Sustainability Manager: 8-Week Net Zero Advisor Implementation

To help companies efficiently track, monitor, report, and – most importantly – reduce their greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions, RSM is offering an 8-week Net Zero Advisor Implementation, leveraging the Microsoft Sustainability Manager to enable companies to assess, track, calculate, visualize, and report on their Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and develop, plan, and implement their Net Zero strategies.

This assessment will review the current state of your company’s GHG inventory and enable the use of the robust out-of-the-box functionality of the Microsoft Sustainability Manager with the option to expand functionality based on business needs. A typical engagement would comprise the following and would be tailored by company:

• Review company reporting goals, focusing on operations and activities that need to be reported
• Assess business requirements and confirm the following out-of-the-box functionalities are a match to develop a capability roadmap to provide a timeline for any additional functionality needs
• Reports (excel based emissions reports)
  
• Models
  
• Calculation Profiles
  
• Power BI Dashboards
  

• Leverage trusted and reputable GHG factor libraries, such as the US EPA emissions factor library, and the GHG Protocol methodology as the basis to calculate emissions
• Provide import templates to collect pertinent business activities, facility, and corporate structure data
• Ability to build connections to aggregate data
• Flat File (Excel / .csv)
• PDF
• API Connection to an Internal or External System (e.g., utility portal)
• Import, aggregate, calculate, and review GHG emissions profile to develop baseline and additional reporting year carbon emission inventories
• Track your GHG reductions in line with GHG net zero targets to estimate impacts of reduction efforts over the short, medium, and long term.
• Develop dashboard to enable easy visualization and consumption of GHG data

How A Project Looks:

RSM’s 8-week Net Zero Advisor Implementation is completed in a phased approach. A high-level scope to a typical project includes the following:

• Phase 1 – Technology Roadmap & Initial Implementation [~2 – 3 Weeks]:
• Gather business requirements for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
• Develop a technology roadmap that will guide the development of immediate and long-term functionality of the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability solution, including governance considerations
• Implementation of the core functionality of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
• Phase 2 – Integrations [~2 – 3 Weeks]:
• Integration of internal and/or external data systems (typically based on top connections by volume)
• Perform testing on the API integrations to ensure consistency and completeness

** Note – the effort needed to create connections varies for each company and is dependent upon the source(s) and state of the available data. Historical data can be imported using a flat file

• Phase 3 – Inventory Development & Net Zero Advisor Set Up [~1 – 2 Weeks]:
• GHG inventory development based on collected data
• Review of inventory against GHG Protocol methodology
• Identification of areas of highest emissions and areas of reduction

Key Deliverables:

At the end of the engagement your company will have:

• A GHG emissions inventory for the selected years (and associated available data)
• Access to the Microsoft Sustainability Manager tool kit and inventory
• Connections to select internal and/or external data systems
• Your company data visible in the existing out-of-the-box dashboards
• Ability to provide a GHG emissions report using the existing out-of-the-box excel report

*Pricing and duration will vary based on implementation scope

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