Carbon Footprints

You can attach energy use records or procurement datasets to carbon footprint records to get a single carbon footprint of an asset, a set of assets, or a set of business activities. For example, you can roll up all energy use records for an asset into a single carbon footprint record for the calendar or fiscal year.

For example, using this flexibility, you can create:

• Carbon footprint records that are the sum of a single asset for a given year
• A single carbon footprint for multiple years and assets across any period
• A single carbon footprint that summarizes multiple procurement datasets

When you attach energy use records to a carbon footprint record, the scope 1, 2, and 3 calculations of the energy use records automatically total to a value shown in the carbon footprint record. You can manually enter supplemental scope 1 emissions, scope 2 market emissions, scope 2 location emissions, and scope 3 emissions on all carbon footprint record types. You can manually adjust supplemental emissions for factors that aren’t indicated on the record types. And you can use Flow Builder to populate data in supplemental fields based on custom calculations.

Record locking prevents the carbon footprint record, and all the energy use records associated with the record, from being recalculated during updates to Net Zero Cloud. You can unlock the records later.

By default, energy use records or procurement datasets are locked when related carbon footprint records are locked, which prevents the data on the carbon footprint record from going out of sync. In the list of energy use records, locked energy use records appear with the EUR Locked checkbox.

Your carbon footprint record can go out of sync with the associated energy use records, for example, when emissions factors change. You can use Recalculate to force a full recalculation of all energy use records associated with the carbon footprint record, unless the records are manually locked.