG emission calculation statements in support of third-party accounting, accreditation and/or audit services
• Financial tracking of carbon offset costs and revenue streams associated with GHG reduction projects