The BEE: Refining Your Emissions
Level 2: Refinement
59 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?
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?