Carbon Management Software Solution

How Avarni leverages AI to make better carbon management software

Automatic emissions categorisation

With Avarni, you simply upload your financial / procurement data and the natural language processing AI takes it from there. There is no manual mapping or categorisation required — Avarni automatically recognises which emission factor a category should map to, even if it has never seen a category before because the AI has been trained on millions of lines of real procurement data and learns in real-time.

Supplier sustainability insights

Avarni's AI-powered web crawler indexes public statements made by companies in regards to their sustainability initiatives. This includes SBTIs, reported emissions, emission reduction strategies, and key sentences mentioning net zero, ESG, etc. This provides you with actionable insights that can be used to understand your suppliers' operations and create data-driven decarbonisation strategies for your organisation.

Complete emissions calculation

Automate your carbon inventory calculations

Avarni completely automates the process of Scope 1-3 emissions analysis from spend & activity data, using a proprietary world-first natural language processing AI, compliant with the GHG Protocol. Analyse the emissions hotspots in your supply chain no matter what the structure or taxonomy of your input data is, and easily export data for reporting purposes under frameworks such as CDP, GRI and TCFD.

Vendor engagement

Invite suppliers to measure & report emissions for free

Work with your direct suppliers, plus your suppliers’ suppliers, by inviting them to be part of Avarni's network for free. By allowing suppliers to easily calculate their own emissions from Scope 1-3, and set their own SBTis, you can create a complete picture of your own value chain emissions and collaborate on your decarbonisation initiatives.

Forecasting

Build scenarios to model & compare future emissions reduction plans

Model changes in your supply chain emissions over time by considering external factors such as hypothetical vendor SBTis, or adding parameters for a renewable energy transition in a particular geography, and understand the financial costs under different scenarios by setting carbon prices. Existing vendor SBTis are automatically included in the BAU scenario.

Research & analysis

Save hours of research time with a sustainability web crawler

Avarni’s carbon management software includes a proprietary and AI-powered web crawler to automatically bring sustainability information about any organisation into one place, such as SBTis, reported emissions, and key sentences mentioning net zero, ESG, etc. This saves you hundreds of hours of research effort and gets useful information about your vendors, customers & competitors in front of you faster.

Import your data with ease

Avarni integrates with over 1,000 SaaS apps, databases, AI services, and APIs – including Coupa, Microsoft Power BI, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Xero, and more. So you can easily import your spend and activity data into Avarni, and get started on your carbon management plan.

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Frequently asked questions

What methodology does Avarni use?
Avarni is built on the GHG Protocol, the global standard for carbon accounting which is compliant with all reporting frameworks, including CDP, GRI and TCFD.
What Scope 3 categories does Avarni cover?
Avarni covers all 15 Scope 3 categories, with specialised features to aid in the automatic calculation of Purchased Goods & Services, Capital Goods, Business Travel, Employee Commuting, Investments (Financed Emissions) and Upstream & Downstream Transportation & Distribution.
Where does Avarni source its emission factors from?
Avarni sources its emission factors from government agencies such as EPA, NGER, DEFRA, and others from the GHG Protocol. For Scope 3, factors are also sourced from third parties such as EXIOBASE.
How does Avarni handle categorisation if it has never seen a category before? Is manual mapping required?
There is no manual mapping required — Avarni's AI can automatically recognise which emission factor a category should map to, since it has been trained on millions of lines of real procurement data.
What details are available in Avarni's company database?
Avarni’s company database includes information on 7 million public and private companies, from SMEs of 10 employees all the way up to enterprises. The dataset includes industries, employee sizes, headquarter locations, as well as any public statements that the company has made regarding their emissions reduction initiatives, as well as net zero targets they have disclosed.
In addition to Scope 1-3, does Avarni offer product LCAs?
LCAs (Life Cycle Assessments) can be performed on the platform, since Avarni has over 16,000 emissions factors available for all different types of products & services, including weight-based factors.
How does data integration with Avarni work?
Avarni integrates with over 1,000 SaaS apps, databases, AI services, and APIs – including Coupa, Microsoft Power BI, NetSuite, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Xero, and more. So you can easily import your spend and activity data into Avarni, and get started on your carbon management plan.

In addition, data integration can be done using APIs that hook into Avarni’s platform on one end, and your platforms on the other end. The level of automation that can be done will depend on how flexible the APIs provided by your systems are — this can be more easily scoped out once we understand all the systems you'd like Avarni to interact with.
Is Avarni's data audited or 3rd party accredited?
Avarni’s AI methodology aligns with TCFD, GRI and GHG Protocol standards. The methodology has been tried and tested by multiple leading consulting firms such as Schneider Electric and KPMG. They have compared its results against their manual calculation processes in order to verify its accuracy.
Can data be extracted from the Avarni platform?
Yes, all data can be exported out of the platform for use in reporting & other programs.
How does Avarni handle data security?
All of Avarni's data is hosted and secured in the ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified platform of AWS. Most of the security and infrastructure handling is managed by AWS, but there is still responsibility on Avarni in managing information security. We are happy to go into further detail on a call.
What support does Avarni provide?
Avarni provides platform support, as well as implementation support, as part of the subscription. If you require support with coming up with a carbon reduction strategy, or with the initial data collection process, we have a partner network of consultants that we can refer you to.

Get in touch with us for any other questions.

Avarni enables us to greatly enhance the speed and quality at which we deliver greenhouse gas emissions insights to our customers. We are excited to work closely with them as a key partner in expanding Earth Finance's Scope 3 decarbonization solution set.

Garrett Kephart

President at Earth Finance, Inc.

Because of Avarni, we have been able to get a thorough understanding of our impact areas and emissions, not only in our own operations, but also in our supply chain. They have provided cutting-edge and helped Underworks set solid 2030 carbon reduction goals.

Annelou Ringers

Sustainability Manager at Underworks

Avarni's software is easy to use and very intuitive, upload of data is simple and straightforward, results for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions are shown in a very clear form - and they are always ready to help, have quick meetings, chats and receive and apply feedback.

Marina Lunardi

Life-cycle Strategy Lead at 5B

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