An emissions inventory that survives an auditor's first question.
CBAM declarations, BRSR disclosures, and buyer questionnaires all trace back to the same number: your Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. If that number is not built from real activity data, everything downstream inherits the weakness.
In short
GHG accounting measures a company's greenhouse gas emissions across Scope 1 (direct), Scope 2 (purchased energy), and Scope 3 (value chain) categories, following a protocol such as the GHG Protocol or ISO 14064. Prakrti builds these inventories from plant-level activity data for Indian manufacturers, producing figures usable in CBAM declarations, BRSR filings, and buyer disclosures.
Why estimation fails downstream
A GHG inventory built on industry-average emission factors and rough activity estimates looks complete but does not hold up when a buyer, verifier, or regulator asks for source data. CBAM in particular requires installation-level emissions once default values are no longer permitted for a given importer; BRSR assurance requirements are moving the same direction domestically. An inventory has to be traceable back to fuel bills, meter readings, and production records, not just plausible.
This matters commercially, not just for compliance. An EU importer without your verified data falls back to CBAM default values, which run 30 to 80 percent above most Indian producers' actual emissions. That gap becomes a certificate cost your buyer weighs against your competitor's quote.
How we build the inventory
We set the organisational and operational boundary first — which facilities, which processes, which gases. Scope 1 covers combustion and process emissions on site. Scope 2 covers purchased electricity and steam, calculated against grid or supplier-specific factors. Scope 3 covers the value chain: purchased materials, transport, waste, and use of sold products, scoped to the categories material to your sector.
Activity data comes from your records — fuel consumption, electricity bills, production volumes, logistics data — matched to emission factors appropriate to your process and geography, not generic global averages where a better factor exists. Every figure in the final inventory traces back to a source document.
What you get
A documented inventory with methodology notes, data sources, and boundary definitions, structured so it can feed directly into a CBAM declaration, a BRSR disclosure, an EcoVadis submission, or a buyer questionnaire without being rebuilt each time.
Common questions
What is the difference between Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions?
Scope 1 covers direct emissions from sources a company owns or controls, such as fuel combustion on site. Scope 2 covers emissions from purchased electricity, steam, or heat. Scope 3 covers all other emissions in the value chain, including purchased materials, transport, and the use of sold products — typically the largest and hardest category to measure for manufacturers.
Which protocol does Prakrti use for GHG accounting?
Inventories are built to recognised standards such as the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and ISO 14064, selected based on which disclosure or declaration the inventory needs to feed — CBAM, BRSR, or a buyer-specific format.
How long does a GHG inventory take to build?
Timeline depends on data availability and facility count. A single-site inventory with organised utility and production records can move faster than a multi-site group with fragmented data; the majority of the time on most engagements goes into locating and validating source data, not calculation.
Can a small manufacturer with no prior emissions data start a GHG inventory?
Yes. Most manufacturers start with no formal inventory. The process begins with existing records — electricity bills, fuel purchase invoices, production logs — rather than requiring new instrumentation before work can start.
Does a GHG inventory expire?
It needs to be updated each reporting period as activity data changes, and revisited when production processes, fuel mix, or facility boundaries change materially.
Build an inventory that holds up
Send us your facility details and current data situation. We will tell you what is missing before you find out from an auditor.
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