CO₂‑ footprint

Do you use the Environmental Barometer to create and/or publish CO₂‑footprints?

• On the illustrated page on the website you can see the most important CO₂‑features in the Envirometer.
• This page contains everything about CO₂‑footprints.
• Below are instructions on the Envirometer features that are useful when working with CO₂‑footprints.

What data is needed for a CO₂‑footprint?

• On the Envirometer website you can find an overview of the data required for a CO₂ footprint (scope 1 and 2).
• View the steps for making a carbon footprint, including scope 3.

Adding input fields to your CO₂‑footprint

• Via finetuning you can tick input fields ‘on’ and ‘off’.
• If you want to add CO₂‑emissions from items that are not present like raw materials you can add them via finetuning at Other CO₂‑sources. Then you choose the name and set the CO₂emission factor yourself.
• CO₂offsets you can also add in this way.

Viewing your CO₂‑footprint

There are two ways:

• As a graph (under CO₂‑graph)
• As a table (under CO₂‑footprint)
  • arranged by theme
  • arranged by scope (1,2,(3))
    • according to the CO₂‑Performance Ladder
    • according to the GHG Protocol

Zoom in on your CO₂‑emissions

• CO₂‑graph: A pie chart with the selected year that shows the distribution of CO₂‑ emissions of the themes or a bar graph with the CO₂‑footprint over the years.
• Zoom in on a theme: Select a theme in the margin to view a graph for that theme with a breakdown of the environmental impact for all data entered. (e.g. for business travel: diesel, gasoline, public transport, declared kilometers).
• If you want a custom chart, you can choose which themes you want to display in the chart when downloading charts.

Comparing CO₂‑footprints of more years

With graphs:

• Go to CO₂‑graph and you have the bar graphs next to each other
• You have the option to view this per year or part of the year (half years, tertials, quarters or months).

With tables:

• Under Report, you can choose to download a report in PDF or Excel.
• Only designate ‘CO₂ footprint( thematic’ and/or ‘CO₂ footprint (by scope).

In the comparison CO₂‑footprints correct for growth or shrinkage

• Use “per… (turnover, employee, production volume) in the CO₂‑graph and/or CO₂‑footprint.
• For key figures, you can have CO₂‑figures per … to be calculated. See also the next point.

Measuring progress with indicators

• By comparing key figures from different years, you can thematically measure your progress. An example of a CO₂‑indicator is the CO₂‑emissions of business traffic per FTE.
• You can add specific CO₂ indicators to the list of key figures in your Environmeter. Under indicators go to finetuning and select under the headings ‘CO₂ and compensation’ and ‘CO₂ performance ladder’ the key figures you want to add.
• There are also key figures that express CO₂‑emissions in tangible quantities such as
  • number of operating hours of a wind turbine
  • number of m² of solar panel

Publish CO₂‑footprints

• If desired, make your CO₂‑footprint(s) public. This can be useful, for example, if your clients ask for your CO₂‑footprint.
• Use the button at the top of the page ‘CO₂‑footprint’. You can make one footprint version of each (partial) year public.
• If you first switch to the English language you publish the footprint in English.
• You update a public footprint by deleting it and publishing it again.
• You can see which footprints you have made public at Menu > shared CO₂‑footprints or on CO₂‑footprints.
• By default, the title of your CO₂‑footprint corresponds to the name of the barometer title. At manage barometer you can change this (per barometer) to:
  • only organization name (= name of subscription)
  • only barometer title
  • organization name plus barometer title.

Convert your CO₂‑footprint into a PDF report

• Under Reports you can create a PDF report.
• Choose only the CO₂‑graph and/or your CO₂‑footprint that you want and press on the download button. You will have a PDF report with your CO₂‑footprint.

Paste your CO₂‑footprint in a Word document Using the small copy-button at the CO₂‑footprint in the Envirometer, you can copy the footprint to paste in a Word document. Do not use ctrl + V for pasting, but click the right mouse button > ‘Merge formatting’. You can also use the menu item ‘Paste’ > ‘Paste special’> ‘Merge formatting’.

Hiding scope 3 in your CO₂‑footprint (= limit to scope 1 & 2)

• Do you want to omit scope 3 from your “CO₂‑footprint” (for example for the CO₂‑Performance ladder). Then go to management and change this at the shared CO₂‑footprints management.
• At the bottom of the CO₂‑footprint per scope you will recognize this setting because it says “CO₂ scope 3 hidden”

Creating footprints of half years (or quarters or…)

• If desired, you can make footprints of half years (or quarters or …).
• Enter data by month (or by half year or quarter). Data that do not vary throughout the year are simply entered as annual totals.
• At management split a year into half years (or quarters, tertiaries or even months).
• Then you work with these “partial years” just like with normal years. You can also publish them.
• You can undo the split and then split again if necessary.

CO₂‑Footprints of sites add up to a CO₂‑footprint of the company.

• In administration, you can use the add function to add up the CO₂‑footprints of the sites to a CO₂‑footprint of your entire company.
• We recommend that you create a separate company total barometer for this.
• You can refresh the sum with the click of a button (if the underlying figures in branches have changed).

Monitor CO₂‑targets

Set up CO₂‑targets and monitor via the target dashboard whether you are meeting your CO₂‑goals.