Decarb is a module within Measurabl’s Navigate product that helps you strategically plan, model, prioritize, and execute carbon reduction strategies using real building data. It turns broad sustainability goals into property and portfolio-specific action plans that are financially sound, operationally feasible, and regulatory-ready.
Accessing Decarb
To access Decarb, users must be a Portfolio Manager, Portfolio Member, or Subgroup Member within Core. Navigate to Decarb using the 9-dot app switcher at the top left navigation bar of any Measurabl application.
Key Concepts
Action Plan
The Action Plan is a fundamental part of Decarb and represents how an individual building is planning to decarbonize over the coming years. The main component of an Action Plan is the Impact Simulation, which includes projections of energy and emissions for your building, relevant performance targets, and the impact of any planned Projects.
Projects
Projects represent the interventions or actions that can or will be taken at your building to reduce energy and/or emissions at your building in order to meet net zero goals. These Projects often come from energy audits you are already performing across your portfolio and can be uploaded in bulk directly within Decarb or synced from Core automatically if they’ve been added there already.
Projections
The Impact Simulation shows the projected energy and carbon intensities of your building for both the “Status Quo” – if you performed zero projects – and for “This Action Plan” – if the planned Projects were implemented. These projections are keyed off the selected Baseline Year (noted on the graph with the black triangle symbol) and can be modified within the Action Plan Settings.
Scenarios
Scenarios represent the set of projected emission factors that are used to calculate the projected carbon intensities you see in the Impact Simulation. These values are important because regional grid decarbonization can have a significant impact on your own building’s decarbonization – even if you don’t implement any energy reduction projects.
Targets
Building decarbonization goals often manifest in the form of targets – annual energy and/or carbon intensity values that a building must reach by certain timeframes. Decarb automatically populates the relevant property type and locale specific target from CRREM as well as any local Building Performance Standard, or BPS, targets (for supported BPS only). You also have the option to add custom building level targets.
CRREM
CRREM, or the Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor, is a global initiative focused on providing the real estate industry with transparent, science-based decarbonization pathways aligned with the Paris Climate Goals of limiting global temperature rise to well below 2ºC, with ambition towards 1.5ºC. These pathways outline annual decarbonization targets for different asset types in specific countries and include both carbon (GHG) and energy use intensity (EUI) trajectories. The goal of CRREM is to help investors, asset managers, and real estate owners understand their exposure to climate-related transition risks and align their properties with decarbonization goals.
Decarb leverages CRREM for the set of default Scenarios (projected emission factors) used in Action Plans as well as the default carbon and energy Targets you see in the Impact Simulation.
You can learn more about CRREM at their website: https://crrem.org/