Mocoh's Transition to Lower Carbon Emissions with CarbonChain

Mocoh SA is a company headquartered in Geneva that supplies essential energy and resources to its customers across the African continent. The company's primary requirement is to provide reliable and transportable access to these necessary resources for its customers to maintain their economies and progress. Mocoh aims to operate at the frontier and help accelerate the transition to cleaner, lower-carbon fuels. The company is committed to leading the way in identifying sources of carbon emissions from across its supply chain and sharing this information transparently with stakeholders.

Mocoh, a Geneva-based company supplying essential energy and resources across Africa, was facing a significant challenge in managing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2021, the company had little to no visibility of the carbon footprint or intensity of its oil and oil product trades. Mocoh wanted to lead the way in identifying sources of carbon emissions across its supply chain and publishing its findings. The company recognized the importance of transparent information and collaboration with all stakeholders in the complex energy transition. However, to do this, Mocoh needed to start measuring emissions from across its supply chain. The goals were to inform regulators with data-led information, understand the scale and structure of emissions in its products and transaction logistics, identify opportunities to reduce carbon intensity, and proactively and transparently share data with stakeholders.

Mocoh turned to CarbonChain, a trusted solution for commodity trade carbon accounting. The company wanted to use CarbonChain to get supply chain GHG assessments of its entire crude oil and oil products trade portfolio for 2021. CarbonChain helped Mocoh map out the trade flow and identify all the steps of the supply chain based on Mocoh’s raw supply chain and trade data. Where primary commodity origin information was not available, CarbonChain’s team of experts analyzed the gaps and made reasonable assumptions to build out the material flow. This information was uploaded to the CarbonChain platform, which calculated and presented the total carbon footprint of their trading activities, the carbon intensity of every trade, and asset-level and activity-level emissions breakdowns. Data visualizations provided Mocoh with actionable insights such as emissions hotspots within each supply chain, carbon intensity comparisons across suppliers and assets, and emissions variation per type of activity.

• By using CarbonChain's carbon accounting software, Mocoh has been able to inform its broader ESG strategy and roadmap with data-led insights about emissions reduction potential and areas of influence. The company is now better prepared for mandatory reporting and requests for disclosure. It can assess the impact of new and changing regulations like the EU CBAM and is ready to collaborate with suppliers, customers, and trade finance providers on reducing carbon intensity. Furthermore, CarbonChain will work to integrate by API with Mocoh’s Allegro system, to enable even faster calculations and remove the data extraction burden. This will further improve data granularity for logistical routes.

• Mocoh was able to use CarbonChain to get supply chain GHG assessments of its entire crude oil and oil products trade portfolio for 2021.

• Primary commodity origin information was used for trades covering 71% of all of Mocoh’s traded oil products.

• Mocoh will receive verifiable carbon reports per trade finance provider, for easy sharing with banks.