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Salvidia’s methodology is not invented in-house. It follows the internationally recognised standards that auditors, regulators, and reporting frameworks already expect, so a footprint produced in Salvidia speaks the same language as the rest of the reporting world. This page is the map. Three pages go deeper:

GHG Protocol alignment

Every requirement a compliant inventory must meet, and which of them Salvidia handles for you.

AASB S2 reporting

What Australia’s mandatory climate disclosure requires, when your group starts, and which parts you must produce yourself.

Evidence and audit trail

The record kept behind every figure: data lineage, factor provenance, change history, and what you can hand to a reviewer.

Science-based targets

What the SBTi requires of a target, and the V2.0 changes taking effect from 2027.

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The GHG Protocol

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard is the foundation of corporate carbon accounting globally, and the backbone of how Salvidia structures organisation assessments:
  • Emissions classified into Scope 1, 2, and 3, explained here
  • Scope 3 organised into the Protocol’s value-chain categories: purchased goods and services, business travel, waste, and the rest
  • Organisational boundaries defined using the Protocol’s control approaches, covered here
When a client, tender, or framework asks whether your footprint is “GHG Protocol aligned,” this structure is what they are asking about.

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Australian climate reporting: ASRS

Australia’s mandatory climate reporting regime, the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards, administered under AASB S2, is phasing in climate-related disclosure for Australian entities by size. Reporting entities disclose Scope 1 and 2 emissions, with Scope 3 following in later reporting years. Two practical implications:
  • If you are a reporting entity, a GHG Protocol-structured footprint is exactly the input your disclosure needs. Salvidia’s scope-organised results map onto the emissions disclosures AASB S2 requires.
  • If you supply a reporting entity, their Scope 3 is partly your footprint. Expect large customers to start asking for your emissions data. Having a credible number ready is increasingly a condition of winning and keeping that business.

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Emission factor sources

Calculations are only as credible as their factors. Salvidia draws on published, referenced factor sets, including Australian government-published factors for energy and fuels, rather than proprietary numbers nobody can check. See Emission factors for how factors are selected and applied.
  • ISO 14064-1 covers organisation-level GHG quantification and reporting. Its requirements are consistent with the GHG Protocol structure Salvidia follows.
  • ISO 14040 and 14044 underpin the life cycle structure used in product assessments. See What is an LCA?.

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The principle behind all of it

Every standard above shares the same five requirements: relevance, completeness, consistency, transparency, and accuracy. In practice that means defining your boundary clearly, covering what is material, measuring the same way each year, documenting your assumptions, and improving data quality over time. Salvidia is built so that path is the default one, rather than extra work you have to remember to do.

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