From targets to actions to disclosure. Is your transition plan aligned?
Over the past 15 years, carbon accounting has become a must for organizations mindful of the climate impact of their activities. Indeed, many of them voluntarily disclose their GHG emissions and management practices. However, accounting and GHG emissions disclosure practices can differ from one company to another, and global emissions are still growing despite companies’ commitments.
In parallel, new concepts, needs and tools have emerged that should help reverse this trend: Science-Based Targets, Carbon Management System, carbon pricing, new metrics for investors and so on.
The strength of the ACT initiative is that it adopts a holistic approach to assessing how ready a company is to transition to a low-carbon economy: the level of ambition of the climate strategy is analysed against the low-carbon benchmark relevant for the company, as well as the actions that the company effectively takes in response to this strategy.
A company’s ACT assessment report supports dialogue with shareholders, provides relevant inputs for climate reporting consistent with TCFD recommendation and NFRD directive and brings credibility to company’s climate communication.
Training sessions
Fully facilitated training sessions (currently remote). Facilitators have been involved in the ACT assessment methodologies development.- For a detailed program and to register for the next sessions to become an ACT Assessor, contact us
- For a detailed program and to register for the next companies’ training session, contact us
Tools licenses
Although you will get a chance to use the tools during the training sessions, once you start an ACT Assessment project you will need to take the corresponding tool licenses.- Tool licenses are free for companies implementing the methodology internally (not commercializing services or products related to ACT Assessment)
- Tools licenses costs start from 1500€/year for consultancies. Contacts us for more details and to get your license.
Methodologies
You can already deep dive into ACT Assessment methodologies and find out how sector specific indicators will be calculated for your company. If you want to understand how these methodologies have been developed the ACT Framework and Guidelines can be of interest.Communicate your ACT Assessment results
- If you want to make public your ACT Assessment results you’ll need a third-party audit.
Understand the approach with the ACT development project
This e-learning is made of 14 videos and was developed during the pilot phase of the ACT initiative (2018). It includes key aspects to understand the ACT approach as well as an overview of the first three developed methodologies for the Automotive Manufacturing, Electric Utilities and Retail sectors.
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KEY CONCEPTS
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ACT Assessment methodologies and summaries
The reporting boundaries of the ACT methodologies for a given sector shall be determined by the sector’s most significant emissions sources, according to the principle of Relevance. These significant emissions sources can be located all along the value chain of the organization. This means that both direct and indirect (value chain) emissions shall be included when relevant.
Below are summaries and methodologies of the ACT Assessment sector. Upcoming methodologies can be downloaded at Resources / ACT Methodologies.
ACT Auto
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for the Automobile Manufacturing sector.
ACT Electric Utility
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for the Electric Utility sector.
ACT Retail
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for the Retail sector.
ACT Cement
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for the Cement sector.
ACT Transport
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for the Transport sector.
ACT Oil & Gas
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for Oil & Gas sector.
ACT Iron & Steel
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for the Iron & Steel sector.
ACT Aluminium
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for the Aluminium sector.
ACT Pulp & Paper
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for Pulp and Paper sector.
ACT Real Estate
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for Real Estate sector.
ACT Building
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for Building sector.
ACT Property Developer
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for Property Developer sector.
ACT Agri & Agro
Methodology summary coming soon.
ACT Glass
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology and summary for Glass sector.
ACT Chemicals
Methodology summary coming soon.
ACT Generic
This document presents the ACT assessment methodology to assess companies operating in a large and various range of activities all along the value chain.
Need clarification about ACT Assessment sectoral methodologies?
ACT currently covers high-impact climate sectors. If you are not sure about which methodology applies to your business or if you want to know more about ACT sectoral methodology development (ICT, Financial Institutions, Public infrastructures, etc..) contact us using the form below.
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