Platform

Entity matching on DUNS, LEI and ISIN

DitchCarbon matches an organisation to the right legal entity using DUNS, LEI and ISIN identifiers alongside name, website domain and email, so emissions land on the entity rather than the group.

How do you make sure the emissions land on the right legal entity?

Identifiers, not name matching. An organisation can be added or matched on DUNS, LEI or ISIN, with website domain, email, HQ region and industry as supporting signals. Parent and subsidiary relationships are resolved as well, so a figure attaches to the entity you buy from rather than the group above it.

Name matching is where supplier emissions data quietly goes wrong. Three entries for the same organisation, a subsidiary counted twice, a parent's disclosure attached to a local operating company that never published anything.

Entity resolution against DUNS, LEI and ISIN identifiers removes that whole class of error. The identifier is the join, and the name is a label on top of it.

For a finance team the same mechanism is what makes a PCAF data quality score meaningful. A DQ score describes how close the data sits to the counterparty, so it only holds if the counterparty was identified correctly in the first place.

Organisations can also be added one at a time, with the identifiers supplied at the point of creation and yearly spend entered straight afterwards.

Old way

Three spellings of one supplier, and a parent's number on a subsidiary.

new way

One identifier, one entity, one number.