From Granular Data to Better Decisions: How Envago Supports Activity Based Accounting and Project Level Planning
Sustainability reporting is often viewed as a compliance exercise. Data is collected to meet disclosure requirements, aggregated into totals, and presented in reports. While this approach may satisfy minimum obligations, it does little to support operational analysis or forward planning.
Envago is designed to work differently. By capturing and structuring data at a granular level, Envago enables organisations to use the same dataset not only for reporting, but also for activity-based accounting, project level planning, and decision making.
Why granularity matters
At an aggregated level, emissions and sustainability metrics provide limited insight. Total Scope 1 or Scope 2 emissions can show overall performance, but they do not explain what is driving the changes or where to reduce emissions.
Granular data allows companies and organisations to understand the impacts at the level of individual activities, assets, projects, or transactions. This level of detail is essential for linking sustainability data to how the business actually operates, rather than treating it as a standalone reporting exercise.
Envago’s structured approach to sustainability data
Envago is built around a structured data model that captures information at its source. Rather than relying only on summary inputs, Envago supports transaction level and activity level data such as fuel consumption, electricity use, material purchases, and waste movements.
Each data point is linked to relevant attributes, including location, time period, activity type, emission factors, and assumptions. This allows data to be aggregated and analysed in multiple ways without losing transparency or traceability.
For reporting purposes, this supports various outputs such as NGER, NPI, and ASRS/AASB S2 disclosures. For internal use, the same data can be analysed by site, process, asset, or project.
Linking activities, projects, and decisions
Because Envago captures data at the activity level, emissions and other sustainability metrics can be allocated based on actual drivers rather than high level averages. This supports activity-based accounting and enables more meaningful comparison across operations, products, or services.
In practice, this allows organisations to provide project level emissions information to joint venture partners, respond to downstream customer requests for product or contract specific emissions data, or assess the emissions profile of new developments before investment decisions are made. The same data can also be used internally to compare operational options, evaluate decarbonisation initiatives, or track performance against project level targets.
Importantly, these analyses remain connected to formal reporting outputs, reducing the risk of misalignment between internal decision making and external disclosures.
One dataset, multiple uses
A key advantage of Envago’s approach is that granular data does not increase reporting burden. Data is entered once, structured properly, and reused across multiple reports and analytical use cases.
This reduces duplication, improves consistency, and allows sustainability data to support both compliance and planning. It also positions organisations to respond more effectively as expectations around data quality and transparency continue to rise.
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