Data Collection & Measurement
Learn what data to include, how to set your boundaries, and when to use expense or activity data.
Emissions Boundary
- What is an emissions boundary?
- What Scope 3 categories do I need to measure?
- Do I need to measure downstream emissions?
- Do donations count toward my carbon footprint?
- What emissions sources should I include in my boundary?
- What emissions sources can I exclude?
- Can I measure financed emissions with Trace?
Adding data
- What data do I need to provide?
- Why can't I upload my CSV file?
- What if I have a material or product that isn't in your list of emissions factors?
- How to add Activity data for Purchased Goods and Services
- How do you create an estimate for utilities based on the size of my workspace?
- How do we report that we use solar panels in our building?
- How do you estimate electricity used to calculate work from home (WFH) emissions?
- Why am I unable to submit my data?
Employee Engagement
Expense data
- What expenses do I need to include in my CSV upload?
- Can I split and categorize accounts with aggregated costs while mapping my expense data through account integration?
- Can I exclude any expenses?
- Do you have an emissions factor for Large Language Models (LLM) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms such as ChatGPT?
- How do I map rent?
- How do I map 'contractors'?
- Where can I get a list of all the mapping labels?
- Should my expenses include or exclude VAT or GST?
- Can I upload multiple CSVs with my expense data?
- How do I download last year's expense mapping data?
- How do I map my expense data?
- Should I include ‘Cost of Sales’ or ‘Contractor based activities’ in my emission calculation?
- How do I map a supplier that is Carbon Neutral?