Every year, thousands of companies use the Envirometer to determine their environmental score and carbon footprint. Sometimes, it is used to calculate a baseline, but more often it is used as an annual monitoring tool and registration tool for an environmental management system. The Envirometer is user-friendly, flexible and reliable.
You can enter data like electricity, fuel, water and waste. The list of required data provides an overview of the necessary and optional data for completing the Envirometer. Additional information and hints can be found in the sidebar when you enter your data. You can also add notes for each item.
You start with a selection of items of relevance to your industry. With the finetuning option, you easily add missing items to your list and remove items that are not applicable. There are more than two hundred items available.
The graphs are the most powerful tool in the Envirometer. The Envirometer shows which themes have the greatest environmental impact, as well as your environmental priorities. The CO2 meter and the expense graphs show where the greatest savings can be achieved in terms of CO2 emissions and financial gains.
> In 2017, business travel and commuting accounted for 82% of the environmental burden for Stimular
The Envirometer offers averages for more than fifteen industries. You can compare your business with the industry average (a comparison is made per m2, number of employees, turnover or production volume depending on the industry). This gives you a useful estimate to help you determine which themes give you the highest efficiency gains.
> In 2017, Stimular’s environmental impact per m2 was less than 50% compared to the average office
The Envirometer allows you to generate a carbon footprint that will help you become more environmentally conscious.
> In 2017, Stimular’s carbon footprint generated 12,2 tonnes of CO2. Stimular purchased CO2 compensation rights to mitigate the effect of its remaining carbon emissions.
Key Performance indicators help you find opportunities to improve your efficiency. The Envirometer has a large number of indicators. Examples included sorted waste (%), electricity consumption per surface area and m2 solar cells to offset CO2 emissions. You select the indicators that you consider most relevant.
> Stimular used finetuning to select 12 indicators as being the most informative. This table illustrates the indicator values of two years plus the average office. The Stimular scores are generally above average.
With the Envirometer you can keep track of saving measures and see which ones are already done and which ones needs to be done. At every measure you can add a year and a note. The measures which are requited by law you can recognize with the dark blue symbol of the Dutch government. These are mainly the measures you have to report about in the Informatieplicht.
With the PDF report generator, you can produce an Envirometer report like the example on the right: simple, colourful and useful for presenting your results to others. You can choose the elements (graphs, tables, the original data) that are included in the report. You can also export individual graphs in several formats or export the numbers as a spreadsheet.
The settings option allows you to add new years or new environments for other company locations. You can also add accounts for other users. Each user can be assigned specific rights; for example, you can give the administration the right to enter data and give the location manager a read-only account.
When you add several years’ worth of data to the Envirometer, the outcome of the implemented measures will be presented in the form of graphs and indicators. These graphs and reports allow you to communicate your results effectively to your employees, customers and clients.
“One of the keystones of the Envirometer is to visualize everything. So what you can see you can actually do something about it. When you don’t see it, you can't do anything.”
Henrik Andersen, Energy manager,
Community of Aalborg, Denmark