Your biggest emission sources, impossible to miss.
The few categories behind most of your footprint stand out first, so your reduction measures go where they count.
A CO₂ footprint for the ladder, Scope 3 included
Ready for the auditor's first question.
Open any tonne and see the sum behind it, where the emission factor comes from, who entered it and every change since.
See what changed since last year.
Every source against the year before, in total, per employee and per million revenue, so each audit starts from a clear comparison.
What ladder 4.0 asks for, and where Greener Ahead does the work.
Version 4.0 has three tredes instead of five levels. The emission inventory and the targets and plan come out of the product; the management system, communication and the audit stay with you and your adviser.
- Trede 1
Your own operations
- Scope 1 and 2 emission inventoryFrom your bills, fuel cards and meters, with the Dutch national factor list
- Quantified reduction targetsClimate strategy
- Trede 2
Your value chain
- Scope 3 emissions, all fifteen categoriesCalculated from your records or added from a study
- Your suppliers' own figuresThrough a supplier portal in their language
- Targets and a plan for the medium term
- Trede 3
Towards zero
- Scope 1, 2 and 3 targets towards zero
- A pathway to your target yearActions priced by what they cost and save
- Your part
Not in the product: yours or your adviser's
- The energy and CO₂ management system
- Value chain analyses as documents
- Communication, participation and the audit
How it works
- Footprint
Calculate Scope 1, 2 and 3.
From your energy bills, fuel cards and purchase records, with factors from the Dutch national list that the ladder sets as standard, and the source behind every tonne, so your certifying body can follow any figure.
- Suppliers
Bring in your suppliers' figures.
Suppliers answer in a portal of their own, in their own language, and their figures replace your spend estimates for what you buy from them.
- Plan
Set targets and a plan that adds up.
A target checked against the SBTi criteria, actions priced by what they cost and save, and your progress measured every year against your footprint.
Reduction targets and a plan that reaches them
Every target, against the plan.
Your company target and your scope targets side by side, each with the cut it needs, what your plan delivers and whether it is on track.
Progress every year, measured.
What changed since last year and whether the plan still reaches the target, ready for your next audit.
Targets checked before you commit to them.
See how your targets score against the SBTi criteria and what to settle first. Validation itself is done by the SBTi.
Meet Sprout, the sustainability expert in your team
Sprout
Show our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions for 2026 as a bar chart
Your approved 2026 footprint is 8,935 tonnes CO₂e, most of it in Scope 3.
A great solution, for the best price
TrialGet started
What you get:
- Every module you can buy, in full
- Read only when the trial ends, not deleted
Carbon accountingGet started
What you get:
- Your whole footprint. Scope 1, 2 and all 15 Scope 3 categories, under the GHG Protocol
- Works with what you have. Litres, kilowatt hours and kilometres, or spend, floor area and flight routes where a bill is missing
- AI on your side. Suggests the category for every spend line, you confirm
- Beyond spend estimates. Suppliers answer in their own language, and their figures replace your estimates
- Commuting from your staff. One survey link, and the answers become your commuting figures
- Figures you can defend. Every tonne traces to its record and emission factor, with checks before you approve
- Green power counts. Your renewable electricity contracts, beside the location-based figure
- Everyone does their part. An owner and a due date for every source
- Ready to share. A carbon report in four designs and seven languages, plus a one-page certificate
- Linked to your report. Your approved footprint fills your VSME and CSRD reports
- See the trend. Changes against last year, per employee and per million revenue
- Unlimited users. No per-seat pricing
- Controlled access. Roles, and guest access that expires on its own
- Full history. Every change recorded: who, what, when, and from where
- No lock-in. Your inventory and emission factors out as Excel
Voluntary Sustainability Reporting CompleteGet started
What you get:
- Voluntary Sustainability Reporting
- Carbon accounting
- Climate strategy
CSRD CompleteGet started
What you get:
- CSRD reporting
- Carbon accounting
- Climate strategy
Prices in EUR, excluding VAT. Plans and SSO are billed annually.
Frequently asked questions
Find answers to your questions right here, and contact us if you cannot find what you are looking for.
When do we have to move to version 4.0?
Certification under handbook 3.1 is possible until 14 January 2027; after that, every certification is against 4.0. Check the date that applies to your certificate with your certifying body.
Is Greener Ahead certified for the CO₂ Performance Ladder?
No. Certification is done by an accredited certifying body against SKAO's handbook. Greener Ahead gives you the emission inventory and the reduction targets and plan the audit looks at. The energy and CO₂ management system, the value chain analyses, communication and participation remain your own work or your adviser's.
Which emission factors do you use?
For activities in the Netherlands, the national list at co2emissiefactoren.nl, which the ladder handbook sets as the standard values. Where that list has no factor, Carbon accounting uses another recognised source and names it on the line, so you can show your certifying body where it comes from and why.
We work with a CO₂ adviser. Does this replace them?
No, invite them. Users are unlimited, so your adviser works in the same footprint and plan as you, and spends their time on advice instead of spreadsheets.
What data do we need?
The records you already keep: energy and fuel bills, fuel cards, travel bookings, purchase and waste records. Where a bill is missing, spend, floor area or a flight route fills the gap, and the footprint says which figures are estimates.
Which Scope 3 categories can we calculate?
All fifteen categories of the GHG Protocol are covered. Nine are calculated for you from your records; the other six come in from a study you add, with its method and evidence.
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