Greengage Solutions has relaunched its ECOsmart portal with several new features including SMARTscan AI, the first AI-supported assessment system that enables business travel, hospitality and events organisations to secure Greengage’s ECOsmart sustainability certification more quickly and easily. ECOsmart is currently being used by venues such as Manchester City Football Club.
A vital first step in the ECOsmart certification process is an online survey to establish an organisation’s current position regarding sustainability so that an implementation action plan can be drawn up.
In the past this could be time consuming process with data often having to be sourced from different parts of a business, manually extracted and input into the survey.
Organisations can now upload existing policies, reports and other resources to the ECOsmart portal where SMARTscan analyses them and extracts relevant data to answer the survey questions.
In testing SMARTscan completed up to 60 per cent of the survey in a fraction of the time that it normally takes. This means that organisations can start implementation and see results much more quickly.
SMARTscan performs four key functions: analysing data from multiple sources to identify sustainability opportunities, verifying sustainability statements against established standards, ensuring compliance with green claims regulations and preparing businesses for the requirements of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), providing tailored and actionable sustainability recommendations based on venue-specific data – and monitoring implementation and progress toward sustainability goals
Greengage recognises that sustainability is an ongoing process and organisations are able to use SMARTscan to chart their progress from ECOsmart Bronze status right up to Platinum level.
An additional benefit of SMARTscan is that it makes sustainability certification accessible to organisations without the budgets to employ sustainability experts.
Understanding that AI is more energy intensive, Greengage is offering clients carbon offsetting with Carbon Footprint.
