The carbon footprint tracker built for manufacturers.
For factories, sites and supply chains — not a personal app. ESG Orbit tracks your company's Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in one place, with a confidence tier and an evidence link on every number.
Your whole footprint — not just the easy part.
A carbon emissions tracker that stops at electricity misses most of a manufacturer's footprint. ESG Orbit tracks all three scopes, and every figure carries a tier — measured or estimated — with a link to its evidence.
Scope 1 — direct emissions
Fuel burned on site, company vehicles and process emissions — tracked from meter readings, fuel invoices and production records, facility by facility.
Scope 2 — purchased electricity
Electricity, heat and steam you buy, computed both location-based and market-based, so renewable contracts show up where they should.
Scope 3 — the value chain
Purchased goods, inbound and outbound logistics, travel and the rest of the value chain — typically the largest share of a manufacturer's footprint.
More than a CO2 emissions tracker: all seven GHG Protocol gas groups, converted and reported as tCO2e — the unit every major framework requires.
Collect. Calculate. Monitor.
Carbon footprint tracking is a loop, not a yearly scramble. Data flows in, the engine turns it into tCO2e, and the trends update themselves.
1Collect
Activity data arrives however it exists today — spreadsheet import with row-by-row checks, ERP feeds, utility-bill OCR, and supplier answers through the portal.
2Calculate
A versioned emission factor library turns activity into emissions — all GHG Protocol gases, converted and reported as tCO2e. Same inputs, same result, every time.
3Monitor
Track GHG emissions as trends — by site, by product and by period — and watch totals move the moment new data or a supplier response lands.
Estimates that upgrade themselves to measured.
Most trackers stall on Scope 3 because the data lives with your suppliers. ESG Orbit starts tracking on day one with defensible estimates — clearly tagged as estimated, never hidden — then invites each supplier through the supplier portal: a passwordless magic link to a 15-minute questionnaire. No supplier accounts, no passwords, nothing to install.
The moment a supplier submits real numbers, the estimate upgrades to measured automatically — your Scope 3 total recalculates, and the change is recorded in the audit trail.
- Day one: a defensible estimate
Every supplier line starts with a spend-based estimate, tagged Estimated so nobody mistakes it for measured data.
- One magic link
The supplier gets a passwordless link to a short questionnaire that works on a phone — no account to create.
- Auto-upgrade to measured
Real numbers replace the estimate, totals recalculate, and the upgrade is written to the audit trail.
Numbers that survive an assurance review.
A tracked total is only useful if you can show where it came from. Nothing in ESG Orbit is ever overwritten: every change is a new dated entry in an immutable audit trail, and every figure links to the bill, invoice or supplier submission behind it.
- Append-only history — every value, before and after, by user and date
- One click from any figure to its source evidence
- Reproduce any past total exactly as it stood when it was reported
The dataset you track is the dataset you file.
This is what no generic CO2 tracker offers: the numbers you monitor all year project directly into audit-ready reports for four jurisdictions — no re-collection per regulator.
Spreadsheets, consumer apps, or a tracker built for regulators.
Each has its place. Here's where each one stops.
Free, familiar, and how most manufacturers begin. But there is no evidence trail and no version history — a year of edits is hard to defend when an assurance review asks where a number came from.
A personal carbon tracking app is good at flights, diet and home energy — for one person. It has no concept of facilities, organisational boundaries or supplier data.
Tracks by site, product and period, puts a confidence tier and evidence link on every number, keeps an immutable audit trail — and produces audit-ready reports for four jurisdictions.
Carbon footprint tracking, answered.
Is this a personal carbon footprint tracker?+
No. ESG Orbit tracks the carbon footprint of businesses — factories, sites and supply chains — for regulatory reporting. If you want to track your personal footprint, a consumer app or a public calculator like the UN's carbon footprint calculator is a better fit; ESG Orbit would be overkill.
What's the difference between a carbon footprint tracker and carbon accounting software?+
In practice they overlap: a tracker emphasises ongoing monitoring, carbon accounting emphasises producing an auditable inventory. ESG Orbit does both — continuous tracking by site and period, with the evidence and audit trail that turn tracked numbers into an inventory a regulator will accept.
Does it track only CO2, or all greenhouse gases?+
All seven GHG Protocol gas groups — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and the fluorinated gases — converted and reported as tonnes of CO2-equivalent (tCO2e), which is what every major framework requires.
Can it track Scope 3 emissions from suppliers?+
Yes — that's the core of it. ESG Orbit starts with defensible estimates for supplier emissions, then invites each supplier through a passwordless magic link; when a supplier submits real data, the estimate upgrades to measured automatically and the change is recorded in the audit trail.
Can tracked data be used for CSRD or SB 253 reports?+
Yes. The dataset you track is the dataset you file: ESG Orbit projects it into audit-ready reports for EU CSRD, Singapore IFRS S2, the UAE Federal Climate Law and California SB 253/261 — no re-collection per framework.
Track it once. Defend it anywhere.
See ESG Orbit tracking your own sites and suppliers — and watch an estimate upgrade to measured, live.