CO2 footprint

 The CO₂ balance (CO₂ footprint) shows which activities contribute how much to the CO₂ emission.

• You can view this table per theme (electricity, fuel, transport, etc.) or per scope (as described for the CO₂ performance ladder). Read how you can hide scope 3.
• Items that have been hidden via finetuning are not visible in the balance either.
• A reduction of the CO_2-emission by purchasing green power, biogas or CO₂ compensation is shown in the total.
• The following categories in the Envirometer are not yet CO₂-relevant. That means that the CO₂ burden of these categories is not yet included in the CO₂ indicator.
• company waste
• hazardous waste
• The CO₂ chart can be viewed by going to charts, and selecting the CO₂ indicator in the menu on the right.

Publish your CO2-footprint

You can publish CO2 footprints from the Envirometer:

1. Go to CO2-footprints
   
   • Select a year you want to publish
   • If desired, select 'per scope' instead of 'per theme'
   • If desired, select 'per ...' to show a relative footprint
   • Tick the boxes of the logo's (e.g. CO2-performance ladder/ISO 14064) which are relevant for the publication
   2. Click on the 'Share' button

Hereafter, you can see the CO2-footprint via the appearing link, it is now part of the list on the Envirometerwebsite (this website is only available in Dutch).

• You can publish multiple years from one Envirometer, for example:
• 2014, 2015, 2016
• or (after you splitted a year) 2015 first half, 2015 second half.
• At settings --> shared CO2-footprints you find a list of your published footprints. Here you can remove multiple footprints from te list of public footprints.
• Only 'administrators' and 'users with all permisions' can share a CO2-footprint. You can adjust the settings under settings --> manage users.

What is CO₂ actually?

Carbondioxide, or CO₂, is a gas which is by nature present in the atmosphere. Because CO₂ is a greenhousegas, it ensures that the earth retains its heat, so called (normal) global warming. If this does not happen, people could not live on earth due to the fact that it would be too cold to survive. However, as a consequence of human acts, the amount of CO₂ significantlyincreased over the last 150 years. This is mainly due to the incineration of fossil fuels, like coal, oil and natural gas. This increasement causes enhanced global warming. Due to enhanced global warming, the climate of the earth is changing. The changing climate of the earth causes extreme weather circumstances which we experience in every country.

To measure the emission of greenhousegases like CO₂, researchers make use of a measurement method in CO₂- equivalents. One CO₂-equivalent is the same as the effect of the emission of 1 kg CO2. The equivalents are used because there are other greenhousegases next to CO₂ present in the atmosphere, like N2O and CH4.

The CO₂ emissions of your company operations are calculated in the Envirometer. But what do these tonnes of CO₂ mean for you and your company? To visualize this, you can select the next parameters via finetuning under the theme 'CO₂ and compensation':

- Total CO₂ emissions compared to '...' tonnes coal
- Total CO₂ emissions translated to kilometers driven by car around the equator.
- The amount of hours a windturbine needs to operate to compensate the total amount of CO₂ emissions
- The amount of m2 solarpanels to compensate the CO₂ emissions.

You emit 1 kg CO2 (≈ 200 liter CO2 gas) if you:

breath ≈ half a day

travel ≈ 5 km by car

travel ≈ 15 km by public transport