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Easier to start: a 'Which do I need?' page, plain English and your figures carried into the trial
A new page that starts from what has happened to you, the app rewritten in plain English, and free tool figures carried into the 14-day trial.
Read a bill from a photo, import supplier statements and publish your Carbon Reduction Plan
Bill reading from a PDF or photo, supplier and fuel card CSV imports as they come, a public Carbon Reduction Plan page with embed code, and an optional inflation adjustment for spend.
Nine new add-ons: tender pack, ESOS Phase 4, net zero planner and more
Nine add-ons on top of any paid plan: tender pack, net zero planner, ESOS Phase 4, waste log, EPCs and MEES, lender pack, customer questionnaires, fleet switching and product footprints.
Four new free checks: energy VAT, the BICS scheme, Simpler Recycling and an industry benchmark
Free checks for the VAT on energy bills, BICS eligibility before 30 November 2026, Simpler Recycling in England, and Scope 1 against ONS industry figures.
Buy the CBAM pack on its own, no carbon reporting plan needed
UK importers can now buy the CBAM pack with no plan, on the free trial or after it, ahead of the UK CBAM starting on 1 January 2027.
Electricity factors for China's 30 provinces, and Singapore's to 2025
Official CO2 per kWh for every Chinese province and regional grid, 2021 to 2023, and Singapore's EMA grid factor to 2025, now used for Singapore sites.
UK emission factors for 2002 to 2011 now cover fuels, vehicles, flights and waste
Fuels, vehicles, travel, freight and refrigerants from 2002, and waste and water from 2009, from the Defra and DECC guidelines of the time.
Eight new free tools for energy, fuel and grid data, and embed code for your website
Live grid mix, supplier fuel mixes, pump and business energy prices, HMRC fuel rates, flights, electric cars and a world grid ranking, free to embed.
Free Climate Change Levy check: find levy you may not need to pay, and how to claim it back
A free check, a step-by-step refund guide with a supplier letter, and the same check on every UK site in the app, on every plan.
EU VSME report on every plan, and a free electricity CO2e calculator for every country
A VSME Basic Module report with B3 energy and emissions filled in from your data, and a free kWh to CO2e calculator for sites anywhere.
Four new add-ons: CBAM pack, Climate risk, Factor API and Accountant portal
Four add-on products are on sale, each with its own product page and subscription: what each does, who it's for and the price.
Carbon reporting outside the UK: local currency prices and each country's own reports
Businesses based abroad now pay the same plans in their own currency and get their country's report formats, in its language.
Carbon Recycling is now available in 16 more languages
The website, sign-in and app in French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and 11 more languages, with country reports in the language their scheme expects.
New free tool: do you need to register for the UK CBAM?
Up to four questions about your imports tell you whether you must register for the UK CBAM, from when, and your first deadlines.
New emission factor pages for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the US and hotel stays in 37 countries
Free factor pages from each government's own data: Australian, Canadian and New Zealand factors, US fuels and travel, and hotel nights abroad.
Market-based Scope 2 now uses the UK residual fuel mix
With no green tariff or supplier figure, market-based Scope 2 now uses the DESNZ residual mix instead of copying the grid average.
Official government electricity factors for seven countries
Sites in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, New Zealand and Singapore now use their government's own grid factor where it is current.
UK emission factors now go back to 2002 for past years and baselines
Every UK government factor set from 2002 (Defra, DECC, BEIS and now DESNZ) and Defra spend multipliers from 1997, so past years and baselines use their own figures.
New free tool: check your Carbon Reduction Plan or SECR report
Copy in your report's figures and the free Report check recalculates them with the government factors and lists what is missing.
Carbon Recycling now works inside Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot
Connect your AI assistant to your Carbon Recycling account and it can read your footprint and enter data from bills and spreadsheets for you.
New free tool: find out if you need a Carbon Reduction Plan
Three questions about your customer and contract tell you whether PPN 006 or the NHS rules mean you need a plan. Free, no sign-up.