Scope 1 & 2 GHG Accounting

Use the emissions calculation engine to calculate scope 1 and 2 emissions.

The emissions calculation in based on the GHG protocol.

The Scope 1 & 2 GHG Accounting module includes:

Custom emissions factors: Create and manage your own emission factors.
Managed emission factors: A set of publicly available emission factors are managed by the platform.
Factor review and auditing tools: A description of the auditing methodology and review process is provided. Auditors often ask for the process of managing factors. You can share the Reviewing and auditing factors topic with your auditor.
Market-based emissions: View total electricity consumption and report on both market-based and location-based emissions.
Dashboards: The dashboards that are provided with the Scope 1 & 2 GHG Accounting module are listed in Table 1.
Reports: The reports that provided with the Scope 1 & 2 GHG Accounting are listed in Table 2 .

Table 1. Scope 1 & 2 GHG Accounting Dashboards
Dashboard	Description
Emissions Performance Dashboard	The dashboard shows your GHG emissions broken down by scope, direct emissions, indirect emissions and individual gases, such as CO2, CH4, and N2O.
Performance by Scope Dashboard	The dashboard shows emissions and GHG reductions broken down by scope. This dashboard also provides a monthly breakdown of emissions and lists the top 10 data types by quantity of emissions.

Table 2. Scope 1 & 2 GHG Accounting Reports
Report	Description
Market-based Emissions v3 PowerReport	The Market-based Emissions report summarizes emissions from Scope 2 market-based and location-based electricity. It also is an accounting of all types of energy attributes including national renewable energy quotas, green power, RECs, GOs and other renewable energy instruments. A financial analysis is provided to estimate the cost of achieving net zero emissions for electricity across your organization. A detailed view of energy attribute apportionment and underlying emission factors is included, which is useful for auditors. Note: Contact the Envizi support team to enable this report. Additional configuration steps are required to enable the report.
Sustainability (Executive Report) PowerReport	A summary report that enables an organization to share key sustainability insights with nontechnical, and less regular users of IBM® ESG Suite.
Sustainability (Portfolio Performance) PowerReport	The report provides a snapshot of the performance of key sustainability metrics of a property portfolio. The report provides portfolio managers with metrics from a building level up to a portfolio level.
CDP Climate PowerReport	The report brings together the data that you need to respond to questions in a Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) disclosure.

Additional extract reports that are provided with this module are listed in Extract reports.