With SmartTrackers, you can easily comply with the CO2 Performance Ladder, reduce your emissions, and achieve higher ladder levels. Calculate, report, and improve your CO2 performance using our certified software.
The CO₂ Performance Ladder 4.0 is the key tool for organizations that want to systematically reduce their CO₂ emissions while making their sustainability ambitions visible. This latest version emphasizes real emission reduction, supply chain initiatives, and transparent communication.
The ladder consists of three levels (Levels 1 to 3), providing insight into how CO₂-conscious your organization operates. The higher the level, the more active and impactful your organization is in its sustainability efforts.
SmartTrackers fully supports the methodology of version 4.0. Our software helps you map your CO₂ emissions, set reduction targets, define corresponding measures, and report according to the latest requirements—ensuring you always meet the current standards set by certification bodies.
🌍 Insight into your CO₂ emissions with a validation process
🎯 Clear targets, measures, and best-case scenario pathways
📥 Always up-to-date overviews, ready to download and update whenever needed
🔍 Determine what you need to report on
📂 Collect all evidence in one central place
📋 Prepare for the audit
All data in one place. No e-mails being sent back and forth. No lost information. Instead, you follow a clear question- and answer game and have access to useful explanations.
Calculate your CO2 footprint, conduct savings analyses, and develop measures with SmartTrackers Measurements. Predict the impact of your measures in this way and continue to compare the same things with each other.
You can easily ask colleagues to collaborate. This way, not one person bears all the responsibility anymore, but the organization works together to achieve goals.
With SmartTrackers Assessments, you go through an easy questionnaire. This ensures that you meet the requirements of the standard.
The CO2 Performance Ladder is a Dutch certification tool that helps organizations reduce their CO2 emissions and integrate sustainability into their operations. It is managed by the Foundation for Climate-Friendly Procurement and Business (SKAO).
What’s new in version 4.0 (2024):
The ladder consists of five levels, with level 3 often required for public tenders and level 5 setting the most ambitious goals.
The concept of 'avoided CO2 emissions' is gaining traction. Companies are highlighting it in sustainability reports, and it appears to be a key focus of the CO2 Performance Ladder 4.0. Leo Smit writes about the importance of quantifying avoided CO2 emissions and the opportunities it provides to take a more flexible approach to CO2 reduction within the business chain.
As the CO2 Performance Ladder is becoming more international, so is our client base. Earlier this year, JONS Civil Engineering became the first Irish company with a CO2 Performance Ladder certificated project. We are proud to have supported this project!
Manual 4.0 of the CO2-Performance Ladder is coming next year. SKAO published that they expect the new manual to be released around springtime, next year. Manual 4.0 will be even more directed at results, compared to the current manual 3.1. The most important subjects in the 4.0 version are ambition, scope 3 and monitoring.
Discover how our software helps you comply with the CO2 Performance Ladder 4.0 and achieve your sustainability goals.
