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Prepare your firm for the low-carbon future

Expanding regulations across Europe (CSRD, CSDDD) and the UK (SECR) will require your firm to complete extensive and auditable carbon disclosures in the near future – if not already.

Additionally, carbon data is vital for more than just compliance. Consumers, legislators, and investors are demanding that businesses reduce their climate impact, motivating your clients to seek sustainable business partners.

For your firm to stay compliant, retain existing business, and win new clients, it must demonstrate a robust carbon reduction strategy grounded in science-backed methods and trustworthy data.

Impacts

Although emissions are often overlooked, there is a huge growth opportunity for professional services to integrate sustainability into their core operations.

33%

of professional services industry executives see sustainability as the top priority to improve revenue growth.

SAP Insights

50%

of Gen Zs and 46% of millennials say they and their colleagues are pressuring businesses totake action on climate change.

Deloitte Global 2023 Gen Z and Millennial Survey

28%

Few businesses are calculating scope 3 emissions – the largest source of emissions for professional & legal services firms.

Normative’s Carbon Accountability Report

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“I recently helped a law firm identify business travel (scope 3.6) as an emissions hotspot. The firm is now using Normative’s data insights to engage its flight providers in emissions reduction!”

Mate Saric, Senior Climate Strategy Advisor at Normative 
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Normative was created 
to calculate emissions for firms like yours

For firms in the professional services sector, a large percentage of emissions tend to occur in scope 3 categories like “Purchased goods and services,” “Business travel,” and “Employee commuting.”

Normative’s carbon accounting engine specializes in calculating these scope 3 categories. By using Normative, you gain the granular scope 3 carbon insights necessary to:

  • Exceed client expectations

    Comprehensive carbon data empowers you to plan and verify your sustainability initiatives. Use your results to drive sustainable branding that will set you apart from competitors and help you win over new clients in RFPs.

  • Comply with legislation

    Normative’s Greenhouse Gas Protocol-based calculation methodology connects your business data to the most relevant and scientific emissions factors, from a database of 40,000+ factors. The result is transparent, compliance-grade, audit-ready carbon reporting. One Click Reporting accelerates the disclosure process for major EU and UK legislation.

  • Attract & retain talent

    Your firm’s top talent cares about your environmental stance. Your firm can use its climate work to prove to employees that it takes its environmental responsibility seriously – and therefore is an attractive place to stay for the long term.

With Normative insights, Deluxe reaches sustainability milestones

Learn how the media agency Deluxe uses carbon data to guide its emissions reduction work, and why Normative’s tech solutions and expert advice are so valuable for supporting this.

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Carbon insights to empower decarbonization and sustainable branding

  • Comprehensive carbon calculation
  • Expert support
  • Audit and compliance-ready