21/09/2026
Every net zero plan we have seen starts with the same missing piece: a baseline nobody can actually defend.
Operators announce their 2030 and 2050 targets with confidence. Then we ask one simple question. What year, what scope, what sources, what emission factors, and who signed off on the number you are measuring progress against? The room usually goes quiet.
Across 50+ operator onboardings and 3,000+ energy forecasts on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, we keep seeing the same thing. The trajectory gets drawn before the starting point is locked. Reduction percentages get published against a baseline stitched together from spreadsheets, restated three times, and traceable to no single source.
A target without a defensible baseline is not a strategy. It is a press release.
CSRD auditors do not grade ambition. They trace numbers. Every reduction claim has to reconcile back to a fixed, source-level starting point, with the emission factors, boundaries, and operational data behind it intact years later.
That is the work NEMS Accounter was built for. Scope 1 source-level granularity, PDMS handoffs captured at the point of measurement, and a baseline that still holds up when a target gets challenged in year three, year five, and year ten.
Set the anchor first. Then chart the course 🌍
If your net zero plan is running against a baseline your team cannot fully trace, our advisors and NEMS Accounter can help you fix the starting point before the trajectory is set. Reach out anytime.