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You can now report your business emissions using TRACE

TRACE Business Operations is a new way to measure and report emissions from your day-to-day business activity, separately from your event delivery.

This is available as an additional service within TRACE.

Why this matters

If you’ve been measuring event emissions in TRACE, you’ll know that’s only part of the picture.

Your business also generates emissions through:

  • Office energy use
  • Staff travel and commuting
  • Accommodation
  • Operational transport
  • Day-to-day activity across sites

In many cases, this data sits outside TRACE, or in separate systems entirely.

That creates a few familiar problems:

  • Data lives in different places
  • Reporting takes longer than it should
  • Comparisons over time are harder to trust
  • Boundaries between “event” and “business” aren’t always clear

Business Operations is designed to bring this into one place, while keeping reporting structured and usable.

What’s new

You can now capture operational emissions directly in TRACE, alongside your event data, but clearly separated by design.

This includes:

Operational energy and utilities

Track electricity, gas and water use across offices, venues or sites. You can distinguish between permanent infrastructure and temporary event-related energy where needed.

Travel and transport

Capture:

  • Staff commuting
  • Business travel
  • Accommodation
  • Transport of goods and materials

One dataset, used properly

Operational data is recorded once, then:

  • Kept separate for clear reporting
  • Linked to event workflows

This avoids duplication while keeping your reporting structure consistent.

Built for how event businesses actually work

Different parts of the industry need different reporting approaches. This has been built with that in mind.

  • Venues can track site utilities consistently and link relevant space use to events
  • Suppliers can capture transport and travel once and reuse it where relevant
  • Organisers can build a broader operational view across business activity
  • Agencies can report at company level alongside event delivery

What this changes in practice

Separating operational and event emissions gives you:

A clearer baseline

Understand what your business emits outside of event delivery across sites and over time.

More consistent reporting

Defined boundaries reduce ambiguity and make your data easier to compare year-on-year.

Less manual work

Avoid stitching together multiple systems or re-entering the same data.

Better use of your data

Decide when operational data should inform event reporting.

A more practical reporting structure

Emissions reporting is now a standard expectation. But for event businesses, the structure hasn’t always matched how work actually happens.

Business Operations is designed to align reporting with:

  • Real workflows
  • Real data availability
  • Real operational complexity

It gives you a way to measure your business emissions properly, without losing the detail you need at event level.

Available as an additional service in TRACE

TRACE Business Operations is available now as an additional service and can be easily added to your current TRACE subscription.

If you want to extend your reporting beyond events and build a clearer operational baseline, you can find out more here.

Or if you’d like to discuss adding TRACE Business Operations to your current TRACE subscription with the TRACE team, you can book a meeting here.