Sustainability Software

The collection, management, analysis and reporting of GHG and sustainability data is a growing challenge for post-secondary institutions. As colleges and universities strive to become more sustainable through campus-wide initiatives spanning all areas of their operations and curricula, most institutions are struggling to fully track, measure, and report their sustainability performance.

CarbonSolve™ from Campus Climate Solutions enables colleges and universities to improve their sustainability performance by providing solutions for managing institutions’ carbon, energy and environmental resource impacts.

Key Features

  • Affordability – A cost-effective, modular automation tool to easily make the shift to being more sustainable.
  • Automation – Automation of data collection, calculation, and analysis saves time and resources and dramatically reduces errors related to the use of manually- intensive spreadsheets.
  • End to End Solution – For carbon, sustainability and CSR.
  • Identify Hotspots – Identify energy, emissions and environmental resource cost centers within the organization.
  • Auditor Capability – Automated internal or third party verification process.
  • Integration – Custom APIs can pull requisite data from existing systems.
  • Stakeholder Engagement – Tools to engage students and staff in university sustainability initiatives.
  • Turnkey solution - Software as a service (SaaS) solution built on Microsoft’s .NET framework.
  • Standards - Fully aligned with ISO 14064 and GHG Protocol.
Designed for Higher Education
Post-secondary institutions’ climate action and sustainability efforts reflect their distinct drivers and priorities, and CarbonSolve™ is the only software on the market designed to meet higher education’s unique GHG and sustainability assessment and reporting needs. Our new higher education specific features include:

  • Full support for STARS® participants and ACUPCC Signatories
  • The ability to collect and track key education-related data and metrics, such as student population, endowment, research and curricula initiatives, etc.
  • Additional tools to support campus-wide sustainability initiatives such as energy competitions and awareness campaigns involving students, faculty and staff.

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Measure and Track Sustainability

CarbonSolve™ makes it easy to establish a credible inventory and benchmark of an organization’s sustainability efforts, as well as track ongoing sustainability performance across several activities including energy, transportation, employee travel, waste, wastewater, and material use.

  • Reduce the complexity of carbon accounting and sustainability assessment by providing a single centralized system to enter, consolidate, and store campus sustainability data and information.
  • Track all activities and assets that have an energy, carbon, or environmental impact across multiple facilities and locations. while eliminating the need for cumbersome spreadsheets.
  • Enable campus-wide participation in the data collection process with a simple tool that allows users to input sustainability data using any web-enabled device (cell phone, computer, etc.).
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Set and Meet Sustainability Goals

CarbonSolve™ takes the 80-20 view to implementing sustainability strategies – we help you focus on the 20% of activities that have 80% of the impact and build a strategy around that. Our software helps colleges and universities improve sustainability performance by providing decision-makers with the tools they need to

  • Identify and evaluate cost reduction and resource optimization opportunities
  • Analyze the impact of potential strategies before taking action with CarbonSolve’s scenario modeling functionalities
  • Develop an effective strategy for energy and emissions reduction across an entire enterprise based on financial and operational parameters,
  • Model and implement sustainability strategies and make progress toward meeting your institution’s carbon, water, waste, and other sustainability related goals.
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Report and Monitor Performance

By transforming campus sustainability objectives into measurable metrics and trackable processes, CarbonSolve helps institutions monitor their sustainability performance, meet GHG and sustainability reporting requirements, and engage in ongoing sustainability goal communication by making it possible to:

  • Continually monitor progress using a customizable dashboard that provides ongoing, real-time snapshots of emissions and other sustainability metrics against internal targets and benchmarks.
  • Generate sustainability reports on demand, shorten reporting cycles, comply with mandatory and voluntary reporting requirements, and effectively communicate sustainability performance to key stakeholders

 

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