Carbon Measurement: From Spreadsheets to a Platform With Climate Experts

Most carbon reporting starts in a spreadsheet. It's fine, but it doesn't always scale in the way you need it to.

Most companies still rely on spreadsheets and a sustainability consultant to measure their emissions. Or for some companies they manage their data internally. For the most part, that might work, but it brings up a lot of challenges we've built a system around fixing.

What happens when the person who owned the spreadsheet leaves the company? When you're looking for an audit trail of who uploaded data and what file they got it from? Or perhaps, you need more granularity for your scope 3 emission data, and thousands of records and a system to track it all can't live on only a spreadsheet.

In this session we'll go through a live demo of the Zevero platform and how we combine both technology and people to create a model that works.

We will cover:

• What spreadsheets do well, and why teams are right to start there
• How to get your data into the Zevero platform and keeping your old data
• A demo of the Zevero platform and our granular breakdowns
• solving the challenges of scalability, audit control and how to manage data and emission factors

Whether you are at the limit of your spreadsheet or partway through building something internally, you will leave knowing what a move actually involves.

Meet the Speakers

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James Carter - Account Executive, Zevero (Moderator)

James is an Account Executive at Zevero, where he works with organisations across a range of industries to help them take practical climate action. Based in London, he is part of the UK commercial team and focuses on helping businesses understand where they are on their carbon journey, from setting up regular emissions tracking to preparing for new frameworks such as the B Corp recertification standards.

Nick Donoghue - Head of Product, Zevero

Nick is Head of Product at Zevero, where he leads the company’s global product strategy, roadmap and team. He brings more than 15 years of experience across corporate sustainability, supply chain management and ESG, including eight years developing software products and tools for enterprise customers. He focuses on building carbon data tools that support both sustainability commitments and commercial decision-making.

Before joining Zevero, Nick spent 15 months as Lead Product Manager at Novata, developing products across carbon accounting, supply chains and ESG reporting, and more than a decade at supply chain decarbonisation platform Manufacture 2030, now Secaro, where he rose to Chief Product Officer and helped grow the business through its Series A. Over his career, he has designed sustainability programmes and software tools for companies including Ford, GSK, P&G, Tesco, Toyota North America and Unilever, helping organisations and their suppliers measure and reduce Scope 3 emissions. He is also a co-founder of Scope3Navigator and has served as a domain expert for Carbon13.

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Molly Baxter - Sustainability Consultant, Zevero

Molly is a Sustainability Consultant at Zevero, where she works with clients to turn raw business activity data into accurate carbon footprints and advises them on emission reduction strategies. Drawing on GHG accounting principles and legislative frameworks, she helps companies set emission reduction targets and goals and take practical steps towards their sustainability commitments.

Before joining Zevero, Molly spent two years as a Corporate Sustainability Consultant at Sphera, where she led sustainability projects spanning carbon footprint, energy efficiency, water and waste for clients across diverse industries. She applied in-depth GHG Protocol knowledge to guide clients on emission factors and support their internal and external reporting, including alignment with standards such as GRI. Earlier in her career, she completed a placement in Unilever’s beauty and personal care digital technology team, evaluating more than seventy sustainability performance apps.