Welcome to the onboarding manual for our impact dashboards. This manual guides you through navigating the dashboards so you can interpret insights and make data-driven decisions effectively.
This article explains how the GHG report works. It outlines your company's emissions across Scopes 1, 2, and 3, broken down by categories such as combustion sources, purchased utilities, and value chain impacts from upstream and downstream products and travel.
How the report is structured
The GHG report follows the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Your emissions are expressed in CO2e, determined using the IPCC 2021 methodology and the GWP100 indicator, and organised into the Protocol's three scopes:
Scope 1 — direct emissions from owned or controlled sources, split into stationary combustion, mobile combustion, fugitive emissions, and process emissions.
Scope 2 — indirect emissions from purchased energy, split into purchased electricity, steam, heating, and refrigerant.
Scope 3 — all other indirect emissions in your value chain, split into the Protocol's 15 categories, from purchased goods and services and upstream transportation through to use of sold products and end-of-life treatment.
Use the year selector to set the timeframe.
Curious to learn more about the Greenhouse Gas Protocol? Read our blog here.
Navigating the report
Total carbon impact
Your company's total emissions for the selected year, expressed in CO2e.
Scope and category breakdown
The report lists every scope and its categories, with each category's emissions in CO2e and its share of your total carbon impact. Scopes can be expanded to show their categories, and a visual breakdown alongside the list shows how your total impact is distributed across the scopes and their largest categories at a glance.
Deep dive into a category
Selecting a category opens a detailed view of it in a modal, showing how that category's impact is divided into the underlying activities that make it up. The modal shows the category's total emissions and its share of your total carbon impact, with a breakdown organised into category-specific tabs. For example:
Purchased goods and services breaks down into the materials and product packaging behind it, with the amount and emissions of each.
Upstream transportation and distribution breaks down into the transport routes behind it, with the type, mode, distance, mass, and emissions of each.
Each category shows the breakdown most relevant to it, so you can trace any line in the report back to the activities driving it.
Exporting the GHG report
You can export the full GHG report for the selected year, and each category's breakdown can be exported from its detailed view — giving you a complete, shareable record of your emissions outside the platform.
FAQ
What are Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions?
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol categorises emissions into three scopes. Scope 1 covers direct emissions from owned or controlled sources; Scope 2 covers indirect emissions from purchased energy; and Scope 3 covers all other indirect emissions in your value chain, such as purchased goods, transportation, use of sold products, and end-of-life treatment. For product companies, the majority of emissions (typically over 85%) fall under Scope 3.
What happens after I upload data — is the report immediately usable?
Yes, the report is always up to date. We've removed the "Request Impact" button, so you'll instantly see the most current data based on your uploaded information.
Why might my report look incomplete?
The report only includes data that has been matched to an impact reference. Anything that hasn't been matched yet isn't counted toward your emissions, so completing your matches in the Matching section gives you the most accurate picture.