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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Envizi - ESG Suite
Categories Base Platform
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 16, 2024

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Add Canadian Emissions factors from IEA/National Inventory to the product

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Envizi advertises that we leverage emissions factors from IEA and customers purchase Envizi expecting that the product will manage all factors available. There are factors within IEA that Envizi does not leverage and customers do not understand why product does not leverage some factors while leveraging others. Product strategy comes from best practices around emissions accounting, however customers and their auditors are unaware of what these strategies are and why we take these positions. Our Knowledge base makes it clear that Envizi has IEA, but not which factors are not included in the tool.

There might be other factor sets for which similar concerns could arise.

UPDATE:

Canadian Customers Celestica, Bank of Nova Scotia and Bird Construction wonder why we do not leverage emissions factors from the Canadian National Inventory.

Idea priority High
Needed By Quarter
IBM Wide Managed Tags: Ideas Market: Americas - Industry, Market: Americas - Canada, Blocker to Deploy
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  • Admin
    Michael Dunbar
    Reply
    |     Jan 20, 2025

    Closing unless we get some additional detail. Please comment if it needs to be re-opened.

  • Admin
    Michael Dunbar
    Reply
    |     Dec 9, 2024

    Hi @Guest & @Guest - can you clarify what this request actually refers to? Are we only talking about electricity? Are we talking about Canada or the United States?

    We have a clear approach for Canadian electricity data which is to use the Canadian NIR provincial/territory factors which include an indirect/WTT component in the NIR publication.

    If a client doesn't want to use the Canadian NIR factors then it is possible to use the IEA country level electricity factors which also include an indirect/WTT component. IEA is ONLY relevant for electricity information.

    With regards to the US EPA guidance around WTT factors for electricity, we will not support obsolete 2017 Defra factors (using an approach relying on 8 year old values seems like horrible guidance). If a US client want to follow strict US EPA guidance for activity B in Canada, then they should not use the Canadian NIR factors and go straight to IEA factors (although the GHG protocol would disagree with this approach as they advise organizations should use the most granular factors available).

    Right now overriding the Canadian NIR factor for IEA would require inserting the Default factor set in either slot 1 o 2. We will be adding additional factor set slots in Q1 which will allow for more granular control of the factor set selection (and we will create a dedicated IEA factor set at that time).

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