CO₂‑ footprint

The CO₂ footprint shows how much each activity has contributed to CO₂ emissions, including the CO₂ emission factor used. You can choose three types of breakdowns of CO₂ footprints. You can also open your CO₂ footprint with the click of a button, an increasing requirement.
Looking for more detailed help concerning CO₂ footprints? Click on general help CO₂‑footprints

Three types of breakdown

In the margin, you can choose between the following three CO₂ footprint breakdowns. The content of the CO₂ footprints is the same in each, only the scopes are divided differently.

• CO₂ Performance Ladder:
  • Division of items between scope 1 and scope 2 & Business Travel in accordance with the CO₂ Performance Ladder.
  • Business trips that are not made with a company car (such as air travel and km claimed) fall under ’2&BT scope’ here.
  • Other scope 3 items fall under the heading “scope 3 CO₂” and are not included in the total.
  • The ‘hide’ scope 3 button at the bottom means that this footprint will only show the aspects required for level 3 of the CO₂ Performance Ladder.
• GHG Protocol:
  • Division of items over scope 1, 2 and 3 in accordance with the Green House Gas Protocol.
• Thematic:
  • The most recognisable footprint because this follows the theme breakdown in the Envirometer.

Note 1: Waste is not shown in the CO₂ graph. Go to the help per theme for waste for more information.
Note 2: The CO₂‑footprint in the Envirometer uses CO₂‑equivalents. One CO₂‑equivalent equals the effect of the emission of 1 kilogram of CO₂. Using CO₂‑equivalents enables adding and subtracting of the different greenhouse gasses. The conversion is based on the Global Warming Potential (GWP) – that is the extend to which a gass contributes to the greenhouse effect.

Edit the display

• Normalize: As with the graphs and key figures, it is possible to break down the footprint by determining specific company data and, consequently, the CO₂ footprint per, for example, printed matter or employee.
• Year parts: To the right of the graph title is a button that can be used to display the time period selected instead of the entire year. The bar graph will then show all time periods within the selected time window. The pie chart will then only show the selected time period. The view selector is set by default to semi-annual, but you can also choose to view by the four-month period, quarterly, monthly or remove this view option entirely. To adjust this, navigate to change barometer in the Envirometers management and use the ”period view” drop down menu.

Tip: For the CO₂ Performance Ladder, you can also indicate whether and which CO₂ Performance Level logo you want shown in the shared footprint.

Copy and publish

• Copy: The copy button to the left of the CO₂ footprint lets you export the CO₂ footprint as a table and easily copy it into Excel/spreadsheet or a report.
• Share: The ‘share’ button lets you publish your CO₂ footprint on the Envirometer website, thereby making it public. The sharing option includes the following choices:
  • English or Dutch
  • Type of display (CO₂ Performance Ladder, GHG Protocol, Thematic)
  • Absolute or ‘normalized’
  • Per year or time period
• The overview of your shared CO₂ footprints (and time periods) can be found under ‘Manage’ > Shared CO₂‑footprints in the grey taskbar.

Important: You can share the footprints for several time periods and/or the entire year, but you can only share one per year or time period with respect to:

• Language (Dutch or English)
• Normalized or absolute

Tip: Do you want to update a shared CO₂‑footprint? First use the Stop sharing button on the CO₂‑footprint page and then share the CO₂‑footprint again with the Share CO₂‑footprint button.