The BEE: Refining Your Emissions
Level 2: Refinement
61 articles
- How do you aggregate data for utility bills from multiple offices around the world?
- Do I need to count home office utility emissions?
- What if my landlord pays the electric bill? What if she pays the whole building’s kWhs?
- What if I have renewables on-site?
- What if I have a Power Purchase Agreement to buy renewable energy?
- How to account for emissions from web servers or cloud data warehouses.
- My data isn’t broken down by facility. What should I do?
- Do I include energy and fuel use from my uncontrolled distribution centers in my workbook?
- Why aren't there estimates in my workbooks under the BOMS tab?
- Can you estimate manufacturing emissions based on the square footage of the facility and location?
- I’m not finding the specific material that I'm looking for. What should I do?
- I didn’t aggregate my contract manufacturer’s energy use, and I don’t have this data. What should I do?
- Are Contract Research Organizations (CRO) and Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMO) within the boundary of scope 3.1?
- We would like to switch to a recycled material but there is no material match in the BEE. What options do we have?
- We added new suppliers to our operations but can’t collect energy data from them. How can I use BEE estimates to serve as proxy data for my newly added facilities?
- Should I account for AI use emissions in my carbon inventory?
- How granular do you need to get with upstream shipping?
- I’m seeing kilometers, but I aggregated in miles.
- Is “weight” vs. “chargeable weight” the same as what FedEx calls “original weight” vs. “shipment rated weight”?
- My shipping provider has calculated my shipping emissions already. Can I enter my shipping emissions total into the BEE?
- What category does Uber/lyft belong in the land travel section?
- How do you enter car-based business travel?
- Where do I count taxis, trains, and other road travel for business?
- I offset my flights when I bought them. How do I count that?
- There is no option for water based travel, like ferries in scope 3.6 (Business Travel). How can this be accounted for?
- How should I account for a 3rd party contractor traveling on behalf of our company?
- I have thousands of shipments. Can I sum total weight and total distance by shipping mode to enter that data?
- How do we aggregate shipping data to the final retailer?
- What is the difference between upstream and downstream shipping?
- How do we characterize truck parcel shipments or parcel/ground delivery (UPS Ground, USPS Priority, etc) under trucking mode values?
- Can we lump shipments together in 3.9?
- What are 'retail services' in downstream shipping?
- What should we do if we work with a distributor that already offsets its CO2 emissions?
- How do I refine emissions in the BEE?
- What is activity data?
- How can non-Google users share and edit the Workbook (company data Google Sheet)?
- I’m getting an error message. What should I do?
- Does it matter if I adjust my footprint estimate with monetary or physical inputs?
- Why is my Scope 3 so large?
- How do I know when I can delete something that was estimated in the BEE.
- What if I don’t have data for something that I’m required to refine?
- Where does the estimation data come from?
- What does tCO2e mean?
- As a recertifying brand, can I rename one of my existing facilities from last year?
- We have partnered with a recycling firm to recycle old hardware and electronics. Is there a way to capture this in our emissions data?
- What currency conversion rates should I use for expenses that are not in USD?