1: Eligibility

Before applying, please check:

2: Email Application

Register your application by emailing the appropriate Pilot with the following information:

  1. Your company’s name
  2. Your company’s location
  3. Your company’s sector and how it related to the specified Pilot
  4. Confirmation you have read and agreed to our Licence Agreement and Data Privacy Notice
  5. Your company’s reason for applying*
  6. Whether, in addition to See Through Carbon’s free carbon footprint calculation, you are applying for See Through Carbon’s beta-test List of Solutions carbon-reduction advice.**
  7. Whether you would also like to participate in our Live Music Audience Transport Survey project (Pilot 2 only)

* Qualifying reasons for 4 include (but are not limited to):

  1. Pilots 2, 4 & 5: Compliance with UK Carbon Reduction Plan for schools, NHS, local government etc.
  2. Pilots 3, 6 & 7: Compliance with UK Cross Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
  3. Pilots 3, 6 & 7: Compliance with EU Cross Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
  4. Pilots 3, 6 & 7: Compliance with EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
  5. Pilots 1 – 7: Helping customer/​supplier (please specify) comply with their Scope 3 compliance.
  6. Pilot 6: We have agreed to ​‘Roll The Dice’ in See Through Together’s Betting The Farm show.
  7. Pilots 1 – 7: We are not yet required to comply, but want to be prepared.
  8. Pilots 1 – 7: We are not yet required to comply, but want to reduce our carbon anyway.
  9. Pilot 1: We want to qualify for our full quota of free advertorial posts in See Through News Facebook Groups (please specify which group).

** The List of Solutions service is intended to help SMEs comply with requirements to submit a Carbon Reduction Plan.

It is only available to SMEs who would not otherwise be able to afford professional carbon consultancy fees, i.e. Pilot 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 participants.

Our pool of carbon consultant professionals offer their services pro bono, so availability is limited by their capacity at any given point.

Email your application to the appropriate Pilot:

Pilot 1: pilot1.​sme@​seethroughcarbon.​org
Pilot 2: pilot2.​music@​seethroughcarbon.​org
Pilot 3: pilot3.​industry@​seethroughcarbon.​org
Pilot 4: pilot4.​health@​seethroughcarbon.​org
Pilot 5: pilot5.​public@​seethroughcarbon.​org
Pilot 6: pilot6.​farming@​seethroughcarbon.​org
Pilot 7: pilot7.​textiles@​seethroughcarbon.​org

NOTE: Please use a generic email address like info@ or admin@. Emails with an identifiable individual address technically count as ​‘personal information’ and See Through Carbon does not collect any personal data.

What Happens Next

1 Approval/​Rejection

Your Pilot administrator will promptly advise you whether your application has been approved or rejected.

2 Data Collection

Successful applicants will receive an email with:

  1. A unique See Through Carbon ID
  2. Confirmation of whether your application also qualifies for our beta List of Solutions free carbon-reduction advice with estimated carbon reduction outcomes.
  3. See Through Carbon’s data collection form (currently an Excel spreadsheet)

See Through Carbon processes completed data collection forms on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Pilot administrator will assess the current volume of applications being reviewed by our panel of pro bono carbon accounting experts, and inform you of your estimated wait before they check your data.

3 Follow-up

If, to calculate your carbon footprint accurately, we require more detail, the Pilot admin will email you any additional specific queries or clarification requests.

Note that participants approved for our ​‘List of Solutions’ beta service are more likely to receive follow-up queries, to enable our expert consultants to fine-tune their advice to individual businesses.

4 Result: Your Accurate, Free, Open Transparent Carbon Footprint

When See Through Carbon has checked and analysed your data, the Pilot admin will email you a link to your See Through Carbon database page.

Your page will display your carbon footprint, with data visualisations designed to make it easy for anyone to understand, and for any regulator to check.

If you qualify for List of Solutions, the bespoke solutions and their estimated carbon reduction outcomes will also appear.

You can download your data to include in any compliance submissions to regulators requiring such information, or send them the link directly.

You are also free to share your page’s link with your management, employees, shareholders, investors, customers, and anyone is free to view your data.

5 Carbon Reduction

From 6 months after the date your baseline carbon footprint calculation is published on See Through Carbon’s database, approved Participants can re-submit updated data.

This new footprint data will be added to your database page, with data visualisations showing the trend of your carbon footprint, and the amount of emissions reduced (or increased) since your baseline entry.

Notes

Data protection

The only data we collect relates to your business’s emissions-generating activity. STC neither asks for, nor collects, any personal or financial data.

Transparency

Your data will be public by default, like the financial statements you’re obliged to report to the government. The only exception is your lists of suppliers and customers.

These are commercially sensitive, and remain confidential, but STC needs them in order to automatically calculate carbon footprints up and down the supply chain (e.g. to know how much of your carbon footprint to allocate to your customers, and how much of your suppliers’ footprints to allocate to yours).

Evidence

STC does not require you to submit documentary evidence, like a financial auditor might. Our Licence Agreement obliges you to provide honest and accurate data.

For the Pilot stage, your data is checked by human experts for anomalous entries that might be due to, for example, a misplaced decimal point, or wrong unit.