You know what you’re emitting. But what if you could actually change it?

Most climate plans are a picture of the past. The best ones are a map to the future.

The baselines are in place. The report has been submitted. And the numbers, well, they add up.

But when the leadership team asks what actually needs to happen next, and what it will give back, a gap appears that’s hard to explain. Because the climate data exists. It’s just not connected to anything that drives decisions.

That connection is what everything comes down to.

Climate work isn’t a report. It’s a strategy.

In recent years, the focus has been on collecting the right data and that has been entirely the right priority. But a baseline is exactly what it sounds like: a starting point. The value comes when you can take it one step further and actually use that data for something.

What happens to emissions if you switch to a different supplier? Will you stay on your SBTi trajectory if production volumes increase next year? Which measure delivers the greatest impact per invested krona and when does it start paying off?

These are questions most sustainability managers want to be able to answer, but lack the tools for. Not because they don’t care, but because climate data lives in one system, business data in another, and the connection between them is built manually, if it’s built at all.

Reduction Roadmap: from inventory to decision-making

Reduction Roadmap is Emission Twin’s simulation module, a tool that lets you test the effect of a decision before you make it. You adjust variables like energy mix, supplier choices, or production volume and immediately see how it affects your trajectory toward 2030 or 2050.

It might sound straightforward. But it changes the entire dynamic of how you work with climate.

Marielle Krus, Sustainability Manager at Bubbleroom, describes what it gave them: “Emission Twin’s simulator gave us a completely new clarity around which activities truly make a difference in reducing our emissions. For the first time, we could connect specific goals to each planned measure.”

Being able to connect specific goals to specific measures — that’s exactly what separates a climate plan that hangs on the wall from one that actually steers the business.

It also changes your role in the room

Climate work that stays within the sustainability department struggles to create real change. It’s when it connects to production decisions, investment calculations, and supplier choices that it truly starts to move and that’s also when it becomes interesting to the rest of the leadership team.

There’s an enormous difference between presenting a report that identifies Scope 3 as your biggest challenge, and presenting a simulated scenario showing that a specific supplier change reduces those emissions by 18% within the existing budget. The first is an observation. The second is a basis for decision.

That difference shows in how you’re perceived in the room.

You don’t need everything in place to get started

A common assumption is that data quality isn’t good enough to start simulating. But that’s waiting for a perfection that never arrives. Reduction Roadmap actually helps you understand where data gaps matter most — so you can prioritise collection where it does the most good for decision-making, rather than gathering everything and hoping it’s enough.

A sufficient baseline and a clear view of your most significant emission drivers is all you need to get started. The rest develops along the way.

Sofia Roslund, Sustainability Manager at Polarn O. Pyret, puts the shift simply: “We went from chasing numbers to driving change.”

It’s a small quote. But it captures a fairly significant shift in how you think about climate work.