Most companies that begin working on their carbon footprint quickly discover the same problem. The data is there, in energy invoices, ERP systems, procurement records, facility reports, but it is scattered across departments and formats, with no consistent structure.

Pulling it together for a single year of reporting is possible, but it requires significant manual effort and produces results that are hard to act on or verify.

 

This fragmentation is one of the core issues Răzvan Nica, CEO and Founder of CarbonTool, addresses in a recent interview with Construct Intelligence. Beyond the operational challenge of data collection, he raises a strategic point that often goes unexamined.: building a decarbonisation roadmap on a single year of reference data is not enough.

 

Business conditions change, energy mixes shift and the baseline year may not reflect a typical or reliable picture of emissions. A credible strategy needs to be built on multiple years of structured data, with the ability to model scenarios and assess the impact of investment decisions over time.

 

When carbon becomes a business variable

 

The interview also covers how the market is evolving. The initial hesitance many companies show toward carbon measurement, driven largely by the perception of cost without visible return, tends to change once carbon performance begins to influence access to financing and asset valuation. That shift is already visible in markets more advanced than Romania, and the direction here is the same.

 

For organisations working through CSRD requirements or building their first decarbonisation strategy, the conversation offers a grounded and direct perspective on where the gaps tend to be and what structured carbon management actually requires.

 

The full interview is worth your time. 👇

Read the interview on Construct Intelligence