Your operations produce data.
We turn it into clarity.
Greenhouse gas measurement and reporting for Utah municipalities and for operationally complex businesses nationwide. Defensible baselines, documented methodology, and practical reduction options.
Utah-focused, not Utah-limited. Onsite along the Wasatch Front, remote anywhere in the country, and onsite anywhere the work calls for it. Municipal inventories start at $4,500 and business inventories start at $2,000, quoted individually because operations set the scope, not size.
Emissions accounting grounded in operational reality.
We build your Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas accounting from the activity data your operations already generate, run through a recognized standard. That is an important distinction: an inventory is a documented accounting, not a measurement taken at a stack or a tailpipe. The method is what makes the number defensible, and the method is written down.
No advocacy. No guesswork. We work with the utility bills, fleet records, and facility data you already have to give you a clear picture of where you stand and what to do next.
For cities: local government operations inventories use GHG Protocol methods. Community-wide inventories use GPC 1.1 where scoped. Where a reduction plan is wanted, the follow-on engagement is an Emissions Reduction Roadmap for community-scale work or an Operational Efficiency Roadmap for organizational operations. Both are climate action plans built to the GHG Protocol Policy and Action Standard.
For businesses: Scope 1 and Scope 2 inventories on an operational control boundary, with Scope 3 screened where a customer questionnaire or supply chain request makes it relevant.
Carbon Praxis provides Utah municipalities and businesses with defensible greenhouse gas measurement and reporting: accurate baselines, documented methodology, and practical reduction options, so organizations without dedicated technical staff can meet grant, customer, and regulatory requirements with confidence.
Onsite where geography allows. Remote where it does not.
Along the Wasatch Front, an engagement includes an onsite kickoff and facility walk-through: nameplates read, refrigerant charges confirmed, and the equipment list checked against what is actually standing in the building. Outside driving range, the work is delivered remotely, and that is the default for businesses in other states.
Both modes apply the same standards, the same procedures and the same emission factors. They do not produce the same evidentiary depth, and we say so rather than pretending otherwise. A remote engagement is built from the records and images you provide, tested against independent documentation rather than entered as given. Where something cannot be confirmed, the report says so and quantifies what it costs in certainty.
A clear set of deliverables you can actually use.
Every engagement produces a defined package of documents and data, not an open-ended engagement. You know what you are getting before we start, and you keep everything we produce.
Written Inventory Report
Defensible documentation of methods, results, and boundaries.
Calculation Workbook
The underlying spreadsheet with activity data, emission factors, and formulas.
Source-Data Checklist
A clear record of what data was used and where it came from.
Executive Summary
Council-ready and board-ready, on a page that identifies itself if it is circulated on its own. Built for non-technical readers.
Next-Step Recommendations
Practical, prioritized actions grounded in what your operations actually look like, with the data gaps named and an owner suggested for each.
Built for organizations that need this done right without a full-time sustainability department.
Utah Cities and Towns
We typically work with Utah cities between about 3,000 and 80,000 residents. Population is an indicator of scope, not a gate; what actually sets the size of the work is facility count, whether the city owns its wastewater plant or landfill, fleet size, and refrigerant load. We work with what you already have, meaning utility accounts, fleet logs and facility records, and deliver results that hold up to scrutiny. Most cities start with a Local Government Operations inventory covering what they directly control, then add a community-wide inventory when the question broadens.
Small and Medium Businesses
Operationally complex companies, including HVAC, construction, landscaping, plumbing, cold chain and charter schools, that need a defensible number because a customer asked for one. Fleet fuel, facility energy and refrigerant leakage are usually where it concentrates, and refrigerants are the source most often missed entirely.
Why Cities Start With a Baseline
A city builds an inventory because someone has asked for a number, or is about to. The reasons below are practical ones. None of them require a view on climate science.
Answer the Question When It Is Asked
Funders, program administrators and reporting frameworks increasingly ask for quantified emissions data. We do not claim that holding an inventory earns points in any particular program, because scoring criteria vary by program and by cycle. What a baseline does is let you answer with a documented figure and a stated method rather than an estimate assembled the week the form is due.
Find Operational Cost Drivers
A GHG inventory tells you where fuel and energy costs are concentrated, where fleet efficiency opportunities exist, and how your operations look to outside funders and partners. It is a management tool.
Set It Before You Need It
A baseline is cheapest to establish and most useful the earlier it exists. A city that documents its operations now has a clean starting point to measure against later, rather than reconstructing several years of records after a request lands. The Beehive Emission Reduction Plan points the same direction.
Account for Outcomes, Not Intentions
A plan written five years ago describes intentions. An inventory accounts for what actually happened, using the same method each year so the years are comparable. That is what makes a trend line mean something.
Why Businesses Get Ahead of the Request
For most businesses the trigger is not a regulation. It is a customer sending a questionnaire the company cannot answer.
Supply Chain Requests Are Coming
Large buyers are increasingly asking suppliers for emissions and energy data, and California SB 253 will push that request down through supply chains that reach Utah companies. A documented baseline lets you answer before the request becomes urgent.
Lenders and Insurers Are Paying Attention
Environmental risk is increasingly part of due diligence for financing, insurance, and contract awards. A documented baseline puts you ahead of that conversation.
Emissions Waste Is Cost Waste
The biggest emissions sources are often the biggest cost centers: inefficient fleet routing, aging HVAC, high utility draw, and refrigerant leaking out of equipment nobody has checked. The inventory gives you a structured way to see where money is going.
A Documented Number Beats “We Don’t Know.”
When the question comes, whether from a customer, a lender or a regulator, the businesses with a credible answer are in a different position from those without one. The ones without scramble.
A practical operator’s approach to measurement and reporting.
We Walk the Facilities
A Standard Delivery engagement includes an onsite walk-through with nameplate capture and an asset cross-check. That is how equipment gets found that the asset list forgot: a rooftop unit nobody logged, a refrigerant charge nobody recorded, a meter serving two buildings. Firms working at this engagement size generally do not do this, and it is the single biggest reason our numbers hold up. Where a site visit is not practical, the same cross-check runs against independent records and the photographs you supply, and the report states which mode was used.
The Person on the Proposal Does the Work
Twenty years of industrial inspection experience across refineries, petrochemical plants, power generation and pipelines, where findings get signed and stand up to challenge. The same person who writes the proposal does the calculation and signs the report. Measurement and methodology first, policy second.
Sized for the Engagement
National firms generally operate above this engagement size, and depending on a city’s purchasing ordinance, work at this size can often fall below the threshold that triggers a formal solicitation. Regional engineering firms and energy services companies do the implementation that follows. We sit upstream of both, building the baseline the later work depends on.
Clear Fixed-Fee Scopes
Every engagement starts with a written scope and a fixed fee. No hourly billing surprises, no scope creep, no open-ended retainers. You know what you are getting, and what you are not, before we start.
Reports Decision-Makers Can Use
Council-ready summaries, findings an operations manager can act on, and data organized so it can be cited in whatever form is asked for. The deliverable is built to be used by the people who have to make the next decision, not filed away.
Where We Are Not the Fit
Worth saying plainly. If the work needs heavy public engagement, bilingual community outreach, thirty-year scenario modeling, or a bonded prime contractor, we are not the right firm and will say so early. We would rather point you somewhere useful than take a scope we cannot deliver well.
Ready to build your baseline?
If your city has been asked for an emissions figure, is preparing a reduction plan, or wants to understand where fuel and energy costs are concentrated, a baseline inventory is where it starts. Fixed fee. Clear scope.
Need a defensible inventory?
If a customer, lender or supply chain partner has asked about your emissions footprint, or you expect they will, a documented baseline puts you ahead of the request. Inventories start at $2,000 delivered remotely, quoted individually against the actual scope. Fixed fee, clear scope. Onsite along the Wasatch Front, remote anywhere in the country. If a questionnaire has already landed and you are not sure what it requires, send it over and we will tell you.
Ready to understand your emissions footprint?
No pitch deck. No pressure. Tell us what has been asked of you, and we will tell you what it actually takes.