Emissions Performance dashboard
The Emissions Performance dashboard shows your GHG emissions broken down by scope, direct emissions, indirect emissions and individual gases, such as CO2, CH4, and N2O.
The Emissions Performance dashboard is part of the Scope 1 & 2 GHG Accounting module.
To open the dashboard, from the main menu, click . Alternatively, on the Organization or Group Summary page, click
The chart Figure 1 shows GHG emissions over time, emission intensity by KPI, and a breakdown of individual GHG scopes. Currently, the comparison period will change the summary box and the grid that is accessed through the chart. A comparison against the previous period is also available.
- The View as drop-down list is restricted to Emissions, available in t CO2e and kg CO2e.
- KPIs that show intensity are selectable in the By drop-down list. Intensity units of measure are shown on the 2nd y-axis.
- Summary boxes show current emissions, previous emissions, and variance.
- Totals are shown above the bars. The totals are color-coded to match the contents of the bar chart.
- Emissions data is broken down by GHG scope, including GHG Offsets.
Emissions inventory grid
Lifecycle emissions are defined as the complete emissions profile of an activity, which includes the direct component, such as burning of fuels or consumption of electricity, as well as the indirect component, which includes upstream and downstream emissions. For example, in the case of electricity consumption, there are emissions that are associated with transmission and distribution losses. Likewise, with Scope 1 fuels, there are emissions that are associated with the extraction, processing, manufacture and delivery of the fuel. These losses are represented in the ‘Scope 3 Indirect’ column.
Indirect emissions are technically classified as Scope 3, but they differ from other Scope 3 sources because they result from activities that also produce Scope 1 and 2 emissions. To avoid duplicating account data and to show the link between the direct and indirect emissions, these indirect Scope 3 emissions are included as a column in the Tree Grid rather than as additional rows.
To determine the total Scope 3 emissions for your organization, sum the values in the ‘Emissions’ column for Scope 3 with the total values in the ‘Scope 3 Indirect’ column.
The Emissions Inventory grid is a table that shows pivoted and summed data. In this case, emissions are grouped by Location, Data Type, Category, and Scope. The grid opens with all groupings collapsed, and they can be expanded by using the arrows in the Scope column.
- 4 levels of groupings, including Scope, Category, Data Type, and Locations.
- Scope: Includes Scope 1, Scope 2, Scope 3 and GHG Reductions (which includes Offsets and Renewable Energy Certificates).
- Category: Includes groupings of data types such as Transport Fuels, Electricity, Natural Gas, Refrigerants.
- Summarizing Quantities when the Emissions Inventory grid is expanded to the Data Type level because aggregating above data type would result in adding together different units of measure.
- Representing the upstream and downstream emissions for each emission source as Scope 3 Indirect Emissions.
- Viewing emissions in tonnes or kilograms, depending on the selection in the View As field on the dashboard.
- Emissions intensity is affected by the selection in View As as well as the KPI selected. If no KPI is selected or available, then the KPI and Emissions Intensity columns are not displayed.
- Individual GHG gases are displayed, which show the total CO2e for each gas.
Sometimes, the sum of individual gases do not add up to total emissions. Emission factors are sometimes only available in CO2e and not provided in CO2, CH4, and N2O and this can cause a mismatch when summing across locations and regions.