Why we started
In 2023 Nigeria committed to sustainability reporting on a fixed timetable. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Reporting Council adopted the ISSB's global standards, and a date was put against each category of company. From that moment, a disclosure that had been voluntary and vague became mandatory and testable.
What did not arrive alongside the rules was the infrastructure to meet them. The consultants who serve this market are good, and expensive, and finite — there are not enough of them to carry every NGX-listed company through an annual cycle, and the ones who exist charge accordingly. The international platforms are genuinely excellent software, and they were built for a company drawing continuous power from a European grid, filing to a European regulator, paying a European invoice.
Run a Nigerian reporting cycle through one of those platforms and the arithmetic breaks quietly. A site that spends half its day on diesel generation has most of its emissions in Scope 1, not Scope 2 — but a tool that assumes grid supply will not ask. The number it produces is internally consistent and externally wrong, and nobody notices until someone with local knowledge reads the report.
Emvert is the third option. Nigerian emission factors, the FRC and SEC report structures, evidence attached to every figure at the moment it is entered, and an annual licence your finance team can approve without going to treasury for dollars.
What we hold to
These are not values on a wall. Each one is a decision we have already made, and each one costs us something.
Local depth over foreign breadth
We would rather be the only platform that handles Nigerian diesel generation properly than the twentieth that handles forty markets shallowly. Every feature is judged against whether it helps a company file here.
Evidence at entry, not at audit
The bill is attached when the reading is recorded, because attaching it six months later is the step that does not happen. This makes data entry slightly slower and assurance dramatically cheaper. We think that is the right trade.
We state what we do not know
Regulatory detail changes, portals change, and emission factors get revised. Where we are certain we say so; where we are not, we say that too. A compliance vendor that oversells its certainty is worse than no vendor.
Priced in Naira, permanently
FX exposure on a compliance tool is a procurement problem, a budgeting problem and a renewal problem. Billing in Naira means our pricing moves with our customers' reality rather than against it.
Your data leaves with you
You can export your full dataset — figures, calculations and evidence documents — at any time, including the day you decide to stop paying us. Lock-in should come from the product being good, not from the exit being painful.
The timetable we are building against
These dates are set by the regulators, not by us. They are the reason the product exists and the reason it is being built at the pace it is.
2027
SEC · Listed companies
Listed companies file sustainability disclosures.
Read the requirement2028
FRC · Public interest entities
Public interest entities report under the national framework.
Read the requirement2030
SMEs · Small & medium enterprises
The reporting net widens to smaller companies.
Read the requirement
The name
Emi is Yoruba for breath. Vert is French for green. Emvert is green breath — which is, quite literally, what carbon accounting measures: what a company puts into the air.
We use it plainly. It is a name, not a metaphor to be decorated, and you will not find a leaf anywhere in this product.
Elsewhere
Work with us
How we hire, and what we are looking for.
Partner programme
For advisory firms and audit practices.
Press & brand
Media contact and brand assets.
Security & data handling
How your emissions data is held.
Compliance hub
The Nigerian rules, in plain language.
Contact
Talk to a person about your reporting cycle.