Other CO2 sources

Method

You can add CO₂-emissions from relevant raw materials or from outsourced services in the Envirometer by yourself. For this, you need to have and use a CO₂ conversion factor. This will be done as followed:

• Go to ‘enter’ and choose the button ‘Finetuning’ in the upper right corner.
  Choose the theme ‘Other CO₂-sources’ in the grey area at the left side.
  • Tick a box with an item
  • Adjust the title
  • Adjust the unit

• Enter ‘kg CO₂ per unit’ in the left side of the screen in one of the boxes.
• Fill one of the boxes with the desired CO₂-factor. After this, all the boxes will be filled with the same number. Finally you can adjust the conversion factor per year.

• When you return to the entering screen you see the text you typed yourself. After this, you need to fill in the amount.

Take a look at the result in the CO₂-graphs and the CO₂-footprint. This item will be taken into account for scope 3 in the CO₂-footprint per scope (When you did not make scope 3 visible, then this item will not be taken into account in the CO₂-footprint per scope). The item does not have any effects on the Envirometer graphics.

Scope 3 emissions in the Envirometer

Under this theme, a user of the Envirometer can add the CO₂ emissions of scope 3 emissions, such as relevant raw materials or an outsourced service. The scope 3 issues are divided into 15 categories, according to the GHG protocol ‘Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard’. A table of these 15 categories can be found on the Dutch version of this help page.