Organisation finetuning

Organisation finetuning allows you to adjust CO2 factors for the entire organization and per barometer.

• Adjustment works for all themes in the Envirometer, for example also for ‘electricity’ or ‘waste’.
• This also allows you to change the names, units and chapter titles of ‘Other chain emissions’ and ‘Paper & Resources’ (for the entire organization).
• You can enter names, units and chapter titles in Dutch and English at the same time.

• Note: in (ordinary) fine-tuning you can only switch items on or off (per barometer). If you want to change CO2-factors, titles and units you have to use organizational fine-tuning. The exception is ‘production volume’ for company data, the titles of which remain changeable via fine-tuning.

Organization fine-tuning instruction

Through organization fine-tuning you can adjust the CO2 factors, title and unit for the entire organization (if allowed for an item).

• On the left you see the same list of items as with fine-tuning.
• Which items are in use?
  • Green dots show which items are ‘on’ in the finetuning of the ’current’ barometer.
  • Gray dots show which items in are ‘on’ in _ some other barometer_ the subscription.
  • No dot means that the item in this subscription is not in use for any barometer.
• On the right you see the CO2 factors for the active barometer in the current year.
• With the pencil icon on the right you go to the management screen for CO2 factors for that item (for all years and all barometers).

CO2 factors management screen

In the CO2 factors management screen you can change the CO2 factor on two levels:

• for the whole organization: on the second line, directly below the line with default values.
• per barometer: in the table below.

How does it work:

• Click on a value you want to change. Type the new value and save with the green check mark (or enter).
• This value is now applied for all years until the next adjusted value.
• A change at organizational level will affect all barometers. Unless it is overridden at barometer level.
• Black numbers are adjusted values. Gray ones are ‘automatic’ values.
• You can remove an adjustment by removing the entered value; the number will then turn grey, confirm this with the green tick. The number then remains gray.

Tips:

• Make sure that your CO2 value matches the unit (at the top of the screen), for example kg CO2/kWh and not ton CO2/kWh.
• Do you have many barometers and or many years: you can limit the number of barometers and years in the image via the ‘label filter’ and the ‘time window’ in the green top bar.
• Waste has no default CO2 factors in the Environmental Barometer (because the factor is very dependent on what is in the waste and what happens to the waste). If you have suitable CO2 factors for your waste streams, you can provide waste with CO2 factors and include them as scope-3 emissions.

Extra adaptability for Raw materials and Other chain emissions

There are three themes (chapters) where you can change the title and unit of items in addition to the CO2 factor. These items do not have default CO2 factors. This allows you to expand your CO2 footprint with (scope 3) chain emissions such as the CO2 emissions from raw material production, the construction of the business premises or the energy consumption of products sold. See also the help page about “scope-3 emissions”: https://www.milieubarometer.nl/envirometer-help/general-help/co2-footprint/Carbon-footprint-scope-3/. There you can read which scope-3 emissions are ingrained in the Envirometer and how you can expand your footprint in phases based on the GHG subdivision of scope 3.

Edit chapter title

You can change the names of these three themes/chapters. They are initially called:

• Paper (& Raw materials) – red in the graph
  The existing themes Office paper and Raw materials have been merged here. The raw materials do not have a default CO2 factor, you can add it yourself.
• Other chain emissions – light gray in the graph
  Until recently, this was called ‘Other CO2 sources’.
• Other chain emissions (2) – dark gray in the graph
  Comparable to Other chain emissions; you can use it, for example, to bundle your downstream chain emissions.

Tips:

• When merging office paper and raw materials, we chose ‘Paper (& raw materials). Many barometers include office paper, but no other raw materials (yet) and raw materials have not been registered with a CO2 factor until now (that was not possible). Feel free to (temporarily) change the title back to Office Paper as long as you do not add any other purchased products and services with a CO2 factor.
• You may add a Dutch translation of the theme title right away.

What about CO2-factors if you sum barometers/years with different CO2 factors

If an item has the same CO2 factor in all barometers and years, it is easy to add them. However, if the CO2 factor differs (for example between Dutch and German electricity) or between 2021 and 2022, the question is what will happen. There are two ways of making a sum in the barometer: add separate years or use a sum barometer.

• With the function add years you paste the sum year in an (existing) barometer. The added year therefore uses the CO2 factors of the barometer and the year in which it is pasted.
• An (automatic) sum barometer calculates an average CO2 factor. This is done as follows: the CO2 emissions and the amount used for each item are totalled. The average CO2 factor is calculated on this basis. If in the total electricity consumption is 3,000 kWh and the total emission is 1,500 kg CO2, then the CO2 footprint shows 0.5 kg CO2/kWh as the CO2 factor. Here you always sum CO2-footprints from different locations, per year.