Archive of the changes to the Envirometer

October 2024

• New: the ‘Scope 3 chapters’ have items per scope 3 category. The unit is tons of CO2. This allows you to easily add components from external scope 3 calculations.
• The menu in the bottom bar has been rearranged. The functions are the same.
• New layout of CO₂-related key figures; they are now divided into three clusters:
  • CO2 – total and thematic
  • Scope 1 & 2 (including Business Traffic for CO₂-PL)
  • Scope 3 including subdivision into categories.
• New key figures: for the 15 categories in scope 3. So that you can set a CO2 target per scope 3 category.
• New key figure: Share of tap water in water use, interesting for companies that collect rainwater or use surface water.
• Various hazardous waste streams added in the fire service sector (hydrogen peroxide, extinguishing fluid, low-calorific value fluid, alkaline cleaning agent).

September 2024

• Waste graph now also in kg (in addition to the environmental graph). For now only in the powertool graphs. Start at the CO2 or Environmental graph; select the power tool (top right) and then select ‘weight graph’ on the left.
• You can add more than 25 items to the ‘scope 3 chapters’ (limit has been removed)
• The legend for a graph with a copy year has been improved.
• When filling in the ‘all years’ view, you can now see directly from the speech bubbles for which year/years notes have been made.
• When managing barometers and years, you can now see for sum years or average years when they were last refreshed.

August 2024

• Added to Freight transport & Business traffic & Passenger transport & Mobile equipment: AdBlue (Urea-water mixture for diesel engines with DeNox catalyst)
• Added to emissions: Mixed gases with 92/8% Argon/CO2 and 98/2% Argon/CO2 (welding gases)
• Added to mobile equipment: Propane for burners (such as weed burners or roof burners).
• An error had crept into the key figure ‘Natural gas eq. consumption (information obligation)’. ‘Self-generated heat’ was included in this key figure for some time. This has now been corrected.

July 2024

• Scope 1-2-3 graph added to the CO2 footprints (CO2 Performance Ladder and GHG protocol). You can see the scope 1-2-3 ratio at a glance (insofar as you have included them in your footprint). The colors show where the emissions come from. The legend is expandable.
• In the CO2 footprint in accordance with GHG you can see for scope 3 items in which scope 3 category they fall.
• In the CO2 footprint in accordance with GHG, the items are sorted by scope 3 category.
• In the multi-year view of completion, you can now see from the ‘clouds’ in which year notes were made.

June 2024

• Major adjustment Finetuning. Highlights:
  • For each item is shown in which GHG scope its CO2 emissions belong.
  • Also the scope 3 category is shown for each item in GHG scope 3.
  • Explanations directly readable (instead of clicking on i’s).
  • Finetuning organization: for all barometers simultaneously.
  • Finetuning CO2 factors: focuses on CO₂-relevant items in use.
• Correction to scope classification:
  • Business traffic – moped: scope 3 => scope 1
  • Business traffic – electric bicycle and scooter: scope 3 => scope 2

May 2024

• The pie and bar graphs have tooltips. If you point to a slice or bar, its name will appear. Useful for color blind people who cannot distinguish all graph colors properly.
• Also the dots on the homepage have ‘tooltips’. If you move your mouse over a dot, the title of the environmental data of the (blue, green or gray) dot will appear.
• In notes (when entering data) you can include ‘clickable’ web links. Paste a web address including ‘https://’ into the note and hit escape to see the result. These clickable links will also appear in your “PDF export of notes”: https://www.milieubarometer.nl/milieubarometer-help/help-stap/rapporteren-downloaden/download-notities/.

April 2024

• When copying a year you can set this copy to be the primary year.
• When adding a barometer you can copy the finetuning of an existing barometer. Useful if you want to use (almost) the same items and key figures.
• Added for emissions: Refrigerant R1234yf with a CO2eq factor = 1 kg/kg
• User management: You can now only invite a new user after giving the new user rights to at least one barometer.

March 2024

• Added conversion units for US users so that commonly used items can also be entered in: US gal, Lbs, BTU, miles, m2 ft.
• Added to Business traffic: …of which green energy from biomass. The title of the existing item is specified as …of which green energy from sun or wind (NL)
• Added to Freight Transport:
  • Outsourced transport (in tonnes of CO2). Useful if your carrier(s) report how much CO2 emissions are caused by the transport of your goods.
  • Outsourced freight transport HVO (litre).
  • Outsourced diesel freight transport (in diesel-HVO mix)
• Selecting barometers for automatic sum barometer improved.
• Users without administrative rights can now also download the barometer emblem.
• Update environmental prices incorporated into environmental factors. This is done on the basis of the environmental pricing report published in 2023. Background information about this update will follow soon.
  

February 2024

• New industry average for theaters!
• Building floor area converted from m2 gross floor area to usable area. You will receive a warning when logging in. More information in the HELP.
• The CO2 factors 2024 update has been carried out. Only “Cold from external WKO” has been adjusted retroactively. The other changes will take effect in 2024 and are therefore only relevant for footprints over 2024. You can see what the changes are Here. And read the “explanation(explanationCO2factors)” here:p5826.
• CO2 footprint clearer because zeros are omitted. For example, if you have not purchased HVO diesel this year and therefore enter zero, this will not be shown in the CO2 footprint.
• New key figures for waste: unsorted industrial waste/employee and unsorted industrial waste/volume of production. These key figures do not include unsorted construction and demolition waste and unsorted hazardous waste.
• Adjustment in calculation of key figure ‘Percentage of unsorted industrial waste’. The division is now only based on industrial waste instead of by the total amount of waste (commercial + hazardous).
• Added to fuel and heat: HVO biodiesel for heating. For example for a rented stove in a construction site.

January 2024

• For the sake of readability, the CO2 footprint per turnover jumps to kgCO2/*k*€ for very small values (i.e. per 1000€ instead of per €). For example, 0.000012 kgCO2/€ is then displayed as 0.012 kgCO2/k€. Of course, CO2 emissions do not change.

December 2023

• Added to Business traffic: Diesel van (in HVO diesel mix)
• Added to Business traffic items to enter declared kilometers broken down by fuel (petrol, diesel, hybrid, LPG, electric).
• You can now adjust the goal description above your goal graph, for example ’5% less every year’ via ‘Adjust goal’. If you do not want a goal description, you can clear the box.
• New key figure: CO2 emissions scope 3 excl. BT. With this indicator, companies can set a target for their scope 3 emissions excluding business traffic with the CO2 Performance Ladder. CO2 Performance Ladder companies already include Business Traffic from scope 3 in their “scope 2 + BT” goal.

November 2023

• All indicators are now provided with a graph: Select one indicator and the graph will appear below the table with indicator values. If you want to add a target (line) to the indicator (graph), use the ‘add target’ button below the graph.
• When downloading the graph of one theme, the theme name is now included in the title. The theme is also included in the name of the PNG or PDF.
• With organizational fine-tuning, asterisks mark the CO₂-factors for which the value (set by your organization) differs from the default value.

October 2023

• When entering data, you can jump quickly to other years or barometers with a sidebar that can be opened on the right. This ‘year-jump’ function now also takes into account the label filter and the time window. Useful for users with many barometers and/or years.
• Barometer management menu: shortened for single barometer subscriptions, adjusted (order and names) for multi-barometer subscriptions. The functions are the same: add-years, add-barometer, add-sumbarometer, add-separate-years and average-years.

September 2023

• The information about the number of barometers you have in use has been improved. The free sum barometer created some ambiguity here.
• Through organizational fine-tuning you can change the titles of the ‘scope-3’ chapters (themes). These are themes to which you can add items yourself.
• Since September 27, every administrator can adjust/add CO2 factors to all items. You can do this via the ‘organization finetuning’ function: https://www.milieubarometer.nl/envirometer-help/envirometer-help/enter-data/organisation-finetuning/’. This is interesting if you:
  • Want to add items to your CO2 footprint for which the barometer does not have built-in CO2 factors (such as purchasing goods and services).
  • want to use local CO2 factors for foreign branches.
  • wants to use your own CO2 factors, for example those of the regional heating network.
• When hiding an indicator via fine-tuning, you will now receive a warning if there is a target associated with it. In the fine-tuning you can also see to which indicators a target has been added.
• Additional key figure: VOC emissions per production volume.
• Added items for commuting. You can now break down car kilometers by fuel and the electric versions of the motorcycle and moped are now also available.

August 2023

• At the bottom of a target graph there is now also a line with the measured values (below the target values).
• In the power tool it is now easier to limit the graph to just one theme.
• Newly published CO2 footprints are automatically translated when you switch languages, i.e. from English to Dutch and back, independent of the language in which they were published. Only the barometer title is not translated and self-added items without an English translation.
• The legend of the environmental graph now also contains the value of the industry average (so that you do not have to read it from the graph).
• Explanations of environmental items refreshed and unified.
• Improvement of blue/grey indicator balls per theme. They now also remain visible when you zoom in on items within a theme.
• Form to compile PDF reports much clearer.
• New industry average Hospitals (over 2022) available.
• New item in Business traffic: Van LNG
• New items in Passenger Transport: Public Transport, Coach and Air Travel. For example, to add school trips.

July 2023

• Changes in themes:
  • ’Office paper’ and ‘Raw materials’ have been merged into ‘Paper (& Raw materials)’
  • ’Other CO2 factors’ is now called ‘Additional chain emissions’
  • Extra chapter ‘Additional chain emissions (2)’
• The functions ‘Editable CO2 factors’ and ‘organization fine-tuning’ are available on request. Read the HELP page for a detailed explanation. The summary is:
  • New: Changeable CO2 factors. This allows you to override the default CO2 factors at organisation level and/or per barometer. Handy for eg foreign branches.
  • New: You can also provide raw materials and waste streams with CO2 factors.
  • New: Editable chapter titles for ‘other chain emissions’ and ‘raw materials’.
  • Improved: Titles and units editable at organisational level instead of per barometer so that they are uniform and can be added. This works for items in ‘other chain emissions’ and part of the ‘raw materials’.
• Readability of public CO2 footprints and PDF reports improved. (Only for new CO2 footprints and reports).

June 2023

• The new Dutch list of Obligatory Energy Saving Measures (EM list) has been implemented in the Envirometer: the selection and numbering of measures has been adjusted.
• Correction WEii key figure: feed-in power is now properly included (subtracted instead of added).
• Correction conversion factor for welding gases (Ar/CO2). It concerns the conversion from kg of welding gas to kg of CO2, the conversion from liters to kg of CO2 was correct.
• New industry average for housing corporations and offices, based on the Environmeter benchmark for 2022 of fourteen housing corporations.

April 2023

• If you open the HELP in your browser, the tab has a blue instead of a green icon, so you can quickly see where the HELP is open and where you are working in the Envirometer.
• New waste stream: cans
• New key figures for packaging waste (Mixed packaging waste + cans + drink cartons + cups)
• CO2 factor added to Mobile equipment – electricity. Electric mobile equipment was added Aug 2022. By accident, the item was then given no CO2 factors. The adjustment in the CO2 factors can be found on the page “CO2 factors”: https://www.milieubarometer.nl/co2-factors/

March 2023

• New key figure: GFT+Swill+coffee grounds per floor area
• CO2 factors of three anesthetic gases adjusted according to IPCC-AR6. See CO2 factors for the numbers.
• New key figure: total industrial waste/floor area
• New with compensation: Green electricity (purchased GOs). This allows you to include green energy next to your CO2 footprint. It is then visible as compensation / Carbon Financial Instrument (mandatory for a footprint in accordance with ISO 14064).
• New item for electricity: Electricity consumption of external data centers (market mix) for organizations that have their data hosted off-site. (This is a scope 3 item)

February 2023

• Correction: the scope classification of hydrogen has been corrected from scope 1 to scope 2. The CO2 emissions of hydrogen are released during production, not during end use.
• New refrigerants in emissions:

**R245fa **R1233zd

• For business traffic, “Electric cars (kWh)” has been renamed to “Electric cars (charging at the company)”. We hope that this clarifies the difference with the items based on charge cards and home charging.
• New feature: Sumbarometer for organisations with multiple barometers. The first sumbarometer is included in your subscription. You can add a sumbarometer to your account via ‘manage barometers & years’ in the left margin.

January 2023

• On Friday, January 27, the CO2 factors in the Envirometer were adjusted (in accordance with the changes on CO2emissiefactoren.nl). All changes concern 2023 and beyond, no CO2 emission factors have been adjusted retroactively. All changes can be found here: list of changes.

2022

December 2022

• New key figure available for the building-related energy theme: WEii = Actual Energy intensity indicator. With the WEii you can assess how efficient your building is and whether your building is already Paris Proof. Read more at WEii

November 2022

• New: “sector average for GP practices” based on data from 18 GP practices.

October 2022

• Added as a waste stream: Coffee grounds
• Completion of key figures for the CO2 emissions of scope 1&2, 2, 3. Now all are available per FTE, per turnover and per production volume (1, 2 and 3). You can add them via fine-tuning under “CO2 and Compensation”. The selection available for the key figures is in line with your selected items at ‘enter data’.
• Hospitals: A new industry average is available in the Envirometer, based on data from 36 hospitals for 2021. This replaces the 2019 average. An article about the new average is coming soon.
• New: quickly switch to another year for entering the same environmental data. Use the button at the top right of the ‘enter data’ screen to conjure up a menu on the right to select another year (in the same or in a different barometer). You keep the same environmental data selection. Extra useful if you are entering monthly values for more barometers.
• Improved: In “user management(user management) you can now view and manage in two ways:
  • per barometer: which users
  • per user: which barometers
• Improved: When managing labels, you can now view and manage in two ways:
  • per barometer: which labels
  • per label: which barometers
• For users with copy years: If you select a copy year (non-primary year) in the green bar, the indicators table now shows all copy years (and all primary years). Previously, you only saw one copy year at a time.

September 2022

• The environmental graph now also has a legend with a table, as was already available with the CO2 graph. It is at the bottom of the graph and it has an on/off switch.
• You can now switch directly between the CO2 and Environmental graph via the button at the top right (just like in the power tool).
• Key figures added for scope 3 CO2 emissions per turnover, per production volume 1 & 2.
  Note: this scope 3 includes all barometer items that fall under scope 3, but that is (usually) only part of a complete scope 3 analysis.

August 2022

• Electricity has been added as ‘fuel’ for Mobile equipment.
• In addition to CO2 emissions, energy consumption (MJ or kWh) of buildings or transport is regularly asked. Various energy key figures are available for transport (key figures can be added via fine-tuning):
  • energy consumption by type of fuel (diesel, petrol, electric, etc.)
  • energy consumption per transport category (mobile equipment, business, goods, passenger transport).
  • energy consumption in total transport (excluding commuting, public transport and outsourced transport)
• Three items have been added to Fuel & Heat:
  • Logs in outdoor fire/fireplace
  • Hydrogen for heat (grey)
  • Hydrogen for heat (green)
• API with energy portal ErbisOne available. In ErbisOne you can set up links with the Envirometer with which the energy data is imported monthly.
• New industry average available for housing corporations.
• New industry average available for offices (based on the offices of housing corporations).

July 2022

• Extra waste stream for healthcare: Contaminated waste (from nursing covid, noro, mrsa patients). This is a form of Specific Hospital waste that can now be registered separately.
• Waste item “Plastic – Cups” is now called “Cups (Plastic or paper)” as coated paper cups are becoming more common. The waste processing of all cups is comparable.

June 2022

• New multi-year chart when entering monthly values shows immediately whether your monthly value is higher or lower than last year. Prevents mistakes and makes analysis easier.
• Renewed version of thematic charts available (eg Environmental chart for business waste or CO2 chart for business traffic)! Color scales from dark to light and items are ordered according to their environmental impact.
• Also the legend under the CO2 graph has been improved (alignment to the decimal point).
• The key figures ‘CO2 emissions for business traffic with a (lease) vehicle fleet per …’ (under the heading ‘CO2 Performance Ladder’) have been supplemented with the CO2 emissions of the electric vehicle fleet.

May 2022

• Additional waste streams available:
  • Packaging for reuse: Crates, IBC Containers, Plastic drums, Metal drums, Jerry cans.
  • Stony waste streams: gypsum, concrete (in addition to existing streams such as clean rubble and sand-lime brick)
  • carpet
• NOTE On April 29, the CO2 factor of ‘returned green electricity’ was changed to 0g CO2/kWh. Read the explanation and our advice on how to deal with it.
• Additional waste streams available:
  • Packaging for reuse: Crates, IBC Containers, Plastic drums, Metal drums, Jerry cans.
  • Stony waste streams: gypsum, concrete (in addition to existing streams such as clean rubble and sand-lime brick)
  • carpet

April 2022

• NOTE On April 29, the CO2 factor of ‘returned green electricity’ was changed to 0g CO2/kWh. Read the explanation and our advice on how to deal with it.
• Key figure added: CO2 footprint expressed in the number of trees needed to compensate for CO2 emissions.
• Orphaned public CO2 footprints (barometer or year no longer exist) can now also be deleted.
• A user with ‘all rights’ can now also add CSR data and change CSR data unless the data is in use in a barometer to which the user has no rights.
• You can now also ‘normalize’ a target on a CSR data. Example: Choose the number of internship weeks as indicator and set the number of internship weeks per FTE as the target.
• Adding monthly values ​​to CSR data can now come in three flavors:
  • normal,
  • such as FTE (months of resources, but locations add up)
  • such as % and report figures (months of resources and locations of resources)
• The name of “raw materials 1 to 20” is now editable (previously only the unit).
• Added key figures for raw materials/employee and raw materials/production volume.

March 2022

* In manage – barometers you can set how the title of a barometer in reports should be composed. This setting is now also applied when you download a chart.

• The label filter (in the green top bar) now also filters the barometer list when you navigate to manage > barometers. Handy for subscriptions with many barometers.

February 2022

• Added items:
  • Power supplied (green and gray). This allows you to correct your purchased power for the power you supply to tenants, externally operated charging stations or shore power for third parties.
  • Purchased heat and cold from an external TES that runs on 100% green electricity.
• Added key figures:
  • CO2 emissions scope 3 (sums the scope 3 emissions entered in the Envirometer)
  • Business air miles/employee
  • Cold/floor surface
  • Various key figures for waste and fuel related to production volume-3.
• Users can now change the title of ‘production size’ themselves (via fine-tuning). Until now, a user could only customize the unit.
• Navigation between target graph & edit target & targets overview has been improved.
  • Below a target chart you find a link to the targets overview.
  • From the targets overview you can now go directly to “adjust target” via the icon in front of the target.
• added: GTL (gas-to-liquid diesel made from natural gas) for three items:
  • for business traffic: delivery van
  • for freight transport: van and truck
• User-customized titles and units of resources are now automatically applied in the key figures
• 2FA (2 Factor Authentication) or two-step verification is available. This allows you to provide extra security for your account. You can enable this via your user profile (icon at the top right). You cannot force it on fellow users.
• The fine-tuning now shows which units are available for filling in an item, such as for heat: GJ | kWh | m3 gas eq. That makes selecting items easier.
• The graphs in the power tool can now be sorted by year or by barometer. So that either all locations per year are listed together or all years per location. This choice has been added at the top left of the power tool.
• Unsorted industrial waste has an extra conversion factor from m3 to kg of 90 kg/m3. This is based on the experience of waste collectors. Our advice is to use this factor and adjust old years. You can use the factor 150 kg/m3 if there is a lot of organic waste or other heavy waste in the residual waste and your containers are always full.

January 2022

• 22 January, CO2 factors in the Envirometer were updated. All changes apply to values for 2022 and beyond, no CO₂-parameters have been adjusted retroactively. The overview of the changes can be found here: “list of changes (CO2 emission factors)”: https://www.milieubarometer.nl/co2- Factors/. For your CO₂-footprints 2021, the parameter changes of january 2021 are more relevant.
• Heat from a heat network is combined to one item: “Heat from heat network”. The CO2 and environmental score is based on the mix of heat networks in the Netherlands. The other heat network items are phased out and can be recognized by the text (in use until 2021).
• Added seven refrigerants for Emissions: R407f, R438a, R452a, R290, R600 (=Butane), R600a (=Isobutane), R601a (=Isopentane).
• Improvement: When switching languages, all texts in the PDF report are translated except for user-written texts such as the introduction and explanations of the target graphs.

December 2021

• In your PDF reports you can add lines with measurement and target values below the target graphs (adjust via fine-tuning report format).
• Downloaded charts now get a readable name such as “Stimular 2020 – CO2 – Donut Graph.png” instead of: “chart.png”
• The legend table below the CO2 graph is now rounded to two digits instead of three, which makes the table more readable.
• Added ‘diesel in HVO-diesel mix’ for vehicles that refuel HVO-diesel mixtures such as HVO30 or HVO50. Available for business traffic (passenger cars), freight transport (vans and trucks) and mobile equipment.
• The option to set a target period has been made more logical. You can set a start year = reference year and optionally hide years.
• The dots-overview at the starting page now also shows the dots of CSR data.
• Half year goal charts now have a smooth flowing goal line instead of a stepped line.

November 2021

• Due to the new PDF reporting tool, a few functions have become redundant and removed:
  • The year split function. You no longer have to split years piece by piece to create semi-annual or quarterly charts. You can just use the [year] button at the top right.
  • The obsolete PDF download of the goals overview. This has been incorporated in the new PDF reporting tool.

October 2021

• Hooray! The new PDF reporting tool is available.
  • The new tool replaces three old PDF reporting formats (measures, goals and the flexible report.)
  • The barometer starts with five report formats: Base report (multiple year), Base report (1 year), Measures, CO2 Performance Ladder, Targets
  • You can fine-tune every format to your own needs.
  • with “save as …” you can also add your own report formats.
• Added four key figures for “CO2 emissions scope 1+2” for “Science Based Targets(Science Based Targets)”: https://sciencebasedtargets.org/: 1. absolute, 2. per FTE, 3. per turnover 4. by production volume.
• Removal of the indicators for “CO2 emissions per theme” because they have become redundant in the new version of the Envirometer. The CO₂-graph of a theme provides exactly the same information and you can also attach a goal to them.

September 2021

• The key figure “Total CO2 emissions translated to car kilometers” has been improved. He now uses the CO2 factor (CO2/km) of the relevant year instead of one CO2 factor for all years.

July 2021

• Added to Mobile machinery: ‘diesel in HVO-diesel mixture’ usefull when mixtures of HVO and fossil diesel (HVO20/HVO30/HVO50) are used.

June 2021

• Correction CO2 factor Public Transport for the year 2017 from 0.06kg CO2/km to 0.036kg CO2/km. Thanks to a an observant user, this small error has surfaced.
• Added to Commuter traffic: passenger cars in liters (petrol and diesel). Mainly intended for companies that split liters of fuel from fuel cards into business and commuter traffic.

May 2021

• Added to Waste: Mattresses (because these days can be collected and processed separately), for example at hospitals, care institutions, hotels.
• Added as a new branch: primary care (GPs, dentists etc).
• Added at Hazardous waste: Medical waste (for primary care).
• Added to Key figures: Business kilometers (km plus liters and kWh converted to km).
• Added to Emissions: three anesthetics with Climate-impact used in hospitals.
• Since December 2020, natural gas weighs approximately 11% more in the key figures for building-related energy. This is because now the upper calorific value (35.17 MJ/m3) is used instead of the lower calorific value (31.65 MJ/m3). This is in line with NEN 7120 and other calculations of building-related energy. This adjustment applies to all years. This was accidentally not mentioned in the changes before.

The new Envirometer is online since April 2021.

• Apart from the complete new up to date lay-out and functionality, the biggest innovation is the ability to add goals (to indicators, graphs and CSR data).

March 2021

• In the new Envirometer:
  • You can view results (graphs, key figures, CO2 footprints) per half year (or quarter or tertial). You can set the period per barometer. Easier than in the old envirometer because you don’t have to split your year first.
  • The graph legends have been greatly improved: more readable, foldable and when downloading the CO2 graph you can choose from two forms.
  • In addition, a lot of smaller bugs have been fixed and improvements made.

February 2021

• Added for Freight Transport:
  • Truck on LNG
  • Outsourced road transport in liters of diesel
• Added for business traffic:
  • International train travel
  • ’Bus+tram+metro’ (for if it is one category in the travel overview)
  • Airplane (in liters of kerosene)

November 2020

• (A preview of) the new Envirometer is online since 20 November. After logging in, you can visit the new version via the preview button at the top of the page (and back again if necessary).
• The most important innovation is the ability to add goals (to key figures, graphs and CSR data).

September 2020

• Two indicators have been added to key figures for ‘CO2 and compensation’:
  • CO2 compensation: the sum of the CO2 compensation items.
  • CO2 balance: the total CO2 emissions minus the sum of the CO2 compensation items.
• In CO2 footprint ‘per scope’, scope 2 has now been renamed ‘scope 2 & business traffic’ in line with the changes in the CO2 Performance Ladder.
• Three CO2 footprint versions are now available in the excel export, in which the same well-to-wheel CO2 factors are used. The difference is in the arrangement of the table: which items are grouped and added together.
  • Thematic
    grouped into electricity, fuels, emissions, business traffic, mobile machinery, etc.
  • CO2 Performance Ladder
    divided into “scope 1” “scope 2 and business traffic” and “scope 3”
  • CO2 footprint GHG
    divided over Scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3.

August 2020

• Added at Emissions: pure CO2 as welding gas. (Mixed CO₂-Argon gases were already available)

July 2020

• Added to Business traffic and Freight transport: Electric vehicles charge card (gray power). In the new version of the CO₂-Prestatieladder, calculations must be made with gray power instead of market mix power.
• New average for hospitals (based on MPZ benchmark 2019)
• New average for offices – housing corporations (also usable for other office organizations).

June 2020

• Added to Industrial waste: Rock wool and Glass wool.
• Added to Hazardous waste: Asbestos-containing waste.

May 2020

• Years 2026-2030 have been added for the benefit of Envirometer users wanting to make long-term graphs.

April 2020

• In the CO₂-footprints, CO2 compensation is now shown broken down. So there are separate lines for CO₂-compensated natural gas and CO₂-compensated air travel if you have filled them in separately.
• Made possible to enter monthly values for floor area (m2) and building content (m3); useful for organizations with many changes in their housing. Make sure you fill in all months!

March 2020

• Added to Commuter traffic & to Business traffic: specific forms of Public Transport. This allows you to break down Public Transport if it is known how many km employees travel per mode of transport for commuting.
  • train
  • lightrail & underground
  • tram
  • bus
• Added to Visitor traffic: Electric bicycle

February 2020

• Added to Passenger Transport: Taxi van on petrol
• Added to Business Traffic: Taxi (in km or journeys)

January 2020

• January 24-28: CO₂-factors have been adjusted in accordance with CO2emissiefactoren.nl. Here you will find the “implemented changes (CO2 factors)”: https://www.milieubarometer.nl/co2-factoren/
• The environmental factors of freight transport – diesel truck have been adjusted retroactively. In determining this environmental factor, in recent years too little account has been taken of the rapid rise of EURO-VI trucks from 2013. The environmental factor is now halved over the period 2012 to 2020. The CO2-factors were up-to-date and have not been changed.
• Added
  • for industrial waste: tar containing asphalt
  • for industrial waste: tar-free asphalt
  • for Fuels: Of which green gas (GFT fermentation); a supplement to the existing items green gas (manure / co-fermentation) and green gas mix (VertiCer).
  • for Emissions: Refrigerant – R23. R23 is a strong greenhouse gas that can only be used for deep cooling under strict conditions of system leak-tightness and monitoring.
  • for Freight transport: Electric vehicle charge card (market mix electricity).
  • for Business Traffic: Charging vehicles at home (market mix electricity), to be used if it is unknown whether employees use gray or green electricity at home.
  • for Commuter Traffic: Electric cars (market mix electricity).
  • for Other CO2 sources: A dozen extra scope-3 items for a company that makes an extensive CO2 footprint with raw materials.
• New: industry average for housing associations (work organization)
• KPI added: Total CO2 emissions per floor surface.

2019

December 2019

• In Excel export on the ‘environmental data’ and ‘measures’ tabs, the theme headings are replaced with a theme column so that you can now filter and sort these lists.
• Users can now receive their invoice as an e-invoice.

November 2019

• Added to ‘other CO2 sources’: Three items that count in scope 2 in your CO2 footprint. As a user you can set the title, unit and CO2 factors of these items.
• Added under ‘business traffic’: Electric cars charge card (market mix power). You can use this for the electricity that is charged at (public) charging stations for which you do not know whether the electricity is green or gray. Until now there was only Electric cars (gray electricity).

August 2019

• Added to emissions: R407a refrigerant
• Added to emissions: ammonia (also used as R717 refrigerant)

June 2019

• Added: indicator ‘cleaning products / m2’. This indicator is available for offices, care institutions and schools. This is interesting if you monitor the amount of ‘cleaning product’ used.
• From June 24th the sector average graph that you can display next to your own graph is based on the environmental and CO2 factors 2018.
• Added: two key figures for building-related energy (secondary). Secondary means that this is the amount of energy that is consumed by the end user without taking into account losses in the chain (ie, excl. loss of efficiency in power plants and transport loss of heat).
  • Building-related energy (secondary)
  • Building-related energy (secondary)/m2

May 2019

• Welding gases (Ar/CO2) can now also be entered in kg of gas instead of only in liters.
• The “informatieplicht” asks for the total electricity consumption and total fuel+heat in natural gas equivalents. We have added two key figures that calculate this, useful if you are burning wood chips or purchasing heat or if your building uses multiple energy sources.
  • Electricity consumption (obligatory for ‘informatieplicht’), this adds up purchased electricity and self-generated electricity.
  • Natural gas eq. consumption (obligatory for ‘informatieplicht’), this is the total of all fuel and heat that is used in the building converted to m3 natural gas equivalent.

april 2019

• Added to freight transport: courier service by (cargo) bike
• The measures module has been updated, to ensure that it is properly aligned with the Dutch ‘Informatieplicht’. It has a new layout, you can make notes per measure, there are several sorting options and the statuses have been improved:
  • DO SHORT-TERM and DO LONG-TERM have been merged into DO.
  • TO BE ASSESSED and INVESTIGATE have been merged into START.
  • new: CONTINUOUS (eg for monitoring & compressed air leakage checks)
  • new: NOT PLANNED (eg due to implementation of alternative measure or because the payback time is too long).
• The new Approved Measures Lists (effective from 1 April 2019) have been processed in the Envirometer. Most lists have been substantially modified and they have all been renumbered.

March 2019

• The item ‘declared km passenger car’ has been renamed to ‘declared km private cars’. This makes it even clearer that this is not about company cars.
• In the indicator “CO2 emissions for business traffic with carfleet”, the CO2 emissions of km (scope 1) are included. You can add this indicator via finetuning. It’s under the heading ‘CO2 Performance Ladder’.
• Added to Fuels & heat: Heat from external heat and cold storage. CO2 emissions and environmental impact have been calculated on the basis of a COP of 4.9 and average (gray plus green) electricity in the Netherlands.
• Premix for mobile equipment is included in the CO2 footprint per scope (it was already included in de footprint per theme).

February 2019

You can add new items in your barometer via ‘finetuning’.

• Correction bio-oil (from waste) for CHP: the environmental and CO2 factors were based on bio-oil from agricultural crops instead of waste oil / fat. The environmental and CO2 parameters have been reduced by 60-90% (for all years).
• Added waste streams:
  • Plastics: PET (bottles) and PP + HDPE + PS
  • Manure (available for events, livestock and general sectors)
  • PMD (Plastic, Metal and Beverage packaging)
  • Paper waste in three types: White, Mixed and Confidential.
• Mobile machinery
  • Added: GTL (Gas to Liquid)
  • Modified: due to emission requirements, mobile equipment has become cleaner. Therefore the environmental impact of mobile equipment will be a few percent lower per liter of fuel as of 2019.
• Added: electricity from generators on biodiesel (from used cooking oils).
• Business transport:
  • Added: passenger cars and vans on green hydrogen,
  • Modified: the CO2 factor of gray hydrogen has become slightly lower.
• Added: N2O = nitrous oxide, for example used in hospitals.
• Added: Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), used in the electrical industry.
• Added: Various refrigerants: R422d, R448a, R449a, R450a, R452b, R513a, R744 (= CO2).
• Added: ‘of which green gas (VertiCer)’. The VertiCer certificate sets sustainability requirements for the green gas including 60% CO2 reduction with respect to natural gas.
• Fuels
  • Added: Wood chips and two types of wood pellets (from dry waste wood and from fresh wood). ‘Waste wood pellets’ have a much lower CO2 emission because fresh wood is dried to make pellets.
  • Modified: “Wood chips and pellets from own waste” existed already but without CO2 factor, this has been added now. Because no transport and drying is required, this CO2 factor is very low.

January 2019

• New average published for Outdoor Swimming Pools in the Envirometer. Outdoor pools make major improvements in their energy use. Soon more information.

2018

November 2018

• Price subscription Envirometer in 2019: € ​​70 per Envirometer (excluding VAT). All administrators will be notified about this in mid-November.
• Numbers no longer disappear behind the exclamation mark of ‘this fact is provisional’.
• The swapping between menu items is running smoothly again (after the previous update you sometimes did not end up where you expected).
• The creation date of a PDF report is now on the report.
• With a graph of several envirometers ‘per production volume’, he checks whether the production unit is the same everywhere. If not, then you’ll get no graph, but a warning.
• A user with ‘all rights’ can now also recalculate a sum.
• Users who are not administrators can now see who is their administrator via MENU > users.
• Users who no longer have user rights on an Envirometer are deleted after 32 days.
• A user can remove himself from a subscription, unless he is the last user.
• Envirometer data is deleted 400 days after termination of the subscription. Until then, a subscription can still be reactivated.

August 2018

• Added: Propane as refrigerant
• Added: mixed gas, welding gas consisting of a mixture of argon and CO2. Significant for companies that use more than 5000 liters of welding gas per year.
• Added: CO2 compensation air travel and CO2 compensation suppliers. You can change the title of the latter yourself and use it for something else.

July 2018

• Via ‘other CO2 sources’, users can now also define extra CO2 items for scope 1 (Until now, a user could only add extra CO2 items for scope 3 to his CO2 footprint).
• The drafting of a Transport Management Plan has been added to the list of measures. This is legally required for many companies.

June 2018

• Three branches have been added (already in January):
  • Retail: gas station
  • Industry: paint and printing ink
  • Industry: Paper and cardboard goods
• Addition MENU where many management functions are collected.
  • MANAGEMENT now only contains the management of the Envirometers.
  • The other functions from MANAGEMENT have moved to the MENU (top right).
  • Also functions from the top and bottom bars such as change password have been moved to the MENU.

March 2018

• Indicators added:
  • Share of renewable energy in energy use of building (%)
  • Self-generated renewable electricity (%)
  • Electricity consumption per turnover
  • Office paper per turnover
  • Unsorted industrial waste per turnover

February 2018

• New: also for primary schools an average is available
• Extra efficiency indicator: The amount of energy used on site that’s renewable (%)
• Extra efficiency indicator: Renewable electricity produced on site (% of total consumed)

January 2018

• The CO2 factors of electricity and public transport have been updated for 2018 and beyond. The electricity factor rises sharply, is falling for public transport. Overview of the changes in CO₂-emission parameters.
• The environmental prices with which the envirometer graph is calculated have been updated. As a result, some items have become more important and others less important. Read more (in Dutch) in the news item.
• Efficiency indicators added:
  • electricity for production / production volume 2 and 3
  • environmental costs / production volume 2 and 3
• Free automatic data import from Joulz e-Dataportal. Read more on the website.

December 2017

• Measures can be marked with the year of implementation. The PDF reports also include these (planned) execution dates.
• User management has been made more user-friendly. See for yourself how it works.
• Refrigerant R417a added

November 2017

• New benchmark for theaters published.

September 2017

• New branch added: Passenger transport (for example for taxi, coach and public transport companies)
• In passenger transport, also tram, metro and ferry services can be added.
• Various indicators for passenger transport have been added.
• Efficiency indicator ‘paper waste per employee on site’ added.
• Average hospital renewed.

August 2017

• Average Envirometer for Tennis Clubs available.
• Average Envirometer for Soccer Clubs available. If you want to see the average next to your own envirometer (graph or indicators), change your industry to ‘sports – field sports’.

July 2017

• Now available: sports – field sports. You can change the industry under “management”
• Due to confusion with waste, the theme color of ‘passenger transport’ has changed from night blue to blue-green. Now all transport themes are green.

June 2017

• Next to an item with monthly data, a count shows how many months are filled in. This will help you see if the monthly data is complete.
• You can delete all monthly data of an item at once instead of one-by-one.
• Items with a CO₂-emission factor, such as ‘business travel by bike’, is now also included in the carbonfootprints (this does not apply to data for which no CO2 factor has been determined, like waste streams).
• You can now use copy and paste (from another box or other document) with ctrl-v (command-v for apple users) to fill in data.
• The number of a ‘year’ is now changeable (under management).

May 2017

• New: “Environmental Barometer Instructional Video (Environmental Barometer Instructional Video)”: https: //vimeo.com/215509682 which leads you quickly along the major environmental barometer functions (4 minutes – without spoken text). Useful for new and old users.
• In the fill-in screen, a gray icon behind an item now shows a single note of which item there are notes. To view them: select the item (which is then green) and look in the left margin.
• The notebook now opens “opened” so you can see your notes before. You can close it yourself.

March 2017

• Added as item Fuels&Heat > Electricity from CHP delivered to the grid. Useful for companies using cogeneration that produces more electricity than they consume.
• Added: CNG and Bio-CNG as fuels for mobile equipment.
• Added: Hydrogen as fuel for commercial traffic (passenger cars and vans).
  Add new items to your Envirometer through fine tuning.

January 2017

• January 20: Changes in the CO2 factors for transport. See the “Overview of CO2 changes (Changes CO2 factor)”: https://www.milieubarometer.nl/nl/CO2-footprints/changes-co2 factors/
• Average Envirometers for indoor sports ( “gymnasiums (gymnasium)”: https: //www.milieubarometer.nl/voorbeelden/gymzaal/ and “sports hall / halls (gym)”: https: //www.milieubarometer.nl/voorbeelden/sportzaal /) are available.
• Average Envirometer added hotels (based on fifteen hotels of different sizes and from different luxury classes). There is no web-page on this average, but you can put the industry average alongside your envirometer if you’re logged on.

December 2016

• Thanks to a contribution of Zeelandia, also the actionlist of the Milieubarometer/Envirometer is now bilingual: English/Dutch. Following the links in the list opens google translations of the measures on www.Duurzaam-MKB.nl.
• New: download (archive) function for all data in your account: input data and key figures. Look for the ‘download’ function under management. This feature is also realised thanks to a contribution of Zeelandia.
• You can look up which years are included in a sum or average.
• New indicator: ‘m2 of solar cells to produce your own electricity’. Add it to your list of indicators by using “finetuning”.

November 2016

• “Total waste” added as an indicator. This is the sum (in ton kg) of all waste streams.
• Automatic import of data made possible through an API (more information will follow in a few weeks).

October 2016

• Three additional indicators for unsorted waste / production volume. Add them to your list by using the finetuning.

September 2016

• You may recalculate all sums at once. Either all the sums in one envirometer or all the sums throughout your subscription. Useful if you have changed input data.
• The same applies to changing ‘averages’ and ‘import’ data from another Envirometer.
• If you work with labels, you will see at a glance which labels are attached to an envirometer.

August 2016

• Added indicator: ‘drinking water / production volume’ serving companies that also use groundwater or surface water, but where only drinking water is related to the production volume.
• Added 13 indicators: These indicators exsisted only ‘per production volume’. They now also have versions ‘per production volume 2’ & ‘per production volume 3’
• For buildings that are heated and cooled with a heat pump three additional items are available:
  • For entering electricity data, “of which for heat pump(s)”
  • Indicator “Electricity plus heat per floorsurface”
  • Indicator “Seasonal Performance Factor heat pump”

July 2016

• The indicator “Building-related energy” has been adjusted. Only externally purchased power is still included, self-generated solar or wind power not anymore. This is in line with the EPC calculation (Energy Performance Coefficient) of a building.

June 2016

• Per Envirometer “multiple CO2 footprints can be published(CO2 footprint make public)”: https://www.milieubarometer.nl/carbon-footprints/.
• An Envirometer-year can now easily be split into half years, quarters, four month periods or months. Monthly data are copied to the correct period. Go to ‘settings’
• If you have access to multiple Envirometer Subscriptions, you see in the bottom bar which subscription you are logged on.
• Above the CO₂-footprint the barometer title and the year of de footprint are shown.
• The indicator ‘running time wind turbine to offset CO2 emissions’ now reckons with 0.526 kg CO2 / kWh instead of 0.455 kg CO2 / kWh.

May 2016

• Indicators added: ‘fuel consumption per production volume 2’ and ‘Scope 1 & 2 per production volume 2’.
• Envirometer Charts are now stored (as JPG, PNG, PDF) including the list of years included in the chart.
• The look of the list of years in the graphs has been improved.
• Extra-wide CO2 footprints now fit into the screen, scrolling unnecessary.

April 2016

• Indicators ‘heating (degree day corrected) per production volume 1 2 3 and per employees working on the premises’ were added. See also the help page degree day correction.
• Summary of current CO2 factors moved to www.milieubarometer.nl/co2-parameters/
• 100th carbon footprint published by MVIE Audio Engineering.

March 2016

• “Fuel for Heating” in the efficiency indicators has been changed into “Energy for heating” because heat is included. The calculation has not been changed.
• New sector: Sports – indoor sports

February 2016

• Added indicator: ‘Percentage of electric transport in business km’
• Added item ‘Natural gas for heating on project locations’
• Several changes in the CSR balance. Most important is that you can now create a CSR balance per Envirometer, so every location can make its own CSR balance. This feature has been implemented with contributions from ‘s Heerenloo and Cofely.
• You can see immediately whether you use ‘filter’ or ‘chart by …’ in the pink coloring of the buttons.
• The CO2 factors of all Envirometer items can now be found on the page CO2 factors.
• In several indicators with turnover, the formula per € has been changed into per 100.000€. This gives numbers that are more easy to understand, like 34kg/ton € stead of 0,00034kg/€.
• The title of the graph now says what the chart shows: environmental impact, CO₂-emissions or Costs.
• If you hide a theme in a pie chart it recalculates the % of the remaining issues.
• You get by default the most recent CO₂-footprint in lieu of the oldest CO₂-footprint.

January 2016

• The title for the PDF report is now adjustable (per envirometer): Organization Title and / or Title Envirometer. The default is Envirometer title.
• Only the indicators of industry averages which comparison value are shown. This avoids confusion with absolute numbers, not calculated per employee or per m2 floor etc.

December 2015

• Most recent CO2 footprint is shown by default (in stead of oldest)
• Update cost indications (such as average price train km) in the notes and help
• Update of help of costs indications, like the average price of public transport
• Added sector: carindustry – repair
• Added sector: rubber and plastics industry

November 2015

• Added: Of which natural gas for CHP (as part of total gasconsumption)
• LPG for mobile machinery can also be entered as kg (stead of litres)
• Heat can also be entered as m3 gas-equiv (stead of GJ)
• The problem in Internet Exlorer when using magnification: graphs and tables dropping out of view to the bottom of the page, has been solved

September 2015

• Added: Truck on Bio-CNG (in the category Freight transport)
• An average Envirometer for a gym has been added
• The website www.envirometer.eu/www.milieubarometer.nl was redesigned
• Efficiency indicators for dust (PM10 and PM2.5) were added
• A new Average Envirometer for Garages was published

August 2015

• Efficiency indicators for co-heating efficiency were added and changed. The efficiency is calculated according to the rules stipulated by the Dutch government.

July 2015

• Added: electrical passenger cars (kWh) for business transport. Here, you can enter the electricity purchased with ‘fuel cards’. These cards allow drivers to buy electricity in the public sector.
• The items ‘Loading electric vehicles at home’ have been moved from electricity to ‘business transport’.

June 2015

• The actual CO₂ factors ’2014 and earlier’ and ’2015 and beyond’ can be found at the top of the list of the public carbon footprints.
• Minor correction of CO₂ factor natural gas from 1.886 to 1.884 (kg CO2/m3 gas). This correction is the result of a change on www.CO2emissiefactoren.nl.
• Correction of the CO₂ factor of inland shipping oil from 2.65 to 3.185 (kg CO2/litres). This is a correction of a calculation error in the Envirometer.

May 2015

• New Feature: pie chart per theme. For example, showing the distribution of the waste streams on the total environmental impact of waste.
• New feature: labels.
• New: An administrator can also provide user access to the CSR balance (MVO-balans) associated with the Envirometer subscription.
• New: download graphs in the CSR balance (MVO-balans) as PNG, JPG, PDF or SVG. Automatically receive the name of the indicator.
• Preferred language: users can select English or Dutch as the default language. Temporarily switching between the two is possible at the bottom of the screen.
• Some small improvements to the management page.
• The menu ‘branch average’ now offers a link to the pages with background on www.milieubarometer.nl (in Dutch).

April 2015

• Explanation of green electricity was improved.
• The theme ‘fuel’ is now called ‘fuel and heat’.
• Sector added: Building materials.
• In the CSR balance (MVO-balans), three industry profiles are available in addition to the general profile: hospitals, producers of construction materials and printing companies.

March 2015

• Added:
  • Acetylene (welding gas). Add the item via finetuning in the theme ‘fuels’. The explanatory statement explained the CO₂ factor.
  • PM10 and PM2.5 emissions. For companies that emit a lot of dust (like coal throughput). Add the item via finetuning in the theme ‘emissions’.
  • Buses with EEV standard. The EEV standard is between EURO V and EURO VI. Add the item via finetuning in the theme ‘passenger transport’.
  • Rainwater (self-collected in a basin or tank). Add the item via finetuning in the theme ‘water and wastewater’.

February 2015

• The finetuning lists of indicators are now divided into sub-sections. This makes it easier to select the most suitable indicators.
• Green gas (CO₂ compensation on the natural gas bill) has been removed from scope-1 in the carbon footprint per scope. It had previously been included as a scope-1 emission.

January 2015

• City heating may also be entered in kWh (next to GJ).
• The CO₂ emission factors in the Envirometer have changed as of 16 January 2015. Several changes have been implemented retroactively due to new calculation methods. Some factors have not changed retroactively, but have been assigned a different value for the years 2015 and beyond. These values were modified due to changes in the production chain and usage; for example, because it is becoming increasingly difficult and more expensive to produce diesel. For an overview of the historical and preset data, download the PDF file with the CO₂ emission factors.

December 2014

• The themes you have hidden in a chart/graph (by clicking on the themes in the legend) remain hidden when switching to another (pie) chart.
• The explanation of an indicator is shown by clicking on the title. The ‘sum’ function is now also available for users with ‘all rights’ (in stead of only for administrators).

November 2014

• Several changes to reduce the number of clicks.
• The bars in the graphs that represent a sector average are now more easy to identify: the year indicator has been removed.
• Two indicators added: water use per turnover and specific hospital waste per turnover.
• Added: non-polluted blasting grit/dust under the theme ‘commercial waste’.

October 2014

• For companies that transport passengers (touring bus companies, taxi drivers, public transport companies) we added the theme ‘passenger transport’.
• The monthly graphs now show more years in the same graph. This tells you the months in which months a rise or fall has occurred and was implemented thanks to the support of the Regional municipality of Noord-Brabant.
• A tester discovered a security issue in the Envirometer, which was fixed within a week. This is the result of the responsible disclosure of our developer Dreamsolution.
• At the request of one of our users, we added five items (fifteen instead of ten) to the theme ‘other sources of CO₂’.

September 2014

• Indicator added: The CO₂ emission corresponds to xx tonnes of coal.
• Industry added: ‘leasure: catering’.

August 2014

• Indicators added:
  • Building-related energy per m3 and per turnover.
  • Various numbers that express the use of transport fuels in GJ
• Electrical rail transport (in kWh) was added
• The industry ‘culture – theaters’ was changed to ‘culture – stages’ to include dance halls, music halls, etc.

July 2014

• You can publish your CO₂ footprint on www.milieubarometer.nl from your Envirometer > CO₂ footprint page.
• You can expand your CO₂ footprint with extra CO₂ items like the CO₂ emission of commodities or services purchased.
• The % of pie charts are recalculated if you hide themes. (Hide a theme in a graph by clicking on it in the legend).
• New indicators have been added, including only those CO₂ emissions that result from scope 1 and scope 2 emission sources.

June 2014

• A column with the CO₂ conversion factors has been included in the Excel download.
• The report settings are now saved during a session. If you just want to add an area code, you can quickly re-create the report without having to start over.
• When you hover the mouse over the CO₂ graph, you can now easily read the % increase or decrease.

April 2014

• Efficiency indicators for laundry and linen were added. This is useful for hotels, restaurants, hospitals and other healthcare institutions.
• A new average Envirometer for theatres was published, based on an average of 35 theaters.
• Extra efficiency indicators for waste were added: you can now determine the amount of waste per second or third production unit.
• Diesel for (emergency) power units can now be entered in the theme ‘electricity’ so that the environmental impact is visible under electricity. This is particularly useful for events.
• Average Envirometers for indoor and outdoor events are now available.

March 2014

• Added: ‘car in km (scope 1)’ to be used by companies that want to enter kilometres for (part of) their fleet stead of the litres consumed by this part of the fleet.
• Extra: a set of CO₂ indicators. You can add them to your list of indicators via finetuning. Look in the chapter ‘CO₂ Performance Ladder’.
• Added: ‘propane and diesel for project sites’, including the related efficiency indicator ‘heating fuel for project sites / production volume’.
• Added: ‘electricity for project sites’, and the related efficiency indicator ‘electricity for project sites / production volume’.
• Benchmark for swimming pools available (with separate benchmark for pools with CHP).

February 2014

• New: benchmark for finishing companies in the graphics industry.
• New benchmark for rotary printing available.
• New benchmarks for offset printing available (3 sizes).
• Suppletion water and ‘suppletion water / visitor’ added for swimming pools.

January 2014

• Adjustments to self-generated power:
  • Added: ‘self-generated hydropower’ and ‘self-generated wind power’.
  • ’Self-generated power other’ is now called ‘self-generated solar electricity (PV)’.
  • ’Self-generated electricity’ has been given the same environmental impact and CO₂ output as the equivalent purchased green electricity (according to the calculation rules of SKAO).
  • Self-generated green electricity had not yet been added to the graphs, the CO₂ balance or the indicators.
  • Green electricity that is fed into the grid is subtracted from your environmental impact. This deduction is equal to the environmental impact of the gray power production that is prevented.

November 2013

• Relative carbon footprint available! Choose whether you want your carbon footprint expressed per employee, production unit or turnover.
• The management of user rights has been improved.

October 2013

• Added: indicators (electricity, fuel, water and building-related energy) that relate to the third production volume.

September 2013

• Added: trucks running on natural gas (in kg, m3 or litres of liquefied natural gas).
• Added: electric vehicles (influences only the indicators, not the graphs because the environmental impact is already included in the theme ‘electricity’.)
• Added: a business item ‘employees working on-site’
• Added: indicators (electricity, fuel, water, office paper) that relate to the number of people working on-site .

Augustus 2013

• Indicators based on the second production volume have been added to the categories fuel, water and business.
• Putting together a graph with a selection of years/sites is now much easier. Go to charts, select ‘all Envirometers and all years’ and then use the ‘filter’ button.
• Absolute and relative graphs can now be combined in one report.
• The progress of a theme in % is easier to find. Hover your mouse over a theme in a graph to see the % of the theme in that year and the % compared to this theme in the reference year.
• Improvement of finetuning option: confirmation for removing an item is only asked when data has been entered for that item in one or more years.
• An administrator can lock a year to make the data read-only. You can lock a year via ‘management > change (year)’. Locking only affects the year specified in the Envirometer.

June 2013

• When you use the ‘sum’ or ‘average’ feature (via ‘management > Envirometers’), your choice will be saved. This comes in handy when some numbers haven been changed that are included in the sum or average. You can recalculate by clicking on the (+) symbol after the year.
• The table with indicators has been redesigned.
• Several improvements have been made in the reporting module, including the introductory text that can now be saved. When making a new report, this text can be reused and modified.
• You can exclude scope-3 emissions from the carbon footprint per scope. This function can be changed in the ‘settings’ section via ‘change’ after the Envirometer title.

April 2013

• Graphs showing the monthly data entered for an item are now available. A small version is shown in the sidebar. Clicking this graph will open a large graph.
• A search function has been added to the Envirometer online help section.

March 2013

• Sums (made on the page ‘settings > Envirometers’) can be refreshed by clicking on the (+) sign. (The sum function is available for administrators only.)

February 2013

• Internet explorer 8.0 problem (21-2-2013) fixed on 25 February.

January 2013

• You can ask us to change your currency sign from € into the international currency sign ¤ or into $, ¥ or £. Please note: you must select one currency sign for all Envirometers in your account. Contact us if you want to change this.
• Changing Envirometer titles has been simplified: double click on the title (via settings > Envirometers).
• The Excel export and PDF export for all notes have been moved to the new menu item ‘reports’. There, you can switch from reports to ‘export’ and ‘notes’.
• HOORAY! The report module is available. Look for the new menu item ‘REPORTS’.
• Extra indicators:
  • CO₂ emissions expressed in car kilometers (how many times can you circle the equator in an average car with the same CO₂ emission?).
  • Fossil fuel consumption per m3 in a building.
• The notes are ranked from new to old (instead of the other way around).
• Biogas has been included in the transport-related indicators.

October 2012

• Check marks show which themes have been completed. The check mark means a number had been entered for all items and none of these items are preliminary.
• The orange [!] shows the items you have marked as preliminary.
• The indicator ‘m2 photovoltaics to compensate CO₂ emission’ was been added.

February 2012

The Envirometer is bilingual (Dutch-English) (as of 25 February 2012).
This tool has been redesigned and several changes have been implemented. We hope you quickly become accustomed with the new layout. If you have any questions, please consult the online help section. If you question is not listed, feel free to contact Stimular.

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