Pilot Adoption
Interested in running a pilot in your business, not-for-profit, or government organization?
While any organization can benefit from E-ledgers adoption, organizations that make good pilot sites for the approach include:
Those with significant upstream and direct emissions for a given product or service.
Those with a potential competitive advantage in GHG emissions from their own production and/or supply chain.
Those facing pressure from customers, investors, and other stakeholders to deliver better value on emissions.
What does an E-liability pilot look like?
The goal of an E-liability pilot is to help an organization build a first iteration of a real-time, management-information system on the carbon content of its inputs, processes, and outputs.
Pilots should ideally compare more than one product or service, and consider how to engage and align relevant tiers of suppliers to get buy-in. Pilots are driven by an internal project team within the pilot organization, with support from the E-ledgers Institute. Generally, pilots take six months from initial scoping to completion, though this can be shorter depending on incentive alignment and data availability.
After securing an initial internal team for the pilot, the next stage usually involves scoping the pilot. This starts with mapping cradle-to-gate production processes for the chosen product or service to identify major emissions sources and then proceeds to engage with the relevant members of the supply chain as potential partners on the pilot.
Thereafter begins the data collection phase. Key emitters in the value chain are encouraged to calculate primary emissions data at the relevant batch level. Then, using parallels to cost accounting methods, participating pilot companies are asked to allocate those emissions, together with any available emissions from their inputs, to their relevant outputs. This process iterates a few times during the pilot, to enable systemwide learning of the approach involved as well as improved data quality.
A pilot as described above provides organizations with a clearer understanding of what it will take to make energy efficiency a basis for competitive differentiation. The E-ledgers Institute usually helps the pilot organization analyze and disseminate the learnings from a pilot both internally and externally.
How does the E-ledgers Institute support the pilot?
We provide pro-bono advice to organizations interested in deploying the E-ledgers approach in pilot studies. We also disseminate the results of these studies to encourage other organizations and policymakers to embrace E-ledgers principles.
Pilot Resources
We work closely with all of our pilots throughout every stage of the process, from scoping to final presentation. You can find materials we use to kick-start our pilot projects below:
Pilot Playbook
The playbook provides a step-by-step framework for organizations on how to pilot and implement the E-liability method for accurately tracking emissions through complex supply chains. It sets out key processes, considerations, and actions to successfully implement the E-liability approach, as well as supporting documents and FAQ.
Pilot Feasibility Charter
This charter helps us to jointly determine the focus, scope, and feasibility of an E-liability or E-ledger (i.e., E-liability and E-asset) pilot in your organization.
Sample Emissions Worksheet
The Sample Emissions Worksheet is a simple annotated sample activity-based costing spreadsheet. This is intended to be a basic template to begin the process of collating and analyzing external and internal emissions data according to activity-based cost accounting standards.
Pilot Completion Report Template
The Institute seeks to capture the learnings and insights from pilots via a post-pilot report. The purpose of this report is to summarize the objectives, design, processes, and insights from the completed pilot project.