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• Scope 3 Reporting Is Mandatory: How to Collect the Data

  Group 1 entities lose their Scope 3 deferral this year. Group 2 gets one year of grace but shouldn't waste it. Here's which categories actually matter for Australian companies, what spend-based data gets you versus activity-based, and what 'good enough' looks like in year one.

  Mar 14, 2026 · 12 min read · Regulatory
• The 7-Phase AI Pipeline That Reads Your Utility Bills

  Most 'AI-powered' carbon tools are just OCR with a chatbot bolted on. We built a 7-phase multi-agent pipeline that classifies, extracts, validates, normalises, and calculates emissions from raw utility bills - with a full audit trail. Here's exactly how each phase works and where it breaks.

  Mar 10, 2026 · 12 min read · Technical
• 10,000 Fuel Receipts: Construction Data Entry Problem

  A construction company we're working with processes over 10,000 fuel receipts every quarter. Their sustainability team has become a data entry team. At 2 minutes per receipt, that's 333 hours - over 8 full-time weeks - spent typing numbers instead of cutting emissions.

  Mar 8, 2026 · 9 min read · Opinion
• What Group 1 ASRS Reporters Got Wrong in Year One

  Group 1 ASRS reports are landing now. The patterns are clear: consultant dependency, scenario analysis that fell apart under assurance, and boards signing off on reports they didn't understand. Here's what Group 2 and 3 companies should learn from watching the big end of town go first.

  Mar 7, 2026 · 10 min read · Opinion
• Why Carbonly Is the Best Carbon Accounting Software in Australia

  Most carbon accounting platforms in Australia either expect you to manually enter data, were built for global markets, or break under mandatory assurance. We built Carbonly to fix that - starting with the one problem nobody else has properly solved.

  Mar 5, 2026 · 18 min read · Opinion
• Carbon Accounting for Construction Companies in Australia

  Construction burns through diesel, concrete, and steel across temporary sites with subcontractors you can barely track. Here's how to actually count the emissions - and why most builders get it wrong before they even start.

  Mar 3, 2026 · 12 min read · Industry
• How to Generate an AASB S2 Climate Disclosure Report

  AASB S2 requires structured disclosures across four pillars - Governance, Strategy, Risk Management, and Metrics & Targets. Software can auto-populate the quantitative sections from your emissions data. The qualitative sections? That's still on you. Here's what fills itself and what doesn't.

  Feb 27, 2026 · 12 min read · Regulatory
• Anomaly Detection for Emissions: Catch Errors Early

  72% of NGER reports contain errors. Most aren't deliberate - they're invisible until an auditor finds them. Statistical anomaly detection using z-scores, rolling averages, and missing data rules catches the gas bill entered as GJ instead of MJ, the facility that went to zero in Q3, and the electricity spike that means someone processed the same invoice twice.

  Feb 27, 2026 · 12 min read · Technology
• API-First Carbon Accounting: Webhooks Not Logins

  Your fuel purchases are in SAP. Your utility costs are in Xero. Your fleet data is in Fleetio. So why is someone manually re-entering all of it into a standalone carbon platform? An API-first approach with webhooks, scoped API keys, and programmatic data flows makes carbon accounting invisible - it just happens inside your existing systems.

  Feb 27, 2026 · 12 min read · Technology
• Your Carbon Data Is Already in OneDrive: Use It

  Over 70% of Australian mid-market businesses use SharePoint for document storage. Their utility bills, fuel receipts, and supplier invoices are sitting in folders right now - untouched by their carbon accounting system. Carbonly's OneDrive integration connects directly to those folders via Microsoft Graph API and auto-processes every new document. No downloads. No re-uploads. No data entry.

  Feb 27, 2026 · 9 min read · Technology
• Carbon Accounting Supply Chain: The Multi-Currency Problem

  Australian businesses importing goods from China, the US, Germany and the UK face a carbon accounting problem that has nothing to do with emissions science. It's about currencies. EXIOBASE factors are in EUR. BEIS factors are in GBP. Your invoices are in AUD. Get the conversion wrong and your supply chain carbon footprint shifts by 20-40%.

  Feb 27, 2026 · 13 min read · Technical
• Carbon Accounting Units: The Quiet Reason Your Emissions Are Wrong

  Someone enters 142 in a field expecting GJ but they meant litres. Emissions jump by 40x. Unit errors are the most common and least discussed source of carbon accounting mistakes in Australia, and they're invisible until an auditor finds them.

  Feb 27, 2026 · 10 min read · Technical