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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Envizi - ESG Suite
Categories Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 8, 2023

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List of EF descriptions

When users are trying to create a account and assign data types, they do not have an understanding of the granularity of emission factors available. Whilst we understands that the emission factors themselves are potentially licensed, users need to be able to see a full list of emission factors descriptions to be able to select the right one.

Idea priority High
Needed By Week
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    Stephen Foster
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    |     Jan 8, 2024

    Hello Olivia,

    I understand the need here, but there are a few reasons we don't provide tools like this.

    1. We consider our DB of emission factors to be IBM's IP, and we don't want to offer tools to allow users to extract full lists of emission factors.

    2. Our suggested approach is to configure account styles and load data first. Once there is data in the accounts, the 'Emission and Energy Factors' report will export all factors in use and the 'Monthly Data Summary' report will show how each factor is applied to monthly data. Trying to determine which factors would apply to activity data before loading into Envizi is unnecessary.

    3. If clients / users insist on reviewing factors before loading their data, they are welcome to download the DEFRA, US EPA, etc... factor sets directly from source. We provide links to all these sources in the Envizi Knowledge base here: https://knowledgebase.envizi.com/home/managed-emission-factors. But the best way to know which factors will be assigned to activity data is to load the activity data and review factor assignments (and descriptions of those factors) after the carbon engine has done its work.

    thanks

    Steve

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