If you need to work with a lot of people to fill in the data for the Business Carbon Calculator, you can share this article to make the data collection easier. The below are all the categories of data that will be requested in the calculator.
COMPANY DATA
What is the time period you want to calculate emissions for?
This has to be a full year. (all following questions should be answered with the chosen time period in mind)
How many people worked at your company?
Tip: Your HR or management team would know this.
What was your company’s revenue?
Enter the amount and currency.
FUEL & ENERGY
Did your company own or maintain long-term leases on vehicles?
If yes: How many litres of fuel? If you do not know, you can add how much you spent on fuel. If your vehicles didn’t use fuel, or if you had no vehicles, skip this question entirely.
Did your company own or maintain long-term leases on machinery?
If yes: How many litres of fuel? If you do not know, you can add how much you spent on fuel. If your machinery didn’t use fuel, or if you had no machinery, skip this question entirely.
How large were your company’s facilities?
Enter square metres or square feet. If you don’t know, skip this question.
How much electricity did your company consume?
Enter this in kWh. If you don’t know, enter how much you spent on electricity. If it was included in rent, skip this question.
Did your company receive 100% renewable electricity?
Yes/no/I don’t know.
Did your company receive heating?
Choose on of the following:
- Yes, via district heating
- Yes, via natural gas
- Yes, via electricity
- No, not applicable
- I don’t know
You then need to enter how much heating you consumed in kWh or how much you spent on the heating.
EXPENSES
What were your company’s total expenses?
Enter the amount and the currency. Please exclude salary, taxes, and any costs pertaining to fuel usage, heating, or electricity covered in previous questions.
Try to cover as much of your total expenses as possible to get the most accurate carbon footprint estimation in the following categories (add amount and currency for each):
- Business travel
- Train tickets
- Flight tickets
- Bus tickets
- Car rental
- Hotels & Restaurants
- Transport / Freight
- Road freight
- Air Freight
- Sea Freight
- Rail Freight
- Other transport services (Warehousing, etc.)
- Materials / Inventory
- Furniture
- Paper and packaging
- Textiles
- Plastic products
- Metal products
- Wood products
- Chemicals and pharmaceuticals
- Other general products
- Books, movies, and related services (Publishing, printing and reproduction of recorded media)
- Capital goods
- Phones, television and communication equipment
- Computers and office machinery
- Purchased vehicles (Motor Vehicles, Trailers, Boats etc)
- Other machinery, tools and equipment
- Services
- Legal, Accounting and Management Consultancy Services
- Software, Hosting, Computer Programming & Related Activities
- Insurance and pension funding
- Financial intermediation (i.e banking charges)
- Construction and maintenance