Every organization has its own specific requirements when it comes to monitoring performance. To support this, the platform provides the flexibility to create and configure Intensity Metrics (formerly Custom Metrics), specific quantitative values you can create to calculate carbon intensity ratios tailored to your business operations.
This feature is not mandatory to complete your GHG report.
1. What are Intensity Metrics
Those customs metrics are business-specific measurements like production volume, number of clients served, or distance traveled by freight. They are alternative to standard metrics like revenue or employee count for calculating emissions intensity.
Difference with Analytics Tags
Intensity metrics help you calculate "emissions per unit" (intensity ratios), while
analytics tags help you categorize and filter emissions data for segmented analysis.
You can think intensity metrics as creating your own KPIs, while analytics tags are like adding labels to organize and analyze your data by different business dimensions.
Example with a beverage company :
Intensity metric: for example the metric “Liters Produced”, which in this case amounts to 10 million liters. This metric provides a clear way to calculate emissions per unit of beverage, allowing results to be presented in reports as “5 g CO₂e per liter.” It also creates a foundation for setting intensity-based targets, such as aiming to reduce that figure to 3 g CO₂e per liter by 2030. To enable more detailed analysis, the metric can be tagged with attributes like plant location and beverage type.
Analytical tags: By tagging entries by plant location and product type, you can easily filter data to see that carbonated drinks from the Texas plant have higher emissions. This process helps to identify specific opportunities for reducing those emissions.
2. How to set up Intensity Metrics
To add intensity metrics, follow those steps:
1/ Through the “Progression” dashboard, select the task “Set up custom/intensity metrics”
2/ Select “Create a metric”
3/ Fill the fields “Name”, “Unit” and “Quantity”. You can set up a maximum of 3 intensity metrics
4/ Save the metric
If you don't want to set up intensity metrics, you can ignore this task.