Good math makes for great momentum.

Data is an undeniably powerful tool for driving change. We harness it (and let you harness it, too) to accelerate climate action, achieve business goals, and implement strategic climate change initiatives. Our data allows small and medium businesses like yours to accurately measure the impact of your climate-related actions—on the planet and on your bottom line as well.

The Numbers

Climate Smart businesses are making serious climate strides

24%: Average emissions reduction against baseline
$4.7M: Total cost savings to date
1002: Businesses trained
$5.5M: Projected total invested in GHG reduction projects

Business Energy & Emissions Profiles (BEEPs) are helping communities lead the charge

24: BEEPs completed for communities across North America
413K+: North American businesses included in BEEP data
32M: Potential tonnes of CO₂ reductions

If you want to talk about numbers, we never tire of it.

BEEP Case Studies

Victoria
City designs first carbon map of business greenhouse gas emissions

As the climate action manager for the City of Victoria - the commercial hub of the capital region - Allison Ashcroft knew that she needed to engage the business community. As the one person on the city’s sustainability team, she also knew that she needed help. With her background as an accountant, Allison turned to data - and data that would inspire.
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Vancouver
Business data moves cities towards big carbon emissions goals

To become the greenest city in the world. It’s tough to create an environmental goal much bigger. Yet Vancouver declared that goal in 2011, and has not only been working towards it ever since, it committed in 2015 to getting its energy from 100 percent renewable sources.
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York Region
Green business groups rally local companies and governments around carbon emissions using BEEP data

Brent Kopperson knows firsthand how difficult it is to engage businesses on the topic of sustainability. Before becoming an environmental leader in 1998, he founded and served as an executive with multiple companies, including an entertainment merchandising company that worked with such artists as Madonna, U2 and Bruce Springsteen.
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Use Climate Smart data to drive your innovation.

Heads up businesses!

Our award-winning Climate Smart training & certification program helps you measure your emissions baseline and produce your own data to power change.
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Muncipalities, take note!

Our Business Energy & Emissions Profile (BEEP) projects possibilities to help you motivate your local business community to take collective action on climate change.
Learn about BEEP

Incomparably rich data sets that power climate action

Our data set is exclusive and robust. It’s the ever-evolving product of over a decade helping small and medium businesses measure and reduce their carbon footprints. We’ve used it to develop some seriously impressive tools (if we do say so ourselves) that support climate action, identify opportunities for carbon cutting and cost savings, and cultivate climate change leaders in businesses of all kinds across North America.

Reduce carbon emissions and related costs
Achieve sustainability and carbon reduction goals
Engage communities, clients, and networks in climate reduction initiatives
Develop leaders inside business and government who advocate for a low-carbon economy

Government Partnership

Low Carbon Economy Fund

Together with the Government of Canada’s Low Carbon Economy Fund, Climate Smart developed a ground-breaking portfolio featuring 5 projects in four participating businesses and 3 industries (transportation, recreation, and real estate). Our aim is to accelerate Canada’s transition to a low carbon future. And we’re doing it.

These key facts and figures still give us goosebumps. The progress makes us proud.

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$6.8M: investment, 50%-75% by the businesses themselves
1.3M+: tonnes CO₂ equivalent reduced over the lifetime of the projects
306K+ GJ: reduction in energy consumed
700: jobs created by project implementation

Industry Briefs

Our numbers tell stories.
And they’re really compelling.

200 Million Tonnes of Opportunity

How small and medium-sized businesses can drive Canadian clean growth.
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New Climate Partnerships

How local governments, financial institutions, and transportation hubs are reaching beyond their operational and supply chain carbon emissions and investing in their tenants and clients to help them reduce costs and carbon.
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Food and Beverage Industry Brief

Greenhouse gas emission inventories and reduction strategies for 770+ food and beverage industry businesses.
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Construction & Real Estate Industry Brief

How SMEs measure up in the construction sector.
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Offices Industry Brief

How office-based businesses, which comprise over three-quarters of Canadian businesses—measure up.
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Beyond Big: Small Businesses, Greenhouse Gases, and Competitive Advantage

GHG management among Climate Smart certified SMEs
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Are Small-to-Mid Sized Businesses the Catalyst to a Low Carbon Economy in BC?

A ground-breaking Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) data publication and collaboration.
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