CDP Climate Change 2022 Reporting Guidance

(C6.3) What were your organization's gross global Scope 2 emissions in metric tons CO₂e?

Change from last year

No change

Rationale

Reporting emissions is best practice and a pre-requisite to understanding and reducing negative environmental impacts. CDP asks this question to ensure companies are measuring emissions from purchased or acquired electricity, steam, heat, and cooling.

Connection to other frameworks

TCFD

Metrics & Targets recommended disclosure b) Disclose Scope 1, Scope 2, and, if appropriate, Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the related risks.

Response options

Please complete the following table:

Requested content

General

• Negative numbers are not allowed as reporting needs to be gross, not net figures. If you answered in C6.2 that you are not reporting a Scope 2 location-based figure and/or you answered that you are unable to report a Scope 2 market-based figure, please leave the corresponding column(s) in C6.3 blank.
• Putting in zero would suggest that you have measured your emissions and that they are equal to zero.
• Emissions estimates are acceptable, as long as there is transparency with regards to the estimation approach (what is estimated and how) and the data used for the analysis is adequate to support the objectives of the inventory.
• For more information about CDP’s current recommendations on what emission factor to use for electricity accounting, where you can find emission factors and the different types there are, please check the Technical Note“Accounting of Scope 2 emissions.” Please also note that electricity produced by either CH₄ or N₂O is to be included in the emission factor.
• For further information, please also see GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance.
• For more detailed information beyond what is provided in this guidance and technical annexes, consult your electricity suppliers, carbon advisor, or verifier/assurer.

Note for first-time responders

• If you are a first-time responder, please provide gross global Scope 2 emissions data for the current reporting year and the three years prior to the current reporting year.
• Please input the gross global Scope 2 emissions data for the current reporting year in the first row and work backwards from the current reporting year.
• Please ensure that the reporting period represents only one full year that has already passed. Reporting periods should not be in the future. This information is important for others to understand the time dimension of your disclosure.
• Use the comment column to report relevant information regarding your organization's past Scope 2 emissions data.

Note for restatements

• If you have chosen to restate your organization’s gross global Scope 2 emissions data previously supplied to CDP by adding additional reporting years to C0.2, you may do so here.
• Reporting recalculated figures for these years is optional.
• All years Scope 2 emissions data needs to be entered in reverse order, with the current reporting year first, i.e. you should first input the current reporting year emissions data and work backwards from the most recent reporting year.
• Please ensure that the reporting period represents only one full year that has already passed. Reporting periods should not be in the future. This information is important for others to understand the time dimension of your disclosure.
• Use the comment column to identify that this is restated data and the reason for the restatement.
• For more information on restatements, see CDP’s technical note on restatements here.

Note for agricultural sector companies:

• Scope 2 emissions from the use of electricity for agricultural/forestry, processing/manufacturing and/or distribution activities should be reported as Scope 2 emissions here.

Explanation of terms

• Electricity: In line with GHG Protocol, this term is used as shorthand for electricity, steam, and heating/cooling. Purchased electricity is defined as electricity that is purchased or otherwise brought into the organizational boundary of the company. Scope 2 emissions physically occur at the facility where electricity is generated.

Additional information

• Scope 2 emissions: In many industries, indirect GHG emissions mostly occur from the generation of purchased electricity (and purchased heat, steam and cooling) consumed by the company, as per the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard. Non-energy-intensive companies are likely to have significantly higher Scope 2 figures than Scope 1 figures. The GHG Protocol highlights that “accounting for Scope 2 emissions allows companies to assess the risks and opportunities associated with changing electricity and GHG emissions cost.”