Maturity · Carbon footprint and decarbonisation strategy
Your carbon footprint turned into a managed pathway, theme by theme.
10 themes, a 5-level scale. And the action that moves each level to the next.
The framework’s 10 themes, already written from L1 to L5. One company, one business unit, or 300 at once.
Maturity · Carbon footprint and decarbonisation strategy
10 themes, 5-level scale.
Nordhavn Industries
53 / 100
They measure their maturity with Datamensio
An example
This could be your situation.
Take one company as an example: three sites, three spreadsheets, no shared answer.
Nobody can consolidate.
Nordhavn Industries, 2,400 people in Hamburg, Lyon and Porto. A client asks where the group stands. Each site answers in its own spreadsheet, with its own scales.
Three weeks, a single base.
One Framework: GHG Protocol (scopes 1, 2 and 3), ISO 14064-1 and science-based reduction pathways assessment launched across all three sites at once, from the managers’ interview notes. The framework was already written, its 10 themes and levels L1 to L5 too.
Two costs avoided before being committed.
A score of 53 out of 100, with the gap concentrated on three themes. The AI companion spotted that two actions duplicated those of another audit. The committee report took one sentence to request.
What it saved them
- 3sites measured on the same base, instead of three questionnaires to reconcile
- 2duplicate actions caught before the spend
- 1committee report, with no manual rework
These figures are an example. They could be yours.
The standard imposes processes. Datamensio says where you stand.
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The framework is already written
Themes, questions and levels L1 to L5, all written. You do not start from an empty spreadsheet.
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The score lands the same day
Online, by self-assessment link or in interview. Theme by theme, comparable over time.
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The gap becomes a costed plan
Every step up carries its action. The AI prioritises on expected effect, not on the order of the standard.
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Progress can be demonstrated
Campaign after campaign, against your target and against your own past. That is what your board asks for.
The maturity scale
One level, the next, and the action that links the two.
It is this mechanism, a level, a level above, and the action linking the two, that turns an inventory into a managed pathway.
Are emissions from purchased goods and services based on primary supplier data?
- N1
No calculation on this item. Purchases are not linked to emissions.
- N2
The item is estimated using spend-based ratios applied to expenditure, with no distinction between purchase categories.
- N3
The main purchase categories are calculated using physical factors, and the most contributing suppliers are identified.
- N4
Primary data is collected from contributing suppliers, integrated into the calculation and reconciled with purchased volumes.
- N5
Primary data collection is contractualised, refreshed with every campaign, and gaps with reference ratios are analysed and documented.
Action to move from L2 to L3
Extract the top twenty purchase categories by volume, assign physical emission factors to them, and put the review of this mapping on the agenda of next quarter’s procurement committee.
« With Datamensio, we meet our objectives far more efficiently. The ERDF inspection services and our supervising ministry particularly appreciated an approach that gives them reliable data. »
Director, CCI 94CCI Île-de-France
« We believe this is the most suitable solution to scale our transformation project and measure impact according to our needs. »
Maja SucekChief Operating Officer, Interreg Danube
Rarely on its own
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What this framework covers
An industrial decarbonisation strategy rests on three distinct building blocks. Accounting first: organisational and operational boundary, activity data collection, emission factors, and the split between direct emissions, emissions from purchased energy, and value chain emissions. The pathway next: a base year, dated targets, a reduction pace consistent with climate scenarios. Control last: levers assigned to owners, a budget, and tracking of tonnes actually avoided rather than intentions. The framework assesses all three.
In practice, the difficulty is not the method, which is available and documented. It lies in sustaining the process over time. Who produces the activity data every month, and with what level of control? Do value chain emissions rest on supplier data or on spend-based ratios nobody dares to consolidate? Is the reduction plan linked to the industrial investment plan, or does it live in a separate document? A site that changes its energy mix moves the numbers without any underlying action being taken.
A common confusion keeps recurring: measuring and reducing are two different capabilities. Many industrial organisations have completed the first step, with an inventory produced annually by a small team, and have not equipped themselves for the second. Another point of context: European non-financial reporting requirements have embedded the notion of a pathway, with documented targets and levers. Data must now withstand external verification, which shifts the bar from an acceptable average to the traceability of every line item.
A reporting check asks whether the figure is produced and documented. The maturity assessment asks something else: what level of control does each building block of the process sit at, and what precise action moves it to the next level. A site can publish a complete inventory while remaining at level two on the reliability of value chain data. The score by theme makes this gap visible, and the gap with the target generates the action plan.
The framework is ready to use and adaptable. AI adjusts the themes, questions and levels to your sector, be it heavy process, assembly, food and beverage or logistics, or builds a variant from your own documents: existing inventory, transition plan, group standards.
Reference standard: Framework: GHG Protocol (scopes 1, 2 and 3), ISO 14064-1 and science-based reduction pathways
The themes assessed
Governance and ownership of the pathway
Link to senior management, roles and responsibilities between CSR, industrial operations and procurement, committee-level arbitration, integration into site managers’ objectives.
Boundary and accounting method
Organisational and operational boundary, base year, recalculation rules, choice of emission factors, methodological documentation.
Direct emissions from processes and utilities
Stationary and mobile combustion, process emissions, refrigerant leaks, physical metering, completeness of sources across the industrial boundary.
Purchased energy and energy mix
Electricity, steam, heat and cooling, location-based and market-based approaches, contracts of origin, distinguishing mix effect from real reduction.
Upstream and downstream value chain
Purchased goods and services, transport, product use and end of life, share of primary supplier data, treatment of uncalculated items.
Data quality, traceability and control
Activity data sources, audit trails, consistency checks, documented uncertainties, readiness for external verification.
Reduction levers and investment plan
Portfolio of levers, energy efficiency, electrification, materials and processes, costing the tonne avoided, inclusion in the investment plan.
Pathway, targets and indicators
Dated targets by scope, interim milestones, intensity indicators, tracking gaps between planned and actual pathway.
Supply chain and supplier engagement
Mapping of contributing suppliers, contractual requirements, primary data collection, support and progress tracking.
Reporting and continuous improvement
Internal and external reporting, readout to sites and business units, lessons learned, method review and comparison over time.
A short version of the framework is available for the online self-assessment.
Frequently asked questions
Does this assessment replace an emissions inventory?
No. An inventory produces a volume of emissions by item. The assessment evaluates the maturity of the process that produces that volume and reduces it: method, data quality, levers, governance. The two complement each other, with the assessment pinpointing exactly where the inventory is weak.
Does the framework lead to certification?
No, and that is not its purpose. Datamensio measures maturity and prepares the ground: the assessment is used to structure the process ahead of external verification or third-party review. It does not issue any label.
How long does the assessment take?
The short version can be completed in a single working session. The full version, run collaboratively with energy, procurement and production contacts, generally takes one to two weeks, most of the time being spent collecting data from sites.
Can the framework be adapted to our sector?
Yes. Themes, questions and levels can all be modified, and AI can build a variant from your internal documents. A heavy process site and an assembly workshop do not share the same dominant items: the framework should reflect that.
How can several sites with different processes be compared?
The score covers the maturity of practices, not the volume of emissions. A high intensity site can be more mature than a light one. Benchmarking across business units helps identify transferable practices and build a cross-cutting roadmap consolidating several audits.
Does the assessment help prioritise investments?
Yes. The gap between score and target generates the action plan, and the service catalogue offers a solution opposite each item, with cost, timeframe and impact on the score. AI groups these actions into a prioritised roadmap.
Is carbon technical expertise needed to answer?
The questions cover management practices, not the detail of emission factors. A CSR, energy or industrial manager can answer them. Collaborative mode allows procurement or utilities questions to be routed to the right contact.
Where is the data hosted?
In France, at OVH, with backup at Scaleway. No transfer outside the European Union. The AI models used can be selected, including from European solutions.