Creative Climate Tools

Whether you are reporting as an organisation or individual, on a project basis or overall activity, the Creative Climate Tools will support you to measure your impacts and decided on what action to take next. The first step of this journey is collecting the data needed for your carbon footprint:

• Identify your activities – Start by identifying which activities your organisation takes part in and needs to measure. Have a look at our “What are Buildings and Projects? And which footprint type should I pick?” FAQ.
• Engage stakeholders with information – You will not always have direct access to data readily available so make sure you liaise and create contacts with those who have the information that you need. For example, your Facilities Manager for utilities or your Travel Agent for business travel.
• Collect the correct data – Make sure that you are collecting the correct data points so that the tools can convert your activity into emissions. Explore the Creative Climate Tools or our Data collection Template to work out what you need to collect for your different impact areas and use the information icons above the label names to find out where to collect this data.
• Measure what you can – Do not worry about getting a complete picture of your emissions the first time around. It is important to focus on the most significant impact areas over the small details. Momentum over perfection. Your data completeness will build up over time as data points become easier to gather.

Check out our offline data collection template to help you get started:

DATA COLLECTION TEMPLATE

Once you have identified what you need to measure and started collecting information, you can begin to enter your data into the CC Tools Footprints and Beyond Carbon.

• Footprints are where you can enter the data related to your activities that can be can converted into emissions.
• Beyond Carbon is where you can track what you are doing around sustainability that goes beyond the numbers. Organisations are engaged in all sorts of activities further than tracking emissions such as programming work exploring the climate crisis and working on local projects with their communities. Beyond Carbon gives you the opportunity to record and showcase the creative action you are taking.

We have lots of resources to support you with entering your data:

HOW-TO CC TOOLS BITESIZE VIDEOS

CC TOOLS FAQs

CREATIVE CLIMATE TOOLS USER GUIDES

Once you have finished completing your carbon footprint and press submit, your emissions will become visible in the CC Tools Results pages.

We encourage you to use these pages to interrogate your data:

• Use the Summary page to identify your organisation’s biggest impact areas
• Use the Compare page to pinpoint your emissions reductions/increases year-on-year
• Use the Details page for a more detailed view of your individual reports and to delve deeper into which activities are contributing the most emissions within your impact areas.

Understand where you can make changes that reduce your footprint the most.

Watch our Submission, Results & Beyond Carbon Bitesize Video

Check out the latest annual report

Use your data to make an updated environmental action plan. Share your activities. Work out your next steps. 

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND ACTION PLAN GUIDE

COMMUNICATING SUSTAINABILITY GUIDE

For further resources to support you with taking in action to reduce a particular impact or find sector-specific guidance, check out the CC Tools Links page.