Free assessment · Two minutes
Would your carbon data survive external assurance?
Six questions. An honest score, and a list of exactly what would fail and why.
- 01
Can you produce, for any figure in your last report, the exact emission factor version used and its effective date?
- 02
Are your closed reporting periods locked, so a recalculation cannot silently change a prior-year baseline?
- 03
Can you show an auditor the full path from a reported number back to the raw activity record, without opening a spreadsheet?
- 04
Do you know what proportion of your data is measured rather than estimated, by asset and by indicator?
- 05
Is your tenant allocation methodology documented, versioned and defensible in a dispute?
- 06
If the person who built your carbon model left tomorrow, could someone else reproduce last year’s numbers?
0 of 6 answered.
Most estates score two or three.
Not because their teams are careless, but because carbon data was never built to be audited. It was built to be reported. Those are different jobs, and the gap between them only becomes visible when an assurance team is sitting in the room.