In order to best engage your teams with your company’s Carbon Survey, Greenly offers you a platform to present the process to your employees in 15 minutes or less.
You may present the template below, or add this template as part of another presentation.
This article aims to help you present this information to your teams.
Slide 1: The 3 axes of Bilan Carbon®
ADEME’s “Carbon Assessment” approach focuses on three major points to allow companies to structure their carbon strategy.
Focus 1: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Assessment
This step aims to draw an inventory of the company’s emissions and thus identify primary emission sources, helping you prioritize strategies to put in place in order to reduce emissions.
Focus 2: Action plans
This step aims at building and putting in place a roadmap of actions to reduce the emissions of your company. It is generally accompanied by reduction targets.
Focus 3: Engaging your employees
Engaging employees is a vital aspect of a company’s carbon strategy for two main reasons:
It is important to train employees, especially top management, in taking into account climate and energy problems in the decision-making process of the company.
Training partners is a necessary part of creating collective awareness and reducing individual emissions.
Slide 2: what is a GHG emissions report ?
A Greenhouse Gas report aims to summarize the emissions of gases having an impact on the climate: methane, nitrous oxide, etc.
Eventually, the GHG survey’s unit of measurement is kgCO2e. CO2e is used as a common denominator through the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of different gases published by the IPCC in their 4th report.
Slide 3: Bilan Carbone ® Methodology
The Bilan Carbone ® methodology was created by ADEME (the French Agency for Ecological Transition) and categorizes emissions into 3 categories called “Scopes”.
Scope 1: Direct emissions
Scope 1 takes into account all direct emissions of the company linked to its combustion of fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) or the emission of other greenhouse gases via industrial processes (e.g. the use of refrigerant gas) or the emission of gases stored by the ecosystem (fires, plowing, etc.)
Scope 2: Indirect emissions from energy
This source essentially involves emissions caused by the production of electricity.
On a smaller scale, Scope 2 takes into account emissions caused by the use of heating/cooling networks.
Scope 3: Value chain
Scope 3 is divided into two parts: “upstream” and “downstream” emissions.
Upstream Scope 3
Upstream scope 3 takes into account all emissions produced upstream the company’s value chain: the carbon footprint of goods and services purchased, freight, professional travel and commute, energy (extraction, refining, transport, construction of infrastructure, company assets, etc.)
Downstream Scope 3
Downstream scope 3 takes into account emissions caused following the sale of goods: waste, excess, investments, use of sold goods, transformation of sold goods, etc.
Example
Use of sold goods: this source of emissions is the primary concern of automobile manufacturers because of the vehicle’s use of fuel.
Transformation of sold goods: a sizable portion of FoxConn’s GHG report is made up of its clients’ energy consumption in order to assemble its components.
Slides 4 & 5: How are emissions calculated ?
The emissions calculated are always a product of activity data and an emission factor.
The activity data can take two shapes:
Physical data, expressed in kg, kWh, km, hours, etc.
Monetary data, expressed in the form of a currency.
The emission factor is a ratio expressed in kgCO2e/unit.
Emission factors used by Greenly are mostly sourced from reputable databases: ADEME, the International Energy Agency, EcoInvent, etc.
Greenly also produces its own monetary ratios, notably in order to create ratios specific to each company publishing its GHG Survey.
Slide 6: employee survey
A company’s capacity to collect data defines the scope of its GHG report.
Some of this data directly involves the company’s employees, notably when it comes to data on commutes. This is why Greenly offers a dedicated questionnaire that can be sent directly over the platform. This questionnaire will allow each employee to discover their carbon impact: emissions caused by their commutes and professional travel, their digital activity, equipment, etc.
Slide 7: Climate training quizzes
The survey is the first step in your employees' engagement program.
It is followed by a monthly quiz sent by Greenly concerning different subjects linked to the environment: climate science, digital impact, food, etc.
