Emission factors (EFs) are conversion factors that translate a business activity or process data point into emission output data. Typically, EFs are specific footprints of products, semi-finished products, processes or bundles of processes / services. Cozero has an aggregated database of global emission factor datasets that power the platform's calculation algorithms and allow users to easily derive footprint insights based on their business activities.
How to customize emission factors?
The highest level of accuracy in your emission accounting is achieved if you have business- and/or supplier-specific EFs available. For that reason, Cozero allows users to edit & overwrite generic EFs to your custom datasets. Editing emission factors is limited to Managers and Admins.
Customizing your emission factors:
Step 1: Click on the “Log” section on the left of the Cozero platform dashboard
Step 2: Select “Carbon Footprint” which is nested under “Log”
Step 3: Choose either the “Organization” or “Product” for which you want to edit a “Log”
Step 4: Select the “Log” you want to change the emission factor
Step 5: Select the log “Entry” you wish to customize
Step 6: Once inside the entry, click on the three dots in the upper righthand corner and select “Emission factors”
Step 7: Once inside “Emission factors” you can scroll down and click on “create a custom factor”
Step 8: Fill in data for custom emission factor and click “Save”
Viewing or editing custom emission factors:
Step 1: Click on the “Log” section on the left of the Cozero platform dashboard
Step 2: Click on “Emission Factors”
Step 3: Choose the Emission Factor you want to customize and click on “Edit” on the right
Step 4: Another layer will open, where you can edit the chosen “Emission Factor”
Step 5: Click “Ok” to save your changes made