PropertyGuru: How creating visibility of emissions helped drive ownership and action

PropertyGuru leveraged the Terrascope platform to more efficiently assimilate data across various sources, using AI to identify data quality issues, estimate data gaps and automate the matching of emission factors. This enabled PropertyGuru’s sustainability team to focus their time on analysing the different emissions categories, from Purchased Goods & Services, Employee Commute, Business Travel and Product Usage, to identify their most material hotspots, what was driving them and whether these were the same across markets.

Building an impactful decarbonisation program

PropertyGuru used the advanced simulation capabilities of Terrascope’s Reduce Module, to model and quantify the impact of different decarbonisation levers. These ranged from increasing the share of renewable energy in their energy mix, to retrofitting buildings to reduce energy consumption, or to optimising employee travel policies to reduce long-haul flights.

In collaboration with sustainability experts from Terrascope, the PropertyGuru team created a series of ‘What If’ scenarios, that included multiple dimension of change, from decarbonisation actions by PropertyGuru, to even the impact of country committed Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) on future emissions. By creating and evaluating many scenarios of emissions reductions against potential costs, the company was able to further fine tune its emission reduction strategies.