Emitpulse blog
Practitioner guides for sustainability and finance teams navigating CSRD ESRS E1, the SEC Climate Rule, GHG Protocol, and Scope 3 data collection. Written by people who've filed disclosures.
How CSRD Scope 3 Reporting Actually Works: A Practitioner's Guide
CSRD's ESRS E1 standard requires Scope 3 disclosure across 15 GHG Protocol categories. Here's what that means for your data collection process and what you can reasonably skip in year one.
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What Makes a Carbon Ledger Auditable? The Design Principles Behind Defensible Emissions Data
Auditors don't just want a number. They want a chain of custody from disclosed tonne back to source invoice. Here's how we designed Emitpulse's ledger to satisfy that requirement.
SEC Climate Disclosure Rule: What Finance Teams Actually Need to Prepare
The SEC's climate disclosure requirements have moved past legal debate. Finance controllers at US-listed companies need to know what Scope 1 and 2 materiality thresholds mean in practice.
Automating the ESG Report: From Data Ingestion to First Draft in Under Two Weeks
Sustainability managers spending eight weeks on a report that should take two: the bottleneck is almost always the same. Data scattered across five systems, no single ledger.
Supplier Emissions Data Collection: Why Most Scope 3 Category 1 Numbers Are Wrong
Purchased goods and services is typically the largest Scope 3 category and the hardest to measure. Spend-based approximations are a start, but here's when they break down and what to do instead.
Scope 2: Market-Based vs. Location-Based -- Which Method to Use and Why It Changes Your Numbers
The difference between market-based and location-based Scope 2 accounting can swing your reported emissions by 30-60% if you buy renewable energy certificates. Here's how to get it right.
Carbon Accounting for Mid-Market Companies: Why You Don't Need a Watershed Budget
Large-enterprise carbon accounting tools assume you have a dedicated 5-person sustainability team and a $200K software budget. Mid-market companies have neither. Here's a realistic path forward.
GHG Protocol Corporate Standard: The 20-Minute Primer for Finance and Sustainability Teams
The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard is the foundation under CSRD, SEC climate rules, CDP, and SBTi. If you're doing emissions accounting, you're using it whether you know it or not.
From Invoice Line Item to Emissions Factor: How the Data Pipeline Actually Works
Most companies know they need to track emissions from invoices. The mapping from spend data to tCO2e requires an emissions factor library, a classification system, and a versioning strategy.
ESG Disclosure Software: How to Evaluate What You Actually Need in 2026
The ESG software market has 80+ vendors and no standard terminology. Here's a framework for evaluating carbon accounting and disclosure tools based on what disclosure mandates actually require.