Manage Procurement Emissions Factor Sets Data

Procurement emissions factor sets are the reference data used to compute emissions from spending amounts. These datasets are derived from econometric models run in a particular calendar year for a particular currency. Typically, procurement emissions factor sets are set up to represent national or trans-national economies and their corresponding currencies, as emissions rates per spent amount vary across the world. For information about loading emissions factors reference data, see Manage Reference Data In Net Zero Cloud.

Procurement emissions factor sets contain a group of emissions factors for the same year and currency as the dataset. Emissions factors are matched to a greenhouse gas (GHG) scope 3 category. Emissions factors are used with procurement data to calculate emissions and to classify the emissions into GHG scope 3 categories.

Net Zero Cloud provides USEEIO procurement emissions factor sets. You can also import your own emissions factor datasets. We recommend that you match all emissions factors to a GHG scope 3 category before using the procurement emissions factor sets with your procurement data. If procurement data is matched to an uncategorized emissions factor, the emissions roll up into the uncategorized scope 3 category.