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 facility impact dashboard works. It gives you insight into the part of your total company impact attributed to facilities.

Using the Impact selector at the top of the dashboard, you can view the facility impact as the total carbon footprint, the Environmental Cost Indicator (ECI), or any individual EF 3.1 impact category (such as water use). You can switch between them freely — they're all shown through the same set of views, so there's no difference in how you navigate them:

The same metrics apply to every score, so each impact category is explained in full just once. For a thorough explanation of every category and how Root converts your data into these scores, see What is characterisation and how does Root convert data into impact scores?

Use the year selector to set the timeframe. The completeness indicator in the top right shows how much of your data has been properly reported/matched. For instance, unmatched materials carry no impact and are flagged in the facilities section.

Curious to learn more? Read our blogs on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and the Environmental Cost Indicator.

Whichever metric you select, the dashboard shows the same views.

The total footprint attributed to facilities for the selected timeframe, shown in the unit of the metric you're viewing. The % of company total below it shows how much of your whole company impact comes from facilities.

This chart breaks the facility footprint down by the type of resource consumed — electricity, heat, water, refrigerant, residual waste, and consumables — so you can see which resources drive your facilities' impact.

This table ranks the energy sources contributing most to your facility footprint (e.g. natural gas, grey electricity mix), with the amount consumed, the supplier, and each source's share of the total. Use the Unique / Grouped toggle to switch between listing sources individually and combining identical sources into a single line.

This table compares your facilities across each resource type, with columns for Electricity, Heat, Water, Refrigerant, Residual waste, and Consumable, plus each facility's Share and total impact in the selected metric. Use the Facility and Resource type tabs to switch between a row per facility and a row per resource type, and the download button at the top right to export the data.

The total carbon footprint has one additional breakdown that the other metrics don't: a split across scopes. This view distributes your facility carbon footprint across scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions:

For product companies, the majority of emissions (typically over 85%) fall under Scope 3.

What impact categories does Root calculate?

Root calculates your impact across the full set of EF 3.1 metrics — covering carbon, water and land use, toxicity, pollution, air and atmosphere, and resource depletion — and aggregates them into the Environmental Cost Indicator (ECI). Each category is explained in detail in What is characterisation and how does Root convert data into impact scores?

What happens after I upload data — is the dashboard immediately usable?

Yes, the dashboard 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.