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Climate reporting support for mid-sized businesses and suppliers
Australia's mandatory climate reporting rules have started landing on mid-sized companies. Some of you are in scope directly. Many more are getting the request second-hand, from a customer who is already reporting and now needs your emissions numbers to finish their own.
I help you answer both
Where mid-sized businesses are getting caught
Three situations come up again and again.
You've had the email from your largest customer. A Group 1 or Group 2 reporter has to disclose Scope 3 emissions from their second reporting period, and your line items sit inside that number. They've asked for your data on a deadline that suits their audit, not your year.
You're in scope and hadn't realised. Group 3 captures entities meeting two of three tests: $50 million revenue, $25 million gross assets, or 100 employees. First reporting periods begin on or after 1 July 2027 — which, for a June year-end, means the year starting 1 July 2027 and data collection starting well before that.
You're tendering and losing ground. Councils, government buyers and large corporates are asking for emissions data and a reduction plan as part of procurement. A "we're working on it" answer now costs you points.
None of these need a large consulting engagement.
They need someone who knows the rules, a system that does the arithmetic, and a person who turns up and runs the project.
An advisor who shows up, on a platform built from 100+ climate reports
I work in partnership with NetNada, a leading Australian carbon accounting and climate reporting platform helping Group 1, 2 and 3 organisations.
I do the work that needs a person. Scoping what you actually have to report. Sitting with your finance and operations people to find the data. Chairing the workshops. Managing the timeline. Briefing your board. Handling the conversation with the customer who sent the request in the first place.
NetNada does the work that needs a system. Your emissions calculations, the Australian emission factors, the reporting templates, the audit trail. The platform is built on more than 100 Australian climate reporting engagements, so the templates already match what assurance providers ask for.
You get one point of contact — me — and you don't pay consultant hours for spreadsheet work a system does better.
Ten years of getting businesses and councils to the same table
I've spent more than a decade in sustainability partnerships across corporate, legal and local government. I built and ran an online sustainability assessment system covering nine topic areas, used by local businesses to track progress and by councils to measure Net Zero targets.
That matters here for one reason: most of the pressure on mid-sized Australian businesses right now arrives through a relationship — a customer, a council, a tender panel. I've spent my career on both sides of those relationships, and my style is calm and practical rather than alarmed.
Three ways to start
Supply chain response
For: businesses that have received an emissions data request from a customer, or expect one.
You get a defensible Scope 1 and Scope 2 footprint, the Scope 3 categories your customer actually asked for, and a one-page supplier response they can drop straight into their own reporting. If their request is unreasonable — and some are — I'll tell you, and help you push back with a reason.
Typical timeframe: 4 to 6 weeks.
Reporting readiness assessment
For: businesses that may be in scope for AASB S2, or will be soon.
A written assessment of whether you're captured and under which group, what data you're missing, who inside your business needs to own each piece, and what the first reporting period looks like on a calendar. You finish with a plan your CFO can budget from.
Typical timeframe: 3 to 4 weeks.
Full climate report delivery
For: in-scope entities preparing their first AASB S2 disclosure.
Governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets — the four pillars AASB S2 requires — prepared to sit alongside your financial statements. Scenario analysis included, as required under section 296D of the Corporations Act 2001. Scope 1 and 2 in year one, Scope 3 from your second reporting period.
Typical timeframe: 3 to 6 months, depending on the state of your data.
Add-on: Climate Active certification, where carbon neutral claims are part of how you sell.
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What you actually receive
Not a slide deck about the journey. These:
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An emissions inventory — Scope 1, 2 and the Scope 3 categories that apply to you, calculated on the Australian National Greenhouse Accounts Factors, which DCCEEW updates each year. The platform picks up factor changes so last year's numbers stay comparable.
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An audit-ready evidence pack — every number traceable to the bill, invoice or meter reading behind it, in the structure an assurance provider expects to find it.
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A supplier response sheet — the one-page answer you send to customers who ask for your emissions data, so you're not rewriting it each time.
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A reduction roadmap — where your emissions actually sit, what moves the number, what each action costs, and in what order.
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A live dashboard — your emissions by site, by scope and by month, so next year's report is an update rather than a restart.
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A board-ready summary — five pages your directors can read before a meeting and act on during it.
From your accounting file to a finished report
Most of the raw material for a carbon footprint is already in your finance system. The platform connects to Xero, MYOB and most ERP systems, reads your utility bills, and does the emissions calculations against Australian factors. What used to be months of spreadsheet reconciliation becomes a data review.
That's the part I care about most, because it changes where your money goes. You spend it on the judgement calls — what's material, which risks are real for your business, what you commit to publicly — instead of on data entry.
How an engagement runs
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Week 1 — Scoping call. What's been asked of you, by whom, by when, and what you're already sitting on.
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Weeks 1–2 — Connections and access. We link your accounting system and load the last year of bills. You nominate one person per data source.
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Weeks 2–4 — Data review. I work through the gaps with your team. This is the part that takes the longest and it's where I do the most.
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Weeks 4–6 — Risk and materiality workshop. Two hours with your leadership team, structured around the disclosures you actually have to make.
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Weeks 6+ — Drafting and review. Report drafted, reviewed with you, prepared for assurance.
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Ongoing — Next year. Your data keeps flowing in. The following report is an update.
Scope 3 is where mid-market suppliers get pulled in
If you sell to a large Australian corporate, a listed company or a government buyer, your emissions are inside their Scope 3 number. That's why the requests are arriving now: Group 1 entities began reporting for periods starting on or after 1 January 2025, Group 2 from 1 July 2026, and both get relief from Scope 3 in their first year only. Their second year is when they come looking for you.
Two things are worth knowing:
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You usually have to give less than they asked for. Most first requests are a generic questionnaire sent to every supplier. The number they actually need is often a fraction of it. I've found working out what's genuinely required is the single fastest way to cut the cost of responding.
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Answering it well is a commercial asset. The supplier who returns clean, sourced data on time is the one who stays on the panel — and the one who gets asked to quote next time.
Questions I get asked
