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Emission Source Profile

Overview

  • The Emission Profile is a place where companies can identify all the relevant emission sources and relevant standards to be used to capture and report against to prepare their carbon footprint.
  • The Emission profile provides a structured way to repeatedly capturing emissions data for an organization with a distributed set of users and/or offices.
  • Administrative users have the ability to manage the emission profile for their company.
  • It is important to have first mapped the GHG emission activities associated with the entity and or asset hierarchy within the operational boundaries of the scope of the project and to have decided on the categorization of GHG emissions such as by a vehicle fleet.

Setting up your organisations's Emission Source Profile

Categories

  • Within each Scope, Admin users can set up custom categories (e.g. Transport Fuels, Stationary Fuels, Refrigerants)
  • Individual Emission Sources (e.g. Transport Diesel, R407 Refrigerant) can then be set up within these categories for easy navigation.
  • Sub-Categories can be set up within Categories

To set up a new Category:

1. Navigate to Admin menu > Emission Profile > Manage Emission Profile 2. Click on Either Scope 1, 2 or 3 (or an existing category) 3. You will land on an “Edit Category” page where you can click “Add Category” or “Add Emission Source” 4. Click “Add Category” 5. Enter Category Name and Description and click Save. 6. Click on “Manage Emission Profile” button and note that your new category is saved in the Profile.

Emission Sources

  • Emission Sources represent the type of resource you are reporting data for (e.g. Diesel, Refrigerant R407A, Natural Gas, Paper, Electricity)
  • CarbonView stores the conversion factors for the majority of emission sources in the system against the relevant reporting standards (e.g. Global GHG Protocol, Australia's NGER Standard, UK's DEFRA Standard, USA's CRIS, etc).
  • CarbonView also enables Admin users the ability to set up “custom” emission sources and specify their own conversion factors.
  • Emission Sources need to be assigned to Entities and Assets so that they are available for capturing data against. This also allows Emission Sources to be removed from Entities or Assets that don't need to report it (e.g. an Australian facility in NSW won't need to report against South Australia's Electricity factor.

To set up a new Emission Source

1. Navigate to Admin menu > Emission Profile > Manage Emission Profile

2. Click on Either Scope 1, 2 or 3 or the existing category you wish to add the Emission Source to.

3. You will land on an “Edit Category” page where you can click “Add Category” or “Add Emission Source”

4. Click “Add Emission Source”

5. The following steps will depend on whether you wish to add an Emission Source using stored conversion factors per available Standards or set up a Custom Emission Source.

Option A: Set up an Emission Source using Available Reporting Standards:

6a. Choose a Reporting Standard from the “Emission Standard” dropdown list

6b. Choose a sub-category of the selected Reporting Standard from the “Emission Source Type” dropdown list

6c. Choose the relevant Emission Source from the “Emission Source” dropdown list. You have now selected the relevant emission conversion factors to be applied to this new emission source.

6d. Give this emission source a name (this is what will appear to all users in the system) by competing “Emission Source Name”

6e. Input an “Emission Source ID”. Must be a maximum of 15 characters (this is what will be used in uploading data via CSV data upload)

6f. Add Reporting Name or Description as optional fields. Reporting Name will automatically default to the Emission Source Name.

6g. Click Save.

6h. Click back on the “Manage Emission Profile” source button and note this now appears in your list.

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