Corporate Carbon Footprint Report Guide

This article provides guidance on how to interpret CarbonChain's Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF) reports that are generated on the platform. For general information on corporate carbon footprints see our blog post here.

A CCF report provides you with information about your company’s carbon emissions including emissions from within your operations as well as your value chain upstream and downstream.

The organisational boundary lists the entities, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or investments included within your company’s CCF. Companies vary in their legal and organisational structures, therefore CarbonChain applies the operational control approach to consolidate the CCF boundary. Under the operational control approach, the reporting company accounts for 100% of emissions over which it has operational control, meaning the company has the ability to introduce and implement operating, health and safety or environmental policies at the operation.

The reporting boundary identifies the sources of emissions are included in your company’s CCF and any exclusions. Emission sources will be captured under one of three scopes. Scope 1 = direct emissions, Scope 2 = energy indirect emissions and Scope 3 = all other indirect emissions upstream and downstream within my value chain. Emission sources are included based on their relevancy to the company in terms of 5 aspects (i.e. size, ability to influence, risk exposure, stakeholder interest and outsourcing).

For each scope and scope 3 category, CarbonChain provides a summary of the emission source, the activity data type, and a description of the data source and calculation including any assumptions applied. This provides more transparency of the data quality and process of the calculations for each emission source.

For transparency and documentation CarbonChain provides a table summarising the emission factors applied for each emission source within each scope and scope 3 category of your company’s CCF.