- The use case: Mitigate wanted to provide users with a centralized platform to track, calculate, and report carbon emissions in order to meet reporting requirements.
- The challenge: Gathering emission factor data is a resource-heavy process, and with each provider releasing updates regularly, the effort required to keep a global database current was unsustainable and unscalable.
- The solution: Mitigate integrated Climatiq’s API, which allows them to directly pull the most up-to-date and accurate emission factor data directly into their platform while supporting complex carbon calculations across various use cases.
- The results: This has allowed them to achieve 10x ROI, improving user experience and accuracy while freeing up time to implement new functionality to their platform.
Challenge: Compiling emission factor data is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process
Before integrating Climatiq, the Mitigate ESG platform relied on one-off imports for emission factors. This limited their data coverage, meaning it couldn’t serve all customer use cases and regions, and forced users to source and upload additional factors themselves manually.
To refine emission factor management and user experience, the Mitigate team needed a solution to three key challenges:
- Lack of coverage: The dataset didn’t cover all use cases, leaving users to upload their own factors, thus diminishing the platform’s value.
- Manual processes: Keeping data current required time-consuming, error-prone manual work.
- Outdated data: Static emission factors quickly became obsolete as providers released new data, undermining accuracy.
To address these points, Mitigate sought to automate the process of emission factor sourcing and updates, ensuring higher accuracy and better coverage while simultaneously reducing manual effort. The workload involved with building and maintaining a more comprehensive emission factor database and calculations in-house meant it was not a viable option. Instead, they needed a high-quality emission factor database that could integrate easily with their current platform via API.
Solution: Extensive global emission factor coverage supports Mitigate’s ESG and GHG Emissions Management Platforms
To meet this need, they integrated Climatiq’s API, providing access to the largest database of scientifically-vetted emission factor data and carbon calculations covering multiple use cases. This provided them with:
- The largest database of emission factor data: The Climatiq database compiles data from 50+ providers, offering wide-ranging global and use case coverage to meet users’ needs across scopes 1, 2, and 3, including both spend- and activity-based emission factors.
- Automatic updates: The data is then pulled in real-time from the Climatiq database via API, eliminating the need for manual uploads from both the Mitigate team and their users.
- Up-to-date data: Climatiq’s emission factor database is updated monthly, ensuring access to the most timely and accurate data available.
“Climatiq’s robust and extensive emission factor database was exactly what we were looking for,” explains Olga Ļesņikoviča-Riņķe, head of growth and strategy at Mitigate. “The integration also enables us to perform automated and precise emission calculations across all scopes—1, 2, and 3, with coverage for all 15 categories—moving beyond outdated factors and manual inputs.”
Climatiq has become a core component of Mitigate’s ESG and GHG Emissions Management Platforms, providing huge breadth and usability through its database and the ability to search for fitting emission factors. Climatiq's capabilities now underpin Mitigate GHG Emissions Management Platform features such as automated invoice processing, where emissions data is extracted from supplier invoices and mapped to relevant emission factors.
Results: Mitigate achieves 10x ROI by integrating Climatiq’s emission factor database
Since integrating Climatiq, Mitigate has saved significant time by eliminating the need to collect and manage emission factors internally, achieving “up to tenfold ROI” according to Olga. User satisfaction has risen thanks to full transparency in emissions calculations, complete with detailed factor information and a clear audit trail. Looking ahead, Mitigate is already exploring product carbon footprint (PCF) integration and remains eager to build on Climatiq’s ongoing innovations.
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