Net Zero Planning for IT and managed Service Providers (MSPs)

Seedling helps IT and MSP businesses measure and reduce their carbon emissions with fast, accurate tools designed for tech-driven teams. Whether you're bidding for public sector contracts, responding to client ESG requirements, or aiming for net zero, our platform simplifies sustainability reporting—so you can stay focused on delivering reliable, scalable services.

The Seedling platform

Measure, reduce, and report your carbon footprint with confidence, using our intuitive carbon accounting software and expert guidance.

Measure an accurate, full-scope carbon footprint

With our intuitive carbon footprint measurement software, plus support from an expert, measuring an accurate footprint is straightforward.

Use integrations to pull business data and share our in-built employee and supplier surveys to easily collect accurate data.

Your expert gets to know your businesses and helps build a plan to handle nuance and complexity.

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Easily identify your emission hotspots

Your Seedling dashboard automatically segments footprint data the way you and your clients need it.

See reporting by Scope 1, 2 and 3, GHG Protocol categories, as well as granular breakdowns to understand your hotspots and plan to decarbonise.

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Build your business's pathway to Net Zero

Work with a carbon expert to model your bespoke Net Zero roadmap in line with the SBTi framework. Using our hotspot analysis to focus your efforts, you can quantify the impact of a wide range of initiatives and take into account feasibility, cost and resource allocation.

Test and compare multiple roadmap scenarios to inform your level of ambition.

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Fund verified climate action projects

Invest with confidence in projects verified to reduce or remove carbon, alongside a range of other benefits - like supporting local communities and improving biodiversity.

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Produce key compliance-ready emission reports in a click

Share your plans to decarbonise with Seedling's digital toolkit. Reports are automatically generated in the compliant format you need. Simply tweak, sign if needed, and export, or link to the report hosted by Seedling.

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Become a Seedling Certified Business

Seedling's certification recognises businesses that have established a robust plan to reduce carbon emissions, backed by data and climate science.

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One-to-one expert support to manage your emissions

Unlike many carbon accounting platforms, at Seedling we guide you through your climate action journey.

Each clients has a dedicated, named carbon expert. They're on hand from day one - from supporting with queries on data, to helping finalise and share your Net Zero strategy.

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Technology's footprint

As the experts, your clients increasingly look to you for advice on how to buy and manage their IT equipment in a sustainable way. From refurbished kit to optimising and reporting on cloud emissions, MSPs have a lot to think about, including what you're doing to manage your own emissions.

As tech companies look to engage their MSPs to decarbonise and provide the data to back it up, there's demand from your suppliers as well as your customers.

It can be tricky to know where to start, but measuring an accurate, full scope (1, 2 and 3) carbon footprint in line with the GHG Protocol is the first step.

How Seedling helps

We're experienced in helping MSPs accurately and compliantly measure emissions, plan to decarbonise, and share their data and strategy with clients and suppliers. We get the nuances and challenges of footprinting your industry.

IT hardware

Use life cycle analysis to capture make and model specific emissions. Don't rely on a simple spend-based assessment.

Circularity

Account for circular business models (such as refurbished kit).

Cloud emissions

Track and report emissions from the cloud services you manage for clients and internally.

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FAQs

Your questions answered.

What emissions should IT and MSP companies be tracking?

The most common sources include Scope 2 emissions from electricity used in offices and data centres, and Scope 3 emissions such as business travel, remote working, cloud infrastructure, hardware procurement, and third-party service providers. These indirect emissions often make up the majority of your carbon footprint.

How do we measure emissions from cloud services, hosting, and hardware?

Seedling uses activity-based emission factors to calculate the carbon impact of servers, cloud usage (e.g. AWS, Azure), and IT equipment based on real usage data—rather than spend alone. This gives a clearer picture of where your biggest impacts lie and how to reduce them.

Why should an IT or MSP business bother with carbon reporting?

Clients, especially in government and enterprise sectors, increasingly require sustainability disclosures from service providers. Carbon reporting strengthens your ESG profile, supports compliance with frameworks like PPN 06/21, and can give you a competitive edge in tenders and procurement.

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