Use cases

The platform in use

cero.earth is already deployed across public and private sector organisations of different sizes, sectors and levels of sustainability maturity. These examples show the platform in use — the challenges it addresses, how it is configured and what it delivers.

Public sector

Strategic · Co-development

Building the platform local authorities actually need — with a local authority

Working with Peterborough City Council and backed by UKRI Innovate UK, edenseven co-developed cero.earth as a purpose-built system for local authorities — covering carbon accounting at organisational and area-wide level, pathway modelling, action planning, project tracking and stakeholder communication.

  • Single platform for organisational and area-wide emissions
  • Decarbonisation pathway modelling and scenario analysis
  • Collaborative action planning and project tracking across directorates
  • Stakeholder reporting for funders, members and residents
Area-wide emissionsAction planningInnovate UK

Public sector

Managed

Managing a complex local authority state with hundreds of different assets

A county council needed to rebuild emissions reporting from the ground up — Scope 1, 2 and 3 from primary activity data — while future-proofing its framework against structural changes that would alter its reporting boundaries and tracking hotspots across service areas.

  • GHG Protocol-aligned Scope 1, 2 and 3 baseline established
  • Reporting framework future-proofed for reorganisation
  • Hotspot tracking and intervention forecasting by service area
  • Supplier engagement tools deployed for Scope 3
Scope 1/2/3Scenario modellingLGR

Public sector

Managed

Sustainability data management across a large, operationally complex national estate

A government-funded public body with statutory responsibilities across Great Britain needed to consolidate sustainability data from multiple operational systems into a coherent, auditable emissions framework — reducing manual processing and giving leadership a consistent view of performance.

  • Multi-source data consolidated into one GHG Protocol-aligned dataset
  • Manual processing significantly reduced
  • Audit-ready emissions reporting for government
Scope 1/2/3Data integrationGovernment reporting

Infrastructure

Managed

Measuring, managing and driving down emissions across a major European data centre portfolio

A leading data centre colocation provider with sites across the UK and France needed a single platform to measure carbon emissions and electricity consumption, track SBTi commitments and produce combined SECR and CFD reporting in one annual cycle.

  • Full Scope 1, 2 and 3 managed across UK and France
  • SBTi trajectory tracked quarterly against energy investments
  • SECR and CFD combined into one annual reporting cycle
SBTiSECR · CFDMulti-countryEnergy management

Retail

Managed

Asset-level emissions and supplier engagement across a national supermarket estate

A major UK food retailer with hundreds of locations needed to move beyond high-level estimates to a granular, store-by-store view of its emissions — with energy benchmarking across a large estate and supplier engagement tools to replace spend-based Scope 3 estimates with verified data over time.

  • Store-level energy benchmarking across the full portfolio
  • Scope 3 supplier engagement replacing estimates with verified data
  • Shared emissions view for sustainability and commercial teams
Scope 1/2/3Store energySupplier engagementCSRD

Transport

Managed

Full carbon accounting across a major train operator — operations, stations and traction energy

A major regional train operator needed a GHG Protocol-aligned emissions model covering its full footprint — electric and diesel traction by route and fleet type, stations and depots — producing repeatable outputs aligned to Department for Transport reporting requirements.

  • Route and fleet-level traction energy model built
  • Full Scope 3 supply chain measured alongside operations
  • Repeatable DfT-aligned reporting framework for the franchise cycle
Scope 1/2/3Traction energyDfT reportingRail

Technology

Managed

Scaling carbon reporting to match acquisition-led growth across multiple geographies

A global technology and creative services business growing rapidly through acquisition needed to replace manual, spreadsheet-based GHG reporting with a scalable, audit-ready platform — covering multiple countries, regulatory frameworks and ERP data sources in a single consistent methodology.

  • ERP integration replacing manual data collection
  • Consistent methodology across all acquired entities
  • CSRD, CFD and CDP outputs from one verified dataset
CSRD · CFD · CDPMulti-entityERP integration

Financial services

Managed

Annual emissions baselining and ESG tracking for a growing UK fintech

A UK-based payments and EV infrastructure business needed to baseline its Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, establish sustainability KPIs meaningful to its customers and investors, and demonstrate credible progress on a rolling annual basis.

  • GHG Protocol-aligned baseline across all three scopes
  • Custom sustainability KPI framework established
  • Annual ESG report for customers, investors and partners
ESG reportingScope 1/2/3Annual tracking

Technology

Essential + Advisory

First carbon footprint and sustainability strategy for a global software business

A California-headquartered cybersecurity company with 20 offices and a global data centre network needed its first complete carbon baseline, a sector benchmark and a board-endorsed sustainability roadmap — with no prior emissions measurement in place.

  • Full Scope 1, 2 and 3 baseline including edge infrastructure
  • Sector benchmarking against industry peers
  • Board-endorsed reduction roadmap delivered
Scope 1/2/3BenchmarkingStrategyBoard reporting

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