Track and report your carbon emissions directly within Business Central.
Start your journey to net zero today!

 

Track and report your carbon emissions directly within Business Central.
Start your journey to net zero today!

 

Carbon accounting made easy

Are you ready to track and report on your company’s environmental impact? The introduction of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in the European Union means that sustainability reporting will soon become a priority for your organization, if it isn’t already. Even so, tracking your carbon emissions in-house is difficult without experience in GHG accounting. Because of this, many overwhelmed businesses have turned to costly external consultants for help.

The good news? You don’t have to be an ESG expert to calculate your climate impact.

Continia Sustainability is an integrated carbon accounting tool that takes advantage of the financial data already available in your Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. This helps you save time on your workflows and quickly point out ways to reduce carbon emissions.

With Continia Sustainability, you can easily gather, organize, and monitor all information about how your company impacts the environment. The solution converts your data into carbon equivalents, giving you a clear overview of your climate impact.

Key features that add value to your workday

Integrated emission factor sets

Ensure accurate carbon footprint calculations with built-in emission factors. Use current datasets from official sources to easily calculate your company's output. No more time wasted searching for the right information. You can also add your own for more precise reporting.

Transparent audit trail

Easily check emission factors, recalculate your carbon output as needed, and keep track of any changes in data. Continia Sustainability simplifies validation by giving you easy access to emission factor values and maintaining a clear audit trail.

User-friendly interface

Maintain your usual way-of-working with familiar role centers, journals, navigation panes, and data input features. This solution seamlessly blends into your Business Central environment, minimizing your learning curve and ensuring smooth operations.

Integrated automation

Streamline your workflow by automatically gathering financial data from records like travel expenses and invoices. This solution accurately calculates and allocates your emissions into the right scopes and categories based on your consolidation approach.

Standard-aligned

Ensure confidence in your results with fully aligned carbon reporting. Continia Sustainability follows GHG Protocol standards for consistent, comparable reporting of greenhouse gas emissions across three scopes and fifteen categories.

Reporting & visualization

Easily create detailed reports, graphs, and charts for internal decision-making and external needs. Continia  with a default report template, making it easy to organize and customize your results.

Comply with the best reporting standards

If you are researching carbon tracking software, you will discover that there are numerous standards in the ESG landscape. Companies use these ESG reporting standards to measure and document their environmental impact. Some of the key reporting frameworks include the CSRD, ESRS, SECR, and GHG Protocol. These frameworks provide guidelines for emission reporting in different regions around the world.

Continia Sustainability fully aligns with these reporting frameworks. This ensures you can deliver consistent annual reports that fulfill your business partners' reporting needs. Even better, the solution comes pre-loaded with regularly updated emission factor datasets. These datasets come from some of the leading institutions for climate science and research. This means you can trust the accuracy of your emissions calculations, and if you need to, you can also recalculate your output if better data becomes available.

Automatically calculate your carbon emissions

Not sure how to track your carbon footprint? With Continia Sustainability, you can do it automatically. This solution makes carbon tracking easy by converting your financial data in Business Central into CO2 equivalents. With added environmental data columns, tracking your output becomes a seamless part of your existing purchase-to-pay process.

To calculate your carbon footprint, you only need to set the solution up once. From there, it automatically converts and allocates your data into the GHG Protocol’s three scopes and fifteen categories.

This gives you a clear overview of your company’s environmental impact across all business activities in the value chain. With your carbon report in hand, you’ll be ready to take meaningful and long-term action to reduce your carbon footprint.

Check out a quick Continia Sustainability demo below

Feature overview

  • Essential
    Automatic financials-to-CO2 conversion
    Once set up, the system automatically converts purchase and sales data into CO2 equivalents in the environmental journals.
    Integrated emission factors
    The solution comes pre-loaded with recognized and regularly updated emission factor datasets. This ensures accurate and reliable data output.
    Customized emission factors
    Import customized emission factor datasets to apply company-specific calculations or emission data from suppliers.
    Environmental data on purchase invoices
    When creating purchase invoices, you can integrate environmental information, such as environmental account, emission type, and physical quantities.
    G/L account integration
    To define Environmental Account, Emission Type, Code, and Unit Type, you can use the FastTab on the G/L account card. You can also select which data should be mandatory to report.
    Flexible data import
    Import data into environmental journals from various sources, including item ledger entries or the G/L. Ease future imports by linking a source table with specific filters for the journal to import from.
    Automatic emission allocation
    The system automatically allocates emissions into the appropriate scope and category.
    Dual energy reporting
    The system automatically calculates energy emissions using both a market- and location-based approach. The Sustainability Report includes the results under both approaches.
    Emission recalculation
    Recalculate emissions of posted items when updating emission factors. The system tracks all changes accordingly.
    Recurring Environmental Journals
    Set up and manage recurring emission data for consistent data entry.
    GHG-aligned emission reporting
    Create standardized carbon reports that fully align with the GHG Protocol.
    Custom emission reporting
    Create customized carbon reports with tailored data to compare and analyze your company’s evolving carbon footprint.
    Continia Hub
    Access a central in-app assistance hub designed for convenience and user feedback.