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How do I report my emissions across other disclosure frameworks?
Analytics and reporting
Now that you have centralized your data centralization by adding different types of assets and their corresponding usages to our facilities. The Platform will measure the greenhouse gas emissions of these facilities, and visualize them through analytics modules. In this section, we will explore different views to analyze the carbon emissions of our facilities, and finally report it for internal and external use.
Portfolio
The Portfolio view is available in the Carbon Accounting Platform and provides accessible and summarized analytics of our facilities. This view provides a breakdown of emissions and provides precise insights of the emitting entity.
Charts
Advanced analytics are accessible through the “Chart” button in the toolbar, introduced in the first tutorial.
By clicking on this button, advanced analytics are presented. If filters are applied, these charts will visualize the corresponding results. The following filter shows the CO2e emissions of the four previous years until the present year of the organization in question.
Here is the resulting chart:
For each year of data, we can obtain valuable insights about the various relative impact attributes, such as annual increase in absolute emissions.
Advanced Filters
The data presented in the previous chart can be broken down by different attributes, including the scope, fuel type, geographical, and organizational criteria. This can be achieved through the collection of radio buttons available above the chart, as shown in the following screenshot.
Let us explore in further details each one of the chart filter criteria offered by the Carbon Accounting Platform.
- Scopes. The charts above can be broken down by scopes. Exemple: Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3.
- Fuel. Charts can be filtered by fuel type, including, electricity, coal, gas, propane, or any other fuel type that might be used by the facilities.
- State, city, and zip code. These three criteria provide a geographical breakdown of the chart.We can visualize, for example, the annual emissions by the state in which they occur. Similarly, the chart can be presented by jurisdictions, such as city or county, or by zip code.
Pro Tip
The regional factors are important in case of higher regions of emission factors. Regions can also be prone to ordinances, such as benchmarking ordinance, or other state or city specific regulations related to green gas emissions.
- Groups. The group filter allows understanding the impact of different business units relative to their total greenhouse gas emissions. These units can be subsidiaries or different departments that are causing certain emissions levels.
Groups can be attributed to a facility from the “Edit a Facility” menu, explored in the first section. An existing group can be assigned to a facility by selecting it from the list, and new groups can be added as shown below. In the dedicated menu, you can choose the group name and save it as a new entry in the “Group” dropdown.
Here is an example view with the “Group” filter selected:
In the chart legend, we can observe different groups previously attributed to the facility. By clicking each of the groups, the view is updated to highlight the consumptions of the specified group. In the above example, the group “unassigned” is selected, and seems to generate the majority of emissions.
More Analytics
In the facilities list, we can also find a compressed version of the asset annual consumption, in the “Usage” column, introduced as well in the first section. This chart provides an annualized view to assess the impact, the trend lines, etc.
Pro Tip
Next to each of the columns “Sq. Footage”, “Emissions”, “Costs”, and “Usage” we can find a button in the form of two opposed arrows. Clicking one of these buttons, will sort the corresponding column in an ascending order. A second click will reverse to a descending order. For example, we can sort our facilities from the highest to the lowest in terms of usage by double clicking the button next to the “Usage” column.
Reporting Disclosures
The Carbon Accounting Platform has dedicated features for downloading reports and reporting out to different third-party frameworks. The platform facilitates the download of different types of reports, and output data into standard formats destined to be disclosed to reporting frameworks and other systems.
In the dedicated toolbar, you can click the download button:
Many of the reports generated by the platform include a digital registry such as SB 233-261 or the currently discussed SEC ruling, for which all of the scope 1, 2, 3 emissions for every customer or entity, have to be disclosed in a standard and structured way.
The “Download json” button will provide a windows to download the data as a JSON file:
The platform also provides the option to download CSV files and Excel files presented either by emissions, by fuel, emissions by scope, energy usage, commodity usage by scope and fuel, or all of the above.
Third-party Complaint Reports
Users can also download third-party complaints reports. To do so, you can navigate to the side bar menu of the platform, and click the “Reporting” option.
GRI Report
GRI reports can be directly generated in the platform. The platform facilitates the extraction of data from facilities and other elements of the platform, formats it correctly, and outputs directly into a branded system.
Once you have navigated to the Reporting menu, you can simply click on the dedicated GRI button, and a download shall start immediately.
Here is sample result of a GRI report:
GRI reports specifically, can also report emissions intensity by employee or by revenue. Customers can add full time employees by year, as well as revenue in unit dollars per year. This way, the emission for those matching years, could be divided by the total emission by these different factors. Here is the dedicated menu:
The platform allows then to derive intensity targets or intensity benchmarks that different industry standards report out to and have specific thresholds. This process automates many manual processes that could take months to complete
GHG Report
Similarly, you can download GHG reports by clicking on the dedicated button.
Here is an extract of a sample GHG report:
If you scroll down to the bottom of the GHG report, you will find a dedicated menu to download the report as different extensions:
GHG reports can be downloaded as PDF for ready-to-file, as Word doc for editable documents. This report can also be exported as Excel or CSV to bring it into other reporting systems. You can also download the report as programmatic extensions such as JSON, XML.
This flexibility in the output formats allows to integrate data directly into a third-party system, or internal business intelligence tools, such as Tableau or Power BI that might be used for data visualization and presentation.
GRESB Report
The following is an extract of the GRESB Report, also available in the platform for download.
You can easily download all six reports in the same day, granted you have centralized all of your data and accurately calculate your carbon footprint. You can do that thanks to dedicated platform’s features.
Thanks to the reporting menu, the user can set any kinds of targets, that is the norm in the industry, as well as doing reduction roadmaps or showcase that the customer is on target to meet those emissions goals.
How often is the factor data updated?
Our data is updated from time to time based on when our sources are updated. Generally, this happens on an annual basis - but some can be monthly, while others every 2-3 years. The platform remeasures emissions results on an annual basis. Past mitigations may or may not be factored into future reports.
How do I download my data or share reports?
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