Scope 5 Joins Concur App Center to Help Customers Track Emissions Impact of Business Travel

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Scope 5 Joins Concur App Center to Help Customers Track Emissions Impact of Business Travel

Scope 5 and Concur integration

Scope 5 announced the integration of Scope 5 with Concur, the leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions. The integration is available in the Concur App Center. Scope 5’s integration with Concur makes it easier for sustainability professionals to track business travel emissions, giving corporate leaders valuable insights from sophisticated internal carbon accounting.

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Scope 5 Joins Concur App Center to Help Customers Track Emissions Impact of Business Travel

New Partnership Reflects Growing Need For Companies to Report Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions

Seattle, WA, December 6, 2016 – Scope 5, a pioneer of sustainability analytics software and services, announced today the integration of Scope 5 with Concur, the leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions. The integration is now available in the Concur App Center.

Scope 5’s integration with Concur makes it easier for sustainability professionals to track business travel emissions, giving corporate leaders valuable insights from sophisticated internal carbon accounting.

“Scope 5 is moving sustainability into the mainstream,” said Yoram Bernet, chief executive officer at Scope 5. “By partnering with market leaders like Concur, we make tracking emissions from business travel easy and remove a barrier to internal carbon accounting at the same time.”

“By partnering with innovators like Scope 5, we are building a connected platform that improves the experience for our corporate clients in powerful new ways like sustainability,” said John Gibbon, VP, Platform and Partner Solutions at Concur.

Scope 5 integration with Concur offers visibility and control over business travel-related greenhouse gas emissions. Travel information is instantly translated into emissions and other impacts, and categorized by a variety of parameters including class of travel, airline, geography, origin/destination city pairs, corporate department, date range and others. Rich data analytics and reporting scenarios become possible.

Offering apps with streamlined integration with Concur Travel, Expense and Invoice products, the Concur App Center delivers innovative functionality in key categories such as finance, regulatory compliance, enterprise identify, traveler productivity, travel management and much more. For more information, visit Scope 5 App Center listing.

About Scope 5

Scope 5 helps organizations improve environmental and economic impacts by tracking progress, revealing waste and driving action. Using Scope 5 Tracker™ technology, Scope 5 software can track any type of sustainability data at any scope by facility or product-line, and much more. Common examples include greenhouse gases (GHG), office buildings, business travel, supply chains, targets and forecasts, and public reporting. Learn more at www.www.scope5.com or contact us.

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It’s Up to Us Now: Use Transparency To Make Your Buying Decisions

As a gay person whose career is devoted to slowing/adapting to climate change, this presidential election is disturbing. I’ve had some time to sit with it and remain more focused and committed than ever to this path I’ve been on for some time.

To those Republicans who have said that with a smaller federal government, businesses can regulate themselves for the betterment of the community, now is a great chance to deliver on this promise. Businesses and consumers can make decisions that will speak just as loud as our now likely lost Federal regulations.

Fortunately, there are now international and national standards and technology that anyone can use to see which businesses are delivering on this promise – like CSRHUB and CDP.  Just search on the business to look up their ratings, and then decide if you wish to purchase something from this business or if you’d like to call their investor relations or CFO and do some direct advocacy.

Here are some questions you can ask medium and large companies:

  1. What was your company’s Scope One and Scope Two carbon footprint last year and the previous three years?
  2. What is the trend for the future?
  3. Do you have a sustainability department?
  4. How many people work in that department?
  5. What are your sustainability goals?
  6. You can also ask for numbers around diversity and other social metrics.

Asking these questions provides support to the people in these companies who are working to reduce environmental impact and improve social impact. For example, search on your most favorite online retailer in CDP or CSRHUB and you will likely see poor ratings. Figure out a way contact the companies “public affairs” or “customer relations” department to ask these questions.

Give voice to your values of transparency, measurement, and improvement.

Finally, we now have much better means of sharing our values are and talking about the companies we DO support. Please share this information on your own values and research widely.  Now is a great time for focused, direct advocacy. I’d love to follow and support your efforts, so connect with me via @DerekEisel

For a related talk I gave at BlinkThink before the election, which is even more relevant now, check out: