WHEREAS the Participants share a common goal of speeding up carbon drawdown by helping businesses accurately report their carbon emissions, the Participants have reached the following understandings:

1. Purpose

The Participants will collaborate on a transparent, non-financial, barter basis to advance their shared goal of measurable carbon reduction.

2. Key Contributions

Contributions

EALS:

  • Marketing: EALS will promote and publicise STC’s Pilot programme in Uganda and East Africa, to business applicants, NGOs and government bodies.
  • Staffing: EALS will deploy its own staff, as well as recruiting and coordinating a national network of volunteers.
  • IT Development: EALS will collaborate with STC to develop IT solutions to advance the Pilots, including building an interrogatable relational database, and automating onboarding and calculation processes, to meet STC’s specifications.

STC:

  • Expertise: Will provide EALS access to the full resources of the See Through Network, including See Through Carbon (carbon reporting ecosystem), See Through News (journalism and outreach), See Through Together (social media video content) and See Through Games (online games).

  • Support: Will provide EALS with strategic, commercial and technical advice in areas of mutual benefit.

  • Website: Will provide EALS with resources to build a website to promote their own consultancy, and the STC Pilot programme in Uganda. These resources include web hosting, web design, and content management system licences.

3. Key Constraints

EALS:

EALS is a commercial consultancy generating revenue from Ugandan businesses seeking help in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and promoting sustainability. STC participation is their customers’ choice.

EALS will make the case for adopting STC’s services, but will not refuse customer business purely on a customer’s decision about their own carbon reporting/​calculation data.

STC:

STC is a zero-budget ecosystem supported by negotiating mutually beneficial barter arrangements, with businesses and individuals. While it helps partners in their efforts to raise third-party funding, STC has no money itself, and provides no direct financial compensation or reimbursement, internally or externally.

4. Collaboration Benefits

EALS

  • Learning: from contributing participants about their carbon management journeys. This knowledge will aid our connection to commercial customers and the value our customers can achieve when participating in the STC mission.
  • Sharing: making EALS technical expertise and​thought leadership visible to a wide audience enables EALS to use STC’s Pilot to advance its commercial interests.
  • Supporting: the development and evolution of the carbon reporting processes, data and network to make the contribution and use of the data acceptable and practical for all. This work will aid EALS in leading their customers to integrate STC’s free carbon reporting ecosystem into their reporting, and overall sustainability, strategies.
  • Business Leads: EALS’ leading role in promoting STC’s free service will help raise awareness of EALS other commercial services.
  • Consultancy: Access at no charge to See Through Network’s pro bono Advisory Board where Participants’ interests intersect.

STC

  • Database: Rapid acquisition at no charge of a functional database to showcase the Pilots real-world datasets and demonstrate the STC ecosystem’s potential.
  • Consultancy: Technical assistance and advice at no charge to integrate database with user interface platforms
  • Global South datasets: access to Ugandan businesses to compare carbon footprints over a wide range of sectors, locales and scales with those of other participating countries.
  • Proof of concept: for STC’s non-financial zero-budget​‘barter’/’donation’ model ecosystem model

Both Participants

  • Reputational Gain: via being first-mover/early adopter trailblazers in accurate carbon reporting.
  • Transparency: This proposal is not exclusive in any direction and the data is not the property of EALS and can be the property of the information creator (who can keep it private) or SeeThroughCarbon (who will make carbon-related data public).
  • Decarbonisation: Participants will collaborate to find the best methods to calculate and record relevant materials properties at no charge and share the reusable I.P publicly.
  • Collaboration: Participants’ shared goal is to speed up carbon drawdown. Both are motivated to share the methods and challenges, including failures, with other organisations, including competition in this area, to drive towards open and reusable success.

5. Commercialisation

Both Participants anticipate that this collaboration will benefit EALS commercially.

EALS can leverage its first-mover advantage and association with STC to create added commercial value in the provision of additional specialist emissions-reducing consultancy to large businesses and their supply chains, beyond STC’s integrated reporting function.

STC’s principles of openness and transparency requires this collaboration to be non-exclusive, but this Memorandum of Understanding grants EALS permanent first-mover reputational gain in the African continent.

6. Duration

This memorandum will come into effect upon signature by both Participants.

7. Financial arrangements

Participants agree not to pay each other any money.

8. Accountability and Indemnity

Data provided by STC to its users in collaboration with EALS can be shared and reused without license or cost at the accessors risk and without any liability on the Participants.

9. Termination

Either Participant may terminate this memorandum at any time.

10. Transparency

Participants will publish this memorandum on their websites.

STC will make all carbon-related data calculated as a result of this collaboration publicly accessible at no cost

11. Intellectual Property

Participants make no claim to intellectual property resulting from this collaboration.

12. Dispute settlement

Any dispute that may arise as to the interpretation or application of this memorandum will be settled by consultation between the Participants.

Signed on behalf of EALS Consult Uganda Ltd.
Name: Michael Makongo
Position: Founding CEO
Date: March 9 2025

Signed on behalf of See Through Carbon Ltd.
Name: Robert Stern
Position: Chair of Trustees
Date: March 9 2025