Case Study

Corpstage is a team of sustainability consultants that work with small and medium sized organizations to deliver certifications for ESG assessments, carbon footprint analyses and capacity-building resources.

Mission

Provide businesses across the global sustainability market with an integrated, user-friendly and comprehensive platform that supports them at every stage of their sustainability journey. To achieve this mission, Corpstage works with Hedera Guardian to access the comprehensiveness, credibility and verifiability of sustainability related data stored on an open distributed ledger to operate their GHG calculator and reporting framework policies.

Carbon Project Integrity

The Guardian Ecosystem enables ALLCOT to create a standardized project development framework that fosters trust, transparency and compatibility across all project stakeholders. This ensures the creation of high-integrity projects while maximizing benefits for local communities.
The Guardian Ecosystem facilitates the fulfillment of methodology standards, validation body requirements, project developer needs, and community expectations, thereby enhancing the overall efficiency and transparency of the project

Value chain transparency

ALLCOT stakeholders benefit from access to accurate and comprehensive information on Hedera Guardian’s public ledger, leveraging a common set of rules and standards, fostering trust and accountability. 

Full financial accountability

Transparently demonstrating how project resources are allocated on the public ledger enables ALLCOT’s stakeholders to comprehend the full scope of a project's efforts, flow of funds, and impact.

Equitable revenue distribution

By recording the transaction cost at every stage of a project's progress, resulting carbon credits can be priced to maximize revenue distribution back to the local community.

Accurate and efficient verification

By utilizing Hedera Guardian’s digital ledger, ALLCOT is able to minimize accounting errors, make auditing more open and efficient, and enable a more equitable emergence of verification and validation partners.

Comprehensive monitoring and reporting

The Hedera Guardian Ecosystem establishes a secure chain of data custody, particularly in the case of drone-captured information for origination purposes. This enables ALLCOT to ensure that all project data remains intact, trustworthy and accurately tethered to each project attribute.

Automated reporting compliance

By ensuring that data provided aligns with the necessary frameworks, the Guardian helps meet specific industry needs and standards, while ensuring compliance with multiple reporting requirements.

Future-proof growth

ALLCOT is focused on creating products that surpass the limitations of conventional methods, shifting towards more advanced and efficient approaches to future sustainability markets. 

Single source of truth for interoperability

The Guardian serves as a single source of truth, ensuring that policies and rules are standardized and compatible with other sustainability market actors. This enables ALLCOT to align financing through carbon forwards and the structuring of green bonds seamlessly across various entities within the ecosystem

Common language for communicating benefits

The adoption of a common taxonomy within Guardian enables ALLCOT to establish a standardized language for discussing and addressing various sustainability issues. This fosters better communication and alignment for more effective and cohesive climate action.

Forge new growth pathways

By leveraging the flexibility and adaptability of Guardian, ALLCOT has the ability to provide various pathways for different stakeholders as the sustainability market evolves.

Ecosystem impact

The Hedera Guardian Ecosystem operates as a common good, providing services to the entire ecosystem without an extractive fee-based model. 

ALLCOT leverages the Hedera Guardian Ecosystem to build on and integrate various services and initiatives already established by other community members. This creates an aligned, streamlined ecosystem of sustainability market actors that avoids duplication to serve the needs of communities, investors, and project developers.

Corpstage’s SAAS-based ESG management and reporting platform

This is carefully designed to create an all-encompassing ecosystem for sustainability. Through this innovative platform, Corpstage empowers companies to manage their ESG goals effortlessly, ensuring compliance, generating accurate reports, and fostering sustainable communications. Corpstage stands at the forefront of ESG, with more than 15 years of experience in the field. Our expert team’s deep-rooted expertise in ESG enables us to offer unparalleled consulting services, guiding companies to navigate their unique ESG journey with confidence.

The platform offers a comprehensive solution designed to guide organizations through a step-by-step ESG journey, empowering them to embrace sustainability seamlessly:

- ESG Journey Dashboard (Guidance): Navigate through a structured path to sustainability, leveraging CorpStage's intuitive interface to adopt and implement ESG principles at every stage of your business operations.

- Carbon Footprint Management: Effortlessly manage and track your carbon footprint using GHG protocol- scope 1, 2 and 3 while setting and monitoring ambitious targets to reduce environmental impact. Gain actionable insights to make informed decisions towards a greener future.

- Project Performance Tracking: Track the performance of your impact projects and investments in real-time. Measure the tangible outcomes of your sustainability initiatives and optimize strategies for maximum positive impact.

- Compliance Reporting and Disclosure: Ensure seamless compliance with reporting standards such as ISSB, TCFD, GRI, CSRD and BRSR. CorpStage simplifies the process, enabling organizations to report and disclose their ESG efforts effortlessly.

- Community Engagement: Individuals can join vibrant communities, fostering inspiration and collaboration around sustainability initiatives. Be part of a supportive ecosystem that encourages and drives positive change.

- Rewards with Karma Coins: Embrace sustainability and earn rewards! Karma Coins incentivize and recognize impactful actions, fostering a culture of sustainability within your organization.

- Marketplace Listings: Providers can showcase their products, services, job opportunities, events, and courses on our marketplace. Expand your reach by sharing information with your target audience and grow your business sustainably.

Calculating and offsetting climate impact
Corpstage is leveraging Hedera ledger technology to develop a GHG calculator and to prepare reports according to global reporting frameworks, which will increase the verifiability and credibility of sustainability reporting.

Reducing complexity
Corpstage partners will be able to calculate and offset hard-to-abate emissions, submitting relevant data on an open ledger to major reporting frameworks including ISSB, CDP, GRI. This reduces the complexity and ambiguity associated with these regulatory frameworks, making sustainability accounting more understandable.

Improved accessibility
Corpstage tools enable internal teams to collaborate for project management and data collection in an affordable, coordinated way.

Sustainable ecosystem of partners
Corpstage leverages Hedera’s unique Guardian ecosystem of actors to engage with and enhance its open-source tools. Integrity is further underpinned by Hedera’s status as a carbon-neutral blockchain. 

Corpstage works with Tolam Earth to enable purchase of carbon offsets for its clients so that they can set off their remaining carbon footprint after mitigation through carbon reduction projects. CorpsStage leverages KrypC’s carbon core for developing carbon credit projects for its clients who would like to generate carbon offsets.

Corpstage is proud to work with Guardian’s ecosystem of partners: